Information Sciences Institute

Composable Interventions for Language Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson, University of Virginia

Online only

Nexa AI – Functional Tokens for On-device Multimodal Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Alex Chen + Zach Li, Nexa AI

Virtual and online

AI Seminar-On Robustness and Generative Modeling

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Iacopo Masi, Sapienza University of Rome

Online only

Relationships Matter: Reconstructing the Organizational Structure of a Ransomware Group

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dalya Manatova, Indiana University

ISI-MDR Conference Room 1135/37 for USC-ISI Faculty, Staff, and Students and online

Human-AI Interaction: From Supporting Surgical Training to Inspecting Social Bias in LLMs

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Rafał Kocielnik, California Institute of Technology

ISI Marina del Rey, Conference Room 1135/37 and online

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Vulnerability Management

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Dr. Sagar Samtani, Indiana University (IU)

Virtual only via ZOOM. and online

Things Multimodal LLMs Cannot See: Toward Discovering and Mitigating Perceptual Biases in Neural Networks through Visual Interventions

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Mahyar Khayatkhoei, USC | ISI

ISI-MDR #1135 + 1137 and online

AI for Fostering Constructive Online Conversations

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University

Online only

Adopting Open Radio Access Networks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Ms. Amanda Toman, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

ISI-MDR 1135/37 - Onsite participation is only available to USC-ISI faculty, staff and students. Public participation is virtual only. and online

AI Seminar-Causal Inference to Inform Curation Practices in Online Platforms

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Guiseppe Russo, EPFL- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Online only

NL Seminar-Event Extraction for Epidemic Prediction

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tanmay Parekh, UCLA

Conference Rm #689 and online

ISR Division hosts FaceBase Forum on NIH Campus

9:00am - 12:00pm

Online only

AI Seminar: Understanding LLMs through their Generative Behavior, Successes and Shortcomings

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Swabha Swayamdipta, USC

ISI MDR: Suite #1135-1137 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online

AI Seminar: Staring into the Abyss and Eating Glass

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Rajiv Maheswaran, Second Spectrum

MDR ISI Conference Rm 1135-1137. In-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via zoom and online

NL Seminar- How to Steal ChatGPT’s Embedding Size, and Other Low-rank Logit Tricks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Matthew Finlayson, USC

Online only

AI in Structural Biology: Roots of Success

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. Helen Berman, USC

ISI-MDR #1014 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online

NL Seminar-DeLLMa: A Framework for Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Ollie Liu, USC

Conference Rm #689 and online

AI Seminar: Human and Machine Conditions Favoring Innovation in Science

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Brian Uzzi, Kellogg-Northwestern University

Online only

30 Years of Perplexity

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kevin Knight, Threeven Labs

Online only

NL Seminar-Informative Example Selection for In-Context Learning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Shivanshu Gupta, UCI

Online only

NL Seminar- The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Anthony Chen, UC Irvine

ISI-MDR #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom. and online

NL Seminar-Do Androids Know They’re Only Dreaming of Electric Sheep?

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Sky Wang, Columbia University

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

Multimodal Machine Intelligence and Health

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan

In-person attendance is open to all USC affiliates. This requires checking in with reception on the 10th floor, where you will be directed to conference room 1135. We will also validate parking. and online

AI Seminar: A Gateway to Trustworthy AI: Using Visual Analytics to Unmask Coincidental Correlations

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yu-Ru Lin, Univ. of Pitt.

Online only

NL Seminar: Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Zixiang Chen, UCLA

Online only

NL Seminar-Red Teaming Language Model Detectors with Language Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yihan Wang, UCLA

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

AI Seminar: Causal Inference at Netflix

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Simon Ejdemyr, Netflix

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

Quantum Computing and Shor’s Algorithm

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Presented by Scott Miller, USC Information Sciences Institute

Boston CR#104 and online

BGP-iSec: Improved Security of Internet Routing Against Post-ROV Attacks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. Amir Herzberg, University of Connecticut

Update: The seminar talk will be 100% virtual. There will be no onsite accommodations for the talk. and online

NL Seminar-Harnessing Black-Box Control to Boost Commonsense in LM’s Generation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yufei Tian, UCLA

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

SEMINAR: Dieter Kranzlmüller

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Dieter Kranzlmüller

Online only

𓂋𓏤𓈖𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖 An Introduction to Egyptian from Hieroglyphs to Coptic

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Ulf Hermjakob, computational linguist at ISI with a passion for languages

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

Optimizing Clinical Trial Design: The Role of AI in Boosting Inclusivity and Efficiency

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Ruishan Liu, PhD

MDR ISI Conference Rm 1014. In-person attendance is open to all USC Affiliates and open to everyone via the zoom link. and online

What AI & Cybersecurity Have to Do With Outer Space Ethics

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Patrick Lin- University of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

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. and online

What Developmental Science brings to the creation of Artificial General Intelligence: A post-mortem evaluation of DARPA’s Machine Common Sense program

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by David Moore, Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University

ISI-MDR #1135-1137 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom and online