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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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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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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/
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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
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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/
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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: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/
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