[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]

Reminder...this is tomorrow at noon (ET).

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:19 AM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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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