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SUMMARY:13th Annual CEND symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 13th Annual CEND symposium: Rapid innovation in a highly regulated space – What can we learn from COVID-19 for pandemic preparedness? \nMay 4 – 5\, 2021\nHosted by the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases \nTwo Day Conference \nThis year the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases will provide a forum for interdisciplinary\, science-based discussion to collate “lessons learned” and develop recommendations for future pandemic preparedness. Our schedule includes lectures and interactive workshops. \nFeatured Speakers \nAll-star lineup of speakers includes former UC President Janet Napolitano\, Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus\, and former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan\, and more. \nRegistration \nREGISTER HERE > \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/13th-annual-cend-symposium/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Tech Policy
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Lessons on Scaling Equitable Vaccine Distribution to Help High-Risk Populations
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the insufficient health infrastructure in place for reaching populations including low-income\, homebound older adults and rural agricultural workers\, and communities across the country are struggling to adopt effective prevention and control models that meet the needs of all residents. On behalf of CITRIS Health\, I invite you to join our upcoming webinar: Lessons on Scaling Equitable Vaccine Distribution to Help High-Risk Populations at 9:00am PT on May 20\, 2021. \nThe webinar will focus on the lessons learned through the development and deployment of vaccination efforts across three programs: Lighthouse\, which reaches older adults in affordable housing communities; ACTIVATE\, which reaches rural agricultural workers in California’s Central Valley\, and Healthy Davis Together\, which has taken a community-centric approach to pandemic prevention and control. As all populations are now eligible for vaccines\, these efforts have mobilized to provide vaccines and address the vaccine distribution disparities preventing priority populations from full access to care. \n\nJoin us for a conversation with Dr. David Lindeman\, Director of CITRIS Health; Veronica Chavez\, Community Outreach Manager at Livingston Community Health; Helidee Millan-Govea\, Community Outreach Manager at Livingston Community Health; Sheri Peifer\, Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer of Eskaton\, Darlene Cullivan\, Senior Manager of Outreach and Impact at Eskaton and Dr. Sheri Belafsky\, Medical Director of Healthy Davis Together\, as they discuss the lessons learned through the development and deployment of their vaccine initiatives\, the importance of partnerships with trusted community organizations\, and the equity considerations required for building an equitable infrastructure for providing vaccines to underserved populations. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists and learn how they can quickly adapt the lessons learned to increase vaccine access across California and the United States. \nDate: Thursday\, May 20\, 2021\nTime: 9:00am-10:30am PT; 12:00pm – 1:30pm ET\nHow to Register: Click here to register for the webinar. Please email Cynthia Marquez Miranda at cmarquez@berkeley.edu with any questions. \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/webinar-lessons-on-scaling-equitable-vaccine-distribution-to-help-high-risk-populations/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Health
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T090000
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SUMMARY:Pacific Research Platform: Its Legacy and Promise
DESCRIPTION:Pacific Research Platform: Its Legacy and Promise\nJune 22\, 2021\, 9 am – 12 pm\nRegister to attend > \nDescription: \nBuilding on years of research in network engineering and data-intensive collaborative science\, the Pacific Research Platform was born in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation. It aimed to knit together major university research networks and supercomputing centers on the west coast as a proof of concept for how limitations of space and time could be erased by virtue of tight coordination among large-scale regional networks like CENIC and those responsible for delivering data to end-users in labs and campus offices throughout the Pacific Rim. \nSix years and trillions of gigabytes later\, the PRP concept has expanded to encompass a National and even Global Research Platform. As important as developments in the cyberinfrastructure and software driving it have been\, equally significant are the professional relationships\, field-building development for science engagement and research facilitation\, and domain-specific discoveries that the PRP facilitated. As the PRP’s initial 6-year run concludes in 2021\, this symposium will recap innovations and advancements enabled by the projects’ leaders and partners.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/pacific-research-platform-event/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210811
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SUMMARY:Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) PhD Summer Course
