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AI Seminars provide a forum for researchers in this important area to share their findings and thoughts. The AI Seminar Series is sponsored by Soar Technology.

Past events

OCT
19
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation: The Curious Case of Figurative Language and Argumentation
Smaranda Muresan , Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate ProfessorColumbia Univ.
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
12
2021
AI Seminar
The facebook files at training time: incentivizing discrimination in machine learning
Benjamin Fish, Assistant ProfessorU-M CSE
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Hybrid (In-person and Remote)
OCT
05
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Continual Language Learning through Collaborative Interaction with Users
Yoav Artzi , Associate ProfessorCornell Tech and Computer Science Department at Cornell University
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
SEP
28
2021
AI Seminar
Machine Learning and Causality: Building Efficient, Reliable Models for Decision-Making
Maggie Makar, Presidential Postdoctoral FellowU-M CSE
4:00pm – 5:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
APR
27
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Empathy in peer-to-peer mental health support
Tim Althoff , Assistant Professor Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
11:30am – 12:30pm
MAR
30
2021
AI Seminar
Toward Broad and Deep Language Processing for Intelligent Systems
Marjorie McShane, Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Department Co-Director LEIARensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4:00pm – 5:00pm
NOV
03
2020
AI Seminar | Computer Vision Seminar
Jitendra Malik | Where Do We Come From, What Are We Doing, Where Are We Going
Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick ProfessorDept. of Electrical Engg & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
20
2020
AI Seminar | Women in Computing | CSE Seminar
Danielle Belgrave | ML for Personalized Mental Healthcare
Danielle Belgrave, Machine Learning ResearcherHealth Intelligence Group, Microsoft Research
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
06
2020
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar | Women in Computing
Pascale Fung | Deeper Conversational AI
Pascale Fung, Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science & EngineeringHong Kong University of Science and Technology
12:00pm – 1:30pm in Remote/Virtual
SEP
22
2020
AI Seminar
Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19
Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer at Allen Institute for AI
4:00pm – 5:30pm
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar
Learning sight from sound
Andrew Owens, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:15pm in Remote/Virtual
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar | Dissertation Defense
Efficient Belief Propagation for Perception and Manipulation in Clutter
Karthik Desingh
3:00pm – 5:00pm
APR
15
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Structured-Infused and Disentangled Representation Learning
Xuezhe Ma, Ph.D. CandidateCarnegie Mellon University
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
APR
06
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Language Grounding with Robots
Jesse Thomason, PostdocUniversity of Washington
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
MAR
25
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Designing Collective Behavior in Robotic Swarms
Justin Werfel, Sr. Research ScientistHarvard University
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
MAR
09
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scalability and Methods of Deep Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint
Kenji Kawaguchi, Ph.D. CandidateMIT
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
27
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
The Value Alignment Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Ph.D. CandidateUniversity of California, Berkeley
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
26
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Machine Learning for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Aditya Grover, Ph.D. CandidateStanford University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
25
2020
AI Seminar
Distortion-based Analysis of Voting: Limited Communication, and an Analysis Framework based on LP Duality and Flows
David Kempe , Professor, Computer ScienceUniversity of Southern California
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
20
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
New Approaches to Real-Time Robotic Mapping and Information Gathering
Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Assistant Research ScientistUniversity of Michigan
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
17
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Efficient Machine Learning via Data Summarization
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, PostdocStanford University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
30
2020
AI Seminar
NumPy: A look at the past, present, and future of array computation
Ross Barnowski, Postdoctoral Scholar
1:30pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
30
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
David Abel, Ph.D. CandidateBrown University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
28
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Improving Team Performance and Dynamics within Human-Robot Teams
Sarah Sebo, Ph.D. CandidateYale University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
22
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Distributive Justice for Machine Learning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Defining, Measuring, and Remedying Algorithmic Unfairness
Hoda Heidari, PostdocCornell University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
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