{"688371":{"#nid":"688371","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Spring Seminar Series with Nicholas Sharp","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe world around us is inherently 3D, and this structure is essential from engineering and the physical sciences to photogrammetry and robotics. Yet computing and learning with real-world geometric data remains remarkably difficult, stubbornly stuck on challenges of robustness, representation, and scale. Noisy scans, mismatched representations, and massive datasets make even basic operations fragile and slow, while learning with 3D data demands a new set of architectures purpose-built for the task.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk will present methods that unlock 3D data for reliable processing and learning in the wild. I\u0027ll cover neural network architectures designed specifically for 3D data to offer physical consistency and geometric fidelity by-construction, simulation techniques that operate natively on scanned environments, and the foundational geometric algorithms that underpin it all. Throughout, a key theme is interfacing principled geometric methods with modern machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENicholas Sharp\u0027s research develops algorithms and architectures to make computing with geometric data easy, efficient, and reliable. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University advised by Keenan Crane, and completed his postdoc at the University of Toronto \u0026amp; Fields Institute for Mathematics with Alec Jacobson. Currently, he is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, leading research on 3D learning that powers applications from autonomous driving to generative AI. His work has won multiple best paper awards (SIGGRAPH \u002722, SIGGRAPH Asia \u002723, SGP \u002720 \u0026amp; \u002725), developed widely-used software including the award-winning Polyscope library, and has been covered in the press by the New York Times and Ars Technica. For more, see www.nmwsharp.com.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe world around us is inherently 3D, and this structure is essential from engineering and the physical sciences to photogrammetry and robotics. Yet computing and learning with real-world geometric data remains remarkably difficult, stubbornly stuck on challenges of robustness, representation, and scale. Noisy scans, mismatched representations, and massive datasets make even basic operations fragile and slow, while learning with 3D data demands a new set of architectures purpose-built for the task.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk will present methods that unlock 3D data for reliable processing and learning in the wild. I\u0027ll cover neural network architectures designed specifically for 3D data to offer physical consistency and geometric fidelity by-construction, simulation techniques that operate natively on scanned environments, and the foundational geometric algorithms that underpin it all. Throughout, a key theme is interfacing principled geometric methods with modern machine learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENicholas Sharp\u0027s research develops algorithms and architectures to make computing with geometric data easy, efficient, and reliable. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University advised by Keenan Crane, and completed his postdoc at the University of Toronto \u0026amp; Fields Institute for Mathematics with Alec Jacobson. Currently, he is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, leading research on 3D learning that powers applications from autonomous driving to generative AI. His work has won multiple best paper awards (SIGGRAPH \u002722, SIGGRAPH Asia \u002723, SGP \u002720 \u0026amp; \u002725), developed widely-used software including the award-winning Polyscope library, and has been covered in the press by the New York Times and Ars Technica. 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If a simulation looks correct to human eyes, the task is complete. However, as simulation moves from digital content creation to domains like robotics, physical design, and engineering, the goal shifts to physical consequence, where simulation errors lead to real-world failure. High-fidelity simulators exist for these domains, but they act as \u0027forward-only oracles\u0027 that lack the gradients necessary for deep physical reasoning and optimization. Conversely, while pure machine learning models offer fast reasoning and data-adaptability, they often lack the physical consistency required for high-stakes deployment.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn this talk, I will present a framework for Physical AI that bridges these two paradigms. I will first introduce differentiable simulation engines that transform physics into usable gradients for optimization, enabling the unified co-design of form and control. I will demonstrate this on diverse applications including the inverse design of fluidic devices and artificial heart, policy learning for assistive dressing robots, and the creation of simulation-ready digital twins from 3D scans. Finally, I will discuss how to move beyond idealized modeling equations using Neural Modular Learning, enabling systems to adapt to complex, real-world dynamics from measurements during operation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYifei Li is a Ph.D. candidate in EECS at MIT, advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. Her research bridges high-fidelity physics simulation with machine learning to enable systems that reason through physical environments, powering applications across computational design, digital twins, assistive robotics, and biomedical engineering. Yifei received her B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Her professional experience includes research internships at Meta Reality Labs, NVIDIA, the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and Facebook AI Research. She is the recipient of the MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship and has been named a Rising Star in both Computer Graphics and EECS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn traditional graphics, simulation success is defined by visual plausibility. If a simulation looks correct to human eyes, the task is complete. However, as simulation moves from digital content creation to domains like robotics, physical design, and engineering, the goal shifts to physical consequence, where simulation errors lead to real-world failure. High-fidelity simulators exist for these domains, but they act as \u0027forward-only oracles\u0027 that lack the gradients necessary for deep physical reasoning and optimization. Conversely, while pure machine learning models offer fast reasoning and data-adaptability, they often lack the physical consistency required for high-stakes deployment.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn this talk, I will present a framework for Physical AI that bridges these two paradigms. I will first introduce differentiable simulation engines that transform physics into usable gradients for optimization, enabling the unified co-design of form and control. I will demonstrate this on diverse applications including the inverse design of fluidic devices and artificial heart, policy learning for assistive dressing robots, and the creation of simulation-ready digital twins from 3D scans. Finally, I will discuss how to move beyond idealized modeling equations using Neural Modular Learning, enabling systems to adapt to complex, real-world dynamics from measurements during operation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk Title \u2014 From Visual Computing to Physical AI: Simulation, Optimization, and Learning for Physical Systems "}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-02-18 17:41:19","changed_gmt":"2026-02-18 18:09:11","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-02-24T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2026-02-24T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-02-24T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-02-24 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-02-24 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-02-24 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"IC Cafe, Technology Square Research Building","extras":[],"hg_media":{"679343":{"id":"679343","type":"image","title":"Li_Yifei.jpg","body":null,"created":"1771436626","gmt_created":"2026-02-18 17:43:46","changed":"1771436626","gmt_changed":"2026-02-18 17:43:46","alt":"Yifei Li","file":{"fid":"263492","name":"Li_Yifei.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/18\/Li_Yifei.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/18\/Li_Yifei.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":214528,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/18\/Li_Yifei.jpg?itok=BetZlR6r"}}},"media_ids":["679343"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688367":{"#nid":"688367","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Spring Seminar Series with Jiayi (Eris) Zhang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhysics simulation increasingly sits in the loop of\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;content creation, digital twins, and embodied AI. A central dilemma cuts across these applications: the tradeoff between simulation speed and fidelity, especially at scale. In practice, an equally limiting barrier is\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;control. Artists and\u0026nbsp;designers need coarse previews they can manipulate in real time, with confidence that refinement will not overturn their decisions. Standard multiresolution approaches often fall short because coarse solutions can drift, and refinement can introduce surprises due to numerical stiffening, geometric inconsistency, and contact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this challenge, my research program introduces Progressive Simulation, a general-purpose, coarse-to-fine level-of-detail (LOD) framework for physics simulation that brings and generalizes ideas from progressive rendering and progressive geometry to the simulation setting. The core idea is to produce a fast, coarse, artifact-free, predictive preview under tight computational budgets for rapid iteration, then apply consistent refinement across resolutions that converges to a richly detailed, high-fidelity result as more resources or stricter accuracy requirements become available. In this talk, I will present methods that realize this approach in both progressive quasistatics and progressive dynamics, with results spanning cloth, shells, and volumetric objects, enabling experimental\u0026nbsp;design,\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;staging, and physics-based storytelling. Finally, I will outline future directions toward broader applicability, including multi-fidelity, multi-physics simulation systems powered by scalable solvers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJiayi (Eris) Zhang is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Doug James, and works closely with Dr. Danny Kaufman at Adobe. She received her BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto, where she conducted research with Prof. Alec Jacobson. Her research spans physics simulation, geometry processing, numerical optimization, and spatial intelligence, with a focus on building algorithms, models, and tools that enhance human productivity and creativity in science, engineering, and\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;authoring workflows. She is a Stanford Reed-Hodgson Fellow, a WiGRAPH Rising Star, and an MIT EECS Rising Star, and has received the Adobe Women-in-Technology Scholarship, the Roblox Graduate Fellowship, and the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. She has also interned at Adobe and NVIDIA across multiple summers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhysics simulation increasingly sits in the loop of\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;content creation, digital twins, and embodied AI. A central dilemma cuts across these applications: the tradeoff between simulation speed and fidelity, especially at scale. In practice, an equally limiting barrier is\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;control. Artists and\u0026nbsp;designers need coarse previews they can manipulate in real time, with confidence that refinement will not overturn their decisions. Standard multiresolution approaches often fall short because coarse solutions can drift, and refinement can introduce surprises due to numerical stiffening, geometric inconsistency, and contact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo address this challenge, my research program introduces Progressive Simulation, a general-purpose, coarse-to-fine level-of-detail (LOD) framework for physics simulation that brings and generalizes ideas from progressive rendering and progressive geometry to the simulation setting. The core idea is to produce a fast, coarse, artifact-free, predictive preview under tight computational budgets for rapid iteration, then apply consistent refinement across resolutions that converges to a richly detailed, high-fidelity result as more resources or stricter accuracy requirements become available. In this talk, I will present methods that realize this approach in both progressive quasistatics and progressive dynamics, with results spanning cloth, shells, and volumetric objects, enabling experimental\u0026nbsp;design,\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;staging, and physics-based storytelling. Finally, I will outline future directions toward broader applicability, including multi-fidelity, multi-physics simulation systems powered by scalable solvers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJiayi (Eris) Zhang is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Doug James, and works closely with Dr. Danny Kaufman at Adobe. She received her BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto, where she conducted research with Prof. Alec Jacobson. Her research spans physics simulation, geometry processing, numerical optimization, and spatial intelligence, with a focus on building algorithms, models, and tools that enhance human productivity and creativity in science, engineering, and\u0026nbsp;interactive\u0026nbsp;authoring workflows. She is a Stanford Reed-Hodgson Fellow, a WiGRAPH Rising Star, and an MIT EECS Rising Star, and has received the Adobe Women-in-Technology Scholarship, the Roblox Graduate Fellowship, and the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. 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Achieving this vision requires both generating 3D environments from limited observations and predicting how they evolve under physical actions. Pure physical modeling provides guarantees and action control but demands complete state specification rarely available in practice; pure generative learning handles incomplete information to produce realistic content but lacks the structured representations needed for physical interaction and reasoning. This talk\u0026nbsp;presents physics-grounded world models, integrating these approaches to leverage their complementary strengths: physical representations provide the structured interface for actions and consistency guarantees, while generative models supply visual realism and compensate for incomplete observations. I will demonstrate this framework across two core capabilities---generating 3D worlds from single images and simulating dynamics under physical actions---and show how it extends to real engineering problems in fluid and thermal analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHong-Xing (Koven) Yu (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kovenyu.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/kovenyu.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/kovenyu.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E) is a PhD candidate at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, advised by Prof. Jiajun Wu. His research focuses on physics-grounded world models. He is a recipient of the SIGGRAPH Asia Best Paper Award, the Stanford SoE Fellowship, the Qualcomm Fellowship, and the Meshy Fellowship, and a finalist of the NVIDIA Fellowship, the Meta Fellowship, the Jane Street Fellowship, and the Roblox Fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorld models that recreate and simulate the physical world hold transformative potential across robotics, entertainment, and engineering analysis. Achieving this vision requires both generating 3D environments from limited observations and predicting how they evolve under physical actions. Pure physical modeling provides guarantees and action control but demands complete state specification rarely available in practice; pure generative learning handles incomplete information to produce realistic content but lacks the structured representations needed for physical interaction and reasoning. This talk\u0026nbsp;presents physics-grounded world models, integrating these approaches to leverage their complementary strengths: physical representations provide the structured interface for actions and consistency guarantees, while generative models supply visual realism and compensate for incomplete observations. I will demonstrate this framework across two core capabilities---generating 3D worlds from single images and simulating dynamics under physical actions---and show how it extends to real engineering problems in fluid and thermal analysis.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk Title \u2014 Physically Grounded World Models"}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-02-13 14:57:40","changed_gmt":"2026-02-18 16:14:12","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-02-16T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2026-02-16T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-02-16T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-02-16 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-02-16 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-02-16 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Coda 9th Floor Atrium","extras":[],"hg_media":{"679274":{"id":"679274","type":"image","title":"Yu_Koven.jpg","body":null,"created":"1770994714","gmt_created":"2026-02-13 14:58:34","changed":"1770994714","gmt_changed":"2026-02-13 14:58:34","alt":"Koven Yu","file":{"fid":"263409","name":"Yu_Koven.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/13\/Yu_Koven.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/13\/Yu_Koven.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":95169,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/13\/Yu_Koven.jpg?itok=PKN4NO9W"}}},"media_ids":["679274"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688157":{"#nid":"688157","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Spring Seminar Series with Chenfanfu Jiang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs we move toward the era of physical AI systems that perceive, reason, and act, the demand for virtual worlds that behave like reality has never been higher. My work targets this challenge through \u0027Physically Grounded Visual Computing\u0027: a perspective that bridges high-fidelity computer graphics engines with modern 3D vision, generative AI, and robots. I will present our breakthroughs in robust graphical simulations, specifically showing how continuum mechanics and contact mechanics provide the mathematical guarantees needed to model complex phenomena, from glacial calving to tactile manipulation. Beyond dynamic simulations, I will discuss how we are fusing these engines with generative models, such as physics-informed 3D Gaussian Splatting, video diffusion, and 3D reconstruction models, to create digital twins that look photorealistic and act physically valid. We build towards a roadmap for using these physics-based world engines to generate synthetic data at scale and equip agents with the physical intuition they need to succeed in the real world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChenfanfu Jiang (PhD\u201915) is a Professor of Mathematics and the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Visual Computing (AIVC) Lab at UCLA. He primarily works on computer graphics and its interdisciplinary synergies with 3D vision, generative AI and physical AI. He has led the development of widely-adopted simulators with Particle-In-Cell, Material Point, and Incremental Potential Contact methods. He received the dissertation award from UCLA, NSF CAREER, and multiple faculty awards from Amazon, Style3D, and Sony, as well as best paper awards\/honorable mentions at SIGGRAPH, SCA, MIG, ICRA, and IROS.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs we move toward the era of physical AI systems that perceive, reason, and act, the demand for virtual worlds that behave like reality has never been higher. My work targets this challenge through \u0027Physically Grounded Visual Computing\u0027: a perspective that bridges high-fidelity computer graphics engines with modern 3D vision, generative AI, and robots. I will present our breakthroughs in robust graphical simulations, specifically showing how continuum mechanics and contact mechanics provide the mathematical guarantees needed to model complex phenomena, from glacial calving to tactile manipulation. Beyond dynamic simulations, I will discuss how we are fusing these engines with generative models, such as physics-informed 3D Gaussian Splatting, video diffusion, and 3D reconstruction models, to create digital twins that look photorealistic and act physically valid. We build towards a roadmap for using these physics-based world engines to generate synthetic data at scale and equip agents with the physical intuition they need to succeed in the real world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChenfanfu Jiang (PhD\u201915) is a Professor of Mathematics and the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Visual Computing (AIVC) Lab at UCLA. 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Research on the use of intelligent systems suggests that racial disparities exist within users\u0027 experiences with many emerging technologies. Scholars have begun to call for a more intersectional framing of marginalized communities\u0027 experiences with technology, suggesting a need to understand the impacts of both race, age, and cultural background on how intelligent systems are conceptualized and understood. Community-based research approaches\u0026nbsp;stand to inform a more equity-centered consideration of technology by dismantling the concepts of \u201cotherness\u201d that are often associated with historically marginalized groups. In this talk, I\u2019ll present research that centers marginalized groups in our considerations of what makes both technology as\u0026nbsp;well as\u0026nbsp;HCI and design research inclusive, equitable, and transformative.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDr. Christina N. Harrington (she\/her) is a designer and qualitative researcher who works at the intersection of interaction design and health and racial equity. Her background and years of experience in engineering and design inform her research in the areas of accessible and inclusive design. Specifically, she explores how to use design in the development of products to support historically excluded groups such as Black communities, older adults, and individuals with disabilities in maintaining their health, wellness, and autonomy in defining technology experiences. Dr. Harrington\u0027s research passion centers communities that have historically been at the margins of mainstream design. She looks to methods such as design justice and community-based participatory design to broaden and amplify participation in design by addressing the barriers that corporate approaches have placed on our ability to see design as a universal language of communication and knowledge.\u0026nbsp;Her work in equitable technology interactions has earned academic and public acclaim, receiving numerous paper\u0026nbsp;awards and the CRA Early Career Award.\u0026nbsp;Dr. Harrington is currently an assistant professor in the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where she is also the Director of the Equity and Health Innovations Design Research Lab.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETalk title \u2014 Engaging Community-Based Practices to Explore Equity in Emerging Technology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk title \u2014 Engaging Community-Based Practices to Explore Equity in Emerging Technology "}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2024-04-12 14:05:11","changed_gmt":"2024-04-12 14:11:29","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-04-18T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2024-04-18T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-04-18T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-04-18 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-04-18 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-04-18 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"IC Cafe, Technology Square Research Building, 2nd Floor","extras":[],"hg_media":{"673697":{"id":"673697","type":"image","title":"Harrington_Christina.jpg","body":null,"created":"1712930866","gmt_created":"2024-04-12 14:07:46","changed":"1712930866","gmt_changed":"2024-04-12 14:07:46","alt":"Christina Harrington","file":{"fid":"257126","name":"Harrington_Christina.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/12\/Harrington_Christina.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/12\/Harrington_Christina.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":301384,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/12\/Harrington_Christina.jpg?itok=NbWcTRUk"}}},"media_ids":["673697"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"673992":{"#nid":"673992","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Spring Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Naveena Karusala","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAbstract\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA chronic lack of investment in care domains, like social services and healthcare, has left care workers overburdened and communities underserved, across the world. In response, governments and nonprofits have increasingly turned to AI to help reduce work burden and maximize the impact of scarce resources. To meet these aims, the design of AI technologies must account for complex work practices and existing inequities in access to care among marginalized communities. In this talk, I will present three areas of my research centering care work in the design of AI technologies, asking: 1) how algorithmic decision-making processes in social services can support the ability to contest decisions about resource allocation, 2) how NLP tools might augment the work of patient education, and 3) how chatbots in public health can account for the structural inequities faced by marginalized communities within health systems. Building on these themes, I will then share my future research agenda focused on the role of human-centered AI in more sustainable futures of care work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENaveena Karusala is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University\u0027s Center for Research on Computation and Society. Her research investigates the design of AI technologies that center the agency and labor of care workers and communities, with a focus on the domains of social services and healthcare. Her work has received Best Paper at ACM CHI and Diversity and Inclusion Recognition at ACM CSCW. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor\u0027s in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 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K12 AI literacy efforts strive to prepare students to navigate the challenges arising from these rapid technological advancements. Although many AI courses utilize programming platforms, virtual agents, and robots to enhance students\u0027 learning, few incorporate AI-powered tools to further support students\u0027 learning. In this talk, I will introduce the AI Tool Scaffolding Framework, which outlines how AI tools can support the development of technical skills, design thinking, and creativity as students engage in hands-on projects. I developed two tools in line with the framework: LevelUp, an automatic code analysis tool, and Sparki, a GPT-powered interactive companion. These tools provide real-time feedback on users\u0027 projects, encouraging best practices in programming and ethical thinking. This work contributes to the broader aim of leveraging educational technology to deepen students\u0027 knowledge, foster critical thinking, and support meaningful engagement, particularly in the context of AI literacy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERandi Williams (she\/her) is an educator, tinkerer, and advocate who is passionate about using technology to uplift communities. In 2024, she earned her Ph.D. in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab focusing on AI, Human-Computer Interaction, and education research. Before that, she completed her S.M. at the MIT Media Lab and her B.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Williams\u0027s dissertation focused on designing curricula to teach AI with ethics, empowering students to leverage technology for social change. Williams\u0027s work in social robotics and AI education has earned academic and public acclaim, receiving coverage in outlets such as The Atlantic, Wired, and the MIT Tech Review. Her achievements and commitment to service have been recognized through awards, such as the Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, the LEGO Papert Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and the Cambridge Curious Scientist of the Year Award. 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I start with how to adapt LMs to search for information most effectively (ColBERT) and how to scale such search to billions of tokens (PLAID). I then discuss the right architectures and supervision strategies (e.g., ColBERT-QA, Baleen, Hindsight) for allowing LMs to retrieve and cite verifiable sources in their responses. This leads to DSPy, a programming model that introduces composable modules for building and automatically supervising controllable programs built with LMs. Even simple systems expressed in DSPy routinely outperform large standalone LMs and standard hand-crafted prompting pipelines, in some cases while using only small models. I highlight how ColBERT and DSPy have sparked applications at dozens of leading tech companies and academic labs. I then conclude by discussing how DSPy enables a new degree of research modularity around LMs, one that stands to allow open research to again lead the development of AI systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOmar is a fifth-year CS Ph.D. candidate at Stanford NLP, whose work spans Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval (IR), and Machine Learning (ML) Systems. His research creates models, supervision strategies, and programming abstractions for building reliable, transparent, and scalable NLP systems. Omar is the author of the ColBERT retrieval model, which has helped shape the modern landscape of neural information retrieval. His lines of work on ColBERT and DSPy form the basis of influential open-source projects, exceeding 600,000 downloads per month, and have sparked applications at Google, Amazon, IBM, VMware, Databricks, Baidu, AliExpress, and numerous startups. 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AI systems powered by deep learning are used widely in applications across a broad spectrum of scales. There have been strong needs for scaling deep learning both upward and downward. Scaling up highlights the pursuit of scalability \u2014 the ability to utilize increasingly abundant computing and data resources to achieve superior capabilities, overcoming diminishing returns. Scaling down represents the demand for efficiency \u2014 there is limited data for many application domains, and deployment is often in compute-limited settings. My research focuses on scaling deep learning both up and down, to build capable models and understand their behaviors in different computational and data environments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this talk, we will present several studies in both directions. For scaling up, we will first explore the design of scalable neural network architectures that are widely adopted in various applications. We then discuss an intriguing observation on modern vision datasets and its implication on scaling training data. For scaling down, we introduce simple, effective, and popularly used approaches for compressing convolutional networks and large language models, alongside interesting empirical findings. Notably, a recurring theme in this talk is the careful examination of implicit assumptions in the literature, which often leads to surprising revelations that reshape community understanding. We conclude with exciting avenues for future deep learning and vision research, such as next-gen architectures and dataset modeling.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EZhuang\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELiu\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ereceived his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2022, advised by Trevor Darrell. He is currently a Research Scientist at Meta AI Research in New York City. He has broad research interests in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision. His work focuses on scaling neural networks both up and down, to build capable models and understand their behaviors in different computational and data environments. 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In this talk, I will introduce \u201clanguage agents\u201d, a new kind of autonomous agents that I helped invent to ground LLMs for sequential decision-making in various digital and physical environments. First, to develop language agents, I will talk about my methods that connect LLM reasoning to three fundamental concepts for autonomous agents: acting (ReAct), learning (Reflexion), and planning (Tree of Thoughts). These connections empower language agents to adapt and generalize to various new environments in ways previously unattainable by traditional agents, and also augment LLM reasoning to be more grounded and deliberate. Next, to evaluate language agents, I will discuss my work in initiating a new type of AI benchmarks based on large-scale, real-world digital applications, such as online shopping (WebShop) and software engineering (SWE-Bench). Solving these tasks presents great challenges for today\u2019s language models and agents, while providing tremendous opportunities for automating tedious digital labor and improving our life. Lastly, I will connect\u0026nbsp;today\u2019s language agents to the classical research of Cognitive Architectures, and present a theoretical framework to make sense of the recent empirical progress and point out future directions toward more general-purpose language agents.