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Events for January 11, 2022
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New & Continuing MS Student Group Advising Session (CSCI/DSCI)Tue, Jan 11, 2022 @ 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Virtual Group Academic Advising Sessions for continuing and new MS students will be available for the month of January. These are combined session for Computer Science and Data Science students only. Access link emailed directly to CSCI/DSCI students.
Location: Zoom
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: USC Computer Science
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CS Colloquium: Filip Ilievski (USC ISI) - Open-world AI Agents with Common Sense
Tue, Jan 11, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Filip Ilievski, USC
Talk Title: Open-world AI Agents with Common Sense
Abstract: In this talk, I will present my research on building natural-language AI agents that use common sense to act robustly in everyday situations. State-of-the-art technology is inadequate for this purpose: background knowledge and rules provide explainability but they cannot generalize to unseen situations, whereas neural models with natural generalizability are prone to making silly mistakes and are unable to explain their decisions. I will describe our agents which combine the best of both worlds to perform well on open-world tasks without the need for task-specific training data, by 1) organizing commonsense knowledge into a single harmonized resource; 2) enriching commonsense knowledge with axioms and preconditions; and 3) using the enriched knowledge resource to adapt neural models for out-of-domain scenarios that require common sense. The effectiveness of the combined approach is demonstrated through high performance on a range of out-of-domain tasks, including question answering and story generation. I will also reflect on my ongoing research on adapting AI agents to specific domains, enabling them to operate in embodied environments, and combining commonsense with encyclopedic knowledge.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Join Zoom Meeting
https://usc.zoom.us/j/97448700889
Meeting ID: 974 4870 0889
Biography: Dr. Filip Ilievski is a Research Scientist in the Center on Knowledge Graphs within the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Filip holds a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam, where he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher before joining ISI. His research focuses on the role of commonsense and encyclopedic knowledge in filling gaps in human communication. Over the past three years, he mentored around twenty Master's and Ph.D. students, and collaborated with researchers at USC, CMU, Bosch Research, RPI, and the University of Lyon. Dr. Ilievski has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier venues on commonsense reasoning, information extraction, and knowledge graphs. Dr. Ilievski has also been actively organizing workshops (AAAI'21), tutorials (AAAI'21, ISWC'20, ISWC'21, TheWebConf'22), symposiums (USC), and a special journal issue (Semantic Web Journal) on these topics.
Host: Gale Lucas
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cherie Carter
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New & Continuing MS Student Group Advising Session (CSCI/DSCI)
Tue, Jan 11, 2022 @ 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Virtual Group Academic Advising Sessions for continuing and new MS students will be available for the month of January. These are combined session for Computer Science and Data Science students only. Access link emailed directly to CSCI/DSCI students.
Location: Zoom
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: USC Computer Science
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Virtual First-Year Admission Information Session
Tue, Jan 11, 2022 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Our virtual information session is a live presentation from a USC Viterbi admission counselor designed for high school students and their family members to learn more about the USC Viterbi undergraduate experience. Our session will cover an overview of our undergraduate engineering programs, the application process, and more on student life. Guests will be able to ask questions and engage in further discussion toward the end of the session.
Register Here!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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AI and Data Ethics Training Session
Tue, Jan 11, 2022 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
Special AI and Data Science Training Sessions
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
AI AND DATA ETHICS
January 11 & 18, 2022
Virtual webinars
These special training sessions are designed for students and faculty who want to learn about the ethical concerns in AI and data science, the technologies available for privacy and responsible use of data, the policies and regulations that are currently in place in this area, and the many open questions that need to be addressed. They will be taught by Viterbi faculty and instructors who teach ethics and privacy courses and sections. The sessions will be held online.
Session I: Data Ethics and Privacy
Tuesday January 11, 2022 at 4-6pm
Session II: AI Ethics and Responsibility
Tuesday January 18, 2022 at 12-2pm
Attendance is free, please RSVP at: https://tinyurl.com/AIandDataEthics
More Information: AI-DS-Ethics-Training.JPG
Location: Online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: USC Computer Science
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Viterbi Impact Program Information Session
Tue, Jan 11, 2022 @ 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Student Activity
Interested in volunteering? VIP participants play an important role in bringing engineering to the community, as they work as partners with local schools and organizations.
Location: Zoom
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Programs
