2023 AI Symposium
Date: October 17, 2023

Join us for a day of AI: research talks, posters, demos, and plenty of networking opportunities.
Our symposium aims to bring together participants from both academia and industry who are interested in the foundations or real-life applications of artificial intelligence.
The symposium will take place on North Campus, in the Bob and Betty Beyster building (room 1670 and Tishman Hall).
Free and open to the general public. Registration required, see below.
Keynote Speakers:

Associate Professor
Computer Science
Bass University Fellow STMicroelectronics Faculty Scholar
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR)
UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Program
ALL THE TALKS WILL TAKE PLACE IN ROOM 1670 IN BOB & BETTY BEYSTER BUILDING, U-M North Campus
9:00 – 9:20 am Registration (T-shirts giveaway!) (Lobby – BEYSTER BUILDING)
9:20 – 9:30 am Welcome, Introduction to Michigan AI Lab
9:30 – 10:30 am Keynote Talk Abstract
Michael Bernstein | Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
- Session Chair | Anhong Guo
10:30 – 10:40 am COFFEE BREAK
10:40 – 11:20 am Invited Talk Abstracts
JJ Park | Responsible AI and Responsibility of AI
Robin Brewer | Representing Older Age and Disability in LLMs
- Session Chair | Andrew Owens
11:20 am – 12:10 pm Lightning Talk Abstracts
Zhijing Jin | Causal NLP Research and the Way towards Social Good
Guandao Yang | Neural Caches for Monte Carlo Partial Differential Equation Solver
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Aadirupa Saha | Personalized Preference-Bandits: Learning to make customized user predictions through preference elicitation
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Nur Yildirim | Discovering the Right Things to Design with Artificial Intelligence
Lu Mi | Bridge the gap between biological and artificial neural networks
Gengshan Yang | Towards 4D Capture of Objects and Scenes from Casual Videos
- Session Chair | Rada Mihalcea
12:10 – 12:30 pm Posters Pitch
- Session Chairs: Gregory Croisdale & Ryan Feng
12:30 – 2:00 pm LUNCH and Research Poster/Demo Session Submissions
2:00 – 3:00 pm Keynote Talk
Alexei “Alyosha” Efros | Understanding your data as the first step toward Responsible Responsible AI
- Session Chair | Stella Yu
3:00 – 3:20 pm COFFEE BREAK
3:20 – 4:00 pm Invited Talk Abstracts
Alexander Rodriguez | AI for Public Health: Epidemic Forecasting Through a Data-Centric Lens
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly | Realizing AI for Impact: Human-AI Collaboration in Public Health and Conservation
- Session Chair | Ben Kuipers
4:00 – 5:00 pm AI Responsibility Panel
- Panelists | Michael Bernstein, Alexei Efros, Ben Kuipers, Rada Mihalcea, Emily Mower Provost
- Moderator | Benjamin Fish
5:00 pm Closing remarks
Symposium Sponsors
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Call for Sponsorship
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the symposium, please contact us at: [email protected]
Organization
The symposium is organized by the Michigan AI Lab. Contact us at [email protected].
General chairs:
Stella Yu, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. University of Michigan
Anhong Guo, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Michigan
Local arrangement chair:
Christina Certo, Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives, AI Lab, University of Michigan