DESCRIPTION:The Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) invites you to participate in the online PhD summer course\, Future Digital Technologies in Healthcare: How to design\, test and assess the value of digital technologies and services that engage\, empower\, and motivate patients. \nAims of the program: \n\nTo give a comprehensive introduction to research methods used in digital technologies in healthcare on how to design\, test and evaluate the technologies and services that engage\, empower\, and motivate patients\nTo present new digital technologies\, theories and research methods in the design\, assessment and implementation of digital health technologies. During the course the students will examine the possibilities for using the methods in their own Ph.D. project\nTo give PhD students the possibility to create networks with other Danish and international PhD students and international researchers\n\nWho can participate? \nThis course is relevant for Ph.D. students that are working on projects to design\, assess or implement digital health technologies. This course is also relevant for Ph.D. students studying methodological aspects of health technologies in general. The course is interdisciplinary and relevant for students from medical\, technical and social science faculty. Participants must submit a five page paper one week before the course about a research question related to their Ph.D. project and feedback will be given during the course (template will be provided). \nClick here to download the full program. \nDates: August 11th – 13th\, 2021 \nLocation: Online via Zoom \nCredits: 2 ECTS \nPrice: $365 USD \nRegistration Deadline: August 4th \nHow to Register: Click here to register. For more information\, please contact Dr. Birthe Dinesen at bid@hst.aau.dk.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/transatlantic-telehealth-research-network-ttrn-phd-summer-course/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Health
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Aviation Prize: RFP opens
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Aviation Day on August 19\, 2021 by signing up for the first-ever CITRIS Aviation Prize! \nCreated in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley\, this competition challenges student teams to design\, develop and demonstrate a long-distance\, fully autonomous flight with a small UAV. We invite student teams from our four CITRIS campuses – UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz – to compete. The winning proposal will be recognized with the first CITRIS Aviation Design Prize\, including a $2\,000 cash award and up to $25\,000 to demonstrate the actual flight in Spring 2022. \nTimeline\n\nTeam Registration Open: Aug. 19\, 2021\, to Oct. 15\, 2021\nProposal Submissions Due: Nov. 19\, 2021\nProposal Winner Announced: Dec. 17\, 2021\nWinning Flight Plan Executed by End of Academic Year: Spring 2022\n\nLearn more & register on the CITRIS Aviation Prize webpage.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-aviation-prize-rfp-opens/
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SUMMARY:Society\, Robots and Us: Inclusive Investment
DESCRIPTION:Our next ‘conversation that matters’ is on inclusive investment for robotics. Join us at 6 pm PDT on Tuesday August 24th\, 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nFollowing our “COVID-19\, Robots and Us” series\, we’re continuing the conversation about important robotics topics and socio-technical issues. We’ll be inviting domain experts and interesting thinkers to discuss topics relating to robotics innovation\, commercialization and inclusivity. Mainly\, we’re inviting YOU to share your thoughts about inclusive robotics\, what is it? Why do we need it? And what do we do to get it?  \nModerated by Andra Keay of Silicon Valley Robotics \nGuest speakers this week: \n\nKira Gardner\, CITRIS Foundry\nMichael Harries\, The Robotics Hub\nSwati Chaturvedi\, PropelX\nKen Goldberg\, artist and roboticist\n\nCatch our previous episodes on Silicon Valley Robotics youtube channel \nAcknowledgment: Your hosts are speaking from the traditional lands of the Mewukma Ohlone People\, who remain unrecognized in US Federal Law.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/society-robots-and-us-inclusive-investment/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T160000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR/BDD Seminar - Matt Beane on Sensitivity Theory
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Matt Beane \nTITLE: Sensitivity Theory: Explaining How Workers in Deskilled Jobs Advance within an Organization \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nABSTRACT: Millions work in deskilled jobs\, and prior research suggests that advancing out of these jobs within an organization is uniquely difficult: \nin order to advance\, workers must demonstrate skills other than those that their current position gives them the opportunity to develop. Through our two year\, nationwide\, multi-sited ethnographic study of AI-enabled robotics in e-commerce and parcel warehousing\, we both reveal the profound challenges to internal advancement out of actively deskilled jobs and the systematic ways in which a small minority of workers managed to do so\, in spite of these challenges. In particular\, we show that workers advanced by capitalizing on a “sensitivity”: an attunement to a domain of organizational operations\, experienced as some combination of fascination and irritation and enacted through small attempts to understand or address related problems. The remainder of sensitivity theory accounts for the practices and organizational conditions that allow workers in deskilled jobs to develop sensitivity-related skills\, add value in their organization and advance into jobs that are not deskilled. Beyond this core contribution\, sensitivity theory helps us predict individual career trajectories\, the talent-related dynamics of automation\, deskilling and workplace skill polarization\, and better understand the diversity of work-related human capability. \nBIO: Matt Beane is an Assistant Professor in Technology Management at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and a Digital Fellow with both Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Institute for the Digital Economy. He received his PhD and Masters