by Ashkan Kazemi (PhD candidate, Michigan AI) Are you an Internet user worried about the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on your life and work? You are not […]
by Muhammad Khalifa (PhD student, Michigan AI) Introduction: Wilka Carvalho is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan. His research interests lie at the intersection […]
by Muhammad Khalifa (PhD student, Michigan AI) About the author: I am a Ph.D. student in the CSE and I am also affiliated with Michigan AI Lab. My research revolves around reasoning […]
by Zhijing Jin and Rada Mihalcea (Michigan AI) Zhijing Jin recommends: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, by Bill Gates (2021), offers a detailed overview of the current state of climate change […]
by Ashkan Kazemi (PhD student, Michigan AI) While fake news detection is an already difficult task for machines (and humans!), what happens when large unmoderated private groups become filled with misinformation? Even […]
by Jung Min Lee (PhD student, Michigan AI) Dr. Maggie Makar is the Computer Science department’s first Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow/assistant professor. Prior to joining the department in 2021, she was a PhD […]
by Do June Min (PhD student, Michigan AI) “We care about getting more women and underrepresented people involved in computer science. So we try many things, but as engineers, we are actively […]
by Ashkan Kazemi (PhD student – Michigan AI) NOTE: The original post is live on Meedan’s website: https://meedan.com/blog/claim-matching-global-fact-checks-at-meedan/ The Association for Computational Linguistics conference (ACL) 2021, a top publication venue and event for research […]
Based on their summer 2021 readings, our graduate students recommend: Andrew Lee (3rd year PhD student in the LIT lab): 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is a […]
My Experience with the ExploreCSR Program by Grace O’Brien Hi! My name is Grace O’Brien and I’m a rising senior at the University of Michigan. I am majoring in Pure Math and […]
by Gemmechu M. Hassena About the author: Hi, my name is Gemmechu M. Hassena! I’m a senior year software engineering student at Addis Ababa University. I came to work at the University […]
by Max Smith Challenges and Considerations Artificially intelligent (AI) systems are increasingly enmeshed in our society. Hidden engines powering many web-services and social-media sites, they provide intelligent content recommendations to millions. They […]
Preeti Ramaraj (4th year PhD student) – Diversity across different axes Despite being a bibliophile all my life, I realized fairly recently that I had read books by less than 10 women […]
Allie Lahnala (2nd year PhD student) recommends: From my 2020 reads, I recommend “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” (2019) by Jenny Odell, “Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the […]
David Fouhey was interviewed by Ralph Anzarouth on CVPR Daily. Permission to republish was exceptionally granted by RSIP Vision. June 2020 David Fouhey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the […]
by Yiwei Yang This article contains a description of an AI project which was awarded the “Best Poster Award” by the public at the University of Michigan AI Symposium 2019. Machine learning techniques, […]
by Michigan AI’s Prof. Benjamin Kuipers & Prof. Rada Mihalcea Prof. Benjamin Kuipers recommends: I am currently reading a sequence of three books by Michael Tomasello that I think say something important about […]
by IHPI This is an interview with Dr. Wiens, who is affiliated with the Michigan AI Lab and is also a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. Jenna Wiens, Ph.D., […]
by Karthik Desingh Personal robots are more and more in the media spotlight including movies. Owning a personal robot, your very own maid or butler that has it all, is everyone’s dream. But […]
by Gabe Cherry This is an interview with Professor Emily Mower Provost that was first published by The Michigan Engineer News Center. Using machine learning to decode the unpredictable world of human emotion […]
by Michigan AI Lab The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was founded in 1988 as an outgrowth of the Computer Vision Research Lab (CVRL) as faculty involved in other aspects of AI had joined Michigan. […]
by Jule Schatz What is the first thing you think of when you see the word “mouse”?What about when you see “dairy”?Most likely you all gave pretty different answers for the two word […]
by Laura Burdick Consider for a moment the complexity of human language. Humans can effortlessly process nuanced expressions such as simile (“cool as a cucumber”), sarcasm (“Just great! I failed that test”), and […]