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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T120000
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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: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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210927T160000
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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/
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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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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
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