[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on Oct 27 (Zoom) -- Devi Parikh -- Multi-modality, Creativity, and Climate Change -- AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive

[Aayush Bansal]

Devi Parikh (Georgia Tech/Facebook AI) will be giving an online
seminar on "Multi-modality,
Creativity, and Climate Change" from 12:00 noon - 01:00 PM ET on Oct 27.

*Zoom Link*:
https://cmu.zoom.us/j/94225196187?pwd=ckZnNlNhWHcxWm1wRGM0b0QzMlpMZz09

CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

Following are the details of the talk:

*Title: *Multi-modality, Creativity, and Climate Change

*Abstract: *In this talk, I will talk about three directions I am currently
excited about:

(1) Multi-modal AI: I will describe some of our recent work on training
models for multi-modal (vision and language) data. In particular, I will
describe our work on training a single transformer-based model that can
perform 12 different tasks. Given an image and a question, it can answer
the question. Given an image and a caption, it can score their relevance.
Given an image and a phrase, it can identify the image region that matches
the phrase. And so on. I will show a demo of this model vilbert.cloudcv.org.
For anyone interested in multimodal AI, check out this open-source
multimodal-framework https://github.com/facebookresearch/mmf.

(2) AI-assisted human-creativity: I will then talk about some of our
initial work in seeing how AI can inspire human creativity in the context
of thematic typography, dance movements, sketches, and generative art. I
will also talk about some of our work on generating a visual abstraction
that summarizes how your day was.

(3) AI to model and discover new catalysts: Finally, I will talk about our
recently announced Open Catalyst Project on using AI to model and discover
new catalysts to address the energy challenges posed by climate change. I
will provide a brief overview of the domain and problem definition,
introduce the large Open Catalyst Dataset we have collected and made
publicly available, and benchmark a few existing graph neural network
models. Find out more about the project here:
https://opencatalystproject.org/.

*Bio*: Devi Parikh is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive
Computing at Georgia Tech, and a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research
(FAIR).

>From 2013 to 2016, she was an Assistant Professor in the Bradley Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. From 2009 to 2012,
she was a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at
Chicago (TTIC), an academic computer science institute affiliated with
University of Chicago. She has held visiting positions at Cornell
University, University of Texas at Austin, Microsoft Research, MIT,
Carnegie Mellon University, and Facebook AI Research. She received her M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department
at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and 2009 respectively. She received
her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rowan University in
2005.

Her research interests are in computer vision, natural language processing,
embodied AI, human-AI collaboration, and AI for creativity.

She is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an IJCAI Computers and Thought
award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young
Investigator Program (YIP) award, an Army Research Office (ARO) Young
Investigator Program (YIP) award, a Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award at Georgia
Tech, an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award in Artificial Intelligence
from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, four Google Faculty Research
Awards, an Amazon Academic Research Award, a Lockheed Martin Inspirational
Young Faculty Award at Georgia Tech, an Outstanding New Assistant Professor
award from the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, a Rowan University
Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement, Rowan University's 40 under 40
recognition, a Forbes' list of 20 "Incredible Women Advancing A.I.
Research" recognition, and a Marr Best Paper Prize awarded at the
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~parikh



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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