[CMU AI Seminar] May 04 at 12pm (Zoom) -- Raquel Urtasun (U of Toronto) -- Next Generation Simulation for Self-driving Vehicles -- AI Seminar sponsored by Fortive

[Shaojie Bai]

Reminder: Raquel's talk will start in <10 minutes!

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:30 PM Shaojie Bai <shaojieb at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We look forward to seeing you *next Tuesday (5/4)* from *1**2:00-1:00 PM
> (U.S. Eastern time)* for the next talk of our *CMU AI seminar*, sponsored
> by Fortive <https://careers.fortive.com/>.
>
> To learn more about the seminar series or see the future schedule, please
> visit the seminar website <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
> <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>
>
> On 4/27, *Raquel Urtasun* (University of Toronto) will be giving a talk
> on "*Next Generation Simulation for Self-driving Vehicles*".
>
> *Title*: Next Generation Simulation for Self-driving Vehicles
>
> *Talk Abstract*: We are on the verge of a new era in which robotics and
> artificial intelligence will play an important role in our daily lives.
> Self-driving vehicles have the potential to redefine transportation as we
> understand it today. Our roads will become safer and less congested, while
> parking spots will be repurposed as leisure zones and parks. However, many
> technological challenges remain as we pursue this future. In this talk I
> will focus on simulation, which is key for both testing and training modern
> autonomy systems.
>
> *Speaker Bio*: Raquel Urtasun is a Professor in the Department of
> Computer Science at the University of Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in
> Machine Learning and Computer Vision and a co-founder of the Vector
> Institute for AI. Prior to this she was the Chief Scientist of Uber ATG and
> the Head of Uber ATG R&D. She received her Ph.D. from the Ecole
> Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006 and did her postdoc at MIT
> and UC Berkeley. She is a recipient of an NSERC EWR Steacie Award, an
> NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, a Ministry of Education and Innovation Early
> Researcher Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Faculty
> Research Award, a Connaught New Researcher Award, a Fallona Family Research
> Award and two Best Paper Runner up Prize awarded CVPR in 2013 and 2017. She
> was also named Chatelaine 2018 Woman of the year, and 2018 Toronto's top
> influencers by Adweek magazine.
>
> *Zoom Link*:
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/96036411310?pwd=M0tqYW1NamE5Z1hWeWpxUGVBWTZGZz09
>
> Thanks,
> Shaojie Bai (MLD)
>
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