February 2022 - Sanghani-students

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 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Seminars are 10am in Torgersen 1100 and also Zoom: Monday, February 28, 2022 Christopher Thomas (Columbia University) 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) 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) 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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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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Sanghani Center seminar - Thurs 10am
by Chris North 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Wenbo_Guo.html <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Wenbo_Guo.html> Seminar: Strengthening and Enriching Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Wenbo Guo The Pennsylvania State University Thursday, February 17, 2022 10:00 AM 1100 Torgersen Hall zoom https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/86207458965?pwd=ODZqU0tZNUdOcTZXTGgyOTB2OFcz… <https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/86207458965?pwd=ODZqU0tZNUdOcTZXTGgyOTB2OFcz…>

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