from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Information Technologies department. In between his doctoral studies and his current professorship\, Beane helped found and fund Humatics\, an MIT-connected\, full-stack internet of things startup. Its mission is to drive seamless collaboration between humans\, machines\, and infrastructure. Beane conducts field research on work involving robots and AI to help us understand the implications of intelligent machines for the broader world. All of his projects involve many hundreds of hours—sometimes years—watching\, interviewing\, and often working side by side with people who use robots to get their jobs done. And unlike most social scientists\, each of his studies is designed to uncover success in conditions where we would expect failure. Finding these “positive needles” in the negative haystack of technological progress allows Beane to offer unique insights that can guide us as we try to navigate the future we’re building for ourselves. \nCurrently\, Beane is leading a team engaged in unprecedented—nationwide\, multi-organizational\, longitudinal—research on AI-enabled robots in e-commerce warehousing\, looking for conditions in which frontline workers and their organizations adapt particularly well and rapidly to the introduction of these systems. He has also studied robotic surgery\, robotic materials transport\, and robotic telepresence in healthcare\, elder care\, and knowledge work. He is likewise in the midst of applied research to develop two intelligent technologies to address the challenges evident in his prior studies. \nBeane’s award-winning research on robotic surgery has been published in premier management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science\, and Harvard Business Review. In 2012\, he was selected as a Human Robot Interaction Pioneer\, and in 2021 he was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list. He is a regular contributor to popular outlets such as Wired\, MIT Technology Review\, TechCrunch\, and Forbes. When he isn’t studying the intersection of intelligent tech and apprenticeship—which is hardly ever—he likes to play the guitar\, cook with his wife Kristen\, and read science fiction. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-bdd-seminar-matt-beane-on-sensitivity-theory/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Gerald Friedland on Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Gerald Friedland. \nTALK TITLE: “A Measurements-Based Approach to Machine Learning” \nSPEAKER: Gerald Friedland\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, UC Berkeley \nRegister to attend >  \n \nBIO: Gerald Friedland is teaching as adjunct faculty at the EECS and works on Machine Learning within CITRIS Health. He is also the founder and CTO of Brainome\, Inc. Before that\, he was a principal data scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Lab after being with the International Computer Science Institute for over 10 years. His work focuses on machine learning and multimedia signal processing. He was the lead figure behind the Multimedia Commons initiative\, a collection of 100M images and 1M videos for research and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in conferences\, journals\, and books. Friedland received his doctorate (summa cum laude) and master’s degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin\, Germany\, in 2002 and 2006\, respectively. \nABSTRACT: Every field of science and engineering starts with measurements. When working on machine learning problems\, modern data science often relies more on computation (let’s throw more GPUs at the problem) and guesswork (let’s see if we can modify Alexnet for our specific problem) than on any kind of measurements. In this talk\, I will discuss an approach to supervised machine learning that is rooted in information-theoretic measurements. I will explain how this approach is especially interesting for high dimensional problems that\, without measurements\, suffer from “the curse of dimensionality”. I will explain the fundamentals of how measurements-based machine learning works\, and also explore how the approach can be applied to solve real-world problems in CITRIS and beyond. \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-gerald-friedland-a-measurements-based-approach-to-machine-learning/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T170000
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Aviation Prize: Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Are you a UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced\, or UC Santa Cruz student and want to learn more about our first-ever CITRIS Aviation Prize? Sign up for the info session! \nLearn more about Aviation Prize and how to develop your team’s winning proposal. Presenters include:\n-Professor Costas Spanos\, Director\, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute\n-Associate Professor Erin Hestir\, Environmental Engineering at UC Merced\n-Asst. Professor Brandon Stark\, Director\, UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety \nCreated in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley\, this competition challenges student teams to design\, develop and demonstrate a long-distance\, fully autonomous flight with a small UAV. We invite student teams from our four CITRIS campuses – UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz – to compete. The winning proposal will be recognized with the first CITRIS Aviation Design Prize\, including a $2\,000 cash award and up to $25\,000 to demonstrate the actual flight in Spring 2022. \nTimeline\n\nTeam Registration Open: Aug. 19\, 2021\, to Oct. 15\, 2021\nInfo Session: Sept. 2\, 2021\nProposal Submissions Due: Nov. 19\, 2021\nProposal Winner Announced: Dec. 17\, 2021\nWinning Flight Plan Executed by End of Academic Year: Spring 2022\n\nLearn more & sign up on the CITRIS Aviation Prize webpage.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-aviation-prize-info-session/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210913T160000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T130000
