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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Stavros G. Vougioukas on Agriculture and AI
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Stavros G. Vougioukas. \nTALK TITLE: “Human-robot Collaboration for Fruit Harvesting” \nSPEAKER: Stavros G. Vougioukas\, Professor\, Biological and Agricultural Engineering\, UC Davis  \nRegister to attend >  \n \nBIO: Stavros Vougioukas has a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical\, Computers\, and Systems Engineering Department\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Troy\, NY. He is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering\, the University of California at Davis. His research focuses on robotics and automation for agriculture\, with emphasis on robot-aided and autonomous harvesting. \nABSTRACT: Manual harvesting of fresh-market fruits is costly and labor-intensive. This presentation will discuss two different robotic harvest-aid systems and report results from their deployments during commercial harvesting. The first system comprises two mobile robots that reduce workers’ non-productive walking times by carrying full and empty trays in the field. The second system is a robotic orchard platform that was developed to assist in tree fruit harvesting. The platform uses advanced sensing to estimate the fruit load on the trees and the workers’ harvesting speeds\, and controls platform speed and picker elevations to load-balance the amount of fruit picked by each worker and maximize the system’s harvesting speed. \nCITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-stavros-vougioukas/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Shijia Pan on Cyber-Physical Systems
DESCRIPTION:TALK TITLE: “Sense for Less: Physical Informed Cyber-Physical Systems Adaptation for Vibration-Based Occupant Monitoring“ \nSPEAKER: Shijia Pan\, Assistant Professor\, Computer Science\, and Engineering\, UC Merced \nRegister to attend >  \n \nBIO: Dr. Shijia Pan is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Merced. She received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems\, Internet-of-Things (IoT)\, and ubiquitous computing. She worked in multiple disciplines and focused on indoor human information acquisition through ambient sensing. She received Rising Stars in EECS\, Nick G. Vlahakis Graduate Fellowship\, Google Anita Borg Scholarship\, Best Paper Awards (IoTDI\, ASME SHM/NDE\, HASCA)\, Best Poster Awards (SenSys\, IPSN)\, Best Demo Award (Ubicomp\, BuildSys)\, Best Presentation Award (SenSys Doctoral Colloquium)\, and Audience Choice Award (BuildSys) from ACM/IEEE conferences.\n \nABSTRACT: The number of everyday smart devices is projected to grow to billions in the coming decade\, which enables various smart building applications. These applications\, especially in-home long-term occupant monitoring\, rely on emerging device-free human sensing techniques. From the system perspective\, we introduce an alternative non-intrusive sensing modality through ambient structural vibration to indirectly infer fine-grained occupant information. However\, due to the complexity of the physical world\, sensing data distributions face severe domain variances. Therefore\, from the data perspective\, accurate information learning through pure data-driven approaches requires a large amount of labeled data\, which is costly and difficult to obtain in practice. We address these challenges by combining physical and data-driven knowledge in learning. \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-shijia-pan/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Shara Tibken on Digital Redlining
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Shara Tibken  \nTALK TITLE: “Digital Redlining: The Broadband Gap’s Dirty Secret” \nSPEAKER: Shara Tibken\, Managing Editor\, CNET News \nRegister to attend > \n \nBIO: Shara Tibken is managing editor at CNET News in San Francisco. In her role\, she oversees a team of reporters\, as well as covers the mobile device industry and the digital divide. Before joining CNET\, Shara wrote about technology and the stock market for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal in New York. She grew up on a farm in rural Iowa and graduated from Simpson College in Indianola\, Iowa\, in 2007. The poor internet connectivity in her hometown inspired Shara’s interest in the broadband gap.\n \nABSTRACT: Communities that couldn’t get mortgage loans in the 1940s are the same areas without fast home internet service today. Big broadband providers\, when deciding where to invest the money to upgrade their networks\, often focus on wealthier parts of cities and shun low-income communities. Fiber connections are expensive\, and ISPs are hesitant to expand unless they expect a return on their investment. As a result\, poorer communities often have no internet or are stuck with slow\, legacy networks that can’t meet today’s demands — even though they usually pay as much as their wealthier neighbors who have gigabit fiber connections.\n \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-shara-tibken/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Margaret Burnett on Inclusive Design
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Margaret Burnett  \nTALK TITLE: “Doing Inclusive Design: From GenderMag to InclusiveMag” \nSPEAKER: Margaret Burnett\, Professor School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, Oregon State University  \nRegister to attend > \n \nBIO: Margaret Burnett is a Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University. She began her career in the industry\, where she was the first woman software developer ever hired at Procter & Gamble Ivorydale. A few degrees later\, she joined academia. She co-founded the area of end-user software engineering\, which aims to enable computer users not trained in programming to improve their own software\, and co-leads the team that created GenderMag (gendermag.org)\, a software inspection process that uncovers user-facing gender biases in technology environments. Together with her collaborators and students\, she has contributed some of the seminal work in both of those areas\, and also in explaining AI to ordinary end users. Burnett is an ACM Fellow\, a member of the ACM CHI Academy\, and an emeritus Chair of the NCWIT Academic Alliance. \nABSTRACT: How can technology professionals assess whether their technology supports diverse users? And if they find problems\, how can they fix them? Although there are empirical processes that can be used to find “inclusivity bugs” piecemeal\, what is also needed is a systematic method to assess technology’s support for diverse populations. To fill this gap\, we developed GenderMag\, a method for finding and fixing “gender inclusivity bugs” — gender biases in technology interfaces and workflows. We then introduced InclusiveMag\, which can be used to generate systematic inclusiveness methods for other dimensions of diversity. In this talk\, we explain how GenderMag works\, present the latest GenderMag results\, and then introduce InclusiveMag and our early experiences with it. We conclude with actionable steps for industry and university professionals. \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-margaret-burnett/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Carolynn Patten on Digital Phenotypes of Normal and Pathological Human Gait
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Carolynn Patten  \nTALK TITLE: Digital Phenotypes of Normal and Pathological Human Gait \nSPEAKER: Dr. Carolynn Patten\, Director and Professor\, Biomechanics\, Rehabilitation\, and Integrative Neuroscience\, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation\, UC Davis \nRegister to attend > \nBIO: Dr. Patten is a neuroscientist and physical therapist who specializes in the assessment and treatment of motor dysfunction associated with aging and adult neuropathologies\, such as stroke. She directs the UC Davis Biomechanics\, Rehabilitation\, and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Lab and Co-Directs the UC Davis Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine.\nDr. Patten’s research focuses on understanding the neural basis of human movement\, investigating human motor control and adaptation from a perspective of neuromechanics. Using concurrent behavioral and neurophysiological methods\, her laboratory has developed techniques sensitive to motor impairment. Current work to be discussed in this CITRIS seminar uses gait as an assay of brain health to develop a predictive biomarker of subclinical/emerging pathology.