SPEAKER SEMINAR

Luis Garcia

Luis Garcia is a Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a Research Lead at the USC Information Sciences Institute. His research focuses on the security and safety of learning-enabled Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

Swabha Swayamdipta: "Contextualizing Bias in Hate Speech Detection"

Swabha Swayamdipta is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, where she leads the DILL Lab. Her research interests broadly span Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

In this talk, Swayamdipta discusses how debiasing an already-trained model is not as effective as relabeling the training data, and how annotator beliefs can be associated with their ratings of toxicity of hate speech.

Jesse Thomason: "Natural Language Processing and Robotics"

Jesse Thomason is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, where he leads the GLAMOR Lab. His research interests bring together natural language processing and robotics to connect language to the world (RoboNLP). He is interested in connecting language to agent perception and action, and lifelong learning through interaction.

In this talk, Thomason discusses why robots need language and the challenges of translating language instructions into agent movement plans.

Zane Durante: "AI-Assisted Care and Multi-Object, Multi-Actor Activity Parsing"

Zane Durante PhD student in Computer Science and is advised by Prof. Fei-Fei Li. His research interests include self-supervised learning, multimodal signal processing, and AI for healthcare.

In this talk, Durante discusses his projects that span graph-based annotation of multi-object, multi-actor activity parsing and AI in healthcare.