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShunyu\u0026nbsp;Yao\u0026nbsp;is a final-year PhD candidate and Harold W. 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In this talk, we will first explore empirical and theoretical investigations into neural network training and generalization and what they can tell us about why deep learning works.\u0026nbsp;Then, we will examine a recent line of work on algorithm learning.\u0026nbsp;While neural networks typically excel at pattern matching tasks, we consider whether neural networks can learn algorithms that scale to problem instances orders of magnitude larger than those seen during training.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMicah\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGoldblum\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eis a postdoctoral researcher at New York University with Yann LeCun and Andrew Gordon Wilson.\u0026nbsp;His research portfolio includes award winning work in Bayesian inference, generalization theory, algorithmic reasoning, and AI security and privacy.\u0026nbsp;Micah\u2019s paper on model comparison received the Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2022. 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In this talk, I\u2019ll introduce the idea\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;compositional generative modeling, which enables generalization beyond the training data by building complex generative models from smaller constituents. I\u2019ll first introduce the idea\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;energy-based models and illustrate how they enable compositional generative modeling. I\u2019ll then illustrate how such compositional models enable us to synthesize complex plans for unseen tasks at inference time. Finally, I\u0027ll show how such compositionality can be applied to multiple foundation models trained on various forms\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Internet data, enabling us to construct decision-making systems that can hierarchically plan\u0026nbsp;and solve long-horizon problems in a zero-shot manner.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EYilun Du is a final year PhD student at MIT CSAIL advised by Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez and Joshua Tenenbaum. His research spans the fields of machine learning and robotics, with a focus on generative models. He is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, a visiting researcher at FAIR and a student researcher at Google Deepmind.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETalk Title \u2014 Generalizing Beyond the Training Distribution Through Compositional Generation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk Title \u2014 Generalizing Beyond the Training Distribution Through Compositional Generation"}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2024-03-05 13:12:43","changed_gmt":"2024-03-05 13:12:41","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-03-12T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2024-03-12T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-03-12T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-03-12 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-03-12 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-03-12 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"IC Cafe, Technology Square Research Building, 2nd Floor","extras":[],"hg_media":{"673296":{"id":"673296","type":"image","title":"Du_Yilun.png","body":null,"created":"1709644314","gmt_created":"2024-03-05 13:11:54","changed":"1709644288","gmt_changed":"2024-03-05 13:11:28","alt":"Yilun Du","file":{"fid":"256668","name":"Du_Yilun.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/05\/Du_Yilun.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/05\/Du_Yilun.png","mime":"image\/png","size":429603,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/03\/05\/Du_Yilun.png?itok=zJ-03w-s"}}},"media_ids":["673296"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"673215":{"#nid":"673215","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Spring Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Xingyu Lin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe rise of data-driven methods in robotics has significantly enhanced a robot\u0027s capacity for perception, reasoning, and acting. However, the challenge and expense of collecting a diverse dataset with robots prevent learning control policies that are generalizable across various settings and tasks. Alternatively, while data sources like videos and robot play data are scalable, they are often not directly applicable due to the domain gaps and the absence of optimal action labels. In this talk, I will discuss my research on learning visual representations, particle trajectory models, and particle dynamics models from these data to learn generalizable low-level policies. These structured representations enables the learned policies to generalize to novel objects and configurations. I will conclude by demonstrating how these low-level skills can be assembled to tackle long-horizon and novel tasks.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EXingyu\u0026nbsp;Lin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Berkeley, working with Pieter Abbeel. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning and robotics, with a focus on learning robust manipulation skills that generalize to novel objects, tasks and deformable objects.\u0026nbsp;Xingyu\u0026nbsp;holds a PhD from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by David Held. Prior to that, he received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Peking University. His research has been published at top conferences, including CoRL, RSS, NeurIPS and ICLR. He was also selected as an RSS (Robotics Science and System) 2022 Pioneer.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETalk Title \u2014 A Bottom-Up Approach Towards Generalizable Robot Learning\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Talk Title \u2014 A Bottom-Up Approach Towards Generalizable Robot Learning"}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2024-02-27 16:30:08","changed_gmt":"2024-02-27 16:30:44","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-03-07T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-03-07T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-03-07T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-03-07 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-03-07 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-03-07 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"IC Cafe, Technology Square Research Building, 2nd Floor","extras":[],"hg_media":{"673224":{"id":"673224","type":"image","title":"Lin_Xingyu.jpg","body":null,"created":"1709051381","gmt_created":"2024-02-27 16:29:41","changed":"1709051363","gmt_changed":"2024-02-27 16:29:23","alt":"Xingyu Lin","file":{"fid":"256585","name":"Lin_Xingyu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/02\/27\/Lin_Xingyu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/02\/27\/Lin_Xingyu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":106110,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/02\/27\/Lin_Xingyu.jpg?itok=rXT4g3SX"}}},"media_ids":["673224"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"673212":{"#nid":"673212","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IC Spring Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Yuchen Cui","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAbstract\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EToday\u2019s general-purpose robot learning policies are limited to 50-80% zero-shot performance on downstream tasks. To close this performance gap, deployed robots face the ongoing challenge of continually learning and adapting to diverse downstream tasks on demand under human guidance. Existing frameworks allow experts to guide robots in various ways including providing reward functions, demonstrations, and corrective feedback. However, most robots will only have access to non-expert users for guidance after deployment. At the same time, traditional machine learning methods often used in robot learning are tethered to the expectation of informative and near-optimal data. Novice human teachers\u2014rich in practical experience yet lacking in robotics and engineering knowledge\u2014bring data that strays from this ideal. My research addresses the challenges of robot learning brought by non-expert teachers and enables robots to effectively learn under non-expert human guidance, including 1) developing active reward learning algorithms to allow the robot to take an active role in learning by asking informative questions, 2) leveraging a hybrid action representation for imitation learning that is more robust to suboptimal demonstrations, and 3) enabling the robot to interpret the human teacher\u0027s natural feedback in the form of facial expressions, language, and gestures. Tapping into diverse sources of non-expert human feedback can lead to successful robot policies that can effectively work alongside humans and learn from them.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EYuchen\u0026nbsp;Cui is currently a postdoc in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, working with Professor Dorsa Sadigh in the ILIAD lab.\u0026nbsp;Yuchen\u0026nbsp;is also a fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI at Stanford.\u0026nbsp;Yuchen\u0027s research focuses on interactive robot learning and specifically on how to enable low-effort teaching for non-expert users. Before joining Stanford,\u0026nbsp;Yuchen\u0026nbsp;obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and was advised by Professor Scott Niekum. Her dissertation is titled \u0022Efficient algorithms for low-effort human teaching of robots\u201d. During her graduate studies,\u0026nbsp;Yuchen\u0026nbsp;also conducted internships at Honda Research Institute, Diligent Robotics, and Facebook AI Research.\u0026nbsp;Yuchen\u0026nbsp;obtained her B.S. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University with Highest Distinction in 2015. She is selected as a 2023 EECS Rising Star. 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The core missing piece is dexterity \u2014 the ability to manipulate objects skillfully. Human-level dexterity is the complex synergy of mind and body, from the lowest level of sensorimotor control to the highest level of cognitive thinking. Dexterity is the crucial intelligence of task solving and execution. Achieving robot dexterity will transform industries and people\u2019s lives by empowering robots to perform complex manual processes seamlessly in factories, households, service industries, space operations, etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this talk, I will provide new perspectives on this complex problem based on my research. Why is dexterity so complex? We will broaden our understanding by studying three questions. First, what kinds of robots are made for dexterity? Second, what do complex dexterous manipulation interactions involve? Third, what skills will robots need to achieve dexterity? Finally, we will discuss the path toward general dexterity in robots.\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EXianyi\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003ECheng\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cspan\u003Eis a final year Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Professor Matthew T. Mason. Her primary research focus is robot dexterity. Specifically, her current work focuses on the automatic generation and planning of dexterous manipulation skills. 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She is an information scientist and ethnographer with an interdisciplinary background, focused on the intersection of HCI and Social Computing, AI ethics, critical data studies, and science and technology studies to advance our understanding of AI and sustainability. Her work has been featured in premier computing conferences and humanistic journals, including ACM CHI, CSCW, and DIS, as well as Social Text. She has also published two co-authored books entitled Technoprecarious\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(MIT Press\/Goldsmiths Press, 2020) and Digital Energetics (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). At the University of Michigan, she earned a PhD in Information and a graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Society. 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In computing practice and research, good intentions sometimes still lead to negative consequences. So what can we do as technologists, researchers, and educators? This talk describes three lessons from my research that inform ethical practices in studying, building, and teaching about technology: (1) remembering the humans present in data, towards ethical research practices; (2) unpacking ethical debt (as a parallel to technical debt) in technology design and research as the precursor to the types of unintended consequences that underly many controversies; and (3) a broader perspective on computing education that puts thoughtful critique of technology in everyone\u2019s hands.\u202f\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBio\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECasey Fiesler is an Associate Professor of Information Science (and Computer Science by courtesy) at University of Colorado Boulder. She researches and teaches in the areas of technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities. Her work on research ethics for data science, ethics education in computing, and broadening participation in computing has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and she is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. Also a public scholar, she is a frequent commentator and speaker on topics of technology ethics and policy, and her research has been covered everywhere from The New York Times to Teen Vogue (though she\u2019s particularly proud of her TikToks). 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Vera Liao","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETalk Title \u2014 Bridging the Socio-Technical Gap: Towards Explainable and Responsible AI\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAbstract\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThere is an inevitable gap between computational systems, which follow principles\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;precision, formalization, and abstraction, and human needs in the social world, which are contextual, fluid, and nuanced. Making AI technologies more responsible and human-centered requires understanding and bridging this socio-technical gap. Focusing on my research on\u0026nbsp;explainable AI\u0026nbsp;(XAI), and more recently large language models (LLMs), I will discuss four approaches my collaborators and I take to bridge the socio-technical gap for emerging and consequential AI technologies: conducting critical investigations into dominant AI algorithmic paradigms; researching and supporting AI practitioners who address the socio-technical gap on the ground; developing socially-guided computation and design frameworks; and shaping technical development by embedding socio-technical perspectives in the evaluation practices. I will conclude the\u0026nbsp;talk\u0026nbsp;with future directions toward my long-term research agenda\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;informing and developing AI technologies that are beneficial and adaptable for different stakeholder groups and usage contexts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQ. Vera Liao is a Principal Researcher at\u0026nbsp;Microsoft Research Montr\u00e9al, where she is part\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;the FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI) group. Her current research interests are in human-AI interaction, explainable AI, and responsible AI, with an overarching goal\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;bridging emerging AI technologies and human-centered\u0026nbsp;perspectives. 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In this talk, I will share one example of how tools like augmented reality implemented on the manufacturing shop floor change the nature of work for blue-collar professionals. My work points to the need for computing design to address different value systems across blue- and white-collar domains. Specifically, we need to consider the professional boundaries these tools remake to create technologies that positively impact the future of work \u2013 not just developing tools that are useful but creating jobs that are meaningful in the face of automation and the enabling data economies. Designing for meaningful work provides a lens that prioritizes individual worker values and attends to existing organizational norms necessary for the design and use of effective automated systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vedantswain.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/vedantswain.com\/\u0022\u003EVedant Das Swain\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EInformation Workers Perspectives on Phenotyping Performance and Wellbeing with Passive Sensing Enabled AI\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe live in a time when our conception of a thriving worker is in flux. These changing definitions significantly affect information workers, who are increasingly unsatisfied with the care they get at work. To provide workers insight into successful behaviors, my research has explored the potential of passive sensing to algorithmically estimate performance and wellbeing. I refer to these approaches as Passive Sensing-enabled AI (PSAI). While hybrid work paradigms have simultaneously created new opportunities for PSAI, but have also fostered anxieties of misuse and privacy intrusions within a power asymmetry. At this juncture, it is unclear if those who are sensed can find these systems acceptable. In this talk, I will first introduce the state-of-the-art PSAI for information workers. Then, I will share my findings from scenario-based interviews of 28 information workers to highlight their perspectives as data subjects in PSAI. I unpack their expectations using the Contextual Integrity framework of privacy and information gathering. Participants described the appropriateness of PSAI based on its impact on job consequences, work-life boundaries, and preservation of flexibility. They also perceived that PSAI inferences could be shared with selected stakeholders if they could negotiate the algorithmic inferences. My research takes a step towards worker-centric approaches to implementing PSAI as an empowering tool in the future of work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYixuan (\u0022Janice\u0022) Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Rise \u0026amp; Fall of Online Trust\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOnline trust is becoming a central issue in modern society. Trusting fallacies can harm the wellbeing of individuals and society as a whole, especially during crises like COVID-19. During crises, the inconclusive, conflicting, and time-sensitive information created by varied sources and disseminated on diverse platforms can engender a sense of confusion and uncertainty. This uncertainty makes it difficult for people to determine what and whom they should trust. In this talk, I will share several empirical studies to answer: how people form and develop their online trust over time and how content producers (human \u0026amp; AI) approach \u201ctrustworthy\u201d design. I will then discuss ongoing and future efforts in building tools to address issues of online trust, investigating the risks of AI to prevent \u201cmanipulating\u201d trust, and developing theoretical frameworks to guide rigorous future research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/alyssasheehan.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/alyssasheehan.com\/\u0022\u003EAlyssa Sheehan\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is currently a PhD candidate in Human Centered Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Director for the Georgia Center of Innovation for Aerospace. Her industry experience working in manufacturing has directly informed her research which is focused on evaluating and designing automation for the future of work in blue collar domains. Together with industry partners, Alyssa investigates the impact of new technologies on workplace practices in settings including manufacturing, logistics, and emergency response to inform technology design and data practices. Situated within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), her research has been published in top tier computing venues including Association for Computing Machinery Computer Human Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Designing Interactive Systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vedantswain.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/vedantswain.com\/\u0022\u003EVedant Das Swain\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a PhD\u0026nbsp;Candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Munmun De Choudhury and Gregory Abowd. His research contributes to the future of work and behavioral wellbeing in general. He identifies, develops, and critiques opportunities to leverage ubiquitous technologies for algorithmic inference of performance and mental wellbeing. He consistently works with organizational psychologists to inform his investigations and also collaborates with Microsoft Research to develop better tools for worker wellbeing. His research has been published at top-tier computing venues like CHI, CSCW, UbiComp\/IMWUT, ACII, and IEEE CogMI. His paper at CHI 2022 won a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. He is the winner of the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2022 and the GVU Foley Scholar Award 2022. His research has been supported by IARPA, NSF, CDC, ORNL, and Semiconductor Research Corporation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYixuan (\u0022Janice\u0022) Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research broadly lies in human-computer interaction (HCI), data visualization (VIS), equitable computing, and the interdisciplinary fields of crisis informatics and health informatics. She regularly publishes in premier HCI and visualization venues, such as ACM CHI, CSCW, and IEEE VIS. Her research has been well recognized by academia: she was named a Rising Star in EECS 2022, and selected as a Foley Scholar. The impact of her research extends beyond academia; for example, she was invited to present her work to broader audiences, such as the World Health Organization (WHO). More information is available at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/zjanice.github.io\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0027t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E2022 Foley Scholars Award Winners will discuss recent research projects:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/alyssasheehan.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/alyssasheehan.com\/\u0022\u003EAlyssa Sheehan\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Designing for the Future of Meaningful Work\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vedantswain.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/vedantswain.com\/\u0022\u003EVedant Das Swain\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Information Workers Perspectives on Phenotyping Performance and Wellbeing with Passive Sensing Enabled AI\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/zjanice.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYixuan (\u0022Janice\u0022) Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E), The Rise \u0026amp; Fall of Online Trust\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, 2022 Foley Scholars Award Winners will discuss recent research projects."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2023-03-31 18:16:33","changed_gmt":"2023-04-03 13:52:10","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-04-06T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2023-04-06T13:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-04-06T13:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-04-06 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-04-06 17:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-04-06 17:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Technology Square Research Building (TSRB), 1st Floor Ballroom","extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"670416":{"id":"670416","type":"image","title":"2022 Foley Scholars Award Winners","body":"\u003Cp\u003E2022 Foley Scholars Award Winners will discuss recent research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1680529016","gmt_created":"2023-04-03 13:36:56","changed":"1680529016","gmt_changed":"2023-04-03 13:36:56","alt":"2022 Foley Scholars Award Winners will discuss recent research projects.","file":{"fid":"253257","name":"Screen Shot 2023-03-30 at 11.14.42 AM.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/03\/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-30%20at%2011.14.42%20AM_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/03\/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-30%20at%2011.14.42%20AM_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":766695,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/03\/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-30%20at%2011.14.42%20AM_0.png?itok=_L4YUbBQ"}}},"media_ids":["670416"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"666906":{"#nid":"666906","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag, Mbali Hlongwane: Data and Social Mobility in South Africa for Women (Education and Equality)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is a growing global consensus that Africa is the youngest and fastest-growing continent in the world. By 2030, it is estimated that over 300 million young people will seek\u0026nbsp;employment in Africa. This demographic boom will push Africa\u2019s workforce to more than a billion people, the largest in the world. Youth employment is key to building prosperity in South Africa. The changing nature of work means that digital skills are at the heart of the question of how to create sustainable youth livelihoods in South Africa. Building digital skills is a daunting task, as it is near impossible to keep up with the pace of change. Indeed, the digital revolution has overthrown the very way that we learn. How, then, do we think about what digital skills to impart, and how best to impart them to secure positive results for the earning potential of young women?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUnemployment in South Africa currently sits at over 29%, the highest in a decade. 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Women face persistent challenges on these three dimensions that will be needed to thrive in the automation era; these long-established structural and societal challenges have already slowed women\u2019s progress toward gender equality in work. Digital and internet technologies offer women a way to break down barriers by making reskilling more accessible and enabling flexible working, for instance. Moreover, private\u0026nbsp;and public sector leaders have a huge opportunity to support women as they navigate impending transitions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA mismatch exists between skills gained at the universities and the requirements of the job market due to the disconnect between the key stakeholders \u2013 employers, government, academia, and the students themselves. Millions are under- or unemployed, yet nearly two-thirds of companies report having positions for which they cannot find qualified applicants. 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In this context, women are most affected.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIntend to address three priorities:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETo increase access to digital skills, knowledge and use of emerging technologies for young women in South Africa;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETo create or strengthen effective links between digital skills development and labor market demand;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ETo establish or enable synergies in the skills and labor ecosystem, including with the private sector; facilitate conditions for on-the-job skills transfer.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EConclusion:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEconomic opportunities of women are improved thanks to the use of digital technologies;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELocal digital skills, innovation and technology transfer are stimulated to support the development of economic opportunities for women;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEnabling ecosystem for inclusive innovation and knowledge transfer is developed.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearch will include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EData collection efforts to measure social mobility and equal opportunity, and understand the drivers of these issues;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDiscussion of how policies can break down barriers to equal opportunity and promote social mobility;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAnalysis of\u0026nbsp;the role of civil society and the private sector in fostering equal opportunity.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMbali Hlongwane is a systems engineer, founder and leader, project lead, ecosystem manager, and public speaker. \u0022My personal vision is to drive the economic, innovative, and social development of Africa at large through developing and positioning women to participate in the tech transformation. 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By 2030, it is estimated that over 300 million young people will seek\u0026nbsp;employment in Africa. This demographic boom will push Africa\u2019s workforce to more than a billion people, the largest in the world. Youth employment is key to building prosperity in South Africa. The changing nature of work means that digital skills are at the heart of the question of how to create sustainable youth livelihoods in South Africa. Building digital skills is a daunting task, as it is near impossible to keep up with the pace of change. Indeed, the digital revolution has overthrown the very way that we learn. How, then, do we think about what digital skills to impart, and how best to impart them to secure positive results for the earning potential of young women?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUnemployment in South Africa currently sits at over 29%, the highest in a decade. According to a report\u0026nbsp;published by McKinsey on \u2018The future of work in South Africa: Digitisation, productivity and job creation\u2019 in 2019, digitization could result in a net gain of more than 1m jobs by 2030 and could create 1.6m jobs for women \u2013 and boost empowerment. Tech-enabled jobs will require higher skills, resulting in demand for an additional 1.7m graduates. To seize the opportunity, action is needed by government, business and individuals. To navigate these labor-market transitions successfully, women will need different skills and more education, mobility to switch jobs easily, and access to technological capabilities that will not only be in demand but can also open up new ways of working and new sources of economic opportunity. Women face persistent challenges on these three dimensions that will be needed to thrive in the automation era; these long-established structural and societal challenges have already slowed women\u2019s progress toward gender equality in work. Digital and internet technologies offer women a way to break down barriers by making reskilling more accessible and enabling flexible working, for instance. Moreover, private\u0026nbsp;and public sector leaders have a huge opportunity to support women as they navigate impending transitions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA mismatch exists between skills gained at the universities and the requirements of the job market due to the disconnect between the key stakeholders \u2013 employers, government, academia, and the students themselves. Millions are under- or unemployed, yet nearly two-thirds of companies report having positions for which they cannot find qualified applicants. 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The Media Arts and PREMIER residency programs are funded by GVU\/IPaT.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Artists:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETristan Al-Haddad\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a multi-medium designer and visual artist in addition to previously holding the position of assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech. He leads Atlanta-based \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.formations-studio.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFormations Studio\u003C\/a\u003E. 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He has large scale permanent sculptures located throughout the United States.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMicah and Whitney Stansell\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E body of work ranges from fibers, sculpture, painting and drawing to single and multi-channel film and video works, to large public art installations. The work often explores ideas of family history, narrative traditions, and binary relationships that pull from contemporary issues influenced and informed by environment and location.