\nDr. Patten’s research is supported by the NIH (NIBIB\, NIA\, NINDS)\, NSF\, Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Rehabilitation R&D)\, and Healthy Aging in a Digital World\, a UC Davis Big Idea. \nABSTRACT: Nearly half the U.S. population (~47%) is affected by at least one chronic condition affecting health\, independent mobility\, and quality of life. Early detection and management of these conditions would improve quality of life and forestall disabling sequelae. However\, there is a need for efficient screening tools to enable the detection of emerging and sub-clinical pathologies among individuals in our rapidly aging population.\nOne of the most common metrics used to quantify mobility is self-selected walking speed. Robust associations with overall physical functioning and systemic health have inspired reference to walking speed as the “sixth vital sign.” While its relevance has been established and it is straightforward to measure\, gait speed is influenced by myriad factors\, thus differences and simple changes in gait speed offer only a limited scope of information regarding either the source of mobility limitations or their potential for remediation.\nRecent work from our lab has led to the development of the Assessment of Bilateral Locomotor Efficacy (ABLE) an instrument that assesses key functions of human bipedal locomotion. Unlike walking speed\, the ABLE reveals non-overlapping clusters of performance\, indicating its capacity to discriminate between critical levels of physical functioning. Critically\, the ABLE detects mobility impairment in ostensibly healthy adults with no observable gait impairment and normal walking speed. Verified with their health data\, this observation reveals the ABLE’s potential to detect sub-clinical\, or emerging\, gait pathology in so-called normal\, healthy individuals. Motivated by our goal of making the ABLE accessible to both clinical and community settings\, our current work centers around the use of tools to acquire valid gait data with portable technologies\, independent from an instrumented research lab\, and efficient methods to analyze high-dimensional data sets. Used as a screening procedure\, the ABLE could provide early detection of medical needs\, facilitate preventative care\, and inform management of chronic health conditions.\n \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-carolyn-patten/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Ahmed Sabbir Arif on Human Computer Interaction
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Dr. Ahmed Sabbir Arif  \nTALK TITLE: “What if Computers Could Read Our Lips? Silent Speech as an Active Mode of Interaction with Computer Systems” \nSPEAKER: Dr. Ahmed Sabbir Arif\, Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering\, UC Merced \nRegister to attend > \n \nBIO: Dr. Ahmed Sabbir Arif leads the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of California\, Merced. His research makes computer systems accessible to a wider range of users by developing intuitive and effective input and interaction techniques. A major thread of his work focuses on smarter solutions for text entry. His other interests include mobile interaction\, accessibility\, and applied machine learning. He has received a Hellman Fellowship\, three Michael A. J. Sweeney Awards\, and a CHISIG Gitte Lindgaard Award for his research activities. Before joining UC Merced\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ryerson University and an NSERC ENGAGE Fellow at York University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from York University. He also holds an M.Sc. from Lakehead University and a B.Sc. from Trent University\, both in Computer Science. \nABSTRACT: Silent speech that converts lip movements into text can mitigate many challenges of speech and traditional input methods. Yet\, existing silent speech recognition models are error-prone or use impractical extremal devices or implants. In this talk\, I will present the findings of three projects involving silent speech input. First\, a social study established silent speech as an acceptable and desired mode of interaction. Second\, two empirical studies revealed that users are more tolerant of errors in silent speech and tend to speak slowly when interacting with it. Third\, a new end-to-end deep neural network that can automatically segment lip sequence videos and classify them into text. In an evaluation\, the model reduced the word error rate by 57% compared to the state-of-the-arts without compromising the overall computation time. \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-ahmed-sabbir-arif/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Laurel Larsen on Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Laurel Larsen  \nTALK TITLE: “The drought cascade: Linking changes in climate extremes to changes in watershed function” \nSPEAKER: Laurel Larsen\, Associate Professor and Delta Lead Scientist\, UC Berkeley and Delta Stewardship Council \nRegister to attend > \n \nBio: I grew up in Florida\, where I spent my childhood playing outdoors\, mostly around water\, reading\, and solving puzzles. I never grew out of those things\, and now they constitute a major part of my job. The puzzles that motivate me are: What makes landscapes evolve distinct patterns? How can we restore or manage landscapes to optimize particular functions? How do physical-biological interactions control large-scale geomorphology and biogeochemical processing? Water flows as a theme through this research as one of the components of the environment most critical to life and\, indeed\, perhaps the single most dominant factor sculpting the geography of Earth’s natural and human landscapes. Water is also one of the features of the physical environment most sensitive to global climate change and human management. In my research\, I try to tease apart the direct and indirect ways in which hydrologic changes impact ecosystems\, and\, conversely\, how those ecological changes impact hydrology. It is only through a firm understanding of these dynamic interactions that we can predict future change in the hydrological and ecological components of landscapes. \nOne of the things I love about this area of research is that it requires a variety of tools and creativity in the design of new experiments and methods. A common approach is to study small-scale processes in the field and laboratory and then extrapolate that information to larger spatial scales and longer timescales using numerical simulations. I’ve used that approach in the Everglades to study the formation and degradation of a strikingly patterned landscape that is of prime interest in restoration activities. There\, I needed to perform experiments in the field and laboratory flumes to understand how organic sediment moved through canopies of marsh vegetation\, monitor surface water\, and groundwater biogeochemistry to understand how evapotranspiration affected nutrient availability\, and plant growth and develop new optical techniques for fingerprinting organic particles. The findings of this field and laboratory research led to the development of a simulation model that I used to test different hypotheses of landscape evolution. Now I am using similar techniques to evaluate whether radical new practices for restoring streams are sustainable (field site in Lancaster\, PA)\, understand how hydrologic connectivity affects water quality and vegetation community patterning in the Brazilian Pantanal\, and examine interactions between vegetation\, biofilms\, and land building processes in coastal marshes and river deltas.\nAlthough fieldwork and laboratory work are fun and create great stories (some of which I put into my children’s book about the Everglades!)\, they are also very expensive\, time-consuming\, and difficult. One thing I would like to accomplish in my career is to find new ways to generalize across geographically and physically diverse landscapes. Is there a finite set of processes—albeit in different combinations—controlling these diverse environments\, and if so\, how do we detect what those processes are with a minimum set of data and then use our knowledge of them to predict the future? This ability would be particularly useful for solving water resource problems in ungauged basins in the developing world. To that end\, I have an ongoing fascination with emerging quantitative analysis tools\, particularly in information theory and medicine. \nABSTRACT: Climate models project that changes in patterns of temperature and precipitation delivery will be ubiquitous\, but how those changes cascade through watersheds is less certain. Indeed\, the widespread disconnect between changes in extreme precipitation and extreme streamflow contrasts with model projections and underlies what has been referred to as a “grand challenge” of hydrology. Using CHOSEN (Comprehensive Hydrologic Observatory Sensor Network)\, we conducted a data-driven analysis of multidimensional hydrologic and climatic extremes. We found that drought and warming likely explain many of the observed changes in streamflow extreme but that wetter extremes arise from more complex phenomena. The talk concludes with a summary of some of the remaining “grand challenges” for understanding drought’s cascading effects on California’s ecosystems. \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-laurel-larsen/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Holly Jimison on Health Interventions
