CIS Seminar: “Digital humans that move, interact, express, and feel, just like us!”
The creation of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) or digital humans is vital for many virtual and augmented reality systems. As the world increasingly uses digital and virtual platforms for everyday […]
Google Explore CS Research Event
Are you interested in undergraduate research? Attend the Google Explore CS Research Event on Friday, March 26th at 4 to 5pm. Faculty will present their research problems and let you […]
CIS Seminar: “Exploiting latent structure and bisimulation metrics for better generalization in reinforcement learning”
The advent of deep learning has shepherded unprecedented progress in various fields of machine learning. Despite recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, however, there is no method today […]
CIS Seminar: “AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks”
As exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, our health and wellbeing depend on a difficult-to-measure web of societal factors and individual behaviors. My research aims to build AI which can impact such social challenges, advancing health and equity […]
Technology, Business and Government Lecture: “STEM and the Future of Work- A Conversation with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan”
Representative Houlahan will speak about how her experiences as a former teacher and engineer have shaped her priorities and work in Congress, and about the importance of STEM work/jobs across […]
CIS Seminar: “Human-Centered Interactive Systems for Configuring, Extending, and Developing AI Applications”
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are emerging and affecting our lives in many aspects. However, the majority of individuals are merely users of AI with little capability to adapt AI to […]
CIS Seminar: “Communication Complexity, Quantum Computing and Optimization: New Connections and Insights”
How much information flows through a system? This fundamental question is at the heart of communication complexity. Techniques from this field have turned out to be immensely powerful and fairly […]
CIS Seminar: “Bridging Learning and Decision Making”
Machine learning is becoming widely used in decision making, in domains ranging from personalized medicine and mobile health to online education and recommendation systems. While (supervised) machine learning traditionally excels […]
CIS Seminar: “Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing”
Software bugs are pervasive in modern software. As software is integrated into increasingly many aspects of our lives, these bugs have increasingly severe consequences, both from a security (e.g. Cloudbleed, […]
CIS Seminar: “Graph representation learning for drug discovery”
The current pandemic highlights an acute need to develop fast therapeutics against health threats. Traditional approaches to drug discovery are expensive and slow to react to pandemics. In this talk, […]