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Stansells\u0026rsquo; work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Moviemaker Magazine, FiberARTS Magazine, and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Exhibiting in galleries, museums, contemporary art centers, and film festivals, the Stansells\u0026rsquo; work has been experienced in cities around the world including Beijing, Vienna, New York, and Atlanta.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent honors include a Forward Arts Prize, Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, Artadia Award, MOCA Working Artist Project Award, Herradura Art Prize, NMWA 2020 Artist to Watch, and a Student Academy Award Nomination for their graduate thesis film. Their work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and in Cornell University, and SCAD-Atlanta, Lacoste France, and Hong Kong.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhispers of Night: Majid Araim, Benjamin Shirley -- \u003C\/strong\u003EWhispers of Night is an ongoing musical collaboration between Majid Araim and Benjamin Shirley, a multi-instrumental duo rooted in the sounds of the South and dedicated to exploration, improvisation, and creative expression. After almost a decade of collaboration and tours across the United States and Europe, the duo honed a sympathetic and dynamic musical bond, persistently seeking to cultivate novel concepts of composition, recording, and presentation in musical practice. Since 2014, Whispers in the Night developed a conception of improvised music nurturing the sound worlds of acoustic instruments such as fiddle, mandolin, cello, banjo, harmonica, drums, and voice, bringing to the fore their resonance and timbres with the elemental feeling of the music traditions of the southern Appalachian region.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDoctor Calico\u003C\/strong\u003E. Here\u0026rsquo;s what you need to know about Doctor Calico: A child prodigy on piano and drums at four, he played glockenspiel in the orchestra by six. This led to experiments with tape and turntables by age eight, then programming BASIC on a Commodore 64 and analog synthesizers utilizing subtractive synthesis at 10. Calico produced his first catalog by age 15 in a home-built, four-track studio called Soundworks, for which he received the Governor\u0026rsquo;s Award in Art. He started producing records, then signed a publishing deal for a 300-song catalog by age 18 with MCA.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECalico has produced many major label artists including Organized Noize, Akon, X-Clan, Toni Braxton, and Elephant Man. In addition to being self-taught in more than 100 instruments, he started the award-winning, state grant-funded Renaissance Kids program for College Park schools. Additionally, Calico founded a 60-week residency in 2015 at the Magnolia House in Historic West End Atlanta with Dr. Al-Yasha Williams of Spelman University.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDoctor Calico currently works as a DJ and electronic musician at Underground Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s arts facility and performs at various venues in the city. Recent accomplishments include going viral as an influencer on Instagram by sharing live musical performances and archival content. He has racked up more than a million views on the self-made platform with no advertising or paid partnerships.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWilliam Barrow.\u003C\/strong\u003E Born in western Kentucky, William Barrow works with oftentimes outdated electronics to convey contemporary concepts through sound and video. He produces videos and electronic sounds as a result of experimentation with children\u0026rsquo;s toys, audio and video tape machines, and synthesizers, creating interconnected systems of pre-existing and homemade instruments.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBarrow studied at Murray State University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in video and performance. There he was a manager of the university galleries and the sculpture studio assistant for four years, as well as being the head of 3D printing operations for the Summer Art Workshop. He has worked in collaboration with dancers, electronic and acoustic musicians, and provided live sound for Butoh dance workshops and outdoor yoga classes. Since moving to Atlanta, Barrow has joined the Atlanta Improvisers Orchestra (AIO) and worked closely with experimental performance and event venue No Tomorrow.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdia Davina\u003C\/strong\u003E is an experimental, independent and multi-disciplinary artist based in Atlanta. Currently she is pursuing an interdisciplinary degree at Georgia State University, as well as engaging in collaborations with the theatre department as a playwright and wardrobe assistant.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDavina has performed in Ghana with Rakaba, a west African dance company, sung in numerous choirs, trained at John Robert Powers and performed, recorded and toured the United States with artist Raury. Her unique vocals can be heard echoing through his hit song, and her first feature, \u0026ldquo;Gods Whisper.\u0026rdquo; Her last performance with him was at Coachella 2017. Davina currently works as a stylist and make-up artist and directs, writes and produces music.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERafiana\u003C\/strong\u003E is a multidisciplinary artist of Puerto Rican and American descent from Atlanta producing works in the performing arts, music, film, and painting. They have shared the stage with Grammy-nominated performers, as well as self-professed \u0026ldquo;non-performers.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERafiana\u0026#39;s work focuses on improvisation and the many ways in which that practice collides with elements of form. After graduating from Georgia State, their work became largely based in an abstraction of poetry as it related to the body, the physical world, movement, dance and music.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe most recent live works include large-scale experimental theater pieces in which an orchestra scores movements and actions loosely choreographed with an emphasis on improvisational \u0026ldquo;moods\u0026rdquo; created by various elements in each scene.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERafiana designs many of the aesthetic elements of their theater world, which involves creating costumes, props, object curation, painting, sound design, and lighting. The more recent themes of their work have been rooted in exploitation of the self, exploring variations on the concept of clowning and experiments with abstraction of samples to environments and material played on the midi guitar.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis presentation,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EArtists Panel Discussion of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Spring Artists-in-Residence\u003C\/em\u003E from the PREMIER, Library, and Media Arts Residency Programs, will be led\u0026nbsp;by residency program organizers Yanni Loukissas (Media Arts), Catherine Manci (Library AIR), and Noura Howell (PREMIER).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This seminar presents an Artists Panel Discussion of Georgia Tech\u2019s Spring 2023 Artists-in-Residence program."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2023-02-15 20:54:30","changed_gmt":"2023-02-23 19:11:55","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-03-02T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-03-02T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-03-02T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-03-02 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-03-02 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-03-02 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"665848":{"id":"665848","type":"image","title":"2023 Artists in Residence","body":null,"created":"1676494664","gmt_created":"2023-02-15 20:57:44","changed":"1676494664","gmt_changed":"2023-02-15 20:57:44","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251801","name":"Artists panel discussion.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artists%20panel%20discussion.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Artists%20panel%20discussion.png","mime":"image\/png","size":4525316,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Artists%20panel%20discussion.png?itok=mwLi1Wbx"}}},"media_ids":["665848"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"665687":{"#nid":"665687","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag, 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Research Lightning Talks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPresentations:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow, When, and Should Robots Deceive Humans?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nKantwon Rogers is a fifth-year PhD student (advised by Ayanna Howard) and has also served as an instructor for the undergraduate introduction to Matlab course for the past six\u0026nbsp;years. His interests include human-computer\/robot interaction, teaching, and baking cupcakes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBuilding and Evaluating Controllable Models for Text Simplification\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMounica Maddela is a sixth-year PhD student advised by Wei Xu. Her broad interests are natural language processing and machine learning with focus on natural language generation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuidance Communication in Mixed-Initiative Visual Analytics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nArpit Narechania is a fourth-year Computer Science PhD student, advised by Alex Endert. He loves to apply techniques from information visualization, visual analytics and human-computer interaction to design systems that help users interact with and make sense of their data; these users span automobile engineers, digital marketers, database engineers, data scientists, and most recently geographic information system experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreative Wand: A System to Study Effects of Communications in Co-Creative Settings\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nZhiyu Lin is a sixth year PhD student advised by Mark Riedl. His interests lie in machine learning techniques to procedurally generate user-aware interactive experiences and the user experience revolving around it, i.e., the human-machine interface that stimulates mixed-initiative\/co-creativity applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing PhD students will present PhD Lighting Talks. Presenters will discuss what their dissertation is about, methodology and what they are doing now, and what has been learned so far. The event will include talks by PhD candidates Kantwon Rogers, Mounica Maddela, Arpit Narechania, and Zhiyu Lin. This event was organized by PhD student Alex Bendeck and Clio Andris and will be moderated by Clio Andris, Associate Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, Clio Andris will moderate as PhD candidates present PhD Lightning Talks."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2023-02-10 16:10:19","changed_gmt":"2023-02-15 19:28:16","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-02-23T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-02-23T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-02-23T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-02-23 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-02-23 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-02-23 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652141":{"id":"652141","type":"image","title":"Clio Andris Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1635349756","gmt_created":"2021-10-27 15:49:16","changed":"1635350631","gmt_changed":"2021-10-27 16:03:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247424","name":"Andris-Photo2021.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andris-Photo2021.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andris-Photo2021.png","mime":"image\/png","size":59400,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Andris-Photo2021.png?itok=kQhIQy4I"}}},"media_ids":["652141"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"664969":{"#nid":"664969","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag, Marynel V\u00e1zquez: Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction: Towards Robots with Increased Social Context Awareness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMany real-world applications require that robots handle the complexity of multi-party social encounters, e.g., delivery robots may need to navigate through crowds, robots in manufacturing settings may need to coordinate their actions with those of human coworkers, and robots in educational environments may help multiple people practice and improve their skills. How can we enable robots to effectively take part in these social interactions? At first glance, multi-party interactions may be seen as a trivial generalization of one-on-one human-robot interactions, suggesting no special consideration. Unfortunately, this approach is limited in practice because it ignores higher-order effects, like group factors, that often drive human behavior in multi-party Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this talk, I will describe two research directions that we believe are important to advance multi-party HRI. The first direction focuses on understanding group dynamics and social group phenomena from an experimental perspective. The other one focuses on leveraging graph state abstractions and structured data-driven methods for reasoning about social contexts, which include individual, interpersonal and group-level factors relevant to human-robot interactions. As part of this talk, I will also describe our recent efforts to scale HRI data collection for early system development and testing via online interactive surveys. We have begun to explore this idea in the context of social robot navigation but, thanks to advances in game development engines, it could be easily applied to other HRI application domains.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarynel V\u0026aacute;zquez is an Assistant Professor in Yale\u0026rsquo;s Computer Science Department, where she leads the Interactive Machines Group. Her research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), especially in multi-party and group settings. Marynel is a recipient of the 2022 NSF CAREER Award and two Amazon Research Awards. Her work has been recognized with nominations to paper awards at RO-MAN 2016, IROS 2018, HRI 2021, and RO-MAN 2022. Prior to Yale, Marynel was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Stanford Vision \u0026amp; Learning Lab and obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a collaborator of Disney Research. 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After decades of wireless communication research and some teaching of design courses, often involving art, she decided in 2021 to begin, with Tom Martin of GTRI, the Electronic ARTrium VIP team, and shifted her focus to interactive digital art with mechatronics, music, and video.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMary Ann Weitnauer (Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech) will describe the \u003Cem\u003ERaise Your Hand\u003C\/em\u003E exhibit where the combination of interactive mechatronics, interactive music, and video distinguish this exhibit\u0026nbsp;from\u0026nbsp;other\u0026nbsp;interactive art installations in recent years. 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Yet, IoT has largely focused on new devices while ignoring the home\u0026rsquo;s many existing possessions. Requiring households to replace their possessions to adopt IoT yields substantial costs. Beyond financial, these include waste, work to arrange and orchestrate objects to suit households, and attention investment to acquire new skills. To address these costs, this project worked with 10 American families to design an upcycled approach to IoT that makes use of existing household possessions and then built a system responsive to these findings. The results 1) describe patterns of families\u0026rsquo; socio-material practices, 2) develop a framework for designing lightweight modification, and 3) presents The IoT Codex\u0026mdash;a book of programmable and inexpensive, battery-free interactive devices\u0026mdash;to support customizing everyday objects with software and web services using stickers. The presented work offers a lightweight approach to end user programming of everyday objects for customizing IoT to suit idiosyncratic socio-material practices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKristin Williams is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Emory University\u0026#39;s College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on making programming the Internet of Things approachable to casual end user programmers. This work builds on Kristin\u0026#39;s longstanding interests in agency, DIY publishing, and access to information. In the past, Kristin has worked closely with community organizations to shape and evaluate assistive technologies for individuals with visual and cognitive disabilities, managed an archive of Soviet dissident literature on the political abuse of psychiatry, and created a 10+ year book project on Central Asian civil society as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kazakhstan. She has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University\u0026#39;s Human Compter Interaction Institute, an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland, College Park and a BA in Philosophy from Reed College.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;She was a 2021 EECS Rising Star, an NSF EAPSI Fellow, and an AAUW Career Development Grantee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring 2023\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristin Williams (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Emory University) will discuss the\u0026nbsp;Upcycled IoT project and\u0026nbsp;the methodology, results, and framework to design an upcycled approach to IoT that makes use of existing household possessions. 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The teams will each give an overview of their projects including their process of customer and project discovery and future project opportunities. A panel conversation with team members from each finalist will discuss their background, process, and team development. At the end of the brown bag, the winning teams will be announced and prizes awarded. Student teams are encouraged to attend the session to learn more about projects and network with campus and industry partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout the Competition:\u0026nbsp; The CIC encourages students to create innovative, viable products and experiences with the support of campus and industry resources and guidance. Areas of interest are determined by our campus, industry, and community partners. Winning entries will include a working end-to-end prototype which operates on converged services, media, networks, services, and platforms as well as a value proposition model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the competition, one team is awarded a Golden Ticket to participate in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/launch\/startup-launch\u0022\u003ECreate-X Startup Launch\u003C\/a\u003E program during the summer! Winning team members and runner up team members receive a prize for participating. The prizes vary each semester and typically include electronics and other unique items. The winning CIC teams go on to launch, commercialization, other competitions, as well as internship and job opportunities strengthened by their competition experience. CIC runs in the Fall and Spring semesters and is produced by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rnoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGT-RNOC\u003C\/a\u003E in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology (IPaT)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the competition at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPanel Moderator Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClint Zeagler is the co-director of strategic partnerships at IPaT. With a Ph.D. in human centered computing, Zeagler drives his research on electronic textiles and on-body interfaces with the Contextual Computing Group and the GVU Center of Georgia Tech. As a senior research scientist within IPaT and as an instructor for Georgia Tech, he teaches courses on Wearable Product Design and Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MUC). Zeagler enjoys working with corporations such as HP\/Palm, Google, and even the Atlanta Braves to bring real world experience into the classroom. 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Although critical applications are being enabled, there are significant possibilities for violating user security and privacy expectations. There is an appreciable risk of unique user identification from eye-tracking camera images and the resulting eye movement data. Biometric identification would allow an app to connect a user\u0026rsquo;s personal ID with their work ID without needing their consent, for example. Solutions were explored to address concerns related to the leaking of biometric features through eye-tracking data streams. Privacy mechanisms are introduced to reduce the risk of biometric recognition while still enabling applications of eye-tracking data streams. Gaze data streams can thus be made private while still allowing for applications key to the future of mixed-reality technology, such as animating virtual avatars or prediction models necessary for foveated rendering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Brendan David-John (he\/him\/his) is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Brendan was the first Native male to graduate with a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Florida in 2022, and received his BS and MS from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2017. He is from Salamanca NY, which is located on the Allegany reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians. His personal goals include increasing the representation of Native Americans in STEM and higher education, specifically in computing. 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His research focuses on understanding the social values, ethical issues, and work involved in technology production and use. He studies how technology professionals address ethical issues in their work. He also develops design-centered approaches to engage groups that create or are impacted by digital technology, to proactively discuss and consider ethical issues related to technology such as privacy or fairness. Richmond\u0026#39;s work utilizes qualitative and design-based methods, drawing from science and technology studies, speculative and critical design, and human-computer interaction. 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But creating autonomy solutions is not an easy task. These new technologies need to control real equipment out in the real world safely and efficiently. One of the most difficult challenges is getting access to the real machines to test the latest build, validate algorithms or verify that multiple components integrate correctly. Another challenge is access to ground truth. When data is collected in the field, one has to also obtain the best possible data that represents the \u0026ldquo;truth\u0026rdquo;. Any errors in your ground truth data will affect the accuracy of the estimated efficiency of the solution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the technologies that has been identified as an enabler for creating complex solutions is simulation. For the past eight years, Trimble has promoted the Virtual Proving Ground as a way to optimize and share the benefits of high-fidelity simulations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProblem Statement:\u003C\/em\u003E Even though there is a general consensus that simulation can solve these problems, it can also raise other challenges. One of the most critical ones is that there is little time between the moment when stakeholders decide that a simulation system needs to be used in a project and the moment when developers and testers need to have access to the actual simulator.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003ESynopsis:\u003C\/em\u003E In this presentation, we will share the way the virtual proving ground (VPG) is being used to expedite the development of several autonomy projects in Trimble. The presentation will show examples of several custom simulators created with a just- in- time approach to deliver virtual equipment with hardware in the loop to testers, developers and stakeholders. Finally, we will present an overview of the latest and future upgrades of the VPG tools that have enabled the Trimble autonomy simulation team to deliver and continue to produce high fidelity solutions in record time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAugusto received a Bachelor\u0026#39;s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Master\u0026rsquo;s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Graphics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has over 30 years of experience in research, development and implementation of complex dynamic virtual environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe pioneered the use of Virtual Reality in construction simulation applications while working as a research engineer and post-doctoral fellow from 1994 to 1997 at Georgia Tech. He served as senior research engineer at Spectra Precision Software from 1997 to 2000, where he developed Terravista, Terramodel Visualizer and the Virtual Environment Manager SDK. In 2000, he co-founded XYZ Solutions, Inc. where he led the development team that created XYZ World, a real-time publish-subscribe 3D monitoring suite. After XYZ Solutions was acquired by Trimble in 2006, he started working as a senior research engineer focusing on simulation and visualization projects for several Trimble divisions. In 2011, he pioneered the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate image processing and point cloud colorization and was invited to demonstrate the potential of GPU computing to the Trimble Board of Directors. In 2013, Augusto introduced the Virtual Proving Ground (VPG), a comprehensive simulation framework that can be used to propose and test the validity of ideas and also to develop and promote products. Over the last decade, VPG has been used in Building Construction, Geospatial, Mining, Forensics, Civil Engineering Construction, CTCT, ICT, and Ag projects. In 2019, Augusto joined Trimble Autonomous Solutions (TAS) and became the product owner of VPG. He currently leads the simulation team in TAS which is responsible for the development of simulation tools for autonomy projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe holds a Caterpillar patent, eight Trimble patents, and received a Trimble Innovation Award for his work on Corkscrew (a parametric mine design software). During the 2017 Trimble Global Hackathon, Augusto led the \u0026ldquo;iCSI\u0026rdquo; team and received the grand prize award. He also led the \u0026ldquo;Field of Dreams\u0026rdquo; team during the 2021 Trimble Global Hackathon which won the Digital Transformation category award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow to watch:\u003C\/strong\u003E If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u0026nbsp;If you have any questions, email us at gvu@cc.gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2022\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAugusto Opdenbosch (Distinguished Engineer at Trimble Autonomous Solutions) presents how the virtual proving ground (VPG) is being used to expedite the development of several autonomy projects in Trimble and will share examples of\u0026nbsp;custom simulators created with a just- in- time approach to deliver virtual equipment with hardware in the loop to testers, developers and stakeholders. Finally, Augusto will present latest and future upgrades of VPG tools that have enabled the Trimble autonomy simulation team to deliver and continue to produce high fidelity solutions in record time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, Augusto Opdenbosch will share the way the virtual proving ground (VPG) is being used to expedite the development of several autonomy projects."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2022-08-27 17:44:06","changed_gmt":"2022-08-27 19:54:06","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-09-01T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-09-01T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-09-01T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-09-01 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-09-01 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-09-01 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"660617":{"id":"660617","type":"image","title":"Opdenbosch Photo 2022","body":null,"created":"1661622407","gmt_created":"2022-08-27 17:46:47","changed":"1661622407","gmt_changed":"2022-08-27 17:46:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"250307","name":"Opdenbosch.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Opdenbosch.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Opdenbosch.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":86418,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Opdenbosch.jpg?itok=CUYyXzcB"}}},"media_ids":["660617"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"659639":{"#nid":"659639","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: GVU Center Overview and Funded Research Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the first GVU Brown Bag Seminar of the academic year, Keith Edwards, GVU Center Director and Professor of Interactive Computing, will kick off our talk series with an overview of the GVU Center detailing its unique resources and opportunities, and previewing some of the events coming up this semester.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso, each year, the GVU Center and IPaT announce funding for the\u0026nbsp;Engagement Grants, which support early stage work by Georgia Tech researchers. This year\u0026rsquo;s winners will give brief overviews of the work they will be doing over the coming academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeith Edwards is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Director of the GVU Center. His research interests focus primarily on driving human-centered concerns into core computing infrastructure. He is a pioneer in the exploration of human-centered perspectives on computer networking, particularly in the home and has been active in developing more usable approaches to information security systems. Lately, his research has expanded into a number of explorations of the social impacts of computing technology, and understanding how technology can support the work of non-profits and NGOs. While he is a technologist at heart, he enjoys working with designers, as well as ethnographers and other social scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHow to watch: If you can\u0026#39;t attend. please watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/brown-bag\/live\u0022\u003ELive Stream\u003C\/a\u003E, or view the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\u0022\u003ERecording\u003C\/a\u003E (available 30 days after event).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2022\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis seminar will provide an\u0026nbsp;overview of GVU Center activities\u0026nbsp;and discuss the weekly GVU Center Brown Bag Seminar Series. 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Meanwhile, institutional investors and Private Equity firms are snatching up more property and operating as landlords across communities of color, particularly in Atlanta. This reinscribes historical cycles of racial dispossession and inequity. How might computing scholars, with our disciplinary expertise in data, complement the fight for housing as a human right? Particularly when we live in an age where data is used as a scaffold to the commodification of housing? In this work, we present our findings and reflections working with a local housing activist-non-profit: Housing Justice League. \u0026nbsp;We first describe and analyze the data practices volunteering and technically managing a remote, community outreach tool for tenants facing eviction and seeking organizing support. We then interpret the work of Housing Justice League through the lens of care, identifying home-brewed databases and data fragmentations as negotiations between care and efficiency. We argue that care is enacted through the assemblage of the technical systems, and present tinkering as an alternative approach to developing data practices. Understanding how housing activists use data is a prerequisite to consider aiding and abetting social movement work with data. We conclude by sharing our most recent endeavors to utilize and couple institutional eviction data with grassroots data to inform organizing initiatives. We present a preliminary case on why corporate landlords exacerbate housing instability and how data can support future tenant organizing work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating E-Textiles Across Disciplines\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProject Title: E-Textile Workshop Series \u003Cem\u003Ewith Lisa Marks [Industrial Design] and Noah Posner [Industrial Design]\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGVU is preparing to open an exciting new lab focused on the area of E-textiles. \u0026nbsp; This lab focuses on a rapidly emerging field that will lead to technological innovation for wearables, home goods, healthcare, and transportation. \u0026nbsp;To maximize this field\u0026rsquo;s potential, we must have students trained in both the hardware and coding as well as the fabric structure and making methods. \u0026nbsp;This Engagement Grant has funded the development of a series of 3 workshops (weaving, knitting, and CNC embroidery), each involving a discussion of the textile qualities and history, a hands-on demonstration and student creation of the textile, coding and implementation of electronic sensors, and a brainstorming session of potential uses of the methods covered in a variety of fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternet Connection, Disconnection, and Everything In-Between\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProject Title: Edge Computing for Bringing Smart Services to Underserved Urban Communities \u003Cem\u003Ewith Kishore Ramachandran [Computer Science], Ashutosh Dhekne [Computer Science], Manasvini Sethuraman [Computer Science], and Anirudh Sarma [Computer Science]\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nToday we are substantially dependent on centralized infrastructure (aka Cloud based services such as Netflix, Uber, YouTube, Coursera, Google Maps, etc.) for most of our everyday activities including learning, hailing a ride, restaurant suggestions in a neighborhood, etc. Many of our day-to-day activities depend on smart services made available to our fingertips from the cloud \u0026mdash;be it participating in school, homework submission, job hunting, or grocery shopping. Studies have shown that access to the Internet (connection speed, duration of connectivity, and cost of connectivity) influences the way people search for jobs or do homework which in turn affects quality of life. While Internet penetration continues to be on the rise in densely populated urban areas, there continues to be a section of society where reliable and good Internet access is still not the norm. In urban areas, lack of access to the Internet is often correlated with lower income. We engaged with local leaders, public schools and non-profits to understand the internet infrastructure in Atlanta\u0026rsquo;s Westside, especially from the education standpoint. 