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Machine Learning, AI, and Computational Journalism: What are these to you?

Jul

15

Machine Learning, AI, and Computational Journalism: What are these to you?

by Youth AI Lab

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Fri, July 15, 2022

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT

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Dr. Essa will share his work and discuss the meaning of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Journalism.

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Dr. Irfan Essa is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing (iC) and a Senior Associate Dean in the College of Computing (CoC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He serves as the Inaugural Executive Director of the new Interdisciplinary Research Center for Machine Learning at Georgia Tech (ML@GT).

Dr. Irfan Essa is also a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Inc. and leads the Google Research Office in Atlanta.

Professor Essa works in the areas of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics, Computational Perception, Robotics, Computer Animation, and Social Computing, with potential impact on Autonomous Systems, Video Analysis, and Production (e.g., Computational Photography & Video, Image-based Modeling and Rendering, etc.) Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Behavioral/Social Sciences, and Computational Journalism research. He has published over 200 scholarly articles in leading journals and led conference venues on these topics. Several of his papers have also won the best paper awards.

He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and was elected an IEEE Fellow for his work in the field. He has held extended research consulting positions with Disney Research and Google Research and was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

He joined GA Tech Faculty in 1996 after earning his MS (1990), and Ph.D. (1994) and holds a Research Faculty position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Media Lab) [1988-1996].

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  • Online Seminars
  • Online Science & Tech Seminars
  • #ai
  • #stem
  • #machine_learning
  • #artificial_intelligence
  • #computer_science
  • #stem_education
  • #ai_for_everyone
  • #computational_journalism
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