February 2022 - Sanghani-faculty

Sanghani Faculty Meeting - Friday, March 4 at 12 pm
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a while since I've sent out one of these emails! I appreciate Juanita and Brian holding down the fort while I was out on maternity leave. Please note that our first Sanghani Faculty meeting for the semester is scheduled for Friday, March 4 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. As usual, if you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them my way so that I may add them into our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 2. I'll be sending out a reoccurring calendar invite for our scheduled meetings this semester. Below is the Zoom information for our meeting, please note that it's the same link for all our Sanghani Faculty meetings this semester. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83052682262 Meeting ID: 830 5268 2262 Dial by your location: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Thank you, Wanawsha

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Workshop Registration Announcement - HCAI
by Chris North 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

Register <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffm55DAfC4NPU_3R2E7JpsdVyD8-WZyR_…> for the 6th Annual VT CHCI Workshop, “Human-Centered AI for Research, Innovation, and Creativity: Creating Connections Across Disciplines” The Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) will host its sixth annual workshop <https://hci.icat.vt.edu/workshops.html> on the Future of HCI March 24-25th, 2022, on the theme “Human-Centered AI for Research, Innovation, and Creativity: Creating Connections Across Disciplines.” Through the workshop we will explore ways of improving the user experience of AI-powered data analysis, and facilitate transdisciplinary collaborations involving human-centered design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and domain experts. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/>, the Center for the Humanities <https://liberalarts.vt.edu/research-centers/center-for-humanities.html>, and the Diggs Teaching Scholar Association <https://teaching.vt.edu/grantsandawards/awards/diggs.html>. Philip Butler's keynote lecture has been made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation <https://www.hluce.org/>. The workshop seeks to help researchers identify needed expertise to collaborate on transdisciplinary projects. In addition to internal speakers and match-making round tables, there are two keynote speakers for the workshop, Philip Butler <https://www.iliff.edu/faculty/philip-butler/> and Louis-Philippe Morency <https://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/people/18870/louis-philippe-morency>. Philip Butler is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems at ILLIF School of Theology Denver <https://www.iliff.edu/>. Dr. Butler’s scholarship combines Black liberation theologies, neuroscience, spirituality and technology, particularly artificial intelligence. He is also the founder of The Seekr Project <https://www.theseekrproject.com/>, which is a distinctly Black conversational artificial intelligence with mental health capacities, combining machine learning and psychotherapeutic systems. Louis-Philippe Morency is a Leonardo Associate Professor of Computer Science <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/> in the Language Technologies Institute <https://lti.cs.cmu.edu/> at Carnegie-Mellon University <https://www.cmu.edu/>. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics and signal processing — building the computational foundations to enable computers with the abilities to analyze, recognize and predict subtle human communicative behaviors during social interactions. Dr. Morency leads the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory <http://multicomp.cs.cmu.edu/> which aims to build the algorithms and computational foundation to understand the interdependence between human verbal, visual, and vocal behaviors expressed during social communicative interactions. The workshop will run from 8AM- 5PM and be held in a hybrid form both online and at the Virginia Tech Newman Library. The workshop is free, but registration <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffm55DAfC4NPU_3R2E7JpsdVyD8-WZyR_…> is required. For more information, please contact Sara Evers at saralevers(a)vt.edu <mailto:saralevers@vt.edu>.

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3 seminars for Sanghani Center next week
by Chris North 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