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He also studies how data can be used to support and build community power through tenant organizing, and how data can be a form of participatory \u0026quot;institutioning.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating E-Textiles Across Disciplines.\u003C\/strong\u003E Project Title: E-Textile Workshop Series\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLisa Marks is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Design specializing in developing new technological adaptations and applications for traditional textile techniques. Her unique pedagogy aims to diversify material culture in Industrial Design and highlight how issues surrounding gender, class, and race have influenced Design throughout history. \u0026nbsp;Her work is in the permanent material collection at the University of Pennsylvania and has shown at design weeks in New York, Milan, India, and Bangkok. She has won the 2019 International Grand Prix Lexus Design Award.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENoah Posner\u003C\/strong\u003E is a research scientist with the IMAGINE Lab and lab manager of the Interactive Product Design Lab (IPDL) in the School of Industrial Design. His focus is on creating interactive experiences that leverage physical interaction. He holds degrees in Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction. His research involves creating rich physical interactions, designing and fabricating interactive devices using CAD and Rapid prototyping technologies, and developing educational tools and workshops for STEAM learning that focus on utilizing hands-on learning with intentionally designed artifacts. He also teaches courses in Physical Prototyping for Human-Computer Interaction and Interactive Products for Industrial Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternet Connection, Disconnection, and Everything In-Between.\u003C\/strong\u003E Project Title: Edge Computing for Bringing Smart Services to Underserved Urban Communities\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAnirudh Sarma\u003C\/strong\u003E is a 2nd year PhD student at the Embedded Pervasive Lab and advised by Dr. Kishore Ramachandran. He is interested in exploring edge-centric mechanisms to optimize the data plane.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManasvini Sethuraman\u003C\/strong\u003E is a 3rd year PhD student in the Embedded Pervasive Lab led by Dr. Kishore Ramachandran. Her research interests are primarily in design of edge\/cloud computing systems focused on intermittent connectivity to the Internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/jwyhvcgr\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/jwyhvcgr\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E2021 Research and Engagement Grant Winners\u0026nbsp;will present project activities, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(1)Anh-Ton Tran, \u003Cstrong\u003ECounter-Institutional Data Accomplices\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(2)Lisa Marks and Noah Posner,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating E-Textiles Across Disciplines\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(3)Anirudh Sarma and Manasvini Sethuraman,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EInternet Connection, Disconnection, and Everything In-Between\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this talk 2021 Research and Engagement Grant Winners will present recent project activities."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2022-04-12 02:01:56","changed_gmt":"2022-04-14 17:17:43","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-04-21T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-04-21T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-04-21T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-04-21 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-04-21 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-04-21 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"641904":{"id":"641904","type":"image","title":"Research and Engagement Grants","body":null,"created":"1607369044","gmt_created":"2020-12-07 19:24:04","changed":"1607369044","gmt_changed":"2020-12-07 19:24:04","alt":"Research and Engagement Grants","file":{"fid":"243881","name":"regrants.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/regrants.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/regrants.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":130919,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/regrants.jpg?itok=jfSNglK0"}}},"media_ids":["641904"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"656304":{"#nid":"656304","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Diansheng Guo \u2014 Mobility Data Analytics\u2014Challenges, Methods, and Applications","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe analyses of mobility data are involved in a wide range of domains such as demography, public health, urban planning, transportation, business, and biology. Mobility data consists of a set of moving objects, each having a sequence of sampled locations as it moves across space and time. \u0026nbsp;In addition to a general overview of challenges for mobility analytics, this talk focuses on introducing a set of methodologies for mobility data mining, visualization, prediction, optimization, and their real-world applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Diansheng Guo is currently the Chief Scientist and Technology Committee Chair at Tencent Map, Tencent. Prior to joining Tencent, he was Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina. He received his B.S. degree from Peking University, M.S. from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Guo has been conducting research in the fields of GIScience, big data analytics, information visualization, and recently in geospatial technologies in industry. \u0026nbsp;He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2008. He was the President (2012) and Chair of Board (2013) for the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/hzpkaqww\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/hzpkaqww\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Diansheng Guo (Chief Scientist and Technology Committee Chair at Tencent Map, Tencent) presents an overview of challenges for mobility analytics and introduces a set of methodologies for mobility data mining, visualization, prediction, optimization, and their real-world applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, Diansheng Guo introduces a general overview, a set of methodologies, and real-world applications."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2022-03-13 23:38:32","changed_gmt":"2022-04-07 17:45:45","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-04-14T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-04-14T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-04-14T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-04-14 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-04-14 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-04-14 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"656988":{"id":"656988","type":"image","title":"Diansheng Guo Photo 2022","body":null,"created":"1649169648","gmt_created":"2022-04-05 14:40:48","changed":"1649169648","gmt_changed":"2022-04-05 14:40:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"249021","name":"Guo Photo 2022.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Guo%20Photo%202022.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Guo%20Photo%202022.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17798,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Guo%20Photo%202022.jpg?itok=kCvUod-M"}}},"media_ids":["656988"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"656685":{"#nid":"656685","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Foley Scholar Award Winners","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstracts:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/niveditaarora.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENivedita Arora\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E Designing for Sustainability in Computing: Self-Powered Computational Material\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this era of burgeoning IoT devices, we measure computing progress with speed, power, and reliability improvements but often forego thinking about its environmental impact. A new sustainable way of thinking about computing across the full lifecycle -- including manufacturing, operation, and disposal -- is necessary to meet the present needs without compromising the wellbeing of the future generations. Inspired by this, during my Ph.D. I have built \u0026lsquo;Self-powered Computational Material\u0026rsquo; that enables sustainable operation without toxic batteries. I will showcase this with an example of an easy-to retrofit sticky note that can sense human interactions like speech, movement, and touch and provide feedback by harvesting power from the surroundings. Finally, I will chart how designing for sustainability requires a high-interdisciplinary mindset and rethinking the entire computing stack from the material level.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datasociety.net\/people\/upol-ehsan\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUpol Ehsan\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EHuman-Centered Explainable AI: Thinking Outside the Black-Box of AI\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAs AI systems power critical decisions in our lives, they need to be held accountable to mitigate an unjust AI-powered future. One way to hold AI systems accountable is to make them explainable\u0026ndash; to understand the \u0026ldquo;why?\u0026rdquo; behind their decisions. Implicit in Explainable AI (XAI), is the question: explainable to whom? The \u0026ldquo;who\u0026rdquo; governs the most effective way of describing the \u0026ldquo;why\u0026rdquo; behind the decisions. Critical insights into how best to explain AI\u0026rsquo;s black box lie outside it; because that\u0026rsquo;s where the humans are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this talk about AI, humans will take center stage. I will discuss three aspects of the journey towards Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), a departure from the algorithm-centered roots of XAI. First, I will share how people\u0026rsquo;s perceptions of AI agents explaining their actions in plain English shaped the foundations of how we think about who the humans are in Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI). Second, I will chart the visions of HCXAI by bridging insights from Critical Theory and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to question the status quo of XAI design and expose intellectual blind spots. Third, I will apply the HCXAI lenses to highlight an intellectual blind spot in the algorithm-centered narrative of XAI and share how we addressed it by introducing the concept of Social Transparency in AI\u0026ndash; a sociotechnically situated concept that expands the boundaries of XAI by incorporating socio-organizational contexts into AI systems. I will share key lessons from this journey towards HCXAI including missed turns and design implications around improving explainability, calibrating trust, and fostering decision-making.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/qiaosiwang.me\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EQiaosi Wang\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMutual Theory of Mind for Human-AI Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFrom navigation systems to smart assistants, we communicate with various types of AI on a daily basis. At the core of such human-AI communication, we convey our understanding of the AI system\u0026rsquo;s capability to the AI through utterances with different complexities, and the AI conveys its understanding of our needs and goals to us through system outputs. However, this communication process is prone to failures for two reasons: the AI systems might have the wrong understanding of the user and the user might have the wrong understanding of the AI. In my work, I posit the Mutual Theory of Mind framework, inspired by our basic human capability of \u0026ldquo;Theory of Mind\u0026rdquo;, to enhance mutual understanding in human-AI communication. My work takes place in the context of online education where AI agents have been widely deployed to offer informational and social support to online students. In this talk, I will discuss the three components of Mutual Theory of Mind in human-AI communication: the construction, recognition, and explanation of AI\u0026rsquo;s Theory of Mind. I will then describe in detail about one of my studies that leveraged linguistic cues in human-AI dialogues to construct a community\u0026rsquo;s understanding of an AI agent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0026nbsp;Bios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/niveditaarora.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENivedita Arora\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a computer science Ph.D. candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Gregory Abowd and Prof. Thad Starner. Her research focuses on re-imagining the future of mobile and ubiquitous computing by embracing an alternative view of computing where the physical surfaces would be covered with self-powered computational material. Her research has won an ACM IMWUT\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Edistinguished paper, two best poster awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(UIST, MobiSys), \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Eresearch highlight\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;(SIGMOBILE GetMobile magazine, Communications of the ACM), and Fast Company Design Innovation Competition (Honoree Winner). In recognition of her work on sustainable computational materials, she was named the winner of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EACM Gaetano Borriello Outstanding UbiComp Student Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGVU Foley Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;for the year 2021. In addition, she was recently part of the 2021 cohort of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERising Stars in EECS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;at MIT.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/datasociety.net\/people\/upol-ehsan\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUpol Ehsan\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;cares about people first, technology second. He is a doctoral candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and an affiliate at the Data \u0026amp; Society Research Institute. Combining his expertise in AI and background in Philosophy, his work in Explainable AI (XAI) aims to foster a future where anyone, regardless of their background, can use AI-powered technology with dignity. His research has a personal origin story \u0026ndash; he was wrongfully detained at an airport due to an automated system\u0026rsquo;s error, which no one could explain or hold anyone accountable for. Focusing on how our values shape the use and abuse of technology, his work has coined the term\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thegradient.pub\/human-centered-explainable-ai\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHuman-centered Explainable AI\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(a sub-field of XAI) and charted its visions. Actively publishing in top peer-reviewed venues like CHI, his work has received multiple awards and been covered in major media outlets (e.g., MIT Technology Review, Vice, VentureBeat). Bridging industry and academia, he serves in multiple program committees in HCI and AI conferences (e.g., DIS, IUI, NeurIPS) and actively connects these communities (e.g, the widely attended\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hcxai.jimdosite.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHCXAI workshop at CHI\u003C\/a\u003E). By promoting equity and ethics in AI, he wants to ensure stakeholders who aren\u0026rsquo;t at the table do not end up on the menu. He graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Washington \u0026amp; Lee University with dual-degrees in Philosophy (B.A.) and Engineering (B.S.) followed by a MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Outside research, he is an advisor for Aalor Asha, an educational institute he started for underprivileged children subjected to child labor. He is also a social entrepreneur and has co-founded DeshLabs, a social innovation lab focused on fostering grassroots innovations in emerging markets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/qiaosiwang.me\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EQiaosi (Chelsea) Wang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a 2021 Foley Scholar and a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research lies at the intersection of Human-AI Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Cognitive Science. 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Reflecting on these findings, I argue for the benefits of participatory design methods in designing critical machine learning educational environments, as well as the unresolved tensions that emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Arastoopour Irgens is Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences at Clemson University, Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/idealab.sites.clemson.edu\/\u0022\u003EIDEA lab\u003C\/a\u003E, and Vice President of the International Society for Quantitative Ethnography. She is a former middle school computer science and high school mathematics teacher. Her research focuses on (1) designing inclusive digital learning environments focusing on engineering and computer science and (2) using quantitative ethnography to make sense of how learners engage with digital technologies. In her design-based research, she engages in participatory methods that actively involve teachers, students, and community partners working together to co-design digital learning environments that serve their communities\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/vbtaraeg\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/vbtaraeg\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGolnaz Arastoopour Irgens (Assistant Professor,\u0026nbsp;Clemson University) presents a collaboration with researchers and children to develop a critical machine learning after-school education program.\u0026nbsp;Reflecting on the\u0026nbsp;findings, Dr. Irgens argues for the benefits of participatory design methods in designing critical machine learning educational environments, as well as the unresolved tensions that emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens discusses the development of a critical machine learning after-school education program."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2022-01-27 18:09:57","changed_gmt":"2022-02-03 18:28:57","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-02-10T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2022-02-10T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-02-10T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-02-10 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-02-10 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-02-10 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654961":{"id":"654961","type":"image","title":"Irgens Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1643643930","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 15:45:30","changed":"1643643930","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 15:45:30","alt":"","file":{"fid":"248338","name":"Gol_2021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Gol_2021.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Gol_2021.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":50088,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Gol_2021.jpg?itok=I1jzbi-m"}}},"media_ids":["654961"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"654422":{"#nid":"654422","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Jason Wiese \u2014  Not Just Another User Study: Uncovering Systematic Shortcomings Of Familiar Research Methods","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhom does computing serve, whom does it underserve, and do we even know whom we\u0026rsquo;re missing? Human-computer interaction has matured as a research community with a goal of understanding the effects of technology on people; through that maturity, the research methods we use in the field have mostly stabilized around a familiar and reliable set of qualitative and quantitative methods that help us to take a broad human-centered perspective. But these methods also have limits for what they can tell us about how people might engage with technology, and if we as a field fail to inspect those limits we run the risk of systematically ignoring the needs of end users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk I explore methodological limitations we have encountered in my research group\u0026rsquo;s recent projects, including work with individuals who have had a spinal cord injury and a project examining air quality data with parents of asthmatic children. In both cases, there were relatively obvious considerations we needed to make to accommodate research with these participants. However, there was something more subtle lurking underneath: in both cases there were also deeper methodological challenges that would have led to an incomplete picture of those user populations. I argue that researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction, and more broadly across computing, have a responsibility to interrogate ourselves; to ask in earnest \u0026ldquo;How do our methods fall short, and whom do we harm in those shortcomings?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJason Wiese is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah where he leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pedel.cs.utah.edu\/\u0022\u003EPersonal Data and Empowerment Lab (PeDEL)\u003C\/a\u003E. His research takes a user-centric perspective of personal data, everyday computing experiences, and end-user empowerment. 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This book discusses a series of projects grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. In these collaborations, I explore the potentials and limitations of design to participate in democracy through what I call design experiments in civics. In particular, I explore how, as engaged designers, we might contribute to the work of communities and institutions who explore alternative civic imaginaries, which keep our democracies vibrant. This requires rethinking the stories we tell about design, how we practice design, and how we theorize design. 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He is the author of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDesign as Democratic Inquiry\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdversarial Design,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;co-editor of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EParticipatory Design for Learning,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand an editor of the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDesign Issues.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/pbupsckv\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/pbupsckv\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarl DiSalvo (Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology) presents his new book \u003Cem\u003EDesign as Democratic Inquiry,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ea series of projects grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. 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Current personal informatics tools have been designed primarily for personal use, focusing on quantitative measurements that are easy to collect via sensors or manual input. These systems often overlook the changing nature of everyday life, the social contexts individuals live in, the variety of goals and values they have, and the constraints and preferences associated with these contexts and values. My research has examined the collaborative use of personal informatics data and co-constructed experience in various contexts. In this talk, I will share a few recent studies unpacking ways to rethink personal informatics technology that considers the changing contexts of health behavior, shifting values and priorities, as well as the social roles and relationships that often deeply intertwine with health decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EChristina Chung is an Assistant Professor in Informatics and the Luddy Faculty Fellow 2020\/2021 at the Indiana University Bloomington. She is also the director of the Proactive Health lab. Her research focuses on how ubiquitous computing and personal informatics data can be designed and shared to support relationships, motivate health behavior, and support collaborative care. She has published in top HCI conferences and medical journals; receiving a Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention, and Impact Award. Her research has been featured in mainstream media, such as CNN and Geekwire, and is supported by the National Science Foundation, IU Luddy Faculty Fellowship, and IU Precision Health Initiative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChristina received her Ph.D. in Human Centered Design and Engineering from the University of Washington while she was a member of the Design. Use. Build (DUB) group. Previously, she was also a software engineer in IBM Research Collaboratory Taiwan conducting service innovation research in health and wellness. She holds an M.B.A and B.B.A in Information Management from the National Taiwan University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/vtqxzcwt\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/vtqxzcwt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Christina Chung (Assistant Professor in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington) shares\u0026nbsp;recent studies to rethink personal informatics technology and considers the changing contexts of health behavior, shifting values and priorities, as well as the social roles and relationships intertwined with health decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This seminar examines the collaborative use of personal informatics data."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-11-11 18:55:48","changed_gmt":"2021-11-18 19:55:44","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-12-02T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-12-02T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-12-02T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-12-02 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-12-02 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-12-02 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652724":{"id":"652724","type":"image","title":"Chung Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1636657753","gmt_created":"2021-11-11 19:09:13","changed":"1636657753","gmt_changed":"2021-11-11 19:09:13","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247631","name":"Chung Photo 2021.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chung%20Photo%202021.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chung%20Photo%202021.png","mime":"image\/png","size":84939,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Chung%20Photo%202021.png?itok=FtHLo18Y"}}},"media_ids":["652724"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"652108":{"#nid":"652108","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Clio Andris \u2014 Human Network Regions as Spatial Units for COVID-19 Policy Implementation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the U.S., COVID-19 messaging and policy implementation (i.e., school closures and stay-at-home orders) are largely administered at the state level. This can be problematic, as functional metropolitan areas can straddle multiple states, and a single state may have subregions that are not well-connected. Much of our messaging for emergencies (such as hurricane warnings) is not at the state-level but at the county-level for these reasons. Such state-level policies have already resulted in friction in local communities\u0026mdash;especially in Georgia. To define units for which it is reasonable to apply homogeneous rules, we construct regions that capture core geographies of social and movement behavior.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTo create effective geographic regions for policy implementation, we apply community-detection algorithms to five large networks of mobility and social-media connections to construct geographic regions that reflect natural human movement and relationships at the county level for the continental United States. We measure COVID-19 cases, case rates, and case rate variation across adjacent counties and examine these dynamics along the boundaries of functional regions and state boundaries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWe find that regions constructed using GPS-trace (\u0026quot;trip\u0026quot;) networks and commuter networks are the most effective natural partitions for capturing COVID-19 \u0026#39;hot spots.\u0026#39; Conversely, regions constructed from geolocated Facebook friend connections resulted in the least effective partitions. Regions derived from migration flows, Twitter connections, and state boundaries showed mixed results. This analysis reveals that functional regions derived from mobility data are more appropriate geographic units than states for making policy decisions about opening areas for activity, assessing vulnerability of populations, and allocating resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClio Andris is an assistant professor in the School of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She directs the Friendly Cities Lab and conducts research in the fields of spatial social network analysis, urban planning, GIS, and geovisualization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/sfzwejwa\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/sfzwejwa\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Clio Andris\u0026nbsp;(Assistant Professor in the School of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech) measures COVID-19 cases, case rates, and case rate variation across adjacent counties and examines these dynamics along the boundaries of functional regions and state boundaries.\u0026nbsp;This analysis reveals that functional regions derived from mobility data are more appropriate geographic units than states for making policy decisions about opening areas for activity, assessing vulnerability of populations, and allocating resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This seminar considers the measure of COVID-19 cases, case rates, and case rate variation and examines these dynamics along the boundaries of functional regions and state boundaries."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-10-26 20:30:21","changed_gmt":"2021-11-11 18:51:16","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-11-18T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-11-18T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-11-18T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-11-18 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-11-18 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-11-18 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652141":{"id":"652141","type":"image","title":"Clio Andris Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1635349756","gmt_created":"2021-10-27 15:49:16","changed":"1635350631","gmt_changed":"2021-10-27 16:03:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247424","name":"Andris-Photo2021.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andris-Photo2021.