Congratulations to our recent grads!
We are very exciting to congratulate Dr. Jessa Henderson and Dr. Farhana Faruqe on the successful defenses of their dissertations! Way to go!
Intent-aligned AI systems deplete human agency: the need for agency foundations research in AI safety
The things we procrastinate about are eventually written by someone else… בתאריך יום ד׳, 31 במאי 2023, 11:10 לפנה״צ, מאת Ryan Watkins <[email protected]>: The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) systems suggests that artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems may soon … Continued
FaceFace Co-Located Human-Human Social Interaction Analysis using Nonverbal Cues: A Survey
This work presents a systematic review of recent efforts (since 2010) aimed at automatic analysis of nonverbal cues displayed in face-to-face co-located human-human social interactions. The main reason for focusing on nonverbal cues is that these are the physical, machine … Continued
Needs-aware AI
On February 2nd, Soheil Human (from the Vienna University of Economics and Business) and Ryan Watkins (the HTC Lab) will lead a symposium on Needs-aware Artificial Intelligence — AI that ‘serves [human] needs’. Learn more about the symposium and how … Continued
Farhana on The Weekly Regression Podcast
Farhana (HTC PhD student) was recently interviewed for The Weekly Regression podcast. Great listen!
Jas Sami Accepted for ISTE Presentation
Congratulations to Jas. She will be presenting “Improving Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduates into STEM Teaching” at the ISTE Live conference this coming June! Click here to learn more about the conference.
Farhana @ AAAI (paper and video)
Congratulations to Farhana (HTC PhD student) on an excellent paper and presentation at this year’s AAAI Fall Symposium. Here is a link to her paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08140 And here is the video:
AI Bias, Ethics, and Policy Article
Larry Medsker and Farhana Faruqe from the HTC lab recently published an article on AI Bias, Ethics, and Policy in ACM’s AI Matters. Click to access AIMatters-6-1-04-Medsker.pdf
AI Bias and Fairness
Farhana Faruqe and Dr. Larry Medsker of the HTC Lab are publishing a series of blogs on AI Bias and Fairness for AAAI. Here is a link to the first of their contributions… way to go! https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2020/02/28/bias-and-fairness/
Jessa’s Fall Hours Recap: The GW Innovation Center
During the Fall semester 2019, I volunteered with the GW Innovation Center to help build a literature database that can be used for grant writing, program planning, marketing, and publications. In a future post, I’ll break down the process and … Continued