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Holly Jimison \nTalk title: “Informatics Advances for Personalized Health Interventions” \nSpeaker: Director\, Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care\, Northeastern University; Visiting Professor\, UC Davis \nRegister to Attend >  \n \nSpeaker bio: Holly B. Jimison is the Director of the Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care at Northeastern University and on the faculty in both the College of Computer & Information Science and the College of Health Sciences. She leads a multidisciplinary\, multi-institutional effort to facilitate research in the area of home monitoring of health behaviors\, including helping researchers address the challenges of big data related to large amounts of complex and noisy streaming data from multiple sources used to infer clinically relevant health behaviors. Her current research projects are focused on technology approaches to support healthy aging. Dr. Jimison is also currently serving as Visiting Professor at UC Davis working on the Healthy Aging in a Digital World Initiative. \nAbstract: Health behaviors account for the most significant influence on overall health outcomes and healthcare costs\, far outpacing genetic effects or the influence of access to medical care. As we move from an era of “reactive” medicine that is hospital and clinic-based toward more holistic and proactive care focused on the management of chronic conditions and prevention\, informatics advances are needed to model patient state in real-time to deliver tailored just-in-time health interventions to the home. In this presentation\, I will describe AI techniques for inferring patient state in real-time from streaming sensor data and mobile interactions\, as well as a health coaching infrastructure for delivering tailored motivational and feedback mobile messaging. This architecture incorporates representations of user preferences\, motivations\, and barriers to change to enable the incorporation of known principles of health behavior change. Based on our needs assessment of stakeholders (elders\, family caregivers\, clinicians\, service providers\, researchers\, government\, and industry)\, we have focused on a design to facilitate the participation of family members and low-skilled caregivers as part of the care team. Our tested applications for this technology have ranged from interactive video exercise\, socialization\, and stress management to cognitive monitoring and cognitive health interventions. Bringing tailored and coordinated care interventions to the home offer a scalable and potentially cost-effective approach to improving health and quality of life for a growing population of individuals with chronic disease and conditions associated with aging. \nAbout the series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-holly-jimison-on-health/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Crystal Kolden on Fire Science
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “How Do We Stop Wildfire Disasters? A Complex Systems Perspective” \nSpeaker: Crystal Kolden\, Assistant Professor of Fire Science\, UC Merced \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Wildfires are a complex physical process that occurs both naturally and at the hands of humans. Fires are necessary to support many ecosystems and cultures\, but are producing increasingly disastrous human outcomes globally\, and particularly in the western United States. While engineering and technological advances have substantially mitigated other types of natural disasters over decades\, there is a considerable lag in this arena for wildfire\, which is a product of how fire has been historically viewed in the U.S. This presentation reviews both why the frameworks applied to disaster mitigation have been overlooked with respect to wildfire and also the state of the science regarding common misconceptions about wildfire mitigation. Also highlighted are key areas where engineering\, technology and data sciences could produce substantial and rapid advances in mitigating wildfire disasters. Suggestions are offered for the development of near-term research in wildfire mitigation and adaption\, particularly through replication\, amplification and expansion of natural biological solutions. \nSpeaker Bio: Crystal Kolden is a pyrogeographer with over two decades of experience in fire science. After beginning her career as a wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service in California\, she earned graduate degrees in geography focused on remote sensing of wildfires. She has spent the last 15 years trying to understand the causes of and identify solutions to rapidly increasing wildfire disasters. Kolden conducts research on wildfire disaster mitigation and works with communities and agencies globally to develop and implement adaptation strategies. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-crystal-kolden/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Misha Pavel on Digital Health Care
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Dynamic Systems Modeling of Humans to Optimize Digital Health Care” \nSpeaker: Misha Pavel\, Professor of Practice in Computer Sciences and Health Sciences at Northeastern University; Visiting Professor in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing\, UC Davis \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: The vision of transforming health care from reactive sick care to proactive health care requires new approaches to the assessment of individuals’ physical\, physiological and mental states and their dynamics. Emerging advances in sensing\, computation and communication technology have the potential to enable intensive longitudinal monitoring\, assessment and prediction to close the loop by optimizing early detection and tailored intervention. This presentation will discuss examples of robust computational modeling and predicting individuals’ behaviors combining machine learning\, hybrid dynamic systems and statistical signal processing with psychological knowledge. These include inferences of cognitive functionality from computer interactions and games that can be used for early detection of changes in cognitive function\, and approaches to inferences of stress levels from physiological measurements. In addition\, a principled approach using intensive longitudinal health behavior monitoring to help individuals to increase their physical activity and engagement is described. This approach also provides transparent explanations of the inferences and recommendations. \nSpeaker Bio: Misha Pavel holds a joint faculty appointment in Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Bouvé College of Health Sciences and visiting faculty at UC Davis. His background comprises electrical engineering\, computer science and experimental psychology. His research includes multiscale dynamic computational modeling of behaviors and psychological states\, with applications ranging from elder care to augmentation of human performance. Pavel uses these model-based approaches to develop algorithms transforming unobtrusive monitoring from smart homes and mobile devices to practical and actionable knowledge for diagnosis and intervention. Under the auspices of the Northeastern-based Consortium on Technology for Proactive Care\, Pavel and his colleagues target technological innovations to support the development of economically feasible\, proactive\, distributed and individual-centered health care. In addition\, Pavel is investigating approaches to inferring and augmenting human cognition using computer games\, EEG\, gait characteristics\, and transcranial electrical stimulation. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-misha-pavel-on-digital-healthcare/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – CITRIS Aviation Prize Winners