3 faculty candidates in AI/ML/Data for Sanghani Center next week! The seminars are at 10am in Torg 1100 and also Zoom. There are slots available to sign up to meet each candidate. Details below: > > Monday, February 28, 2022 > Christopher Thomas (Columbia University) > Schedule a time to meet with Chis HERE <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OCbPrYK1xB2fkkiw_0c6NbCs0GUNpZMEutD…> > Seminar: "Revisiting the Role of Visual Media in Understanding a Rich Multimodal World" <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Chris_Thomas.html> > 10:00 AM | 1100 Torgersen Hall > Seminar Zoom: > https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83752166041?pwd=a0NycEpNNGczNU9qL0hnMXVFVVh0… > <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83752166041?pwd=a0NycEpNNGczNU9qL0hnMXVFVVh0…>Meeting ID: 837 5216 6041 > Passcode: 250459 > > Tuesday, March 1, 2022 > Senjuti Basu-Roy (New Jersey Institute of Technology) > Schedule a time to meet with Senjuti HERE <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oh46IOXxJLy4yiVETsNCLm1xpB0gZbmFwq…> > Seminar: "Optimization Opportunities in Human-in-the-loop Systems" <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Senjuti_Basu-Roy.html> > 10:00 AM | 1100 Torgersen Hall > Seminar Zoom: > https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89597431810?pwd=bjFFQXIyd0dnREJpOFNiRUh1c3VU… > <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89597431810?pwd=bjFFQXIyd0dnREJpOFNiRUh1c3VU…>Meeting ID: 895 9743 1810 > Passcode: 128012 > > > Thursday, March 3, 2022 > Dongkuan (DK) Xu (Penn State University) > Schedule a time to meet with DK HERE <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H8zYUsKzyIIYhpc9FbojlcOH8h3b9d5TL6l…> > Seminar: "Resource-efficient Deep Learning: Democratizing AI at Scale" <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Dongkuan_Xu.html> > 10:00 AM | 1100 Torgersen Hall > Seminar Zoom: > https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/86413830869?pwd=a05vbGhaTkJtVE0yZ2IxNWtCSWVh… > <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/86413830869?pwd=a05vbGhaTkJtVE0yZ2IxNWtCSWVh…>Meeting ID: 864 1383 0869 > Passcode: 347112 >

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3 Data/ML candidates next week
by Chris North 21 Feb '22

21 Feb '22

Sanghani faculty- Please sign up to meet with 3 faculty candidates visiting next week: Monday: Christopher Thomas <https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~chris/> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OCbPrYK1xB2fkkiw_0c6NbCs0GUNpZMEutD… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OCbPrYK1xB2fkkiw_0c6NbCs0GUNpZMEutD…> vision+NLP Tues: Senjuti Basu Roy <https://web.njit.edu/~senjutib/> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oh46IOXxJLy4yiVETsNCLm1xpB0gZbmFwq… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oh46IOXxJLy4yiVETsNCLm1xpB0gZbmFwq…> data mining, DB Thurs: Dongkuan (DK) Xu <https://personal.psu.edu/dux19/> sched coming soon at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12CGPXooDbw0KDOr07ZvnoDL5E10mA1eBMsT… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12CGPXooDbw0KDOr07ZvnoDL5E10mA1eBMsT…> ML efficiency Thanks all, -chris

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Seminar: Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning and Probabilistic Modeling
by Chris North 18 Feb '22

18 Feb '22

Sanghani Center seminar on monday morning: > > Monday, February 21: Geoff Pleiss > Seminar: Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning and Probabilistic Modeling <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Geoff_Pleiss.html> > 10:00 AM | 1100 Torgersen Hall > Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81529947573?pwd=T3JpSnN3N1lmYko1MnlrR1hWSmZP… <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81529947573?pwd=T3JpSnN3N1lmYko1MnlrR1hWSmZP…>Meeting ID: 815 2994 7573 > Passcode: 906263 https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Geoff_Pleiss.html <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Geoff_Pleiss.html>

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Invitation: Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting @ Monthly from 12pm to 1:30pm on the first Friday from Fri Mar 4 to Fri May 6 (EST) (sanghani-faculty@cs.vt.edu)
by Wanawsha Shalaby 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

