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Sep 15
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Violet Teaming AI in the Life Sciences

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Presented by Alexander Titus, Bioeconomy.XYZ

Conference Rm #1135-37 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online
Sep 8
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Engineering Ecosystems with AI

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Presented by Alex Pentland, MIT

Online only
Aug 31
ISI Natural Language Seminar

NL Seminar- Phishing Emails, Improvised Explosive Devices and Quantum: A Natural Language Understanding Perspective

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Presented by Mitch Mithun, Post Doc USC/ISI

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online
Aug 11
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Responsible recommendation system through the lens of conformal prediction and causal inference

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Presented by Ruocheng Guo, ByteDance Research

11th fl CR (1135) for USC/ISI and virtually to the public and online
Jul 28
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Building (Teams of Humans and) Trustworthy AI with Common Sense

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Presented by Filip Ilievski, USC ISI

MDR ISI Conference Rm 1016. In-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom. and online
Jul 17
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Project SCIFI: SBIR – Commercializing Invention and Financing Innovation

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Presented by Andrea Belz, USC

1135/1137 and online
Jul 10
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Security in the times of 6G

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Presented by Dr. Ijaz Ahmad, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Online only
Jul 7
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Challenges and opportunities in measuring social constructs using computational methods

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Presented by Kenny Joseph, University of Buffalo

Online only
Jun 19
Artificial Intelligence Research for Health

Interpretability and Fairness of Deep Learning Models on Health Dataset

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Presented by Yan Liu, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

1135/1137 Open to the public and online
Jun 16
Scientific Computing at Large

High Performance Learning with the Unite and Conquer Approach

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Presented by Nahid Emad

MDR #1014 and online
Jun 14
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Addressing Heterogeneity in Federated Learning

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Presented by Dimitris Stripelis

MDR #1135 and online
Jun 12
Scientific Computing at Large

Scalable and Efficient AI: From Supercomputers to Smartphones

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Presented by Torsten Hoefler

MDR #1014 Conference Room and online
May 25
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Assured Autonomy for Learning-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

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Presented by James Ferlez

ISI MDR Conference Room 1135/1137. In-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. and online
May 22
Artificial Intelligence Research for Health

You Learned What?

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Presented by Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute

1135/1137 Open to the public and online
May 16
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Explorations from the Command Line

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Presented by Spencer Stingley, USC Graduating Master of Science Student in Computer Engineering

Conference Room 1165, ISI MDR and online
May 11
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Is 5G MOCN the path forward for DoD use of commercial 5G?

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Presented by Daniel Massey, Ph.D.

Conference Room 1165, ISI MDR and online
May 4
Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory

AI4Health/VIMAL Talk: New Discoveries in Pain Neuroscience

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Presented by Amy Baxter MD, FAAP, FACEP / Inventor, Founder, and CEO

MDR #1135-1137. In-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link and online. and online
May 4
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

The Future of Advanced Threats: Where Threat Actors Are Moving For Persistence

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Presented by Alex Matrosov

This event is open to the public virtually, via the Online Link. In-person attendance is for USC/ISI staff, faculty and students. The presentation will be held in conference room 1016 at ISI MDR. and online
Apr 21
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

How researchers can turbocharge investigative journalism

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Presented by Mark Schoofs, USC Annenberg

Online only
Apr 20
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Modular Language Models

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Presented by Suchin Gururangan, University of Washington

Online only
Apr 14
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

AI Recruitment Seminar: Navigating the Complexities of Online Harms: Toward Safe and Trustworthy Information Environments 

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Presented by Luca Luceri, USC/ISI (Research Scientist Candidate)

Conference Rm #1135-1137 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Apr 13
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Drinking From The Firehose of Science

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Presented by Waleed Ammar, Allen Inst. for AI (AI2)

Online only
Apr 12
Scientific Computing at Large

A Federated Learning Framework for IoT: Application to Industry 4.0

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Presented by Hamza Safari

MDR #1014 and online
Apr 7
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Creating an ISI Spinout // Data Collection for the Metaverse

