Yuvika Sharma

Overview

Yuvika Sharma is a data and AI practitioner and mentor interviewed in Data Science With Sam EP22 and presented as a co-founder of Asian Women Advancing AI.

Current Profile

The episode presents Sharma as bringing more than two decades of cross-sector data and AI experience to a governance view centered on enforceable rules, continuous bias control, proportional oversight, and public trust. She also connects responsible AI to leadership representation, sponsorship, mentorship, and safer professional communities for Asian women.

Key Characteristics

• Compares governance to traffic rules and enforcement for a digital highway.
• Locates bias across data, labels, algorithms, deployment, and user interaction rather than in one technical stage.
• Advocates audits, testing, red teaming, human review, domain expertise, and affected-community participation.
• Supports Risk-Tiered AI Oversight that scales with potential harm.
• Treats irresponsible deployment as a threat to innovation because harm and backlash erode trust.
• Co-founded Asian Women Advancing AI around mentorship, learning, visibility, and representation.

Evidence

• Governance and bias position: EP 22: Governing AI with Purpose and Inclusion attributes the traffic-law analogy and multi-stage bias account to Sharma.
• Risk position: EP 22: Governing AI with Purpose and Inclusion has her distinguish low-stakes photo organization from medical and criminal-justice uses.
• Trust position: EP 22: Governing AI with Purpose and Inclusion attributes to her examples of public backlash after data misuse, vehicle accidents, and facial-recognition harms.
• Representation position: EP 22: Governing AI with Purpose and Inclusion records her experience as the only woman in technical rooms and her argument for inclusive leadership pipelines, role models, mentorship, sponsorship, and equitable spaces.

Qualifications

The profile rests on one structured podcast summary rather than a transcript, curriculum vitae, audit record, or independent evaluation. Career duration, sector history, community size, and event chronology remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Initial profile created from Data Science With Sam EP22.

Relationships

• Padmini Soni - co-founder and fellow episode guest.
• Asian Women Advancing AI - community she is presented as co-founding.
• Risk-Tiered AI Oversight - proportional governance principle she advances.
• AI Model Bias Governance - continuous bias-control discipline discussed in the interview.
• Inclusive AI Design - affected-community and diverse-team participation frame.