AI Recruitment Seminar: Perils and Challenges of Information Manipulation in Socio-Technical Systems

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Luca Luceri (Post Doc Candidate)

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Interview Seminar by Abigail Horn, USC: Tracing the source of large-scale outbreaks of foodborne contamination across complex food supply networks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Abigail Horn, USC

Conference room #1135

Interactive Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicles in Congested Traffic

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. David Isele (Research Scientist Honda Research Institute)

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USC AI Futures Symposium on AI with Common Sense (Day 2)

9:00am - 12:00pm

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Photonic ASICs for Machine Intelligence

9:00am - 10:00am

Presented by Volker Sorger

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Models of core common sense in infancy

11:15am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tomer Ullman, Harvard University

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USC AI Futures Symposium on AI with Common Sense (Day 1)

9:00am - 12:00pm

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Interview Seminar by Anindya Bijoy Das, Distributed matrix computations

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Presented by Anindya Bijoy Das

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Algorithmic Integrity and the Predictability Limits of Human-Centered AI Systems

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kristina Lerman, USC Information Sciences Institute

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Event Extraction and Reasoning in Multimedia News Data

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Manling Li (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Interview Presentation Fadi Boutros (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Face recognition

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Presented by Fadi Boutros

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Healthcare AI: Digital Biomarker Discovery for Voice and Mental Disorders

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. Kyungnam Kim (Vice-President at SK Telecom)

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On the Future of Computing

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Presented by Massoud Pedram, USC

Virtual via Zoom

How AI-Driven Augmented Intelligence Transforms Cognitive Security and Nonproliferation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. Svitlana Volkova (Pacific Northwest National Lab)

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Socially Aware Language Technologies: Theory, Method, and Challenges

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Diyi Yang, Georgia Tech

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How Do Business, Law, and Regulation Impact AI Engineering Researchers: Possible Collaboration and Complementarities

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Anthony Dukes, Daniel Sokol, Dina Mayzlin and Mohammed Alyakoob

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Towards Commonsense Reasoning from the Angle of Eventualities

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Hongming Zhang (U Penn)

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Cognitively Inspired Machine Social Intelligence: Perception, Cooperation, and Development

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tianmin Shu (MIT)

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Incidental Supervision for Natural Language Understanding

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Hangfeng He (University of Penn.)

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NL Seminar-Chasing the Long Tail. What Neural Networks Memorize and Why

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Vitaly Feldman (Apple AI Research)

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Robust and Implicit Commonsense Inference for Smooth Communication

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Pei Zhou (USC/ISI)

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A Tale of Three Knowledge Graphs

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jay Pujara, USC Information Sciences Institute

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Joint Models for Social, Behavioral and Textual Information

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Prof. Dan Goldwasser, Purdue University

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How Can We Trust a Black-box? A Quest for Scalable and Powerful Neural Network Verifiers

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Huan Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

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Distributed ML System for Large-scale Models: Dynamic Distributed Training and Scalable Federated Learning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Chaoyang He (USC)

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Rethinking Modern Programming Tools with Human-Centered Intelligence

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tianyi Zhang (Purdue University)

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From Constrained Event Sequences Generation to Text Generation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Shanxiu He (ISI Intern)

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NL Seminar 1.Leveraging Abstract Meaning Representations to Amplify the Semantic Information Captured in Transformer Models 2.Improving multilingual encoder with contrastive objective and Luna

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by 1. Shira Wein and 2.Leo Zeyu Liu (ISI Interns)

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Addressing the Data Challenge: Model Comparison with Few Samples

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Prof. Zhou Wang, University of Waterloo

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NL Seminar-Fair Comparisons and Fundamental Ideas for Open-Vocabulary Generative Language and Translation Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Sabrina Mielke (Johns Hopkins Univ)

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Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Environments

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jose Luis Ambite and/or Dimitri Stripleis, USC/ISI

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Creating Virtual Spaces with Computational Interior Design and Deep Learning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tomer Weiss, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Fantastic Continuous-valued Sentence Representations and How to Find Them

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Nishant Subramani (Allen NLP)

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Should PTLMs go to school?

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Manuel Ciosici (ISI Boston Waltham)

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Emerging Frontiers of Conversational AI

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yu Su, Asst. Professor, Ohio State University

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Predictor-Guided Controlled Generation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kevin Yang (UC Berkeley)

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Probabilistic Reasoning about Plants, Animals, Objects, and People: a Story of Romance and Disappointment.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by David Poole, Professor, UBC Vancouver, B.C.

