MENU 2024 AI Symposium
Date: October 15, 2024
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 Stamps Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center with a poster session in Tishman Hall of the Bob & Betty Beyster Building
Registration required, see below. Registration includes a light breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks. Current University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff may register for the symposium for free.
Program
All the talks will place on North Campus, in Stamps Auditorium in the Walgreen Drama Center. The poster session will be in both Stamps Auditorium and Tishman Hall of the Bob & Betty Beyster Building.
Talks denoted by the following key:
Rising Star
Guest Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Talk and Abstract Details can be found here.
Registration
8:00 AM Registration opens (T-shirts giveaway!) Lobby – Stamps Auditorium
Welcome & Introduction to the Michigan AI Lab
9:00 AM Rada Mihalcea, Director, Michigan AI Lab
9:03 AM Laurie K. McCauley, DDS, MS, PhD. Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
9:08 AM Stella Yu & Andrew Owens, Co-Chairs, AI Symposium
Session One | Chair: Stella Yu
9:10 AM Zana Bucinca, Value-Aligned Human-AI Interaction, Harvard University
9:20 AM Joyce Chai, Language Use in Embodied AI, University of Michigan
9:55 AM Hejie Cui, Towards Trustworthy Foundation Model Adaptation and Evaluation for Healthcare, Stanford University
10:05 AM Karen Adolph, How Behavior Develops, New York University
Coffee Break
11:05 AM Lobby – Stamps Auditorium
Session Two | Chair: Andrew Owens
11:20 AM Gabe Margolis, Synergistic Locomotion and Manipulation through Dynamic Capabilities and Proprioceptive Inference, MIT
11:30 AM Dinesh Jayaraman, Attention and Inattention for Minimalist Robot Learners, University of Pennsylvania
12:05 PM Ilija Radosavovic, Robotics as Sensorimotor Sequence Modeling, UC Berkeley
12:15 PM Posters & Demos Pitch
Research Poster & Demo Session | Chairs: Daniel Geng & Zilin Wang
12:30 PM Lunch in Tishman Hall. Research Posters & Demos Session in both Tishman Hall & Stamps Lobby
Session Three | Chair: Benjamin Kuipers
2:00 PM Qianqian Wang, Recovering the Structure of the Dynamic 3D World,UC Berkeley
2:10 PM Guanya Shi, Building Generalist Robots with Agility via Learning and Control: Humanoids and Beyond, Carnegie Mellon University
2:45 PM Dieter Fox, Where is RobotGPT?, Nvidia & University of Washington
Coffee Break
3:45 PM Lobby – Stamps Auditorium
Session Four | Chair: Nima Fazeli
4:00 PM Aishwarya Mandyam, CANDOR:Counterfactual ANnotated DOUbly Robust Off-Policy Evaluation,Stanford University
4:10 PM Bernadette Bucher, The Impact of VLMs on Semantic Navigation: A Before and After View of Object Search,University of Michigan
4:45 PM Jitendra Malik, When will we have intelligent home robots?, UC Berkeley
5:45 PM Closing Remarks
Meet-Up Opportunities
5:50 PM Stamps Auditorium
Click here to find out more about our Symposium Sponsors
Maize Level Sponsors
Silver Level Sponsors
Call for Sponsorship
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the symposium, please contact us at: aisymposium@umich.edu
Organization
The symposium is organized by the Michigan AI Lab. Contact us at aisymposium@umich.edu.
General chairs:
Stella Yu, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. University of Michigan
Andrew Owens Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Michigan
Poster Session chairs:
Daniel Geng, Michigan AI Lab PhD student
Zilin Wang, Michigan AI Lab PhD student
Local arrangement chair:
Program Manager of Strategic Initiatives, AI Lab, University of Michigan
Artistic chair:
Aurelia Bunescu, CSE Research Area Specialist, AI Lab, University of Michigan