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar on Aviation \nTalk title: “Project LEAP-FROG Takes Flight” \nSpeakers: Derek Hollenbeck\, Doctoral Student at UC Merced and Team Lead of Project LEAP-FROG. \nRegister to Attend > \n \nAbstract: In this talk\, the winners of CITRIS’s first Aviation Prize will describe their winning proposal for a “long-endurance edge-AI platform for research opportunities and data gathering” platform (LEAP-FROG) to demonstrate a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) part 107 compliant fully autonomous flight of 115 miles\, within a 5-mile circumference and including a 45-min battery reserve at UC Merced’s Vernal Pools. With this discussion facilitated by CITRIS Director Costas Spanos\, this session will also explore how CITRIS sees its Aviation Prize as a tool to foster student research and innovation across its four UC campuses.\n \nAbout the series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-citris-aviation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Panel on Guiding the University of California's Responsible Use of AI
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar on Artificial Intelligence \nTalk title: “Guiding the University of California’s Responsible Use of AI” \nPanel moderated by: Brandie Nonnecke\, Director\, CITRIS Policy Lab; Co-Chair\, UC Presidential Working Group on AI.  @BNonnecke @CITRISPolicyLab @citrisnews \nPanelists:\n– Alexander Bustamante\, JD\, is Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance and Audit Officer in the UCOP Office of Ethics\, Compliance\, and Audit Services.\n– Camille Crittenden\, Ph.D.\, is the Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and Co-Founder of the CITRIS Policy Lab and the EDGE (Expanding Diversity and Gender Equity) in Tech Initiative at UC.\n– Hany Farid\, Ph.D.\, is a professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in electrical engineering & computer sciences and the School of Information.\n– Cora Han\, JD\, is the Chief Health Data Officer at UC Health.\n– Alexa Koenig\, JD\, Ph.D.\, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law. \nRegister to Attend > \nSpeaker bios:\nModerator – Brandie Nonnecke\, Ph.D.\, is the Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab\, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She is a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum. Brandie was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021. More \nPanelists:\nAlexander Bustamante\, JD\, is Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance and Audit Officer in the UCOP Office of Ethics\, Compliance and Audit Services. Bustamante served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California from 2002 to 2011\, where he was the recipient of various local\, state\, and national awards for excellence\, including the United States Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service\, the Department of Justice’s highest award. More \nCamille Crittenden\, Ph.D.\, is the Executive Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and Co-Founder of the CITRIS Policy Lab and the EDGE (Expanding Diversity and Gender Equity) in Tech Initiative at UC. She also served as chair of the California Blockchain Working Group in 2019–20. Prior to coming to CITRIS in 2012\, she was the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law\, where she helped to develop its program in human rights\, technology\, and new media. More \nHany Farid\, Ph.D.\, is a professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in electrical engineering & computer sciences and the School of Information. He is also a member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab\, Berkeley Institute for Data Science\, Center for Innovation in Vision and Optics\, Development Engineering\, Vision Science Program\, and is a senior faculty advisor for the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. His research focuses on digital forensics\, forensic science\, misinformation\, image analysis\, and human perception. More  \nCora Han\, JD\, is the Chief Health Data Officer at UC Health where she focuses on strategies for leveraging health data in a responsible and innovative way. Ms. Han joined UC Health from the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection where she played a leading role on health privacy matters for the Commission in both the enforcement and policy arenas. More \nAlexa Koenig\, JD\, Ph.D.\, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law\, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law with a particular focus on the impact of emerging technologies on human rights practice. She co-founded the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab\, which trains students and professionals to use social media and other digital content to strengthen human rights advocacy and accountability. More \nAbstract: The University of California (UC) is increasingly turning to AI-enabled tools as a means to improve its operations. While AI can bring significant benefits\, ill-conceived deployments risk imposing disproportionate harms. Launched by UC President Michael Drake and former UC President Janet Napolitano\, the UC Presidential Working Group on AI developed a set of overarching principles and recommendations for UC’s current and future use of AI. This panel will discuss its final report and next steps to guide UC’s responsible AI strategy.  \nAbout the series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-responsible-use-of-ai/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar,CITRIS Tech Policy
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Richard L. Corsi on Indoor Air Quality
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Pandemic Engineering: Accessible Tools for Lowering Risk and Spread of Infection” \nSpeaker: Richard Corsi\, Dean of the College of Engineering\, UC Davis \nRegister to Attend  \nAbstract: COVID-19 is an airborne infectious disease. As such\, far more attention should be paid to reducing the inhalation dose of virus-laden aerosol particles in both the near field (close contact) and far field (shared indoor air). This presentation will provide background on the infector-to=receptor pathway for transmission of COVID-19\, and engineering approaches to disrupt transmission by reducing the inhaled dose of respiratory aerosols. Particular attention will be paid to the development of technologies that are more accessible to those without the resources needed to reduce infections in their own families\, schools and general communities. The Corsi-Rosenthal box will be discussed as an example of a highly effective and relatively low-cost do-it-yourself air cleaner that is gaining popularity in North America and beyond. \nSpeaker Bio: Richard L. Corsi is dean of engineering at the University of California\, Davis. He spent most of his career at the University of Texas as faculty member\, department chair and endowed research chair in the Department of Civil\, Architectural\, and Environmental Engineering\, and as a member of the institution’s prestigious Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Corsi is an internationally recognized expert in the field of indoor air quality\, with a specific interest in physical and chemical interactions between pollutants and indoor materials. During the pandemic\, he has delivered numerous national webinars on layered risk reduction to reduce the spread of COVID-19\, completed modeling to underscore scenarios of high risk\, developed educational tools for school districts\, and conceptualized a highly effective new air cleaner for respiratory aerosols that has become known as the Corsi-Rosenthal Box. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-richard-l-corsi-on-climate/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Becca Fenwick on Aviation Workforce Training
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “CIDER\, a New Drone Education and Research Program at UC Santa Cruz” \nSpeaker: Becca Fenwick\, Director\, CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research\, UC Santa Cruz \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Becca Fenwick will present on her work with the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, the first UC undergraduate drone training program. CIDER offers training and research support for the use of drone technology across academic disciplines and industry sectors. Students benefit from experiential learning opportunities and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) licensure\, and faculty gain access to licensed pilots who can conduct flights for research and teaching purposes\, plus access to drone equipment. Industry partnerships and services contract provide internships and field training for students and research collaborations for faculty. CIDER values diversity and encourages students from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM to participate. The initiative recently received $1 million from the James Irvine Foundation to develop a workforce training program in the Salinas region. \n \nSpeaker Bio: At the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, Becca Fenwick is developing the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER). This program brings together diverse students\, researchers and industry partners from many sectors to fuel research and innovation and develop a diverse drone workforce. Working with drones unites Fenwick’s varied skill sets: her geospatial expertise from a marine geology and geophysics doctorate from Scripps Institution of Oceanography\, her land conservation expertise from almost a decade as a reserve director for the UC Natural Reserve System\, and her 15 years of environmental IT\, tech and sensor network experience as the director of environmental IT for the UC Natural Reserve System. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-becca-fenwick-on-aviation-workforce-training/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T120000
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Alison Post on Open Government Platforms for Transit
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “When Do Local Governments Use Tech To Improve Transparency? The Case of California Transit” \nSpeaker: Alison Post\, Associate Professor\, Political Science and Global Metropolitan Studies\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Transparency reforms instituting sunshine laws and open public meetings have been actively promoted in recent decades as means of keeping elected officials and bureaucrats more accountable to the public. Advances in communication technologies have enabled a new generation of such transparency-enhancing reforms and practices — including open data portals\, posting program information online and security alert systems. Under what circumstances do local governments adopt such technologies? This talk investigates this question by examining patterns of adoption and utilization of one technology — online scheduling information for public transit — for a comprehensive set of local transit providers in California\, drawing on original\, webscraped data. \n \nSpeaker Bio: Alison Post holds the Travers Family Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Chair of Political Science and is associate professor of global metropolitan studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research examines urban politics and policy and other political economy themes\, including public service delivery\, regulation and business-government relations. She also collaborates with engineers\, urban planners and scholars of public health on research on infrastructure management and “smart city” technology adoption. She works principally in Latin America\, and recently in India and the United States as well. She is a former president of the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and former co-director of the global metropolitan studies program at UC Berkeley\, and currently chair of the steering committee for the Red de Economía Política de America Latina (Repal). \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-alison-post-on-open-government-platforms-for-transit/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Kaveh Madani on Human-environment Systems
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts: Deceiving Assumptions in Analyzing Complex Human-environment Systems” \nSpeaker:  Kaveh Madani\, Head\, Nexus Research Programme\, United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Coupled human-environment systems are characterized by uncertainty\, limited predictability\, bounded rationality\, indeterminate causality and evolutionary change. To determine the impact of specific policy intervention\, an integrated analysis approach is needed that provides a holistic view of complex interactions within such systems. In this seminar\, Kaveh Madani\, the head of the Nexus Research Programme at the United Nations University\, highlights some of the major challenges of modelling and managing complex human-environment systems to argue why we often fail to develop comprehensive technological and policy solutions that can solve one problem without creating new ones. \n \nSpeaker Bio: Kaveh Madani is a globally recognized environmental scientist\, educator and activist\, working on complex human-nature systems at the interface of science\, policy and society. He is currently the head of the Nexus Research Programme at the United Nations University in Dresden\, Germany (UNU-FLORES). He has previously served as the deputy head of Iran’s Department of Environment and vice president of the U.N. Environment Assembly Bureau. He held different strategic roles during his public service and led Iran’s delegation in different major intergovernmental summits\, including the COP23 climate change negotiations. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and has received numerous awards and recognitions for his fundamental research contributions\, teaching innovations\, and outreach and humanitarian activities. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-kaveh-madani-on-human-environment-systems/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Ricardo de Castro on Sustainable Agtech
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Electric Propulsion in Agriculture Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges” \nSpeaker:  Ricardo de Castro\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Mechanical Engineering\, UC Merced \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Off-road vehicles\, such as tractors\, are crucial to a wide range of farming tasks\, including tillage and harvesting. Almost all self-propelled agricultural equipment relies on diesel engines\, a main source of smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other greenhouse gases. According to the California Air Resources Board\, off-road vehicles are on track to surpass road transportation as the state’s largest source of NOx emissions by 2022. This is particularly problematic in the San Joaquin Valley\, where more than 50 percent of California’s agriculture equipment is used. There is a critical need to decarbonize agriculture and promote sustainable\, clean agricultural vehicles. Electrification of tractors is the long-term solution. California aims to transition all off-road vehicles to zero-emission propulsion by 2035 and adopt stricter air pollution regulations for this sector. This talk will focus on the transition from today’s diesel-dominated machines to tomorrow’s zero-emission tractors. \nSpeaker Bio: Ricardo de Castro received licenciatura and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computers engineering from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto in Portugal in 2006 and 2013\, respectively. During 2007–08 he was an entrepreneur with the WeMoveU project\, targeting the development of powertrain control solutions for lightweight electric vehicles. From 2013–20\, he was with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of System Dynamics and Control (SR)\, where he developed enabling technologies for electric mobility and automated driving. In 2021\, he joined the University of California\, Merced\, as an assistant professor. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-ricardo-de-castro-on-sustainable-agtech/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Sumeet Singh on California's Energy Future
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “PG&E’s Approach to Balance Resiliency\, Reliability\, Decarbonization and Climate Change” \nSpeaker: Sumeet Singh\, Executive Vice President\, Chief Risk Officer and Interim Chief Safety Officer\, PG&E \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: PG&E is committed to California’s vision of a sustainable energy future. This includes the company’s support for the state’s implementation of SB 100 and carbon neutrality by 2045 in a reliable and cost-effective manner for its customers. PG&E is doing its part to transition California to a decarbonized and climate-resilient economy while combating the effects of climate change\, which has resulted in a dramatic increase in wildfire risk in PG&E’s service area. This requires an integrated multilayered wildfire mitigation strategy that combines core resiliency programs such as system hardening and weather-driven operational mitigations that are responsive to changing conditions — while also balancing reliability for customers. \nSpeaker Bio: Sumeet Singh serves as executive vice president\, chief risk officer and interim chief safety officer at PG&E\, overseeing the company’s integrated workforce health and safety strategy\, its safety culture\, and management of both operational risks such as natural disasters and nonoperational risks such as cybersecurity. He has held a number of leadership roles within PG&E\, including the senior vice president\, chief risk officer\, and vice president of asset management and the community wildfire safety program\, and vice president of portfolio management and engineering and vice president of asset and risk management in PG&E’s Gas Operations. He has also served as the gas safety and integrity officer at Picarro Inc. Singh holds a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UCLA. He is a registered professional civil engineer in the state of California and serves on the board of Stiles Hall\, a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-income students of color excel in education. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-sumeet-singh-on-californias-energy-future/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Andre Cheung on Wildfire Detection Technologies
