USD to Host Fourth Annual AI Symposium
The AI Symposium, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
The AI Symposium aims to unite AI and data engineering experts in academia, industry and government around current issues and areas of collaboration where AI-driven tools are in demand due to big data issues, such as in health care, cyberthreats, quantum computing, sustainable agriculture and risk management.
"AI is not just for computer science or computer scientists; it's for all and for good – let us serve the humanities together," said KC Santosh, Ph.D., chair of the USD Department of Computer Science.
In addition to two keynote speakers, the symposium includes a series of “blitz” talks and a fireside chat.
The speakers include the following.
- Michael Littman, Ph.D., division director for information and intelligent systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and professor at Brown University, will give the talk “Conveying Tasks to Computers: How Machine Learning Can Help,” beginning at 9:30 a.m. He will also talk about AI at the NSF from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- James Joshi, Ph.D., program director expert at the NSF Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Partnership (TIP) and professor at University of Pittsburg, will give the talk “Privacy, Ethics and Responsible AI – Cybersecurity Landscape,” beginning at 10:30 a.m.
- Lee Baugh, Ph.D., basic biomedical sciences associate professor at USD, will give the talk “Heavy Lifting: When AI Weighs in on Your Mental Workload,” beginning at 1:30 p.m.
- Matthias Plum, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics at South Dakota Mines, will give the talk “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory,” beginning at 2 p.m.
- Mandie Weinandt, Ph.D., director of the USD Center for Teaching and Learning, will moderate a panel at 2:30 p.m.
USD hosted a pre-symposium workshop, “AI for Good – From Engineering to entrepreneurship,” on April 5. Speakers included USD alumnus Kurtis Van Gent ’16, ‘17, staff software engineer at Google SenseAI, and Naveen Rokkam ‘16, vice-president of global strategy transformation at Mygo Consulting Inc.
The AI Symposium is sponsored by the USD Department of Computer Science.
For more information about the AI Symposium and to register, visit usd.edu/AI-Symposium.
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