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andris-Photo2021.png","mime":"image\/png","size":59400,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Andris-Photo2021.png?itok=kQhIQy4I"}}},"media_ids":["652141"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"652105":{"#nid":"652105","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Noopur Raval \u2014 Studying Intersectional Challenges in Gig Work \u2014 co-hosted by CHIWORK.org","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the rise and proliferation of gig economy platforms providing ride hailing, food delivery and other app-based services on-demand in major urban centers of the world, there have been major transformations in work and life globally. Gig platforms have certainly disrupted and redefined the discovery and allocation of casual work through algorithmic management, creating grave concerns for regulating the future of work. Simultaneously, especially in the global South, gig platforms have also emerged as important avenues for gaining temporary paid work and socio-economic mobility for low income individuals, women and migrant workers. Drawing on over five years of ethnographic research with a variety of stakeholders in the gig economy including workers, managers, consumers and regulators, my work shows how platformization produces heterogeneous effects on the lives, livelihoods and productive and reproductive capacities of different individuals in urban India. This talk will draw on multiple case studies of gig work to show these heterogeneous effects and how everyday technology practice also informs platform design in return. I will also offer some considerations for HCI scholars looking to study the effects of emerging technologies in global South settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENoopur Raval is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an adjunct professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. She received her PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine in 2020 and is a tech ethnographer and interdisciplinary scholar at the intersection of HCI, Communication and Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Postcolonial History. She has written extensively on gig work, platformization and the future of work in the global South. Her new work extends to studying the cultural labor and subjective decision-making by global South data annotators in order to train AI\/ML systems. Her work has appeared in CSCW, CHI, ACM Interactions among other venues. She has also worked in UX research at multiple Microsoft Research labs. Noopur is an alumna of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet \u0026amp; Society at Harvard University and the Center for Tech, Society and Policy at UC Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via Zoom Meeting: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/washington.zoom.us\/j\/98578905160\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/washington.zoom.us\/j\/98578905160\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENoopur Raval is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute and an adjunct professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University. This talk will draw on multiple case studies of gig work to show these heterogeneous effects and how everyday technology practice also informs platform design in return. 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Data (our data) is mined and processed for profit, power and political gain. Our clicks and likes and footsteps feed new digital methods of control. In this talk Jer will propose a variety of answers to a crucial question of our time: how do we stop passively inhabiting data, and become active citizens of it?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJer Thorp is an artist, writer and teacher living in New York City. He is best known for designing the algorithm to place the nearly 3,000 names on the 9\/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Jer was the New York Times\u0026#39; first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 and 2018 served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Jer is one of the world\u0026#39;s foremost data artists, and is a leading voice for the ethical use of big data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJer\u0026rsquo;s data-inspired artwork has been shown around the world, including most recently in New York\u0026rsquo;s Times Square, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, at the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, and at the National Seoul Museum in Korea. His work has also appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Scientific American, The New Yorker, Popular Science, Fast Company, Business Week, Popular Science, Discover, WIRED and The Harvard Business Review.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJer is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and an alumnus of the World Economic Foundation\u0026rsquo;s Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation. He is an adjunct Professor in New York University\u0026rsquo;s renowned Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and is the Co-Founder of The Office for Creative Research. 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Vera Liao \u2014 Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EArtificial Intelligence technologies are increasingly used to make decisions and perform autonomous tasks in critical domains. The need to understand AI in order to improve, contest, develop appropriate trust and better interact with AI systems has spurred great academic and public interest in Explainable AI (XAI). The technical field of XAI has produced a vast collection of algorithms in recent years. However, explainability is an inherently human-centric property and the field is starting to embrace human-centered approaches. Human-computer interaction (HCI) research and user experience (UX) design in this area are increasingly important especially as practitioners begin to leverage XAI algorithms to build XAI applications. In this talk, I will draw on our research and broad HCI work to highlight the central role that human-centered approaches should play in shaping XAI technologies, including to drive technical choices by understanding user needs, to uncover pitfalls of existing XAI methods, and to provide conceptual frameworks for human-compatible XAI.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQ. Vera Liao is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal. Her current interest is in human-AI interaction and explainable AI, with a focus on bridging state-of-the-art AI technologies and user-centered design practices. She serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Springer HCI Series, on the Editorial Board of IJHCS and ACM TiiS, and has been on the Organizing Committee for IUI 2019 and CSCW 2021. Before joining MSR, she worked at IBM T.J. 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How representation is perceived by children, i.e.\u0026nbsp;the message that is received, depends on what stage a child may be in in their cognitive development, the society of which they are a part, and their exposure to disability in games previously.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis talk shares a current EU research project in which nineteen games (1994-2020) with a PEGI 3 rating, and seventeen games (2004 to 2020) with a PEGI 7 rating, were reviewed and characters analyzed to consider how representation of disability maps against cognitive development and psychomotor and cognitive needs and abilities of children ages 3 to 12.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Krystina Madej has recently retired from Georgia Tech after ten years as Professor of the Practice. She continues her research at GT and at the University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw Poland, where she has also taught since 2015. Her work examines children\u0026rsquo;s emerging narrative intelligence as they develop and how humans have adapted their narratives to changing media throughout the centuries. Key research includes children\u0026#39;s interaction with digital games, \u0026nbsp;interactivity and collaboration in social media, and Disney\u0026#39;s approach to stories across media, and has been documented in the books Physical Play and Children\u0026rsquo;s Digital Game; Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media; \u0026nbsp;and Disney Stories: Getting to Digital 2nd Edition (published in fall 2020). She has also edited Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity. Previous to her work in academia, she was principal in a communications and industrial design business for 15 years, where, as design strategist, she planned and created successful branding programs and exhibits for government, business, industry, and museums.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/pbjcarvu\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/pbjcarvu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKrystina Madej (Retired Professor of the Practice, School of Literature, Media, and Communication at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech) presents research on\u0026nbsp;representation of disability in games and how representation\u0026nbsp;can provide children with exposure to and engagement with new video game schemas that add understanding and help create meaning about the disability represented.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This seminar considers how video game representation of disability maps against cognitive development and psychomotor and cognitive needs and abilities of children."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-10-14 17:13:59","changed_gmt":"2021-10-21 17:36:05","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-10-28T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-10-28T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-10-28T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-10-28 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-10-28 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-10-28 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"651709":{"id":"651709","type":"image","title":"Krystina Madej Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1634232789","gmt_created":"2021-10-14 17:33:09","changed":"1634232789","gmt_changed":"2021-10-14 17:33:09","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247246","name":"MadejPhoto_2021.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MadejPhoto_2021.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MadejPhoto_2021.png","mime":"image\/png","size":275615,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MadejPhoto_2021.png?itok=VvQGlnIo"}}},"media_ids":["651709"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"645906":{"#nid":"645906","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Gabriela Marcu \u2014 Designing for Coordination and Intervention in Behavioral Health","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBehavioral and mental health is an underserved area, and receives less focus in health informatics research. 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Much visionary work was done in the 1950\u0026#39;s and 60\u0026#39;s but it inevitably failed to achieve acceptance for technical and non-technical reasons we will discuss. As a result, healthcare is correctly widely viewed as the last major industry to embrace the information age. That is changing. 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Drawing on increasingly available biodata--data about people\u0026rsquo;s bodies and behaviors, such as video, audio, or heart rate--emotion AI predicts emotions, stress, focus, and other characteristics. Emotion AI increasingly informs sensitive decisions in many varied contexts, from social media to online education, online job interviews, or security surveillance systems and criminal investigations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA key challenge to emotion AI is that algorithmic ways of modeling emotion differ fundamentally from human ways of understanding emotion, making emotion AI predictions difficult to meaningfully interpret and apply in real-world contexts. In addition, even people aware of widespread video surveillance may be unaware that an additional layer of algorithmic surveillance using emotion AI is making sensitive predictions about their inner psychology from video of their facial expressions, leading to privacy and civil liberties risks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy design research explores both the promise and peril of emotion AI, and contributes design tactics to more effectively support social, embodied, and emotional meaning-making with data. Combining building custom biosensing technologies and realtime data displays with concepts from the arts and humanities, my work explores, how might we imagine a more affirmative biopolitics with data?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENoura Howell is an assistant professor in Digital Media at Georgia Tech. She completed her PhD at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of the BioSENSE lab. Before grad school she worked as a human centered designer and engineer in Singapore, Morocco, and China, as well as at the MIT Media Lab, Intel Labs, Microsoft, and The Echo Nest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/bejfuehh\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/bejfuehh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Noura Howell (Assistant Professor, Digital\u0026nbsp;Media at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech)\u0026nbsp;describes how research effectively supports social, embodied, and emotional meaning-making with data. 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While impressive recent advances have allowed the use of linear modelling while carrying out sample-efficient exploration and learning, the handling of more general non-linear models remains limited. In this talk, we study reinforcement learning using linear models, where the features underlying the linear model are learned, rather than apriori specified. While the broader question of representation learning for useful embeddings of complex data has seen tremendous progress, doing so in reinforcement learning presents additional challenges: good representations cannot be discovered without adequate exploration, but effective exploration is challenging in the absence of good representations. Concretely, we study this question in the context of low-rank MDPs [Jiang et al., 2017, Jin et al., 2019, Yang and Wang, 2019], where the features underlying a state-action pair are not assumed to be known, unlike most prior works. We develop two styles of methods, model-based and model-free. For the model-based method, we learn an approximate factorization of the transition model, plan within the model to obtain a fresh exploratory policy and then update our factorization with additional data. In the model-free technique, we learn features so that quantities such as value functions at subsequent states can be predicted linearly in those features. In both approaches, we address the intricate coupling between exploration and representation learning, and provide sample complexity guarantees. More details can be found at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.10814\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2006.10814\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2102.07035\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2102.07035\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E[Based on joint work with Jingling Chen, Nan Jiang, Sham Kakade, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Aditya Modi and Wen Sun]\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Alekh Agarwal is a researcher who works on theoretical foundations of machine learning, spanning many areas including large-scale and distributed optimization, high-dimensional statistics, online learning, and most recently reinforcement learning. He focuses on designing theoretically sound methods which lend themselves to practice, and his work at Microsoft has resulted in the creation of a new Azure service (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aka.ms\/personalizer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/aka.ms\/personalizer\u003C\/a\u003E) that operationalizes some of his reinforcement learning research. His work has been recognized with a NeurIPS best paper award and an ACM SIGAI Industry Impact award for his work on the Azure Personalization Service.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegister and Attend:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/qxugrckz\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/qxugrckz\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alekh Agarwal gives the Sept. 15 Machine Learning at Georgia Tech virtual seminar."}],"uid":"33939","created_gmt":"2021-09-09 21:28:02","changed_gmt":"2021-09-09 21:28:02","author":"David Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-09-15T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-09-15T14:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-09-15T14:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-09-15 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-09-15 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-09-15 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKyla Hanson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:khanson@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekhanson@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"650625":{"#nid":"650625","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Machine Learning Virtual Seminar: Structured Prediction - Beyond Support Vector Machine and Cross Entropy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Many classification tasks in machine learning lie beyond the classical binary and multi-class classification settings. In those tasks, the output elements are structured objects made of interdependent parts, such as sequences in natural language processing, images in computer vision, permutations in ranking or matching problems, etc. The structured prediction setting has two key properties that makes it radically different from multi-class classification, namely, the exponential growth of the size of the output space with the number of its parts, and the cost-sensitive nature of the learning task, as prediction mistakes are not equally costly. In this talk, I will present recent work on the design on loss functions that combine numerical efficiency and statistical consistency (joint work with Alessandro Rudi, Alex Nowak-Vila, Vivien Cabannes).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Francis Bach is a researcher at INRIA in the Computer Science department of Ecole Normale Sup\u0026eacute;rieure, in Paris, France. 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My research has explored two important facets of this issue\u0026mdash;developing AI education initiatives and expanding existing AI systems to improve their ability to interact naturally with humans and foster understanding through interaction. Several design themes guide my work, including using embodied interaction, collaboration, and creative exploration to reduce intimidation and foster curiosity and learning. I will discuss my research investigating how to define AI literacy, and I will present several activities I have designed for informal learning spaces that can foster family learning about AI. I will also discuss how my research on developing co-creative AI systems can inform the development of more understandable AI systems. My talk will conclude with reflections on how education and system design can be leveraged to create more equitable, understandable AI in our everyday lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuri Long is a Research Scientist at Georgia Tech working in the Expressive Machinery Lab. She is a human-centered AI researcher interested in issues surrounding AI literacy and human-AI interaction. Duri\u0026#39;s research looks to how humans interact and learn as a way of informing the design of public AI literacy interventions as well as the development of AI that can interact naturally and improvise creatively with people in complex social environments. She employs a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks in her research, drawing on the learning sciences, design research, and cognitive science. She has experience working with artists and museums around the country to develop co-creative, embodied exhibits and art installations involving AI and technology. Duri holds a PhD in Human Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and degrees in Computer Science and Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/fytvvtcw\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/fytvvtcw\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Duri Long (Research Scientist, Expressive Machinery Lab at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech)\u0026nbsp;describes research in\u0026nbsp;developing AI education initiatives, defining\u0026nbsp;AI literacy, and expanding\u0026nbsp;existing AI systems to improve interaction\u0026nbsp;and design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This talk seeks to foster public understanding of AI through interaction, education, and design."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-08-26 14:59:36","changed_gmt":"2021-09-02 19:59:56","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-09-09T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-09-09T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-09-09T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-09-09 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-09-09 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-09-09 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650125":{"id":"650125","type":"image","title":"Duri Long","body":null,"created":"1629992227","gmt_created":"2021-08-26 15:37:07","changed":"1629992227","gmt_changed":"2021-08-26 15:37:07","alt":"","file":{"fid":"246761","name":"Long_Photo.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Long_Photo.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Long_Photo.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":367279,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Long_Photo.jpeg?itok=tu-yw8vc"}}},"media_ids":["650125"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"650196":{"#nid":"650196","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ML Virtual Seminar: Learning Locomotion: From Simulation to Real World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003EDeep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) holds the promise of\u0026nbsp;designing complex\u0026nbsp;robotic controllers automatically. 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This year\u0026rsquo;s winners will give brief overviews of the work they will be doing over the coming academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKeith Edwards is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Director of the GVU Center. His research interests focus primarily on driving human-centered concerns into core computing infrastructure. He is a pioneer in the exploration of human-centered perspectives on computer networking, particularly in the home and has been active in developing more usable approaches to information security systems. Lately, his research has expanded into a number of explorations of the social impacts of computing technology, and understanding how technology can support the work of non-profits and NGOs. 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You are about to earn your graduate degree from Georgia Tech, and we want to honor your achievement and help you celebrate!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents, families, faculty and staff, please join us for a virtual Dean\u0026#39;s Welcome New Graduate Alumni Celebration, to\u0026nbsp;be held, May 15\u0026nbsp;at 12 - 2\u0026nbsp;p.m. EST on Gatherly (links and additional information still being determined)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe program\u0026nbsp;is as follows;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWelcome:\u003C\/strong\u003E Jennifer Whitlow, Director of Computing Enrollment and Alumni Engagement\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E, Dean of the College of Computing, John P. 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Students excited by being a part of an esports team and community are likely to develop other skills, such as software and hardware engineering as well as web design and video editing, to supplement their play performance and contribute to their team in ways outside of playing the game. However, there remain barriers to entry for schools and students in implementing esports programs. While public sentiment on esports is changing for the positive, there can still be doubt and misunderstandings around the benefits for esports programs in school administrations, educators, parents, and students alike. Even for schools convinced by the beneficial impacts of esports programs, there can be confusion in how to navigate the evolving landscape of leagues, games, and equipment to purchase. 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In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation. Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence. **Get Prototype Nation now for 30% off with code P234 from the Princeton U Press website.**\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESilvia Lindtner (she\/her) is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). 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She is the author of Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020). The book reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007\u0026ndash;8, shaped the vision of China as a \u0026ldquo;new frontier\u0026rdquo; of innovation. Lindtner unpacks how this promise of entrepreneurial life has influenced governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism and racist forms of violence and colonial logics of othering. Lindtner\u0026rsquo;s work contributes to the fields of STS (science and technology studies), cultural and feminist anthropology, China studies, HCI (human computer interaction), global communication studies, science and technology policy, and design. 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Morgan Chase","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EML@GT will host a\u0026nbsp;virtual seminar featuring Qi Wei, Vice President and ML\/AI Lead at JP Morgan Chase.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegistration is required. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/vbspsshh\u0022\u003ERegister here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EGenerative models based on point processes for financial time series simulation\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this seminar, I will talk about generative models based on point processes for financial time series simulation. Specifically, we focus on a recently developed state-dependent Hawkes (sdHawkes) process to model the limit order book dynamics [Morariu-Patrichi, 2018]. The sdHawkes model consists of an oracle Hawkes process and a state process following Markov transition. The Hawkes and state processes are fully coupled, which enables the point process captures the self-and cross-excitation as well as the interaction between events and states. We will go through the model formulation in sdHawkes, the simulation of sdHawkes, its maximum likelihood estimation, and more importantly, its application to high-frequency data modeling that captures the interactions between the order flow and the state of the current market.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMorariu-Patrichi, Maxime, and Mikko S. Pakkanen. \u0026quot;State-dependent Hawkes processes and their application to limit order book modelling.\u0026quot; arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08060 (2018).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbout Qi:\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQi\u0026nbsp;Wei\u0026nbsp;received\u0026nbsp;his\u0026nbsp;Ph.D.\u0026nbsp;degree\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;machine\u0026nbsp;learning\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;image\u0026nbsp;processing\u0026nbsp;from the\u0026nbsp;National\u0026nbsp;Polytechnic\u0026nbsp;Institute\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Toulouse\u0026nbsp;(INPENSEEIHT),\u0026nbsp;University\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Toulouse,\u0026nbsp;France\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;September\u0026nbsp;2015,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;Bachelor\u0026nbsp;degree\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;Electrical\u0026nbsp;Engineering\u0026nbsp;from\u0026nbsp;Beihang\u0026nbsp;University\u0026nbsp;(BUAA),\u0026nbsp;Beijing,\u0026nbsp;China\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;July\u0026nbsp;2010. Wei\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;doctoral thesis\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBayesian Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolution\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewas rated as one of the best theses (awarded Prix Leopold Escande) at the\u0026nbsp;University\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Toulouse,\u0026nbsp;2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWei\u0026nbsp;has worked on multiband\u0026nbsp;image\u0026nbsp;processing\u0026nbsp;as a Research Associate with Signal\u0026nbsp;Processing\u0026nbsp;Laboratory,\u0026nbsp;University\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Cambridge, UK, and\u0026nbsp;as a Research Associate at Duke\u0026nbsp;University, US. He has also\u0026nbsp;worked at Siemens Corporate Technology as a Research Scientist.\u0026nbsp;Since\u0026nbsp;2018, Wei served as a vice president and machine learning scientist at\u0026nbsp;JPMorgan.\u0026nbsp;His\u0026nbsp;research has been focused on\u0026nbsp;machine\/deep\u0026nbsp;learning, time series analysis, computer vision\/image\u0026nbsp;processing, Bayesian statistical inference, etc.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A virtual seminar featuring Qi Wei, Vice President and ML\/AI Lead at JP Morgan Chase"}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2021-01-15 14:26:43","changed_gmt":"2021-03-30 13:06:06","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-04-07T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-04-07T14:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-04-07T14:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-04-07 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-04-07 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-04-07 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"589608","name":"Machine Learning"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"645017":{"#nid":"645017","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Marshini Chetty \u2014 Imagine All The People On A Trustworthy Internet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EImagine a world where the Internet caters to all types of users and hosts trustworthy content. Right now, this world seems far off for many reasons. For instance, this world would require us to think more broadly of user needs beyond an `average\u0026rsquo; tech-savvy adult user\u0026mdash;one who is assumed to be always online with a reliable Internet connection. Moreover, this world would require us to host content that is not misleading or manipulative in some way\u0026mdash;content that can be evaluated at face value by various users. To achieve this lofty goal, we first need to deeply understand and catalogue different types of Internet users\u0026rsquo; needs and also develop ways to assess and make misleading online content more apparent to end-users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will present a set of case studies from my research lab that helps further the goal of a trustworthy Internet for all. I will describe various projects geared at understanding a wide variety of Internet users\u0026rsquo; needs for online privacy and security in different contexts from children to those in developing contexts. I will also describe work that provides empirical evidence of misleading content online such as `dark patterns\u0026rsquo; and disguised advertisements and create solutions to help users to better evaluate this content. These case studies will demonstrate how important it is to study the privacy and security needs of those who do not fit the \u0026ldquo;average\u0026rdquo; user mold and demonstrate possible solutions for helping users gain more trust in information on the Internet. I conclude with open questions for imagining an Internet which is more trustworthy and inclusive to all people.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarshini Chetty is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago where she directs the Amyoli Internet Research Laboratory (AIR lab). She specializes in human-computer interaction, usable privacy and security, and ubiquitous computing. Her work has won best paper and honorable mention awards at SOUPS, CHI, and CSCW, and she was a co-recipient of the Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers award. Her research has been featured in the NYTimes, CNN, Washington Journal, BBC, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, WIRED, and Slashdot. She has received generous funding from the National Science Foundation, through grants and a CAREER award, as well as the National Security Agency, Facebook, and multiple Google Faculty Research Awards. Marshini started her journey in the USA after she completed her MSc., BSc.(Hons), and BSc. in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (her beautiful home country). She received her PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Institute of Technology where she was advised by Prof. Rebecca Grinter. Marshini subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the College of Computing with Prof. Keith Edwards. 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The Air Quality Index (AQI) reports air pollution data as a single normalized value. Most public AQI sources either present this value without sufficient supports for deeper exploration of multiple pollutants or are robust data repositories that are too technical to be accessible to non-scientific audiences. My findings indicate many people have little context for understanding how the AQI is generated or what it measures. To combat this knowledge gap, I have created a contextualized, visualization-based platform to support public audiences in exploring air pollution beyond the AQI by displaying contextualized multi-pollutant data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Golino: Meditation in VR: From Master\u0026#39;s Project to Startup\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI will talk about the journey of taking my MS-HCI master\u0026#39;s project from idea, to research project, to implementation, to longitudinal study, to startup! I\u0026#39;ll talk about my experience with the CreateX accelerator and the ATDC incubator, the differences between building something for academia vs for market, and some of the challenges and victories along the journey thus far!