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “AI Wildfire Detection: Customer Stories” \nSpeaker: Andre Cheung\, Founder and CEO\, RoboticsCats \nRegister To Attend \n \nAbstract: Everyone can contribute in wildfire risk mitigation with the right tool. This talk will share how an animal center\, a wind farm and a smart city each apply artificial intelligence (AI) wildfire detection technologies to reduce their forest fire risks. \nSpeaker Bio: Andre Cheung is the founder and CEO of RoboticsCats\, a startup based in Asia providing AI wildfire tools to customers around the globe. Before joining the climate tech and fire tech industries in 2018\, Cheung devoted most of his career in the IP networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS) industries. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-andre-cheung-on-wildfire-detection-technologies/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230118T120000
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Verónica Ahumada on Inclusive Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Telepresence Robots: Designing for an Inclusive Future” \nSpeaker:  Verónica Ahumada\, Assistant Professor\, Health Informatics and Human-robot Interaction\, Department of Pediatrics and MIND Institute\, UC Davis Health \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Innovative approaches to technology-mediated health care require holistic\, patient-centered interventions to address health challenges. Emerging telepresence and social robots have the potential to transform the health experiences of people who are restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. Use of these robots may promote social inclusion and enable connectedness within existing physical communities. This presentation will discuss telepresence\, virtual inclusion and the growing use of social telerobots in public spaces. This will include an overview of conceptual\, theoretical\, methodological and translational approaches to robot-mediated behavioral and developmental interventions. The Presence and Social Connectedness Framework will be explored as a tool to measure perceived connectedness and inform development of robot design features that facilitate presence and inclusion. This presentation will also explore the intersection of three disciplines (developmental psychology\, human-robot interaction\, human-computer interaction) that work jointly to move beyond discipline-specific approaches to address a common problem. \nSpeaker Bio: Verónica Ahumada is an assistant professor of health informatics and human-robot interaction in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California\, Davis. She directs the Technology and Social Connectedness (TASC) Lab in UC Davis Health’s Center for Health and Technology. Her work is focused on the use of assistive social robots and interactive technologies to improve health and developmental outcomes. Ahumada is the principal investigator of a $1 million National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative grant to create better telerobots for children restricted to their homes due to medical conditions or disabilities. She is also co-PI on a $1.2 million UC Multicampus Research Projects and Initiatives project to create telemanipulation robots for health care worker safety and social inclusion of individuals at high infection risk. Her research encompasses collaborations among medicine\, health informatics\, robotics\, pediatrics\, computer science and learning sciences. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-veronica-ahumada-on-inclusive-robotics/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Spencer Castro on Human-machine Systems
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “The Multitasking Motorist: Interactions With Technology” \nSpeaker: Spencer Castro\, Assistant Professor\, Management of Complex Systems\, UC Merced \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Safety concerning human performance in complex multitask environments relies heavily upon the fundamental psychological principles of limited-capacity attention and top-down mechanisms of attention allocation. To develop a suitable model for distraction and safety with automobiles\, Spencer Castro’s team at UC Merced implements converging measures from established physiological\, behavioral and subjective proxies for effort in realistic goal-directed settings. In this talk\, Castro presents interesting examples of measuring\, modeling and attempting to predict effort in the lab\, in simulations and in automobiles on the road. The work measures fluctuations in cognitive workload for various manipulations of multitasking\, including instruction-induced task priority and intermittent secondary task cues. The results indicate that multiple parameters are necessary to capture variations in processing priority for people and machines\, with strong implications for safety. The most robust finding suggests that — contrary to strictly resource-limited theories of attention — strategic allocation of resources can drive performance more than a slowing in the rate of information processing. \nSpeaker Bio: Spencer Castro is an assistant professor in the Department of Management of Complex Systems at the University of California\, Merced. His research encompasses workload measurement and modeling in human-machine systems\, especially within human-computer interaction\, driving\, automation\, and data visualization and manipulation. He received his B.S. in science\, technology and society from Stanford University in 2011\, an M.S. in psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 2015\, and a Ph.D. in psychology in 2019 from the University of Utah. Castro received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship\, or GRFP\, in 2015 to study mobile device interactions while multitasking. In 2019\, he received a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Utah to model real-time cognitive workload fluctuations in applied settings. These settings included conversations while driving and monitoring autonomous aerial vehicles. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-spencer-castro-on-human-machine-systems/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Michele Barbato on Hazard-resistant Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Climate Change Effects on Hurricane Risk for Single-Family Houses in the United States” \nSpeaker: Michele Barbato\, Professor\, Civil and Environmental Engineering\, UC Davis \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Hurricanes are among the most costly natural hazards affecting communities worldwide\, and they involve different hazard sources (i.e.\, wind\, windborne debris\, flood and rain). Climate change is expected to increase the intensity of future hurricanes. This presentation will illustrate a novel probabilistic Performance-Based Hurricane Engineering (PBHE) framework that disaggregates the risk assessment analysis into independent elementary components and innovatively accounts for concurrent\, interacting and cascading hazards. The PBHE framework is extended to account for hazard (climate change) and vulnerability (structural aging) non-stationarity. Using a recently developed wind speed projection model and the climate projections in the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change\, the loss analysis for a benchmark low-rise single-family house over a 50-year service life is performed. For this application example\, the combined effects of climate change and structural aging can almost double the expected total losses during a 50-year service life when compared to the stationary conditions. \nSpeaker Bio: Michele Barbato is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California\, Davis. He is co-director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and director of the CITRIS Climate research initiative. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) in Louisiana and in Italy. Barbato’s research aims to develop safer\, economic and more rational design procedures for sustainable infrastructures and resilient communities. He is the author of more than two hundred technical publications. He received the 2020 ASCE Sacramento Section Fredrick Panhost Structural Engineer Award\, the 2020 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize\, and many additional research\, teaching and service awards. He was elected a Structural Engineering Institute fellow and Engineering Mechanics Institute fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2019 and an ASCE fellow in 2021. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-michele-barbato-on-hazard-resistant-infrastructure/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Steven Johnston on Health Care Technology
