The sessions will run from 9am PST to 12pm PST on December 7-8, 2021. All times below are in PST (Los Angeles time). Links to attend the sessions will be emailed privately after registration.

Tuesday December 7, 2021

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9:00 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks  
    Yannis Yortsos
Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering; Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering and Chester Dolley Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
    Craig Knoblock
Keston Executive Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Vice Dean of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Spatial Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
9:15 10:00 Session I: Commonsense Reasoning  
    Session chair: Shri Narayanan
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Neuroscience, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Professor of Pediatrics, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keck School of Medicine; Research Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Open-World Agents
Filip Ilievski
Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Predicting Events
Manuel Ciosici
Postdoctoral Researcher, Information Sciences Institute, Viterby School of Engineering
    Visual Grounding
Ram Nevatia
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Explaining with Common Sense
Xiang Ren
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
10:00 10:15 Break  
10:15 11:00 Session II: Commonsense Knowledge  
    Session chair: Keith Burghardt
Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Dimensions of Common Sense
Pedro Szekely
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science; Principal Scientist and Director of the AI Division, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Learning Common Sense
Marjorie Freedman
Research Team Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Robust Knowledge Acquisition
Muhao Chen
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Crowdsourcing Common Sense
Yolanda Gil
Senior Director, Information Sciences Institute; Director, Data Science Programs, Computer Science Department; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Spatial Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
11:00 11:15 Break  
11:15 12:00 Invited Talk: Models of core common sense in infancy
Tomer Ullman
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Wednesday December 8, 2021

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9:00 9:45 Session III: Common Sense for Creativity  
    Session chair: Kallirroi Georgila
Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Lead, Institute for Creative Technologies, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Generating New Ideas
Mayank Kejriwal
Research Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Research Team Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Biases in Common Sense
Fred Morstatter
Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Explaining Stories and Dialogues
Jay Pujara
Director of the Center on Knowledge Graphs, Information Sciences Institute; Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Negotiating Agents
Emmanuel Johnson
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Information Science Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
9:45 10:00 Break  
10:00 10:45 Session IV: Common Sense in AI Agents and Robots  
    Session chair: Sven Koenig
Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Modeling Emotions
Jon Gratch
Research Professor of Computer Science; Director for Virtual Humans Research, Institute for Creative Technologies, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Self-Diagnosis of Robot Failures
Stefanos Nikolaidis
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Trust and Deception in Robots
Maja Mataric
Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, Viterbi School of Engineering
    User-Centric Explainable AI
Michael Pazzani
Principal Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
10:45 11:00 Break  
11:00 11:45 Panel: Common Sense and Artificial General Intelligence
Moderator: Mayank Kejriwal
 
    Catherine Havasi
CEO, Luminoso
    Kenneth Forbus
Professor of Computer Science and Education, Northwestern University
    Vered Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
11:45 12:00 Closing Remarks  
    Filip Ilievski
Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering
    Yolanda Gil
Senior Director, Information Sciences Institute; Director, Data Science Programs, Computer Science Department; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Spatial Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences