Weekly humanitarian AI reading group at Mila.
Contact: Kris Sankaran
Regular Time and Location: Thursdays 5 - 6pm in the Mila Auditorium
Potential Topics and Papers
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This reading group serves several complementary purposes,
- Educate ourselves about the state of machine learning applications in the social good space.
- Discover unifying themes, and clarify humanitarian AI research problems aligned with Mila’s strengths.
- Create a space to coordinate and evaluate potential collaborations between Mila people and those working directly on problems of social relevance.
Reflecting these goals, the format for meetings will vary,
- Discussions of specific papers related to humanitarian AI.
- Summaries of historical work in general application areas (e.g., crisis response or sustainability).
- Descriptions of projects from potential collaborators, along with QA.
| Date | Topic | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 4 April, 2019 | TBA | Anna Bethke |
| 28 March, 2019 | TBA | Alexandra Olteanu |
| 21 March, 2019 | Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges | Fei Fang |
| 14 March, 2019 | Bridging gaps between climate sciences and AI | Karthik Mukkavilli |
| 7 March, 2019 | No Talk | |
| 28 February, 2019 | Addressing Ethical and Privacy Concerns in Data Products and Initiatives | Aman Ahuja |
| 21 February, 2019 | Data Science for Tenants' Good in NYC: Proactive Outreach to Reduce Rental Housing Harassment | Teng Ye |
| 14 February, 2019 | No Talk | |
| 7 February, 2019 | No Talk | |
| 31 January, 2019 | Mila Roundtable: Crisis Mapping, Climate Change AI, Biasly, q&ai | Pablo Fonseca, Kris Sankaran, Victor Schmidt, Yasmeen Hitti, Bhairav Mehta |
| 24 January, 2019 | No Talk | |
| 17 January, 2019 | Technology for Good: Perspectives from Bangalore and Chicago | Kris Sankaran |
| 27 November, 2018 | Automatic classification of different types of online sexual harassment and identification of their emotional content (recording) | Sima Sharifirad |
| 20 November, 2018 | No meeting | |
| 13 November, 2018 | A Survey of Tasks and Tools for the Visually Impaired (recording) | Martin Weiss |
| 6 November, 2018 | Tackling gender bias in text (Label!, recording) | Yasmeen Hitti |
| 30 October, 2018 | A Scalable, Flexible Augmentation of the Student Education Process (recording) | Bhairav Mehta |
| 23 October, 2018 | Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Challenges and opportunities (recording) | Anthony Ortiz |
| 16 October, 2018 | No meeting | |
| 9 October, 2018 | An Invitation to Humanitarian AI + Project Discussions | Kris Sankaran |
If you are interested in either (1) presenting or (2) contributing to one of our ongoing collaborations, please write to Kris!