You have been invited to the following event. Title: Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting Hi All,I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a while since I've sent out one of these emails! I appreciate Juanita and Brian holding down the fort while I was out on maternity leave. Please note that our first Sanghani Faculty meeting for the semester is scheduled for Friday, March 4 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. As usual, if you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them my way so that I may add them into our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 2. I'll be sending out a reoccurring calendar invite for our scheduled meetings this semester. Below is the Zoom information for our meeting, please note that it's the same link for all our Sanghani Faculty meetings this semester.Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83052682262Meeting ID: 830 5268 2262  Dial by your location:+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)Thank you,Wanawsha  When: Monthly from 12pm to 1:30pm on the first Friday from Fri Mar 4 to Fri May 6 Eastern Time - New York Calendar: sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu Who: * Wanawsha Shalaby - organizer * sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu * blmicale(a)vt.edu Event details: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NjdhcGYza3BwbmVh… Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer and be added to the guest list, or invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or to modify your RSVP. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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faculty candidate Geoff Pleiss - Mon Feb 21
by Chris North 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Please sign up to meet Geoff at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T3E3qcjMW9xLnbDJloYHCHcJ7FoaOwd_pKN… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T3E3qcjMW9xLnbDJloYHCHcJ7FoaOwd_pKN…> Geoff Pleiss Columbia University Seminar: Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning and Probabilistic Modeling https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Geoff_Pleiss.html <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Geoff_Pleiss.html>

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Help Needed to Track Conference Presentations
by Barbara Micale 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Good afternoon Sanghani Faculty, We are enlisting your help to track the conferences that Sanghani faculty/students participate in so that we can promote them on a regular basis on our social media platforms and on our website. We have compiled the list below from those we have promoted in some way in the past. Please take a look at the list, indicate the ones that apply to you and your students, and add any additional ones we should include on the list. If any conferences are imminent -- or if you are aware of any upcoming conferences where papers have already been accepted, please let me know the date(s) and who is presenting so that I can follow up in a timely fashion. For conferences in the more distant future, we will begin tracking acceptance dates and follow up accordingly/ Many thanks for your help with this effort. Best, blm *Conference List* *WINTER * Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (*WACV*) American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference (*AAAS*) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference ( *AAAI*) · Industrial Applications of AI (*IAAI*) · Educational Advances in AI (*EAAI*) · AI for Social Impact (*AISI*) · Science Guided AI (*SGAI*) *SPRING* ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (*IUI*) ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (*SIGCSE) * *SIAM *International Conference on Data Mining VT Center for Human and Computer Interaction (*CHCI*) Workshop *The Web Conference* Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (*PAKDD*) International Conference on Learning Representations (*ICLR*) *SUMMER* International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (*ICWSM)* International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks ( *EANN*) Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (*NAACL*) IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (*ICME*) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (*IJCAI*) International Conference on Scientific Computing (*CSCE*) International Conference on Machine Learning (*ICML*) *ACM SIGKDD* Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining *ACM SIGGRAPH* Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (*WADL*) Conference *FALL * International Conference on Computer Vision (*ICCV*) *IEEE VIS* ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (*CSCW*) International Conference on Information Management and Big Data (*SIMbig*) IEEE International conference series on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (*ASONAM*) ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (*CIKM* ) *ACM SIGSPATIAL* International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (*EMNLP*) IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (*IDCM*) Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (*NEURLPS*) Barbara L. Micale Public Relations Specialist <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu> Virginia Tech blmicale(a)vt.edu Twitter: @SanghaniCtrVT

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ML faculty candidate on Thurs Feb 17
by Chris North 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Wenbo Guo http://www.personal.psu.edu/wzg13/ <http://www.personal.psu.edu/wzg13/> https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Wenbo_Guo.html <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Wenbo_Guo.html> Please sign up on his schedule here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17EBFfgBjnhTdKL_vd0g_EPIFe9RtZFi8AlU… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17EBFfgBjnhTdKL_vd0g_EPIFe9RtZFi8AlU…>

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Tianbao Yang
by Chris North 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Please sign up to visit with Data/AI faculty candidate on Feb 10: (FYI he asked to keep his visit confidential) Tianbao Yang Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa, http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~tyng <http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~tyng> Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Rk0BZbpJ8Qo0pvF98l4xclg82xPUCk2JBy… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Rk0BZbpJ8Qo0pvF98l4xclg82xPUCk2JBy…> See all candidates here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12CGPXooDbw0KDOr07ZvnoDL5E10mA1eBMsT… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12CGPXooDbw0KDOr07ZvnoDL5E10mA1eBMsT…>

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