CS Colloquium: Amit Sheth (University of South Carolina) - Intelligent, Robust and Trustworthy AI: Managing GenAI Challenges, Next Phase of Hybrid AI Models and Enterprise AI for Mission-Critical Applications

Speaker: Amit Sheth, University of South Carolina

Talk Title: Intelligent, Robust and Trustworthy AI: Managing GenAI Challenges, Next Phase of Hybrid AI Models and Enterprise AI for Mission-Critical Applications

Abstract: This talk will present my team's current and future research themes. The first theme is the development of Civilized and Human-inspired AI. This encompasses addressing challenges associated with Generative AI (GenAI) and finding ways to mitigate its limitations, such as detecting AI-generated content, combating hallucinations, misinformation, and toxicity, and exploring methods for their reduction. The second theme involves the next phase of post-GenAI strategies aimed at creating robust and trustworthy AI solutions. This includes the development of a new generation of custom, compact, agile and neurosymbolic (CCAN) AI models for a more intelligent, robust and trustworthy AI with support for grounding, alignment, instructability, user-level explainability, attribution, safety, reasoning, planning, analogy and abstraction.  Lastly, I will provide a brief demonstration of how these AI models, along with AI copilots and agents, are utilized for complex, enterprise-class, mission-critical decision-making applications in diverse fields such as behavioral and mental health, personalized nutrition, autonomous vehicles and smart manufacturing.     This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium

Biography: Prof. Amit Sheth (Home Page, LinkedIn, GScholar) is an Educator, Researcher, and Entrepreneur. He is the NCR Chair & Professor of Computer Sc & Engg. He founded the university-wide AI Institute at the University of South Carolina in 2019 which now has ~50 researchers. Earlier, he was the Ohio Eminent Scholar and Exec. Director of Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing and BioHealth Innovation at Wright State University. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and AAIA. His major awards include IEEE CS W. Wallace McDowell and IEEE TVSVC Research Innovation awards. He has (co-)founded four companies based on his university research, including the first Semantic Search company in 1999 that pioneered technology similar to what is found today in Google Semantic Search and Knowledge Graph, ezDI, which developed knowledge-infused clinical NLP/NLU, and Cognovi Labs at the intersection of emotion and AI. He is particularly proud of the success of his >>45 Ph.D. advisees and postdocs in academia, industry research, and entrepreneurship.

Host: Emilio Ferrara

Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: CS Faculty Affairs