Workshop Details
AI Day!
- Start Date: July 8, 2021
- End Date: July 8, 2021
- Event Start Time: 11:00 AM
- Event End Time: 3:00 PM
- Organizers: David Pennock
- Location: Online Event
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AI Day! is an event that aims to engage undergraduates in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) by highlighting important topics and applications, especially those that illustrate the use of AI to benefit society.This year's program (see below) features three engaging presentations on the theme of artificial intelligence for social good, as well as an industry panel, a robot demo, and, last but not least, a garden party with games and socializing.
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Workshop Additional Information
This event is conducted with support from Elsevier's Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ).
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Workshop Talks
11:00 AM – 11:05 AMGather in Gather for Welcome
11:05 AM – 11:15 AMIntroductions
David Pennock - DIMACS
11:15 AM – 11:45 AMMaking AI Useful and Usable
Samantha Kleinberg - Stevens Institute of Technology
11:45 AM – 12:15 PMAuditing and Countering Algorithmic Bias
Vivek Singh - Rutgers University
Today Artificial Intelligence algorithms are used to make multiple decisions affecting human lives, and many such algorithms, such as those used in parole decisions, have been reported to be biased. In this talk, I will share some recent work from our lab on auditing algorithms for bias, designing ways to reduce bias, and expanding the definition of bias. This includes applications such as image search, health information dissemination, and cyberbullying detection. The results will cover a range of data modalities, (e.g., visual, textual, and social) as well as techniques such as fair adversarial networks, flexible fair regression, and fairness-aware fusion.
12:15 PM – 12:45 PMThe Seeing-eye Robot Grand Challenge: Developing a Human-Aware Artificial Collaborator
Reuth Mirsky - University of Texas, Austin
In this talk I will present the seeing-eye robot grand challenge and discuss the components required to design and build a service robot that can replace or surpass the functionalities of a seeing-eye dog. This challenge encompasses a variety of research problems that can benefit from human-inspired AI: reasoning about other agents, human-robot interactions, explainability, teaching teammates, and more. For each of these problems, I will present an example novel contribution that leverages the bilateral investigation of human and artificial intelligence. Finally, I will discuss the many remaining challenges towards achieving a seeing-eye robot and how I plan to tackle these challenges.
12:45 PM – 1:00 PMRutgers University Robotics Lab Walkthrough by Haonan Chang
1:00 PM – 1:15 PMBreak - 15 minutes
1:15 PM – 1:45 PMIndustry Panel Featuring Chid Apte (IBM) & Iraj Saniee (Bell Labs)
1:45 PM – 3:00 PMGarden Party & Games
- Event Grant: <p><img alt="" src="images/DIMACS-EVENTS/Documents/AIDay/Building.jpg" style="height:236px; width:1000px" /></p>
- Event Keywords: data science, robotics, artifical intelligence
- Audiences: Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students
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This event is open to all, subject to capacity limits. You may join the event through this page. Please please allow time to arrive and explore the venue before talks begin at 11:00. The event space will open two hours before the presentations begin to allow you to enjoy the garden space of the venue, watch selected videos, and play games with other attendees. Included will be games like codenames, pictionary, poker, and/or tetris, so come early and bring a friend. There will also be additional time to enjoy the space following the presentations.