Workshop on Emerging Trends in AI
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Workshop on Emerging Trends in AI

Exploring Resilience, Robustness, and the Future of Synthetic Data in Research

By Columbia Engineering

Date and time

May 5 · 8:30am - May 6 · 5:30pm EDT

Location

Pulitzer Hall

2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027

Agenda

Day 1
Day 2

Registration and Breakfast, 8:30-9:00 AM

OPENING REMARKS, 9:00-9:15 AM

Shih-Fu Chang – Dean, Columbia Engineering; Richard Zemel – Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University; Shafi Goldwasser – Prof...

SESSION 1, 9:15-10:45 AM

9:15-10:00 AM

Biological basis of resilience: How might these insights inform approaches to algorithmic robustness? by Daniela Kaufer – Professor, Dept of Integrative Biology & Dept of Neuroscience, UC Berkeley

10:00-10:45 AM

LLM scaling and the role of synthetic data by Tatsunori Hashimoto – Assistant Professor, Computer Science; Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford Univ...

BREAK, 10:45-11:15 AM

SESSION 2, 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Latent cause inference and mental health by Yael Niv – Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Psychology Department, Princeton University

12:00-12:45 PM

What does it mean to trust a ML system? by Nicholas Papernot – Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

LUNCH, 12:45-2:00 PM

SESSION 3, 2:00-3:30 PM

2:00-2:45 PM

A New Paradigm for Learning with Distribution Shift by Adam Klivans – Professor of Computer Science, UT-Austin; Director, IFML; Director, Machine Learning Lab

2:45-3:30 PM

Thoughts on Software Infrastructure/Ecosystem for AI-Enabled Social Science by John Horton – Associate Professor, Information Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BREAK, 3:30-3:55 PM

PANEL, 3:55-4:55 PM

ML & Neuroscience: Toward More Resilient & Robust Systems - Moderator: Shafi Goldwasser – Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley | Panelists: Constantinos (Costis) Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Te...

CLOSING REMARKS, 4:55-5:00 PM

RECEPTION, 5:00-6:00 PM

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 day 9 hours

This two-day workshop brings together leading experts in machine learning (ML) and neuroscience to examine two emerging themes: (1) the relationship between brain resilience and algorithmic robustness, and (2) the role of ML-driven data generation in social sciences and the possible acceleration of scientific discovery. The workshop will hold two panels: one on how insights from ML and neuroscience can potentially inform each other toward the development of more resilient and robust systems, and the second on the ethical and practical implications of synthetic data in shaping research outcomes and policy decisions.

The workshop will be hosted by Columbia Engineering, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and the NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI)

Campus Access
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