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Bioconvergence: Transforming How Humans Live and Age” \nSpeaker: Steven Johnston\, Vice President and Head of Technology Transformation and Enablement\, Merck KGaA\, Darmstadt\, Germany \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Our lives today are filled with technologies that our grandparents\, our parents and possibly even many of us could not have imagined growing up. Today\, seamless communication on the go is taken for granted\, and autonomous transportation is on the immediate horizon. The next revolution that will truly transform how humans live and age is the convergence of health care and electronics. The merging of these technology areas\, which previously interacted just on the periphery\, offers incredible opportunities for much more personalized medicine\, faster and more effective novel drug discovery\, novel disease treatments to not just prolong lifetimes but also the quality of life\, and even new computing paradigms. The bioconvergence revolution is just starting\, but will fundamentally improve all of our lives! \nSpeaker Bio: Steven Johnston holds dual roles at Merck KGaA\, Darmstadt\, Germany and EMD Electronics as vice president and head of technology transformation and enablement in the Electronics business unit and vice president and head of technology scouting and ecosystem enablement in the Corporate Science and Technology organization. Previously\, Johnston was at Intel Corp. for 21 years\, where he served as senior director of supplier technology and industry development. Johnston is a member of SEMI’s board of industry leaders and CTO committee\, the CTO committee of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)\, and IMEC’s executive advisory council. He chairs the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium and is an industry advisory board member of the Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing conference. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida\, holds 17 patents and has authored more than 60 publications and presentations. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-steven-johnston-on-health-care-technology/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Ricardo Sanfelice on Computing for Automated Systems
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Unraveling the Computing Bottleneck for Autonomy” \nSpeaker: Ricardo Sanfelice\, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, UC Santa Cruz \nRegister To Attend \nAbstract: Tremendous progress has been made in computing systems recently\, providing us with a unique opportunity to leverage information about the computing architecture and hardware in real time. Much of our technological solutions — such as those enabling autonomous operations — demand fast and accurate computation. This talk focuses on the challenges\, solutions and opportunities for the development of autonomous systems\, particularly those required for self-driving cars and aviation systems. \nSpeaker Bio: Ricardo G. Sanfelice is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 2004 and 2007 from UC Santa Barbara. Sanfelice is the recipient of the 2013 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Control and Systems Theory Prize\, a National Science Foundation CAREER award\, an Air Force Young Investigator Research Award\, the 2010 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award\, the 2012 STAR Higher Education Award\, and the 2020 Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) conference Test-of-Time Award. He is an associate editor for Automatica and a fellow of the IEEE. He also serves as director of the UC Santa Cruz Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center and the CITRIS Aviation initiative. His research interests are in modeling\, stability\, robust control\, observer design\, and simulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to robotics\, power systems\, aerospace and biology. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-ricardo-sanfelice-on-computing-for-automated-systems/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange and BAIR Present: Stuart Russell on Ethical AI Decision-making
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “How Not To Destroy the World With AI” \nSpeaker: Stuart Russell\, Professor of Computer Science\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: It is reasonable to expect that artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision-making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern\, as Alan Turing and others have suggested? Will we lose control over our future? Or will AI complement and augment human intelligence in beneficial ways? It turns out that both views are correct\, but they are talking about completely different forms of AI. To achieve the positive outcome\, a fundamental reorientation of the field is required. Instead of building systems that optimize arbitrary objectives\, we need to learn how to build systems that will\, in fact\, be beneficial for us. Russell will argue that this is possible as well as necessary. The new approach to AI opens up many avenues for research and brings into sharp focus several questions at the foundations of moral philosophy. \nSpeaker Bio: Stuart Russell\, OBE\, is a professor of computer science at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and an honorary fellow of Wadham College at the University of Oxford. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and the author\, with Peter Norvig\, of “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach\,” the standard text in the field. He has been active in arms control for nuclear and autonomous weapons. His latest book\, “Human Compatible\,” addresses the long-term impact of AI on humanity. \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-and-bair-present-stuart-russell-on-ethical-ai-decision-making/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange and BAIR Present: Sergey Levine on Reinforcement Learning in AI
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Reinforcement Learning With Large Datasets: a Path to Resourceful Autonomous Agents” \nSpeaker: Sergey Levine\, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: One of the most remarkable things about recent generative machine learning systems is their ability to produce generations that seem like something humans would create. In contrast\, one of the most remarkable things about reinforcement learning methods\, such as AlphaGo\, is precisely that they can come up with solutions\, such as Move 37\, that solve problems in unexpected ways. But such methods are difficult to apply to settings that\, unlike the game of Go\, are not constrained by simple rules. What would it take to create machine learning systems that can make decisions when faced with the full complexity of the real world\, while retaining the ability to come up with new solutions? In this talk\, Levine will discuss how advances in offline reinforcement learning can enable machine learning systems to make more optimal decisions from data\, combining the best of data-driven machine learning with the capacity for emergent behavior and optimization provided by reinforcement learning. \nSpeaker Bio: Sergey Levine received a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University in 2009\, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 2014. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in fall 2016. His work focuses on machine learning for decision-making and control\, with an emphasis on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms. Applications of his work include autonomous robots and vehicles\, as well as applications in other decision-making domains. His research includes developing algorithms for end-to-end training of deep neural network policies that combine perception and control\, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning\, deep reinforcement learning algorithms\, and more. \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-and-bair-present-sergey-levine-on-reinforcement-learning-in-ai/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange and BAIR Present: Michael I. Jordan on Economics in AI