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210920T160000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T130000
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T114500
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SUMMARY:2021 CITRIS Seed Funding Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term\, targeted awards to further the institute’s research priorities for societal benefit\, catalyze early results that can lead to significant funding and strengthen connections across UC campuses. \nProposals are invited from principal investigators at UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Davis Health\, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Awardees embody the university’s public mission and the innovative spirit of California. \nProjects must address the following Grand Challenges in Information Technology:\n🌱 Climate Resilience\n🌱 Digital Health Innovation\n🌱 Next-Generation Technology Policy\n🌱 Automation and the Workforce \nFor full RFP text\, application portal access\, timelines\, FAQ\, and more\, visit: https://citris-uc.org/labs-programs/seed-funding/citris-core-seed-funding/ \nWe hope to see you at this first info session!
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/2021-citris-seed-funding-info-session/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210929T130000
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211004T164500
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SUMMARY:2021 CITRIS Seed Funding Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term\, targeted awards to further the institute’s research priorities for societal benefit\, catalyze early results that can lead to significant funding and strengthen connections across UC campuses. \nProposals are invited from principal investigators at UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Davis Health\, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Awardees embody the university’s public mission and the innovative spirit of California. \nProjects must address the following Grand Challenges in Information Technology:\n🌱 Climate Resilience\n🌱 Digital Health Innovation\n🌱 Next-Generation Technology Policy\n🌱 Automation and the Workforce \nFor full RFP text\, application portal access\, timelines\, FAQ\, and more\, visit: https://citris-uc.org/labs-programs/seed-funding/citris-core-seed-funding/ \nWe hope to see you at this first info session!
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/2021-citris-seed-funding-info-session-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211004T170000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd-4/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211006T130000
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Amy Han
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Amy Han \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nBIO: Amy is a postdoctoral researcher\, with a focus on designing medical devices. She completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford in Summer 2020. Her research is on designing mechanisms\, actuators\, and sensors for haptics\, medical applications\, and grasping. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd-5/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211013T130000
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Matthew Walter
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Matthew Walter \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nBIO: Matthew Walker is an assistant professor and director of the Robot Intelligence through Perception Laboratory (RIPL) at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-Chicago)\, a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus. Walker also holds a part-time faculty appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. \nPrior to joining TTI-Chicago\, Walker was a research scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, where he worked with Seth Teller. He received his PhD from the Joint Program between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution\, under the supervision of John Leonard. \nWalker’s thesis considered the problem of scaling robotic mapping and localization to larger unknown environments. I studied feature-based algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) whereby a robot builds a map of the world while concurrently estimating its position in the map. His thesis work proposed a sparse information filter algorithm that is scalable and also preserves estimate consistency. The approach maintains a Gaussian probability distribution over the robot and map states\, and takes advantage of insights into the natural structure of this model for SLAM. The Exactly Sparse Extended Information Filter (ESEIF) exploits a sparse parametrization of this distribution to reduce the computational and memory costs from quadratic to linear in the map’s size. In addition to the gains in efficiency\, a primary contribution of the algorithm is its ability to achieve sparsity in a principled\, yet simple way that preserves consistency. For more information\, please see the IJRR paper or his thesis. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-matthew-walter/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Markus Rabe
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Markus Rabe \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \nAFFILIATION: Google Research \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-markus-rabe/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Philip E. Paré
