{"681845":{"#nid":"681845","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Amal Alabdulkarim","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ETemporality in Sequential Explainable AI\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmal Alabdulkarim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. Student in Computer Science\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EApril 30, 2025\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E10 AM ET\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ECoda C1115 Druid Hills, or join online 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Explanations are critical\u0026nbsp;in sensitive areas that require human-AI teaming, where people must\u0026nbsp;understand and trust the AI\u2019s decisions. However, making AI models explainable becomes much harder in sequential decision-making, like reinforcement learning agents. These agents make decisions based on a series of past and future actions, so an actionable explanation has to look at the bigger picture, not just what happened right before a\u0026nbsp;choice was made.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this thesis, I present algorithms and representations for reasoning about how future expectations and past events play into an agent\u0027s decision-making to generate actionable explanations. I develop an interactive pipeline that personalizes system explanations and meets variable user explainability goals, leveraging the affordances of retrospectives. 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