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Digital humanities is at the interface between humanistic studies and computational power. Hence, when building tools in this space, we need to consider, firstly, the humanities scholar who desires…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Nobline Yoo Department
Computer Science
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Urban tree cover is important for human health, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability. However, we have a limited understanding of tree cover distributions and dynamics, and their social and…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Bhartendu Pandey Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Heliconius butterflies, a genus of butterfly that lives in South America, exhibit Mullerian mimicry, a type of mimicry in which toxic unrelated species evolve to share warning signals to teach and…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Yael Stochel Department
Computer Science, Environmental Studies
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Though hurricanes are some of the most destructive natural disasters, with the frequency of intense and damaging hurricanes increasing due to climate change, current estimates of damages from…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Katie Kolodner Department
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
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Accurately assessing the shape, size, and modality of features in rock samples is a longstanding problem in geology. Recent advances in machine learning have made it possible to improve upon point…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Devdigvijay Singh Department
Geosciences
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Most systems have multiple objectives and constraints. For example, a company making a smartphone needs to increase the battery life, minimize the lag, and maximize the bandwidth. Solutions to these…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Prerit Terway Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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We modelled the material lead titanate based on the underlying quantum mechanics of our world with the help of machine learning. Our approach depicted the lead titanate with accurate details like a…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Pinchen Xie Department
Applied and Computational Mathematics
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Research on machine learning (ML) algorithms, as well as on their
ethical impacts, has focused largely on mathematical or computational
questions. However, for algorithmic systems to be useful,…
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April 19th, 2022 Speaker
Amy Winecoff Department
Center for Information Technology Policy Location
Virtual
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In response to growing concerns of bias, discrimination, and
unfairness perpetuated by algorithmic systems, the datasets used to
train and evaluate machine learning models have come under increased…
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April 5th, 2022 Speaker
Emily Denton Department
Center for Information Technology Policy Location
Virtual
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This course is primarily intended for non-computer science students who want to understand the foundations of building and testing an ML pipeline, different model types, important considerations in…
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January 21st, 2022 Speaker
Savannah Thais Department
PICSciE/Research Computing
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Professor James Sturm, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, welcomes prospective members of the ECE community and provides a brief overview of activity across the…
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March 21st, 2022 Speaker
James Sturm Department
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Theorists of justice have long imagined a decision-maker capable of acting wisely in every circumstance. Policymakers seldom live up to this ideal. They face well-understood limits, including an…
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February 15th, 2022 Speaker
Ryan Calo Department
Center for Information Technology Policy Location
Virtual
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Problems of algorithmic bias are often framed in terms of lack of
representative data or formal fairness optimization constraints to be
applied to automated decision-making systems. However, these…
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November 9th, 2021 Speaker
Alex Hanna, Google
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Predicting life outcomes is a challenging task even for advanced
machine learning (ML) algorithms. At the same time, accurately
predicting these outcomes has important implications in providing…
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October 26th, 2021 Speaker
Pranya Anchuri Department
Center for InformationTechnology Policy
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The tumor microenvironment contains a complex collection of immune cells which can infiltrate cancer tissues to varying degrees. Studies into tumor immune cell populations are highly clinically…
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Jasper Lee, UG '21 Department
Molecular Biology
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Feature detection in optical imagery relies on color and textural differences between objects of interest and their surroundings. For fifty years, satellite remote sensing has leveraged multispectral…
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Devdigvijay Singh, UG '24 Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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