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENandita Gupta: The Shakti Collective: Storytelling Collective Showcasing People Who Work Within the Field of Digital Accessibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUser experience (UX) professionals play a crucial role in the accessibility and inclusive design of digital products as they are responsible for ensuring that a user has the best possible experience with their products. Despite this necessary responsibility, UX and related professionals report multiple difficulties in applying accessibility in their work and that was the focus of this project. Based on the exploratory research, we identified barriers within resources and created a storytelling collective that featured people in varied roles within digital accessibility. The Shakti Collective not only motivated other UX professionals to continue working within the accessibility field but also aimed to create a pipeline to introduce other UX professionals to accessibility and inclusive design processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJordan Hill\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;graduated from the MS-HCI program in Fall 2020. At GT, she was a member of the OrCHID (Organic Computer-Human Interaction with Data) Lab and worked as a Head TA for Dr. Gregory Abowd\u0026#39;s undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction course. She has experience in industry designing responsive websites, platforms, and web applications. Her interests lie in data visualization design, interaction design, and product strategy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatt Golino\u003C\/strong\u003E graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering in 2016 and after a few years learning the ins and outs of frontend web development at General Motors, Tech called me back. He spent the last two years earning my Master\u0026#39;s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, honing skills, focusing in the fields of User Experience Design and Research, and getting real world experience with an internship on Google\u0026#39;s YoutubeVR team.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince graduating in Spring 2020, Matt has\u0026nbsp;taken his\u0026nbsp;master\u0026#39;s project, a virtual reality meditation classroom, and transformed it into a startup: ZenVR! In the startup he\u0026nbsp;plays the role of developer, designer, researcher, CEO, and so much more for this budding company and is\u0026nbsp;learning something new every day. \u0026quot;With the help of the CreateX accelerator, we\u0026#39;ve taken our first leaps off the ground. ZenVR is currently available in its beta format on the SideQuest store, and we aim to launch on all major platforms this Spring!\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENandita Gupta\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is\u0026nbsp;a recent graduate from the MS-HCI program, an incoming Program Manager at Microsoft and an accessibility and inclusive design advocate. She has a background in Electrical Engineering and she launched Georgia-Pacific\u0026rsquo;s first mentoring program for entry-level engineers, and for this, she was named Influential Women of Manufacturing 2019 by Putman Media. 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Rather, it is best explained in terms\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;how \u0026quot;accessible\u0026quot; features are to the model following pretraining, where \u0026quot;accessibility\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;can\u0026nbsp;be quantified using an information-theoretic interpretation\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;probing classifiers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbout Ellie\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEllie Pavlick is an Assistant Professor\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Computer Science at Brown University where she leads the\u0026nbsp;Language\u0026nbsp;Understanding and Representation (LUNAR) Lab. She received her PhD from the one-and-only University\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;Pennsylvania. 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As a professor, I write grant proposals that use the magic of design to bring forth preferable futures. Yet, within the present socio-environ-political context, I find myself increasingly conflicted by these claims and asking myself, what, really, can design do? \u0026nbsp;I will not be able to answer any of these questions during this talk because I don\u0026#39;t know, but I will argue that the position of not-knowing, humility, and non-expert is useful for critically reflecting on the relevance of our practices. I will present ways that myself, collaborators, and the students with whom I work have been using weaving (sometimes with circuits, some without) as a practice through which to to try to probe, question, and understand what counts as design and the kinds of narratives we must take on in order to be \u0026quot;designers.\u0026quot; \u0026nbsp;I aim for this talk to inspire reflection and offer a few tactics for unknowing in order to think otherwise.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaura Devendorf is an assistant professor in Information Science and the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research questions the role of design and making in the wake of increasingly pressing global challenges. She directs the Unstable Design Lab where she works closely with students across engineering, information science, and art to speculate on alternative futures for technology. The lab currently focuses on weaving smart textiles and how themes of slowness, presence, and material negotiation can be used as both a practice and metaphor to formulate these visions. She earned bachelors\u0026#39; degrees in studio art and computer science from the University of California Santa Barbara before earning her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley School of Information. 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Please check back soon for additional information\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/ddtatyph\u0022\u003ERegistration is required\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EHardness of MDP planning with linear function approximation\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarkov decision processes (MDPs) is a minimalist framework to capture that many tasks require long-term plans and feedback due to noisy dynamics. Yet, as a result MDPs lack structure and as such planning and learning in MDPs with the typically enormous state and action spaces is strongly intractable; no algorithm can avoid Bellman\u0026#39;s curse of dimensionality in the worst case. However, as recognized already by Bellman and his co-workers at the advent of our field, for many problem of practical interest, the optimal value function of an MDP is well approximated by just using a few basis functions, such as those that are standardly used in numerical calculations. As knowing the optimal value function is essentially equivalent to knowing how to act optimally, one hopes that this observation can be turned into efficient algorithms as there are only a few coefficients to compute. If this is possible, we can think of the resulting algorithms as performing computations with a compressed form of the value functions. While many algorithms have been proposed as early as in the 1960s, until recently not much has been known about whether these compressed computations are possible and when. In this talk, I will discuss a few recent results (some positive, some negative) that are concerned with these compressed computations and conclude with some open problems. As we shall see, still today, there are more open questions than questions that have been satisfactorily answered.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Csaba\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECsaba Szepesvari is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, the team-lead for the \u0026ldquo;Foundations\u0026rdquo; team at DeepMind and a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He earned his PhD in 1999 from Jozsef Attila University, in Szeged, Hungary. He has authored three books and over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He serves as the action editor of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.jmlr.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022\u201cblank\u201d\u0022\u003EJournal of Machine Learning Research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/10994\/volumes-and-issues\u0022 target=\u0022\u201cblank\u201d\u0022\u003EMachine Learning\u003C\/a\u003E, as well as on various program committees. Dr. Szepesvari\u0026#39;s interest is artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, principled approaches to AI that use machine learning. He is the co-inventor of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monte_Carlo_tree_search#Exploration_and_exploitation\u0022 target=\u0022\u201cblank\u201d\u0022\u003EUCT\u003C\/a\u003E, a widely successful\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monte_Carlo_tree_search\u0022 target=\u0022\u201cblank\u201d\u0022\u003EMonte-Carlo tree search algorithm\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Originally borne of wireline voice telephony access, innovations in wireless data connectivity (such as GPRS and LTE) have enabled these operators to become the world\u0026#39;s dominant Internet providers, connecting more people to the Internet than wireline networks. However, the increasing centralization of the MNO ecosystem (down to just three providers in the US) is in contrast to the general design goals of the internet, which was built to allow multiple regional autonomous systems to work together to provide connectivity. In this talk we will discuss my group\u0026#39;s ongoing attempts to leverage advances in wide area technology, specific open source LTE and NR, to recreate distributed access networks and help small organizations provide connectivity to their communities while still achieving the at-scale efficiencies of modern MNOs. This journey starts with an MNO partnership for GSM networks in the rural Philippines and continues in our current work with local NGOs on urban NR infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKurtis Heimerl is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington working on Information and Communication Technology and International Development (ICTD), specifically universal Internet access. Before that, he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, working under Professors Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh. Kurtis cofounded Endaga, which joined Facebook in 2015 and has also published widely, including top conferences such as ICTD, CSCW, CHI, MobiCom, and NSDI. He was a recipient of the 2014 MIT \u0026ldquo;35 under 35\u0026rdquo; award, the 2018 UW early career Diamond Award, and has won paper awards at CHI, NSDI, COMPASS, ASSETS, and DySPAN.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/wwszqdqc\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/wwszqdqc\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Dr. Heimerl presents ongoing attempts to leverage advances in wide area technology to recreate distributed access networks and help small organizations provide connectivity to their communities.\u0026nbsp;Watch via BlueJeans Event: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/Watch via BlueJeans Events: https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/wwszqdqc\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/wwszqdqc\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This talk will discuss ongoing attempts to leverage advances in wide area technology."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-02-18 19:30:27","changed_gmt":"2021-02-25 19:29:57","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-03-04T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-03-04T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-03-04T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-03-04 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-03-04 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-03-04 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"644457":{"id":"644457","type":"image","title":"Kurtis Heimerl Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1613677634","gmt_created":"2021-02-18 19:47:14","changed":"1613677634","gmt_changed":"2021-02-18 19:47:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"244677","name":"Heimerl_Photo2021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Heimerl_Photo2021.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Heimerl_Photo2021.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":602755,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Heimerl_Photo2021.jpg?itok=VkV4AGmQ"}}},"media_ids":["644457"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"644228":{"#nid":"644228","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Krystina Madej -- Bringing Narrative Authoring into Social Media","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen social media is perceived only as a vehicle for posting personal history narratives the potential for using its affordances to create literary narratives is lost. We can use social media\u0026rsquo;s speculative spaces to both create and experience a wide range of interactive and collaborative stories, both non-fiction and fiction. In 2009 The Royal Opera House used Twitter to crowd source Twitterdammerung, a collaborative venture to explore opera as a living art form and make it accessible to everyone. This inspired the Neil Gaiman book Hearts, Keys and Puppetry, a Twitter collaboration published as a BBC Audiobook, also in 2009. \u0026nbsp;In 2014, Grammerly used its blog to crowd-source the book Frozen by Fire from 500 writers in 54 different countries. Crowdsourcing has become common for entertainment platforms such as Netfllix and a new generation of users has higher expectation of helping to shape online stories. High profile narrative experiments notwithstanding, the digital humanities continue to view social media most often as a vehicle for personal histories. This paper presents an ongoing social media and narrative project initiated in 2013 that encourages the broader perspective. It presents social media narratives created in 2019 by small teams of university students who were asked to engage in participatory story creation that used social media in all its affordances. Planning was through social media, content creation was through social media, and the narrative was played out through social media from Instant Messaging to Tweets, from Facebook to LinkedIn, from YouTube to Snap Chat. Students created their own non-fiction narratives (Atlanta Child Murders), explored contemporary fiction (The Handmaid\u0026rsquo;s Tale), and revisited canonical works (Romeo and Juliet) in ways that reflected their current media culture. One response to Romeo and Juliet shows the value of just such an approach, \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;ve never really connected to the story until now that I\u0026rsquo;ve seen how it plays out in apps I use every day.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Krystina Madej is Professor of the Practice at Georgia Tech in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She researches and teaches about how humans have adapted their narratives to changing media throughout the centuries, Disney\u0026#39;s approach to stories across media since the 1920s, and physical play and children\u0026#39;s interaction with narrative-based digital games. Her books include Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media, Physical Play and Children\u0026rsquo;s Digital Games, and the edited book Engaging Imagination and Developing Creativity. A second edition of the co-authored book Disney Stories: Getting to Digital, first published in 2012, was released in November 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Events: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/xxwgtzyx\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Dr. Madej presents social media narratives created in 2019 by small teams of university students who were asked to engage in participatory story creation that used social media in all its affordances. 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In particular, my research focuses on improving the outcomes of service and working dog training. Not all dogs that go into these training programs as puppies have the temperament to become successful assistance and working animals. However, it is very difficult to determine if a dog has a temperament suitable for a service or working animal early on in life. That is where my research comes in. In my work, I investigate how aspects of canine temperament can be detected from interactions with sensors, often placed inside of dog toys that I design and build. After running tests where dogs interact with these sensors, I develop models that use sensor data to predict the success of assistance dogs in advanced training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAzra Ismail: Human-Centered Design of Artificial Intelligence Systems for Frontline Health\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere has been growing interest in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in frontline health, motivated by a shortage of skilled medical experts and medical equipment, particularly in the Global South. The global COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the potential for these efforts, but also their many limitations. These systems may increase the work burden on frontline health workers, many of whom are women engaged in underpaid and invisible care and data work. In this talk, I will examine the AI for Global Health discourse, the gaps in current efforts, and opportunities for design, while centering the perspectives of frontline health workers. I will draw on data from three years of ethnographic fieldwork that I have conducted with women frontline health workers and women from underserved communities in Delhi (India), as well as an extensive literature review of ongoing AI efforts in this space. 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However, existing methodologies to assess wellbeing suffer from limitations of scale and timeliness. Parallelly, given its ubiquity and widespread use, social media can be considered a \u0026ldquo;passive sensor\u0026rdquo; that can act as a complementary source of unobtrusive, real-time, and naturalistic data to infer wellbeing. This talk will present an overview of computational and causal approaches for leveraging social media in concert with complementary multimodal sensing data to examine wellbeing in situated contexts. This talk will show how theory-driven computational methods can be applied on unique social media and complementary multimodal sensing data to capture attributes of human behavior and psychosocial dynamics in situated communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECeara Byrne\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a sixth year PhD student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. She believes in creating things around empathy before everything be it physical or digital. Ceara uses a data-driven approach to develop products that put people and their needs first. She has\u0026nbsp;a masters in both Industrial Design (ID) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from Georgia Tech. Her PhD research focuses on instrumenting dog toys with various sensors for measuring computational ethograms of behavior. With these computational ethograms we are better able to understand aspects of working dog temperament and behavior, and as funding for these centers mainly come from donations, programs can more efficiently train more working dogs or create new programs that can benefit individuals with disabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAzra Ismail\u003C\/strong\u003E is a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research lies at the intersection of ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Development), HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), and global health. Her research has been published at premier HCI venues, and has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award at CHI. Azra is also the co-founder of MakerGhat, a non-profit based in Mumbai that creates safe and open makerspaces to support communities in realizing their ideas for local social, economic, and political change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKoustuv Saha\u003C\/strong\u003E is a doctoral candidate in Computer Science in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where he is advised by Prof. Munmun De Choudhury. His research interest is in Social Computing and Computational Social Science. In his research, he adopts machine learning, natural language, and causal inference analysis to examine human behavior and wellbeing using social media and online data, along with complementary multimodal sensing data. His work has been published at several high prestige venues, including CHI, CSCW, ICWSM, IMWUT, JMIR, ACII, FAT*, and WebSci, among others. He is a recipient of the GVU Foley Scholarship Award and Snap Research Fellowship. He has been a finalist of the Symantec Graduate Fellowship, and his research has won the Outstanding Study Design Award at ICWSM 2019. His research has been covered at prestigious media outlets, including the New York Times, CBC Radio, NBC, 11Alive, the Hill, and the Commonwealth Times. During his Ph.D., he has had research internships at Snap Research, Microsoft Research, Max Planck Institute, and Fred Hutch Cancer Research. Earlier, he completed his B.Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. 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However, there still remains a large gap between the decision-making capabilities of humans and machines. In this talk, I will investigate two factors to explain why. First, I will discuss the presence of undesirable biases in datasets, which ultimately hurt generalization. I will then present bias mitigation algorithms that boost the ability of AI models to generalize to unseen data. Second, I will explore task-specific prior knowledge which aids robust generalization, but is often ignored when training modern AI architectures. Throughout this discussion, I will focus my attention on language applications, and will show how certain underlying structures\u0026nbsp;can provide useful biases for inferring meaning in natural language. I will conclude with a discussion of how the broader framework of dataset and model biases will play a critical role in the societal impact of AI, going forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESwabha Swayamdipta is a postdoctoral investigator at the Allen Institute for AI, working with Yejin Choi. Her research focuses on natural language processing, where she explores dataset and linguistic structural biases, and model interpretability. Swabha received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Noah A. Smith and Chris Dyer. During most of her Ph.D. she was a visiting student at the University of Washington. She holds a Masters degree from Columbia University, where she was advised by Owen Rambow. 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In all cases, I was buoyed by a bevy of talented and supportive colleagues and students who gave me the courage to jump into a research topic that I didn\u0026rsquo;t know much about. \u0026nbsp;That \u0026ldquo;ignorance\u0026rdquo; has allowed me to be more fearless than\u0026nbsp;I had the right to be. As I jump into my next career, for which I am also blissfully ignorant, I hope I am lucky enough to be surrounded by excellence that inspires success.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGregory D. Abowd is a Regents\u0026rsquo; Professor and J.Z. Liang Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where he has been on the faculty since 1994. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Computing. An applied computer scientist, Dr. Abowd\u0026#39;s research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Dr. Abowd\u0026#39;s work has involved applications as diverse as education (Classroom 2000), home life (The Aware Home) and health (technology and autism, CampusLife). He and his current and former students are active inventors of new sensing and interaction technologies. He has recently helped to co-create an interdisciplinary research effort, COSMOS, which investigates the collaboration of materials, manufacturing, electronics, computing and design to explore an alternative future computing industry. Dr. Abowd is an ACM Fellow and a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. 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LifeQ\u0026rsquo;s unique combination of longitudinal, high coverage, high resolution tracking of numerous lifestyle and physiological signals enables the development of solutions that include the provision of health information for lifestyle management, preventative healthcare, and early disease detection -- including a new Covid-19 early warning and monitoring solution.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELifeQ\u0026rsquo;s health information solutions are hosted within an EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant end-to-end IOT infrastructure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company works with global leaders in wearables, silicon manufacturers, digital platforms, and insurance. \u0026nbsp;For example, LifeQ is built into the latest Samsung Galaxy smartwatches. 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These services are compatible with a wide range of wearable device brands, as well as several types of IOT hardware such as mobile phones and connected body weight scales.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese approaches provide scalable access to data from many common end-consumer wearable devices, but lack the necessary standardization to ensure interoperable, high quality data points for downstream applications such as disease monitoring and management, or research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELifeQ has taken a fresh approach to this problem by providing an operating system abstraction layer for supporting sensor level signal acquisition and standardized signal processing to provide standardized, high quality biometrics, while optimizing for constraints such as battery life and payload. The company covers performance on key biometric results derived from enabling more than a dozen commercially available wearable devices spanning several different wearable operating systems using this approach.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio for Laurence Olivier:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELaurie earned a BS in Electronics Engineering from the University of Pretoria and a B.COM in Finance and Strategic Marketing and a Diploma in Datametrics and Operational Research from the University of South Africa. He is a seasoned venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has served on the boards of more than 50 startup and major private and public companies around the world. 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Her research received financial support from NIDILRR, NSF and TeachAccess.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring\u0026nbsp;2021\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Dr. Motti will present the design, development, and evaluation of Wearable Life -- an assistive smartwatch application that\u0026nbsp;empowers neurodiverse individuals to regulate emotions independently.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This talk will present Wearable Life -- an assistive smartwatch application."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2021-01-19 23:35:26","changed_gmt":"2021-01-21 18:26:55","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-01-28T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2021-01-28T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-01-28T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-01-28 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-01-28 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-01-28 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"643112":{"id":"643112","type":"image","title":"Motti2021 Photo","body":null,"created":"1611099459","gmt_created":"2021-01-19 23:37:39","changed":"1611099459","gmt_changed":"2021-01-19 23:37:39","alt":"","file":{"fid":"244205","name":"Motti2021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Motti2021.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Motti2021.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":216501,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Motti2021.jpg?itok=qUwgDP0n"}}},"media_ids":["643112"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"643050":{"#nid":"643050","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Beth Mynatt \u0022From Tire Tracks to Subway Maps: How Computing Innovation Fuels US Industries\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the close of 2020, the\u0026nbsp;National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine\u0026nbsp;released the report,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nap.edu%2Fcatalog%2F25961%2Finformation-technology-innovation-resurgence-confluence-and-continuing-impact\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdtaylor88%40gatech.edu%7C1d2be065993046f7325608d8bc8da148%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637466663767604528%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=rbmvXwSJuEeXL36R4CceGt7RFpIbZXpXp%2BC9s0TbXEc%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003EInformation Technology Innovation: Resurgence, Confluence, and Continuing Impact\u003C\/a\u003E. As the chair of the report committee, in this talk I will give a high level overview of the report, and then describe how my experiences in the GVU Center and in the HCI community informed my contributions to the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis series of reports, starting in the mid-1990s, illustrate the complex nature of information technology (IT) research and the interdependencies among various subfields of computing and communications research. This work has dispelled the assumption that the IT sector is self-sufficient by highlighting how government-funded university research has been instrumental to the sector\u0026rsquo;s commercial success. The 2020 report extends the earlier work by describing key patterns in how research over time has significant cumulative impact, and exploring the ultimate impacts of IT innovation on major U.S. industry sectors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe report identifies and describes two patterns, resurgence and confluence, reflecting the path from federally funded academic research to economic impact in the US. Resurgence provides examples when economic return follows a period of diminished interest and investment followed by a resurgence of new ideas and enablers\u0026nbsp;leading to significant impact. Confluence provide examples of IT innovations combined with deep domain expertise, design and production knowledge, and new business models to create\u0026nbsp;transformative results in other major sectors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese reports are best known for its graphic representation of \u0026ldquo;tracks\u0026rdquo; that visualize the interplay between academic, industry research, and industry development culminating in commercial impact. The 2020 report now extends this graphic illustrating how streams of innovation combine in powerful ways across US industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMy personal journey with this work includes the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nap.edu%2Fcatalog%2F23393%2Fcontinuing-innovation-in-information-technology-workshop-report\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdtaylor88%40gatech.edu%7C1d2be065993046f7325608d8bc8da148%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637466663767614523%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=h38ZUNy9upNzQ%2F%2BwT7gcm9RJwD0s8L8RKEHUSWhjDgg%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003E2015 National Academies workshop\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nap.edu%2Fcatalog%2F23393%2Fcontinuing-innovation-in-information-technology-workshop-report\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdtaylor88%40gatech.edu%7C63adf314aa464f9885b708d8b677e5f5%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637459973356469609%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=piZ4iJXIJmR3GKnp%2BeiupRwAwR6e2efUtKFA8zNBgm8%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Ethat collected first-person narratives that illustrated the link between\u0026nbsp;government investments in academic and industry research to the\u0026nbsp;ultimate creation of new IT industries. In 2018, I helped create a \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnostalgicfutures.gvu.gatech.edu%2F\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdtaylor88%40gatech.edu%7C1d2be065993046f7325608d8bc8da148%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637466663767614523%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=dA7GZB8l9EQ%2BYqgYYjKfNsNThB%2FnDzN6NdKgy5k7aLc%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003EGVU Tire Tracks\u0026rdquo; as part of the Nostalgic Futures\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnostalgicfutures.gvu.gatech.edu%2F\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdtaylor88%40gatech.edu%7C63adf314aa464f9885b708d8b677e5f5%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637459973356479605%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=u%2FntrK%2F98gxR%2F5%2Fn7zFBskZ3kPJ%2FONzdq%2FwfWO0ZBuU%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Eproject that captured GVU\u0026rsquo;s impact in Graphics \u0026amp; Animation, the Web, Visualization and Visual Analytics, Augmented and Virtual Reality, User Interface Software, Ubiquitous Computing, and Wearable Computing. Through each of these experiences I gained an understanding for how human-centric research has a long track record in innovation captured by diverse US industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElizabeth D. \u0026quot;Beth\u0026quot; Mynatt is a Regents\u0026rsquo; and Distinguished Professor in the\u0026nbsp;College of Computing and the Executive Director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipat.gatech.edu%2F\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cdtaylor88%40gatech.edu%7C1d2be065993046f7325608d8bc8da148%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637466663767614523%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=M9nOoWMRw%2BACsY%2F2RJGYAE82ZM4GO0FFR7lm2EiGxB4%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that pursues innovative research to promote healthy, productive and\u0026nbsp;fulfilling lives on a global scale.