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Spatial AI and Its Applications

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yao-Yi Chiang, USC

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Advances in Text Generation and the Perils of its Automatic Evaluation

9:00am - 10:00am

Presented by Kalpesh Krishna (U Mass, Amherst)

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Interactive Data Visualization: A Petri Dish for Intelligence Augmentation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Arvind Satyanarayan (MIT)

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Network Heterogeneity on Graph Neural Networks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Philip S. Yu (University of Illinois-Chicago)

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Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Xiang Lisa Li (Stanford University)

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Supporting Cultural AI with Knowledge Graphs

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Albert Merono Penuela, King's College London

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1.) "Humans are not Robots: Rules of Thumb, AI, and the Pervasiveness of Polarization" by Keith Burghardt (USC/ISI) / 2.) "The Benefits of Hybridization: From Forecasting to Cultural Modeling" Fred Morstatter (USC/ISI)

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Keith Burghardt and Fred Morstatter (USC/ISI)

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Weaving Together Machine Learning, Theoretical Physics, and Neuroscience

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Surya Ganguli (Stanford University)

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Physics-Guided AI for Learning Spatiotemporal Dynamics

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Rose Yu, UC San Diego

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FastMap and Its Applications

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli (USC/ISI)

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Interactively Teaching Machines with Natural Languages

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Zhou Yu (Columbia University)

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Learning to Reason with Text and Tables

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by William Wang, UC Santa Barbara

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AI Seminar - Building Trustworthy AI: Measure and Mitigate Algorithmic Biases

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yunfeng Zhang, PhD - Research Staff Member in IBM Research AI

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Do Blind AI Navigation Agents Build Maps?

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dhruv Batra, Georgia Tech

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Universal Linguistic Inductive Biases Via Meta-Learning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by R. Thomas Mc Coy

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The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning and Related Fields and Its Consequences

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Timnit Gebru

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Inducing Complex Event Patterns from Natural Language

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Maria Chang (IBM)

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State Of The Art And Challenges Of Automated Rumour Verification In Social Media Conversations

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Elena Kochkina (Queen Mary University of London/Alan Turing Institute)

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Fair Learning with Private Demographic Data

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Mesrob Ohannessian, University of Illinois Chicago

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Leave No Question Behind!: Broadening the Scope of Machine Comprehension

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Daniel Khashabi (AI2)

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Networks and Behavior: Modeling Human and Machine Dynamics in the Hyperconnected World

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Goran Muric (USC/ISI) Computer Scientist Candidate

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Technological Disruption and the Backfire Objection to Predictive Policing

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Ryan Jenkins (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)

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MAchine-Driven MANipulation (MADMAN)

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. Rand Waltzman

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LIGHT: Training Agents That Can Act and Speak With Other Models and Humans In A Rich Text Adventure Game World

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jason Weston (FAIR/NYU)

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Who Needs Training Data: Towards Generalizable, Zero-shot Commonsense Services with Consolidated Knowledge

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Filip Ilievski, PhD USC / ISI

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Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia: The left, the right, and the truth about social media activism

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Deen Freelon (UNC)

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Insights from Re-evaluating NLP Systems

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Robin Jia (USC CS/FAIR)

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Fake News, Fake Accounts, Real Consequences - detecting malicious social media fraud

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jen Golbeck, Professor, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

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Hardware for Artificial Intelligence

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Ajey Jacob (USC/ISI-Arlington)

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Structure & Dynamics of Faculty Hiring Networks

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Daniel Larremore (Univ of Colorado)

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From Human Language to Agent Action

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jesse Thomason (USC CS/Amazon Alexa)

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Learning to Continually Learn

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jeff Clune, Assoc. Professor Univ of British Columbia & Research Manager at OpenAI

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Computational Models of Language Change from Diachronic Text

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Sandeep Soni (Georgia Tech)

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Explainable Machine Learning: Past, Present, and Future

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dr. Michael Pazzani, University of California, San Diego

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Historical Applications of NLP

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Christopher Chu (DiDi)

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Are People Still Smarter than Machines?

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jay McClelland, Stanford University

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Visual Recognition beyond Appearances, and its Robotic Applications

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yezhou Yang (ASU)

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Improving Negotiation Training Systems Through Automated Personalized Feedback

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Emmanuel Johnson, USC/ICT

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