[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on March 31 (Zoom) -- Emma Brunskill -- Learning from Limited Samples to Robustly Make Good Decisions. AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

[Aayush Bansal]

reminder: this is tomorrow at noon.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 4:18 PM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Emma Brunskill (Stanford University) will be giving an online seminar on
> "Learning from Limited Samples to Robustly Make Good Decisions" from *12:00
> - 01:00 PM* on March 31.
>
> Zoom Link: *https://cmu.zoom.us/j/262225154
> <https://cmu.zoom.us/j/262225154>*
>
> CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.
>
> Following are the details of the talk:
>
> *Title: *Learning from Limited Samples to Robustly Make Good Decisions
>
> *Abstract: *There is increasing excitement and impressive empirical
> successes using reinforcement learning-- where agents can learn through
> experience to make decisions. Yet people are remarkably able to do so much
> faster and for much more complicated objectives. Creating algorithms that
> can mimic such performance is an essential part of achieving artificial
> intelligence. Equally importantly, it will help us to use reinforcement
> learning to assist people in the numerous societal challenges, including
> education and healthcare, where humans plus AI may be able to do far better
> than either alone. In this talk, I will discuss our progress on some of the
> technical challenges that arise in this pursuit, including sample
> efficiency, counterfactual reasoning, robustness, and applications to
> health and education.
>
> *Bio*: Emma Brunskill is an assistant professor in the Computer Science
> Department at Stanford University where she leads the AI for Human Impact
> group. She was previously an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon
> University in the Computer Science department. She is the recipient of
> multiple early faculty career awards (National Science Foundation, Office
> of Naval Research, Microsoft Research) and her group has received several
> best research paper nominations (CHI, EDMx3) and awards (UAI, RLDM).
>
> To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website
> <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> --
> Aayush Bansal
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
>
>

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Aayush Bansal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
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