\u0026nbsp;Mynatt\u0026nbsp;serves on the National Academies Computer Science and\u0026nbsp;Telecommunications Board and the NSF CISE Advisory Board.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;She has been recognized as an ACM\u0026nbsp;Fellow and a member of the\u0026nbsp;ACM\u0026nbsp;SIGCHI\u0026nbsp;Academy. She is an expert\u0026nbsp;in human-centered computing, interaction design, health informatics, ubiquitous\u0026nbsp;computing, and\u0026nbsp;assistive technology. Her career spans over 20 years at Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech and previously at Xerox PARC. 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More information will be available soon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegistration is required. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/rhffewaj\u0022\u003ERegister here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EInterpretable latent space and inverse problem in deep generative models\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecent progress in deep generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has enabled synthesizing photo-realistic images, such as faces and scenes. However, it remains much less explored on what has been learned in the deep generative representation and why diverse realistic images can be synthesized. 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I will also briefly talk about the inverse problem (how to invert a given image into the latent code) and the fairness of the generative model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EBio\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBolei Zhou is an Assistant Professor with the Information Engineering Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is on machine perception and autonomy, with a focus on enabling interpretable human-AI interactions. 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To discuss how these issues impact data, software, and institutions, and how we can improve moving forward, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT) \u003C\/a\u003Ewill be hosting a panel discussion on Friday, Nov.\u0026nbsp;20 from 12-1 pm ET.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe panel will feature thought leaders from Google, Georgia Tech, and Queer in AI, who will together answer questions like \u0026quot;What implications and problems exist or will exist if the tech workforce does not become more diverse?\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;How does anyone make sure they are not introducing their bias into a given system? What questions should we be asking or actions should we be taking to avoid this?\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegistration is required and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/kchrwwug\u0022\u003Eavailable here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EPanelists\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECharles Isbell is the Dean of Computing and The John P. Imlay Jr. Chair at Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s College of Computing. He is also a professor in the School of Interactive Computing and the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsbell\u0026#39;s research passion is artificial intelligence. 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He joined Google as an AI Resident in the summer of 2018 after completing his B.S. degree in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. His work investigates how deep learning works (or doesn\u0026#39;t), and the role that input distributions have on model robustness. As an organizer for Queer in AI, he creates academic workshops that drive the research conversation at the intersection of AI and LGBTQ+ people.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ETiffany Deng\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETiffany Deng leads the Responsible AI Program Management Team at Google where she is focused on helping people build products that work for everyone. 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This is a virtual event and is open to all Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff, and interested members of the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/ekdzxjxs\u0022\u003EREGISTER HERE\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Towards High Precision Text Generation\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite large advances in neural text generation in terms of fluency, existing generation techniques are prone to hallucination and often produce output that is unfaithful or irrelevant to the source text. In this talk, we take a multi-faceted approach to this problem from 3 aspects: data, evaluation, and modeling.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom the data standpoint, we propose ToTTo, a tables-to-text-dataset with high quality annotator revised references that we hope can serve as a benchmark for high precision text generation task.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;While the dataset is challenging, existing n-gram based evaluation metrics are often insufficient to detect hallucinations. To this end, we propose BLEURT, a fully learnt end-to-end metric based on transfer learning that can quickly adapt to measure specific evaluation criteria. Finally, we propose a model based on confidence decoding to mitigate hallucinations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollaborators:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThis is joint work with Thibault Sellam, Ran Tian, Xuezhi Wang, Sebastian Gehrmann, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, Diyi Yang, and Dipanjan Das.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the author:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnkur Parikh is a senior research scientist at Google NYC and adjunct assistant professor at NYU.\u0026nbsp;His\u0026nbsp;research interests are in natural language processing and machine learning with a recent focus on high precision text generation.\u0026nbsp;Ankur received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 2015 and has received a best paper runner up award at EMNLP 2014 and a best paper in translational bioinformatics at ISMB 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A seminar on Towards High Precision Text Generation with Ankur Parikh from Google"}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-10-20 15:51:06","changed_gmt":"2020-10-20 15:58:31","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-11-11T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-11-11T13:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-11-11T13:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-11-11 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-11-11 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-11-11 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"589608","name":"Machine Learning"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden | Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"637861":{"#nid":"637861","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ML@GT Virtual Seminar: Adriana Kovashka, University of Pittsburgh","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdriana Kovashka from the University of Pittsburgh will give a virtual seminar on Oct. 28 at 12:15 p.m. ET. This event is open to all Georgia Tech students, faculty, staff, and interested members of the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/fzbpkbju\u0022\u003ERegister Here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EReasoning about Complex Media from Weak Multi-modal Supervision\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a world of abundant information targeting multiple senses, and increasingly powerful media, we need new mechanisms to model content. Techniques for representing individual channels, such as visual data or textual data, have greatly improved, and some techniques exist to model the relationship between channels that are \u0026ldquo;mirror images\u0026rdquo; of each other and contain the same semantics. However, multimodal data in the real world contains little redundancy; the visual and textual channels \u003Cem\u003Ecomplement\u003C\/em\u003E each other. We examine the relationship between multiple channels in complex media, in two domains, advertisements and political articles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst, we collect a large dataset of advertisements and public service announcements, covering almost forty topics (ranging from automobiles and clothing, to health and domestic violence). We pose decoding the ads as automatically answering the questions \u0026ldquo;\u003Cem\u003EWhat\u003C\/em\u003E should do viewer do, according to the ad\u0026rdquo; (the suggested \u003Cem\u003Eaction\u003C\/em\u003E), and \u0026ldquo;\u003Cem\u003EWhy\u003C\/em\u003E should the viewer do the suggested action, according to the ad\u0026rdquo; (the suggested \u003Cem\u003Ereason\u003C\/em\u003E). We train a variety of algorithms to choose the appropriate action-reason statement, given the ad image and potentially a slogan embedded in it. The task is challenging because of the great diversity in how different users annotate an ad, even if they draw similar conclusions. One approach mines information from external knowledge bases, but there is a plethora of information that can be retrieved yet is not relevant. We show how to automatically transform the training data in order to focus our approach\u0026rsquo;s attention to relevant facts, without relevance annotations for training. We also present an approach for learning to recognize new concepts given supervision only in the form of noisy captions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESecond, we collect a dataset of multimodal political articles containing lengthy text and a small number of images. We learn to predict the political bias of the article, as well as perform cross-modal retrieval despite large visual variability for the same topic. To infer political bias, we use generative modeling to show how the face of the same politician appears differently at each end of the political spectrum. To understand how image and text contribute to persuasion and bias, we learn to retrieve sentences for a given image, and vice versa. The task is challenging because unlike image-text in captioning, the images and text in political articles overlap in only a very abstract sense. We impose a loss requiring images that correspond to similar text to live closeby in a projection space, even if they appear very diverse purely visually. We show that our loss significantly improves performance in conjunction with a variety of existing recent losses. We also propose new weighting mechanisms to prioritize abstract image-text relationships during training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdriana Kovashka is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are in computer vision and machine learning. She has authored eighteen publications in top-tier computer vision and artificial intelligence conferences and journals (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, ACL, TPAMI, IJCV) and ten second-tier conference publications (BMVC, ACCV, WACV). She has served as an Area Chair for CVPR in 2018-2021, NeurIPS 2020, ICLR 2021, AAAI 2021, and will serve as co-Program Chair of ICCV 2025. She has been on program committees for over twenty conferences and journals, and has co-organized seven workshops. 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Now more than ever, data management ensures data-driven personalization for each individual patient. Learn how Anthem uses data to improve the lives of each of our patients. During this session, our team will discuss how data is ingested, processed, cleansed, managed, and visualized to improve healthcare for our communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ESpeakers\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanjay Vishwakarma, Sr. Director Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanjay Vishwakarma is the Engineering Senior Director for Data and Analytics Operations within Anthem. In this role, Sanjay architects complex solutions for Anthem\u0026rsquo;s Data Lake including: data ingestion, standardization, curation, and consumption in both onPrem and Cloud based implementations. Prior to joining Anthem, Sanjay served in enterprise architecture roles spanning several industries including healthcare, insurance, technology, and the financial industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShannon Miles, Director\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShannon Miles has over 23 years of data warehousing leadership with Anthem. Shannon has owned large-scale initiatives across all lines of business and multiple domains. In his current role, Shannon is the Director within the IT Program Integrity team. 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Now more than ever, data management ensures data-driven personalization for each individual patient. Learn how Anthem uses data to improve the lives of each of our patients. During this session, our team will discuss how data is ingested, processed, cleansed, managed, and visualized to improve healthcare for our communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ESpeakers\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESanjay Vishwakarma, Sr. Director Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESanjay Vishwakarma is the Engineering Senior Director for Data and Analytics Operations within Anthem. In this role, Sanjay architects complex solutions for Anthem\u0026rsquo;s Data Lake including: data ingestion, standardization, curation, and consumption in both onPrem and Cloud based implementations. Prior to joining Anthem, Sanjay served in enterprise architecture roles spanning several industries including healthcare, insurance, technology, and the financial industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShannon Miles, Director\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShannon Miles has over 23 years of data warehousing leadership with Anthem. Shannon has owned large-scale initiatives across all lines of business and multiple domains. In his current role, Shannon is the Director within the IT Program Integrity team. 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The team will also share their vision for these technologies and journalism, their ethical considerations along the way, and a research wishlist that would accelerate their work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn its 169 year history, The New York Times has evolved with new technologies, publishing its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/10\/reader-center\/past-tense-photos-history-morgue.html\u0022\u003Efirst photo in 1896\u003C\/a\u003E with the rise of cameras, introducing the world\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/01\/business\/media\/john-rothman-dead.html\u0022\u003Efirst computerized news retrieval system in 1972\u003C\/a\u003E with the rise of the computer, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1996\/01\/22\/687588.html?pageNumber=49\u0026amp;zoom=16\u0026amp;smid=tw-nytarchives\u0026amp;smtyp=cur\u0022\u003Elaunching a website in 1996\u003C\/a\u003E with the rise of the internet. 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Sociolinguistics researchers investigate the systematic variation in language use across different contexts to determine the social meaning of variation, such as how people change their word choices for different audiences. While traditional sociolinguistics investigates variation in spoken language, computational sociolinguistics relies on natural language processing and statistical methods to investigate written language in online discussions. This talk will explore how NLP can help isolate sociolinguistic phenomena that would otherwise go understudied in spoken contexts, and more broadly how NLP can help social science research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIan Stewart is a Visiting Research Investigator with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lit.eecs.umich.edu\/\u0022\u003ELIT Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at the University of Michigan. Ian recently defended his thesis in the Human-Centered Computing PhD program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his research proposed computational approaches to understanding sociolinguistic variation on social media. Ian is currently interested in incorporating sociolinguistic insight into NLP models to address different speaker needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ian Stewart will be talking about her work on NLP and sociolinguistic variation"}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-09-21 17:36:42","changed_gmt":"2020-09-21 17:38:44","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-09-25T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-09-25T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-09-25T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-09-25 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-09-25 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-09-25 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJiaao Chen\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ejiaaochen@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"638840":{"#nid":"638840","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Dungeons and Discourse: Using Computational Storytelling to Look at Natural Language Use with Lara Martin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ELara\u0026nbsp;J. Martin\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E09\/11\/2020, 12.30pm - 1.30pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/gdakksqz\u0022 id=\u0022LPlnk\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/gdakksqz\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDungeons and Discourse: Using Computational Storytelling to Look at Natural Language Use\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough we are currently riding a technological wave of personal assistants, many of these agents still struggle to communicate appropriately. Humans are natural storytellers, so it would be fitting if artificial intelligence could tell stories as well. Automated story generation is an area of AI research that aims to create agents that tell \u0026ldquo;good\u0026rdquo; stories. Previous story generation systems use planning and discrete symbols to create new stories, but these systems require a vast amount of knowledge engineering. The stories created by these systems are coherent, but only a finite set of stories can be generated. In contrast, very large neural language models, such as transformers, have made the headlines in the natural language processing community. Though impressive on the surface, these models begin to lose coherence over time. My research looks at various techniques of automated story generation, culminating in the blend of symbolic and neural approaches. In this talk, I show how a neuro-symbolic model can provide more\u0026nbsp;interesting\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;coherent stories than those from solely neural or symbolic systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELara\u0026nbsp;J. Martin is a Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. Candidate in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Her work resides in the field of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence with a focus on natural language applications.\u0026nbsp;Lara\u0026nbsp;has worked in the areas of automated story generation, speech processing, and affective computing, publishing in top-tier conferences such as AAAI and IJCAI.\u0026nbsp;Lara\u0026nbsp;earned a Masters of Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 and a BS in Computer Science \u0026amp; Linguistics from Rutgers University-New\u0026nbsp;Brunswick in 2013. In 2019, she received Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s prestigious\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/gvu-graduate-student-awards-program-2019\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFoley Scholar Award\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for her innovative research and the Best Doctoral Consortium Presentation award at the 2019 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference. As a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cifellows2020.org\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E2020 Computing Innovation Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;recipient, she will be joining Dr. Chris Callison-Burch as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She has also been featured in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/forget-chess-real-challenge-teaching-ai-play-dandd\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWired\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NLP and AI seminar hosted by ML@GT students"}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-09-08 17:22:33","changed_gmt":"2020-09-10 14:05:17","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-09-11T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-09-11T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-09-11T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-09-11 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-09-11 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-09-11 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"637558":{"#nid":"637558","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ML@GT Virtual Seminar: Kazoo Sone and Pradyumna Narayana, Google","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKazoo Sone and Pradyumna Narayana, software engineers at Google will give a virtual seminar on machine learning on September 23, 2020.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegister at:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/rujhjqhe\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/rujhjqhe\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ETitle:\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMachine Learning Challenges at Google Ads\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile we have made significant advances in the last two decades, serving the most relevant ads to our users is still a big challenge to date. In particular, commercial contents are full of images, videos in addition to textual information, and understanding our advertiser products and offers from their ad creatives and landing pages poses interesting multimodal modeling problems. In this talk, we will discuss a new multimodal task (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2006.08686.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMulti-Image Summarization\u003C\/a\u003E) and the associated dataset we are releasing. We will also talk about our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1911.05978.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Erecent work\u003C\/a\u003E which co-embeds text and image in a shared embedding space to improve a cross-modal retrieval task. Then we will share some challenges \u0026amp; experiences from quality improvements in Search Ads products.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbout Pradyumna\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPradyumna Narayana is a software engineer for Google. He joined Google in 2018 and is conducting research at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing for Search Ads. He earned his PhD in the area of Computer Vision from Colorado State University in 2018. His Ph.D work focused on Gesture recognition from videos using Deep Learning. Prior to that, he earned his MS from Colorado State University in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbout Kazoo\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKazoo Sone is a software engineer for Google. Since he joined Google in 2011, he has led several machine learning \u0026amp; natural language processing projects for Search Ads and Research and contributed to many of Google\u0026rsquo;s Ads products. He earned his MS from Georgia Tech and Ph.D from Caltech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kazoo Sone, a software engineer at Google will give a virtual seminar on machine learning."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-08-05 21:35:52","changed_gmt":"2020-09-02 13:53:26","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-09-23T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-09-23T14:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-09-23T14:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-09-23 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-09-23 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-09-23 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"589608","name":"Machine Learning"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"637557":{"#nid":"637557","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ML@GT Virtual Seminar: Byron Wallace, Northeastern University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EByron Wallace, an assistant professor at Northeastern University will give a virtual seminar on September 9, 2020. This even is open to the public and will take place via Bluejeans Events (no download required.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERegister:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/ghfqxrfr\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/ghfqxrfr\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ETitle\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing rationales and influential training examples to (attempt to) explain neural predictions in NLP\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbstract\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EModern deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) achieve state-of-the-art predictive performance but are notoriously opaque. I will discuss recent work looking to address this limitation. I will focus specifically on approaches to: (i) Providing snippets of text (sometimes called \u0026quot;rationales\u0026quot;) that support predictions, and; (ii) Identifying examples from the training data that influenced a given model output.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout Byron\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EByron Wallace is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He earned his PhD from Tufts University in 2012, after which he taught at Brown University as research faculty. He joined Northeastern from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was an assistant professor in the School of Information from 2014-2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace\u0026rsquo;s research areas include artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval, with emphasis on applications in health informatics. Byron is a member of the applied machine learning group and the Data Science and Analytics Lab at Northeastern.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWallace develops machine learning and natural language processing methods that make synthesizing the vast biomedical evidence-base more efficient. He also works on core machine learning and natural language processing methods, with his more of his recent work concerning Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures for text. Wallace has recently been developing hybrid, interactive human\/machine learning systems that aim to robustly combine human and machine intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis work has been supported by grants from the Army Research Office, the NIH, and the NSF. He won the Tufts University 2012 Outstanding Graduate Researcher award and his thesis work was recognized as\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Runner Up\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Efor the 2013 ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIG KDD) Dissertation Award. 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From creating digital tools used by Piedmont Healthcare to studying the psychological\u0026nbsp;impact of the disease, our researchers have been hard at work to help those suffering from the disease.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJoin ML@GT\u0026nbsp;faculty members \u003Cstrong\u003ENicoleta Serban, Srijan Kumar, Aditya Prakash,\u0026nbsp;Munmun de Choudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and OMSCS student \u003Cstrong\u003EKenneth Miller \u003C\/strong\u003Efor a panel discussion on their work in regards to Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe event will virtually take place via Bluejeans Events and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/register\/sfpbpsgg\u0022\u003Erequires registration\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout the Panelists:\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENicoleta Serban\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr.\u0026nbsp;Serban\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;most recent research\u0026nbsp;focuses\u0026nbsp;on model-based data mining for functional data,\u0026nbsp;spatio-temporal\u0026nbsp;data with applications to industrial economics with a focus on service distribution and\u0026nbsp;nonparametric statistical methods motivated by recent applications from proteomics and genomics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe received her B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Theoretical Statistics and Stochastic Processes from the University of Bucharest. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rh.gatech.edu\/news\/634299\/digital-tool-helps-hospital-make-important-coronavirus-retest-decisions\u0022\u003E(Nicoleta\u0026#39;s Work)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAditya Prakash \u003C\/strong\u003Erecently joined Georgia Tech as an associate professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. He has published one book, more than 80 papers in major venues, holds two U.S. patents and has given four tutorials at leading conferences. His work has received a best paper award and four best-of-conference selections. Tools developed by his group have been in use in many places including ORNL, Walmart and Facebook. His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning and AI, with emphasis on big-data problems in large real-world networks and time-series. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/635849\/forecasting-covid-19-pandemic-united-states\u0022\u003E(Aditya\u0026#39;s Work)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun DeChoudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing. She is affiliated with ML@GT, GVU Center, and IPaT. At Georgia Tech, she leads the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab to study, analyze, and appropriate social media, responsibly and ethically to derive computational, large-scale data-driven insights, and to develop mechanisms and technologies for improving our well-being, particularly our mental health. Her research has been motivated by how the availability of large-scale online social data, with the amalgamation of advances in machine learning and grounding in human-centered approaches can help us answer fundamental questions relating to our social lives. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/635397\u0022\u003E(Munmun\u0026#39;s Work)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESrijan Kumar \u003C\/strong\u003Eis an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. His research develops data science solutions to address the high-stakes challenges on the web and in the society. He has pioneered the development of user models and network science tools to enhance the well-being and safety of people. His research has been the subject of a documentary and has been recognized with best paper awards at WWW and ICDM. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/635397\u0022\u003E(Srijan\u0026#39;s Work)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/635858\/predicting-hate-crimes-targeting-asian-americans-amid-covid-19-outbreak\u0022\u003E(Srijan\u0026#39;s Work Part 2)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKenneth Miller \u003C\/strong\u003Eis a student in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Online Master\u0026rsquo;s of Computer Science (OMSCS) program. He is a partner at Erskine Law where he represents Ford Motor Company and cases in the field of mass toxic tort litigation. Miller is a 13-year veteran of the United States Navy. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/635081\/omscs-student-uses-machine-learning-help-understand-covid-19\u0022\u003E(Kenneth\u0026#39;s Work)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E is the executive director of ML@GT and distinguished professor and senior associate dean in the School of Interactive Computing. Essa is also a senior staff research scientist at Google. His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, computational perception, robotics, computer animation, and social computing. 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Powell, professor of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor scheduling information, please contact\u0026nbsp;Anton Kleywegt at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:anton.kleywegt@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eanton.kleywegt@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ETitle\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom Reinforcement Learning to Stochastic Optimization: A Universal Framework for Sequential Decision Analytics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbstract\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESequential decisions are an almost universal problem class, spanning dynamic resource allocation problems, control problems, discrete graph problems, active learning problems, as well as two-agent games and multiagent problems.\u0026nbsp; Application settings span engineering, the sciences, transportation, health services, medical decision making, energy, e-commerce and finance.