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Presented by David Lane & John DeVine

Conference Rm #1135/1137 combo: in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Mar 31
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Diffusion, Probability, and the Age of Creative AI

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Presented by Greg Ver Steeg, USC-Adjunct Research Associate Professor

Conference Rm #1135-1137 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Mar 30
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Getting AI to Do Things I Can’t

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Presented by Ruiqi Zhong, Cal-Berkeley University

Online only
Mar 27
Artificial Intelligence Research for Health

Federated Learning and Integration of Biomedical Data

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Presented by Jose-Luis Ambite, USC

MDR ISI Conference Rm 689. In-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Mar 23
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Cognitive Electronic Warfare: Using AI to Solve EW Problems

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Presented by Karen Haigh, PhD consultant in Cognitive EW and embedded AI

Conference Rm #1135/1137 combo: in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Mar 23
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction

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Presented by Mina Lee, Stanford University

Online only
Mar 17
USC AI Futures Symposium

USC AI Futures Symposium on AI on the Edge – Day 2 of 2

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Presented by Various speakers

Online only
Mar 16
AI on the Edge Symposium
USC AI Futures Symposium

USC AI Futures Symposium on AI on the Edge – Day 1 of 2

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Presented by Various speakers

Online only
Mar 15
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Answering Why Questions About Narrative Text

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Presented by Ray Mooney, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Conference Rm #1135-37 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Mar 10
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

From NLP to NLU: Why we need varied, comprehensive, and stratified knowledge, and how to use it for Neuro-symbolic AI

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Presented by Amit Sheth, AI Institute of South Carolina (AIISC), University of South Carolina

Online only
Mar 9
Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory

A Data Scientist’s Introduction to Imaging Spectroscopy

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Presented by David Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Conference Room #1135/#1137 and online
Mar 9
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Enhancing Machine Translation with Large Language Models via Optimizing In Context Examples and Dictionary Based Prompting

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Presented by Marjan Ghazvininejad, FAIR-Facebook AI Research

Conference Rm #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link. and online
Feb 24
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Building Generalizable, Efficient, and Trustworthy Multimodal Embodied Agents

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Presented by Xin (Eric) Wang, UC Santa Cruz

Online only
Feb 22
Good Engineering Seminar Series

How to keep up with new papers? 3 tools to fight FOMO in Research

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Presented by Avijit Thawani, USC/ISI

Conference Rm #1165 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom link online. and online
Feb 17
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Towards Socially Responsible Machine Learning: Security, Robustness, and Beyond

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Presented by Chaowei Xiao, ASU

Online only
Feb 16
Cybersecurity Seminar Series

Automating Testbed Analysis of DoS Mitigations

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Presented by Sam DeLaughter, MIT CSAIL

Online only
Feb 10
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Meta-Learning Dynamics Forecasting Using Task Inference

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Presented by Rose Yu, UC San Diego

Online only
Feb 3
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Paleoclimatology: Deep Insights From Broad Data

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Presented by Julien Emile-Geay, USC

Online only
Feb 2
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Scaling unlocks emergent abilities in language models

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Presented by Jason Wei, Google Brain

Online only
Jan 27
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Population-Based Methods for Single- and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

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Presented by Roy Fox, UCI

Online only
Jan 20
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Deep Learning meets Nonparametric Regression: Are Weight-decayed DNNs locally adaptive?

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Presented by Yu-Xiang Wang, UCSB

Online only
Jan 13
Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Neurorobotic Design Principles: Connecting the Brain, Body and Environment

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Presented by Jeffrey Krichmar, UCI

Online only
Jan 12
ISI Natural Language Seminar

Bias and Power in NLP

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Presented by Arjun Subramonian, UCLA

Online only
Jan 9
Visual Intelligence and Multimedia Analytics Laboratory

Predictability and Inequality in Complex Social Systems

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Presented by Xindi Wang, Northeastern

Online only
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