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Philip E. Paré \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nBIO: Philip E. Paré is an Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University. He is a member of the Center for Innovation in Control\, Optimization\, and Networks (ICON) and affiliated with the Integrative Data Science Initiative (IDSI) and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). He is also a member of the PIECE (Project for Inclusion in ECE) Committee. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-philip-e-pare/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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/
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CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Shuran Song
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Shuran Song \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nBIO: Shuran Song is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University\, where she directs the Columbia Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) Lab . Her research focuses on computer vision and robotics. Song is interested in developing algorithms that enable intelligent systems to learn from their interactions with the physical world\, and autonomously acquire the perception and manipulation skills necessary to execute complex tasks and assist people. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-shuran-song/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Day 2021: Celebrating 20 Years of Impact and Innovation 
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for CITRIS Day on November 16\, 2021\, 1-2 p.m. PST! \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOn Nov. 16\, CITRIS will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a virtual public showcase of emerging research\, leading-edge applications and collaboration opportunities in the interest of society. We are honored to feature academic leaders\, industry executives and public officials\, along with students and representatives from research labs and startup companies who have benefited from CITRIS’s support over the years.  \nThe event will also unveil strategic plans for the next three to five years\, and highlight areas where CITRIS will contribute to the needs of California and the world in climate resilience\, technology policy\, food systems\, health care delivery and inclusive workforce development in the face of automation.  \nSpeakers will include former California Gov. Gray Davis\, founding benefactors Dado and Maria Banatao\, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm\, Marvell Technology Inc. founder Weili Dai\, and UC President Michael V. Drake\, as well as campus chancellors and vice chancellors for research. Find more event details on our website.  We look forward to seeing you at the celebration!
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-day-2021-celebrating-20-years-of-impact-and-innovation/
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Marynel Vazquez
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Marynel Vazquez \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nBIO: Marynel Vazquez is an Assistant Professor in Yale’s Computer Science Department\, where she leads the Yale Interactive Machines Group (IMG). Her main area of research is Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). An updated list of her publications can be found here and in Google Scholar. \nBefore Yale\, Vazquez was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab working on the JackRabbot project. She closely collaborated with Disney Research while she was a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute (RI) at Carnegie Mellon University\, and worked on assisted photography while pursuing her M.S. degree at the RI as well. Even before then\, Vazquez built and learned how to fly a remote controlled helicopter! This allowed her to work on video stabilization for my bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at Universidad Simón Bolívar. \nVasquez studies fundamental problems to enable group human-robot interactions. For instance\, her work investigates social group phenomena in HRI\, including spatial patterns of behavior typical of group conversations and group conformity. Further\, she works on advancing autonomous\, social robot behavior\, both in terms of perception and decision making. An example is her work on social robot navigation. She also enjoys building robotic systems to demonstrate ideas in practice (Chester\, Shutter). More details about her research can be found in her lab’s website. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-mahnoosh-alizadeh/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - Sambeeta Das
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Sambeeta Das \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nBIO: Dr. Sambeeta ‘Sam’ Das is an assistant professor at the University of Delaware in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Before joining the University of Delaware\, Dr. Das was a postdoctoral researcher for three years at the University of Pennsylvania. She was part of the GRASP Lab where she worked on microrobotic control and application of microrobots in biological systems. She earned her Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University in 2016 and her doctoral research was on directing micro and nanomotors and their applications in lab-on-a chip devices. Prior to her doctoral studies\, she earned her Masters with distinction from the University of London and her Bachelors in Physics from Presidency College\, India. She is the recipient of multiple awards including a graduate fellowship from the Pennsylvania State University\, the overseas research award fellowship from the government of United Kingdom\, and the Science and Engineering Excellence Fellowship from the University of London. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-sambeeta-das/
LOCATION:Zoom
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