\u0026nbsp; A rich problem class involves systems that must actively learn about the environment, possibly via drones or robots.\u0026nbsp; In multi-agent systems, we may need to learn about the behavior of other agents.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese problems have been addressed in the academic literature using a variety of modeling and algorithmic frameworks, including dynamic programming, stochastic programming, stochastic control, simulation optimization, approximate dynamic programming\/reinforcement learning, and even multiarmed bandit problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI will describe a universal modeling framework that can be used for \u003Cem\u003Eany\u003C\/em\u003E sequential decision problem in the presence of different sources of uncertainty.\u0026nbsp; The framework is centered on an optimization problem that optimizes over policies (rules for making decisions), where we show that there are two fundamental strategies for designing policies (policy search and policies based on lookahead approximations), each of which further divide into two classes, creating four (meta)classes of policies that are the foundation of \u003Cem\u003Eany\u003C\/em\u003E solution approach that has ever been proposed for a sequential problem.\u0026nbsp; I will demonstrate these policies in two broad contexts: pure learning problems (\u0026ldquo;bandit problems\u0026rdquo;) and dynamic resource allocation problems, where I will use a simple energy storage problem to show that each of the four classes (and a hybrid) can be made to work best.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EBio\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWarren Powell is a faculty member in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University where he has taught since 1981. In 1990, he founded\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.castlelab.princeton.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECASTLE Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;which spans research in computational stochastic optimization with applications initially in transportation and logistics. In 2011, he founded the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/energysystems.princeton.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPrinceton laboratory for ENergy Systems Analysis (PENSA)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to tackle the rich array of problems in energy systems analysis. In 2013, this morphed into \u0026ldquo;CASTLE Labs,\u0026rdquo; focusing on computational stochastic optimization and learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the 1980\u0026rsquo;s, he designed and wrote\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/Papers\/Braklow%20Graham%20et%20al%20%20Interactive%20Optimization%20Improves%20Service%20at%20Yellow.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESYSNET\u003C\/a\u003E, an interactive optimization model for load planning at Yellow Freight System, where it is still in use after 25 years. In 1988, he founded the Princeton Transportation Consulting Group which marketed the model as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/superspin\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESuperSPIN\u003C\/a\u003E, which was adopted by the entire less-than-truckload industry, stabilizing an industry where 80 percent of the companies went bankupt in the first post-deregulation decade.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/superspin\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESuperSPIN\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was used in the planning of American Freightways (which became FedEx Freight), Roadway Package System (which became FedEx Ground), and Overnight Transportation (which became UPS Freight). SuperSPIN stabilized the LTL trucking industry in the 1990\u0026rsquo;s, following its deregulation in 1980.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso in the 1980\u0026rsquo;s he developed a series of models for truckload trucking, starting with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/Papers\/Powell-OperationalPlanningModelforDVA.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELoadMAP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(written by Ken Nickerson \u0026rsquo;84), which then evolved to an integrated stochastic model for driver assignment called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/micromap\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMicroMAP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(the senior thesis of David Cape \u0026rsquo;87). As of 2011, MicroMAP was being used to dispatch over 66,000 drivers for 20 of the largest truckload carriers in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has started three consulting firms: Princeton Transportation Consulting Group (1988),\u0026nbsp; Transport Dynamics (1995), and Optimal Dynamics (2016) (CEO is his son Daniel Powell), but he has continued to do his developmental work through CASTLE Laboratory at Princeton University, where he has worked with the leading companies in less-than-truckload trucking (Yellow Freight System\/YRC), parcel shipping (United Parcel Service), truckload trucking (Schneider National), rail (primarily Norfolk Southern Railway), air (Netjets and Embraer), as well as the Air Mobility Command. As he moved into energy, he has worked with PJM Interconnections (the grid operator for the mid-Atlantic states), and PSE\u0026amp;G (the utility that serves 75 percent of New Jersey).\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/impact-on-industry\/\u0022\u003EClick here for a complete list.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMotivated by these applications, he developed a method for bridging dynamic programming with math programming to solve very high-dimensional stochastic, dynamic programs using the modeling and algorithmic framework of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/adp.princeton.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eapproximate dynamic programming\u003C\/a\u003E. This work has been used in a variety of applications including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/wagner\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efleet management at Schneider National\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(50,000 variables per time period, and a state variable with 10^{20}\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Edimensions\u003C\/em\u003E), the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/Papers\/Powell-SMART_JOC_2011.pdf\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESMART energy resource planning model\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(175,000 time periods), and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/plasma\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Elocomotive optimization at Norfolk Southern\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe identified four fundamental classes of policies for solving sequential decision problems, integrating fields such as stochastic programming, dynamic programming (including approximate dynamic programming\/reinforcement learning), robust optimization, optimal control and stochastic search (to name a few). This work identified a new class of policy called a\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Eparametric cost function approximation\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E(\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/jungle\/\u0022\u003Eclick here for more information\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHis work in industry is balanced by contributions to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/castle-lab-theory\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Etheory of stochastic optimization, and machine learning.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrizes and awards \u0026ndash; Recipient\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDocteur Honoris Causa\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;from the University of Quebec in Montreal in 2013. Winner,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/castlelab.princeton.edu\/wagner\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDaniel Wagner Prize\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for extending approximate dynamic programming to very high-dimensional problems for Schneider National. Best Paper Prize from the Society for Transportation Science and Logistics (once for this problem, and once for our ADP model for locomotive management at Norfolk Southern). His students have won many awards (Dantzig Prize for best dissertation in Operations Research, several winners of the Transportation Science dissertation prize, Doing Good with Good OR Competition honorable mention, Nicholson Prize finalist). Finalist in the prestigious Edelman competition in 1987 and 1991. Informs Fellows Award, Presidential Young Investigator Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBooks: He is the author of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/adp.princeton.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EApproximate Dynamic Programming: Solving the curses of dimensionality\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and co-author (with Ilya Ryzhov) of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/optimallearning.princeton.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOptimal Learning\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(both published by Wiley). Co-editor (with J. Si, A. Barto, and D. Wunsch)\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELearning and Approximate Dynamic Programming: Scaling up to the Real World.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJust the numbers: $50+ million in research funding (in 2020 dollars), 250+ refereed papers, two books (plus an edited volume), ~60 Ph.D. students and post-docs (~30 in academia and research laboratories), 10 Masters, 200+ undergraduate senior theses,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=vDw80QEAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003Eh-number (on Google) of 65, 18,000+ citations,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;36,000+ visitors per year to my websites, 7,000+ connections on LinkedIn (some miniscule number on Facebook)\u0026hellip; (let me know if you can think of any more).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has served in numerous leadership and service roles, including President of the Transportation Science Section, Informs board of directors, director of several NSF workshops, Area Editor for transportation at Operations Research (8 years), and numerous prize, review and service committees. In 1991 he co-founded the triennial conference TRISTAN, now the leading international conference for transportation systems analysis. In 2003 he designed the Informs Impact Prize and served as the first chair in 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ML@GT and ISyE invite you to a seminar by Warren B. 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An anthropologist, she studies computing and political economy, as well as social life on the Internet, especially video gaming. Her most recent book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EHeteromation and Other Stories of Computing and Capitalism\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(co-authored with Hamid Ekbia), was published in 2017 by MIT Press.\u0026nbsp; She co-edits the MIT Press Acting with Technology Series with Kirsten Foot and Victor Kaptelinin. She is a senior editor at the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMind, Culture, and Activity\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Taylor and Francis), the flagship journal for activity theory. Bonnie is interested in radical approaches to sustainability and is a founding member of the Computing within LIMITS Workshop Series. 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Previously he held appointments as a research scientist and a postdoctoral associate at MIT\u0026#39;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Robust Robotics Group, a research technologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Robotic Software Systems Group, and a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Caltech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHoward earned a Ph.D. in robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 in addition to B.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester in 2004. 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This process for making functional materials 2D materials from 1D portable cloth dates back to prehistory, with the oldest known examples dating from the 11th century BCE. Knitted textiles are ubiquitous as they are easy and cheap to create, lightweight, portable, flexible and stretchy. As with many functional materials, the key to knitting\u0026rsquo;s extraordinary properties lies in its microstructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the 1D level, knits are composed of an interlocking series of slip knots. At the most basic level there is only one manipulation that creates a knitted stitch \u0026ndash; pulling a loop of yarn through another loop. However, there exist hundreds of books with thousands of patterns of stitches with seemingly unbounded complexity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe topology of knitted stitches has a profound impact on the geometry and elasticity of the resulting fabric. This puts a new spin on additive manufacturing \u0026ndash; not only can stitch pattern control the local and global geometry of a textile, but the creation process encodes mechanical properties within the material itself. Unlike standard additive manufacturing techniques, the innate properties of the yarn and the stitch microstructure has a direct effect on the global geometric and mechanical outcome of knitted fabrics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EElisabetta\u0026nbsp;Matsumoto is an assistant professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her physics research centers around the relationship between geometry and material properties in soft systems, including liquid crystals, 3D printing and textiles. She is also interested in using sewing, 3D printing and virtual reality in mathematical art and education. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award. She studied physics at the University of Pennsylvania, earning her BA and MS in 2007 and her PhD in 2011. She has been knitting and crocheting since she was about 12 and has been sewing for longer than she can remember.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Spring\u0026nbsp;2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKnitting is an ancient technology and the key to knitting\u0026rsquo;s extraordinary properties lies in its microstructure. 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href=\u0022https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeSaWo8qJd7-y55R3rppZ2MrArC2O-gtiLtvdqybhMRhaanrw\/viewform?usp=sf_link\u0022\u003ERSVP Here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Monday, February 10\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ETalk Title\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESolving the Flickering Problem in Modern Convolutional Neural Networks\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbstract\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeep Learning has revolutionized the AI field.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Despite this, there is much progress needed to deploy deep learning in safety critical applications (such as autonomous aircraft).\u0026nbsp; This is because current deep learning systems are not robust to real-world nuisances (e.g., viewpoint, illumination, partial occlusion).\u0026nbsp; In this talk, we take a step in constructing robust deep learning systems by addressing the problem that state-of-the-art Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) classifiers and detectors are vulnerable to small perturbations, including shifts of the image or camera.\u0026nbsp; While various forms of specially engineered\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;adversarial perturbations\u0026rdquo; that fool deep learning systems have been well documented, modern CNNs can surprisingly change classification up to 30% probability even for simple 1-pixel shifts of the image.\u0026nbsp;This lack of translational stability seems to be partially the cause of \u0026ldquo;flickering\u0026rdquo; in state-of-the-art object detectors applied to video.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, we introduce this phenomena, propose a solution, prove it analytically, validate it empirically, and explain why existing CNNs exhibit this phenomena.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EBio\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGanesh Sundaramoorthi is currently Principal Research Scientist at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.utrc.utc.com\/\u0022\u003EUnited Technologies Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in East Hartford, CT, USA, conducting research in computer vision and machine learning, and building products in robotic inspection from this research. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and jointly Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kaust.edu.sa\/en\u0022\u003EKAUST\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;starting in 2011. He directed the Computational Vision Lab at KAUST, which developed novel mathematics and algorithms, as well as software for video and image understanding technology. His fundamental optimization algorithms have led to advancements in motion-based video segmentation and detection. His group also developed technology for seismic image analysis, electron microscopy images, and medical (MRI \u0026amp; CT) images.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to KAUST, he was a postdoctoral research associate with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/web.cs.ucla.edu\/~soatto\/\u0022\u003EProf.\u0026nbsp;Stefano Soatto\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the Vision Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2008 to 2010. There he made fundamental contributions to the view invariance problem in object recognition (with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.math.ucla.edu\/~petersen\/\u0022\u003EProf. Peter Petersen\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veeravalli_S._Varadarajan\u0022\u003EProf. V. S. Varadarajan\u003C\/a\u003E), and developed technology for video tracking. His PhD is in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA in 2008. His PhD developed fundamental shape optimization methods for computer vision that aided in technology for video tracking, and medical image analysis. He was advised by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/anthony-joseph-yezzi\u0022\u003EProf. Anthony Yezzi\u003C\/a\u003E. His Bachelor\u0026#39;s degrees were in Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics, which he earned in 2003, also from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has served as Area Chair for the leading computer vision conferences, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conference_on_Computer_Vision_and_Pattern_Recognition\u0022\u003EIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CVPR) and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Conference_on_Computer_Vision\u0022\u003EIEEE International Conference on Computer Vision\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ICCV).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ML@GT invites you to a seminar by Ganesh Sundaramoorthi from United Technologies Research Center (UTRC)"}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-01-08 18:23:09","changed_gmt":"2020-01-27 17:52:42","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-02-12T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-02-12T13:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-02-12T13:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-02-12 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-02-12 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-02-12 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"589608","name":"Machine Learning"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKyla Hanson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ekhanson@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"631247":{"#nid":"631247","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Eva Wolfangel \u0022How Technologies... Are Already Changing Lives\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScience journalist Eva Wolfangel has specialized in investigating the effects of future technologies on society - by accompanying people who already make intensive use of these technologies today. She spent weeks under a VR headset researching social virtual reality, and she finally visited her new \u0026quot;virtual\u0026quot; friends in their real lives in Kuwait, Israel and various US states. These people already spend a large part of their lives in virtual reality - and that is no reason for cultural pessimism. In Japan, Wolfangel has accompanied researchers working on human augmentation, and she has tried out many of these technologies, met people here who are already using them and talked to many about their dream of an augmented future. In this talk, Eva Wolfangel discusses her research and how future technologies are already changing society today.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEva Wolfangel is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. In 2018, she was named European Science Writer of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers. She focuses on new technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, computer science, data journalism, interaction between digital and real worlds, and space travel. Eva\u0026rsquo;s specialty is to combine creative writing and technical topics in order to reach a broad audience. She writes for major magazines and newspapers in Germany and Switzerland, including Die Zeit, Geo, Der Spiegel, and NZZ, and also produces radio features. As a VR journalist, she reports from virtual worlds as part of the journalistic cooperative RiffReporter [Hyperlink to: https:\/\/www.riffreporter.de\/].\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n@evawolfangel [Hyperlink to: https:\/\/twitter.com\/evawolfangel]\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gvu.gatech.edu\/events\/upcoming\u0022\u003ESchedule of Brown Bag Speakers Fall 2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, Eva Wolfangel discusses her work with researchers working on human augmentation, their dreams of an augmented future,\u0026nbsp;and how future technologies are already changing society today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eva Wolfangel discusses how future technologies are already changing society today.\u00a0"}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2020-01-16 20:05:13","changed_gmt":"2020-01-27 14:27:58","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-01-30 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-01-30 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-01-30 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"631248":{"id":"631248","type":"image","title":"Eva Wolfangel photo","body":null,"created":"1579205263","gmt_created":"2020-01-16 20:07:43","changed":"1579205263","gmt_changed":"2020-01-16 20:07:43","alt":"","file":{"fid":"240233","name":"Wolfangel_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Wolfangel_photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Wolfangel_photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":353249,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Wolfangel_photo.jpg?itok=QJxU7JBF"}}},"media_ids":["631248"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"631091":{"#nid":"631091","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Foley Scholars","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstracts:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Hong: \u003Cstrong\u003EPersonalizing Health Management Through Human-Centered Data Augmentation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring complex chronic treatment, adolescent patients (ages 10-19) must communicate all illness needs to the care team so they can access relevant health resources when most needed. This communication is challenging because patients, family caregivers and clinicians have unmatched experiences, conceptions and linguistic representations of indicators of health. Most importantly, patients lack the means to capture and represent their felt illness experience. My colleagues and I addressed these challenges by advancing personalized computing technology and human-centric methods that inform collaborative approaches for managing personal health data. In this talk, I will describe how technology can be designed to effectively scaffold patients\u0026rsquo; gradual participation in managing their illness. I draw from Health Informatics, Participatory Design, and Human-Computer Interaction to show how we can augment clinically-generated, and patient-generated data in ways that cater to personal health needs. I will discuss how human-centered data-augmentation can help designers create intelligent systems to improve chronic care for pediatric patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELara Martin: \u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding the Technological and Experiential Requirements of Improvisational Storytelling Agents\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough we are currently riding a technological wave of personal assistants, many of these agents still struggle to communicate appropriately. Humans are natural storytellers, so it would be fitting if artificial intelligence could tell stories as well. Automated story generation is an area of AI research that aims to create agents that tell \u0026ldquo;good\u0026rdquo; stories. Previous story generation systems use planning to create new stories, but these systems require a vast amount of knowledge engineering. The stories created by these systems are coherent, but only a finite set of stories can be generated. In contrast, very large language models have recently made the headlines in the natural language processing community. Though impressive on the surface, these models begin to lose coherence over time. My research looks at various techniques of automated story generation, focusing on the perceived creativity of the generated stories. Here, I define a creative product as one that is both novel and useful. In my dissertation, I theorize that a jointly probabilistic and causal model will provide more creative stories for readers of stories generated from an improvisational storytelling system than solely probabilistic or causal models.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmily Wall: \u003Cstrong\u003EMitigating Implicit Human Bias in Visual Analytics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EImplicit bias is a term used to describe the way that our culture, experiences, and stereotypes can unconsciously impact our attitudes and decision making. Such biases, like racial or gender bias, can impact decision making in critical ways, propagating long-standing institutional and systemic biases. However, as decision making is increasingly taking place with the aid of data-driven visual representations (including interactive visualization tools like Tableau, among others), we are afforded a new opportunity with respect to the detection and mitigation of implicit biases. In this talk, I describe (1) how user interactions with data can be used to approximate implicit biases and (2) how visualization systems can be designed to make implicit biases more explicit by increasing awareness. By creating systems that promote real-time awareness of bias, people can reflect on their behavior and decision making and ultimately engage in a less-biased decision making process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bios:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Hong is a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing in Interactive Computing. His research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Health Informatics, and focuses on supporting pediatric patients\u0026rsquo; management of complex chronic conditions through the design and deployment of human-centered health technologies. He has published in leading conference proceedings and journals, including the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI) and the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELara Martin is a Human-Centered Computing PhD Candidate in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Her work resides in the field of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence with a focus on natural language applications. Lara is currently working on automated story generation, but her previous work includes speech processing and analyzing online communities. Lara earned a Masters of Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science \u0026amp; Linguistics from Rutgers University\u0026mdash;New Brunswick. In addition to winning the Foley Scholar Award, she recently received the Best Doctoral Consortium Presentation award at the 2019 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEmily Wall is a 2019 Foley Scholar and Computer Science PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Computing, where she is advised by Dr. Alex Endert. Her research interests lie at the intersection of cognitive science and data visualization. Particularly, her dissertation has focused on increasing awareness of unconscious and implicit human biases via the design and evaluation of (1) computational approaches to quantify bias from user interaction and (2) interfaces to support visual data analysis. 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While games are played by all age groups, for children, play and games are fundamental to learning and, for them, all play is serious. Serious games, which have become a prevalent game genre for adults, need not be confined to adult or adolescent audiences. Both from the perspective of serious topics and serious gameplay, older children as they head towards adolescence, and younger children as they negotiate their way through their first years of school, warrant the consideration of games developed to tackle topics that are becoming increasingly important to their health and well-being. In games, social value can only be created through a narrative a child can relate to. Whether we turn to David Winnicott on child development, Jerome Bruner on acts of meaning, or Kieran Egan on languaged learning, story dominates as the most valuable experience in the construction of a child\u0026#39;s world and how they act within it. The added context of a personal approach, one that is culturally relevant, can create an influential avenue through which children can be provided with opportunities for gaining knowledge about problems that, while they may be national or global, are local to them \u0026ndash; knowledge that could be critical to their well-being and survival in an increasingly hostile world. Games offer children a space that supports learning on their own. Moving from the typical to the atypical game, from simple problem solving that increases cognitive skills, to social problem solving that teaches empathy, is a shift that can happen through participation in narrative dialogue. Social value in a game can exist when the cognitive load is not in computing numbers but in the challenge of uncovering the more intriguing stories beyond the surface of coded messages. In this talk I present a case study that describes the design thinking process of a group of EU Erasmus students, each of whom brings their own cultural perspective and personal story to addressing how they would introduce children to contemporary issues, which either affect them currently, or will affect them as they grow up, through narrative in physically engaging games. A number of their final game designs are provided in outline.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Krystina Madej is Professor of the Practice at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. At Tech since 2011, she teaches about and researches how humans have adapted their narratives to changing media throughout the centuries, physical play and children\u0026#39;s interaction with digital games that are based in narrative, and in Disney\u0026#39;s approach to stories across media since the 1920s. 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The talk will range from ethics and responsibility in computer science, to honoring expertise across disciplines, to applying computer science and engineering skills to the civic and public sector. Georgia Tech and the College of Computing prepared Kathy Pham for broad impact across large tech companies, government, and the public sector. This talk will touch on opportunities for deep impact in society using our computing skills, and the many different ways a degree from Georgia Tech lays a strong foundation for the impact. 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Public perception of him is of a filmmaker with an uncanny ability to create entertaining family oriented animated films and experiences. More than that Walt Disney was a visionary who believed technology should be pushed to its limits to realize stories, provide experiences, and build worlds. That a technology did not exist or was not yet ready to solve a problem was not an obstacle \u0026ndash; his answer was always \u0026ndash; build it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDisney Stories: Getting to Digital \u003C\/em\u003E(Lee \u0026amp; Madej, 2012) discusses how Walt Disney and then the Walt Disney Company narratives evolved from traditional animation to computer games and online narrative experiences. 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Instead, Yanni Loukissas argues in \u003Cem\u003EAll Data Are Local\u003C\/em\u003E, we should approach data sets with an\u0026nbsp;awareness that data are created by humans and their dutiful machines, at a time, in a place, with the instruments at hand, for audiences that are conditioned to receive them. The term \u003Cem\u003Edata set\u003C\/em\u003E implies something discrete, complete, and portable, but it is none of those things. 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