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “How AI Fails Us\, and How Economics Can Help” \nSpeaker: Michael I. Jordan\, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of Statistics\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single agent\, and in which agents should be autonomous so they can exhibit intelligence independent of human intelligence. Thus\, when AI systems are deployed in social contexts\, the overall design is often naive. Such a paradigm need not be dominant. In a broader framing\, agents are active and cooperative\, and they wish to obtain value from participation in learning-based systems. Agents may supply data and resources to the system\, only if it is in their interest. Critically\, intelligence inheres as much in the system as it does in individual agents. This perspective is familiar to economics researchers\, and a first goal in this work is to bring economics into contact with computer science and statistics. The long-term goal is to provide a broader conceptual foundation for emerging real-world AI systems\, and to upend received wisdom in the computational\, economic and inferential disciplines. \nSpeaker Bio: Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science and of statistics at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research interests bridge the computational\, statistical\, cognitive\, biological and social sciences. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Engineering\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and a foreign member of the Royal Society. He was a plenary lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018. He received the Ulf Grenander Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2021\, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2020\, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award in 2016\, the David E. Rumelhart Prize from the Cognitive Science Society in 2015 and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009. \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-and-bair-present-michael-i-jordan-on-economics-in-ai/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange and BAIR Present: Pamela Samuelson on Generative AI and Copyright
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Generative AI Meets Copyright” \nSpeaker: Pamela Samuelson\, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: The question that has intrigued copyright professionals since the mid-1960s is whether computer-generated texts and images would be eligible for this law’s protection. Early on\, the consensus was that artificial intelligence (AI) is just a tool\, like a camera\, so humans could claim copyright in machine-generated outputs to which they made contributions. Now the consensus is that AI-generated texts and images are not copyrightable for the lack of a human author. The urgent questions today focus on whether ingesting in-copyright works as training data is copyright infringement and whether the outputs of AI programs are infringing derivative works of the ingested images. Four recent lawsuits\, one involving GitHub’s Copilot and three involving Stable Diffusion\, will address these issues. \nSpeaker Bio: Pamela Samuelson has been a member of the UC Berkeley School of Law faculty since 1996. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes\, especially for intellectual property law. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)\, a contributing editor of Communications of the ACM\, a past fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, a member of the American Law Institute\, and an honorary professor of the University of Amsterdam. \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-and-bair-present-pamela-samuelson-on-generative-ai-and-copyright/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS\, CDSS and BAIR Present: Jaron Lanier on Data Dignity in AI
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI” \nSpeaker: Jaron Lanier\, Prime Unifying Scientist\, Microsoft \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: In this talk\, Jaron Lanier will discuss a piece he published in The New Yorker (“There Is No AI”) about applying data dignity ideas to artificial intelligence (AI). Large-model AI can be reconceived as a social collaboration between the people who provided data to the model in the form of text\, images and other modalities. This is a figure/ground inversion of the usual conception of AI as being a participant or collaborator in its own right. Explanations of model results and behaviors would then center around the relative influence of specific inputs through a provenance calculation mechanism. This formulation suggests new and different strategies for long-term economics in the context of high-performance AI\, as well as more concrete approaches to many safety\, fairness and alignment questions. \nSpeaker Bio: Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist\, composer\, artist and author. He currently serves as prime unifying scientist for Microsoft. His many awards include an IEEE lifetime career award and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. He was named one of the 25 most influential people in the previous 25 years of tech history by Wired\, one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time\, one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy\, and a top 50 world thinker by Prospect Magazine. In computer science Lanier is probably best known for his work in virtual reality. He coined the term\, had the first startup\, sold the first hardware and pioneered the major applications. His tech startups landed at Adobe\, Google and Pfizer. He is also known as a critic of technology\, through books like “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts” and TV appearances such as in “The Social Dilemma.” He is active in cognitive science\, theoretical physics\, philosophy and economics. \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley College of Computing\, Data Science\, and Society and the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-cdss-and-bair-present-jaron-lanier-on-data-dignity-in-ai/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Eli Yablonovitch on Carbon-negative Tech
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Carbon-negative Technology To Solve the Climate Crisis” \nSpeaker: Eli Yablonovitch\, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: In 1977\, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the burial of biomass as a scalable\, economical solution to the carbon dioxide problem. Today we know that harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry biolandfill. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with sufficiently low thermodynamic “water activity\,” which is the relative humidity in equilibrium with the biomass. A water activity less than 60 percent will not support life\, suppressing anaerobic organisms\, thus preserving the biomass for millennia. Current agriculture and biolandfill costs indicate that $60 per ton of sequestered carbon dioxide corresponds to $0.53 per gallon of gasoline. If scaled to the level of a major crop\, existing carbon dioxide can be extracted from the atmosphere and sequester a significant fraction of prior years’ carbon dioxide emissions. \nSpeaker Bio: Eli Yablonovitch introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers could have superior performance due to reduced valence band effective mass. Now\, with optical telecommunication\, almost every human interaction on the internet occurs by strained semiconductor lasers. Yablonovitch is regarded as a father of the photonic bandgap concept\, and he coined the term “photonic crystal.” The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized photonic bandgap is sometimes called “Yablonovite.” In his photovoltaic research\, Yablonovitch introduced the 4 (n squared) light-trapping factor\, known as the “Yablonovitch limit\,” that is in worldwide use for almost all commercial solar panels. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering\, the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Inventors\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and as a foreign member\, the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-eli-yablonovitch/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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