[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Apple -- Dr. P. Anandan

[Han Zhao]

Dear faculty and students:

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow, Apr. 2nd, at noon in *NSH 3305 *for
our AI Seminar sponsored by Apple. To learn more about the seminar series,
please visit the website.
On Tuesday, Dr. P. Anandan will give the following talk:
*Title: **AI Solutions for the Underserved Billons*

*Abstract*: While AI has become ubiquitous in the daily lives of most
people in developed segments of the world, it’s usage among the billions of
poor is practically non-existent.  Yet, given that the a primary cause of
sustained poverty and hardship is the insufficiency of human expertise and
inadequacy of expert human resources, AI may actually provide opportunities
to transform the every aspect of the life such as health, agriculture,
basic education, infrastructure, and financial inclusion. Wadhwani AI is an
independent not-for-profit applied research Institute based in Mumbai
founded on this premise and with the goal of developing innovative AI based
solutions to address the challenges of the lives of the poor. We are about
one year old, and  have grown to a team of about 25, working in developing
solutions for a few initial use-cases in health and agriculture,
specifically in the areas of Maternal and Child health, TB eradication, and
Cotton Farming.

In this talk, I will described our approach to these problems, including
how we select our problems, the technical aspects of our work, and how we
propose to see our work have tangible, sustained and scalable impact  in
the world.  I will also use the talk to share some the learnings from the
first year of this endeavor, especially regarding some of the key
challenges in doing AI in the social sector and how to address them.

*Bio: *Dr. P. Anandan is the CEO of Wadhwani Institute of Artificial
Intelligence. Previous to this Anandan was VP for Research at the Adobe
Research Lab India (2016-2017) and before that a Distinguished Scientist
and Managing Director at Microsoft Research (1997-2014). Anandan was the
founding director of Microsoft Research India which he ran from 2005-2014.
Prior to this, Anandan was researcher at Sarnoff corporation (1991-1997)
and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University
(1987-1991). His primary research area is Computer vision where he is well
known for his fundamental and lasting contributions to the problem of
visual motion analysis.

Anandan received his PhD in Computer Science from University of
Massachusetts, Amherst in 1987, a Masters in Computer Science from
University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1979 and his BTech in Electrical
Engineering from IIT Madras, India in 1977. He is a distinguished alumnus
of IIT Madras, and UMass, Amherst and is on the Nebraska Hall of Computing.
-- 

*Han ZhaoMachine Learning Department*


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