Fireside Chat: Theory in the age of modern AI
TILOS Fireside Chat on “Theory in the age of modern AI“, which will be a conversation led by TILOS team members: Misha Belkin (UCSD), Arya Mazumdar (moderator, UCSD), Tara Javidi (UCSD), Visheeth […]
TILOS Fireside Chat on “Theory in the age of modern AI“, which will be a conversation led by TILOS team members: Misha Belkin (UCSD), Arya Mazumdar (moderator, UCSD), Tara Javidi (UCSD), Visheeth […]
Read MoreCausality is increasingly a part of AI, data science, robotics, and more, but it is not always clear how we can learn causality from data. This symposium will be featuring leading HDSI Faculty who will be providing an introductory overview on these methods, followed by domain-specific talks and open discussion.
Read MoreAbstract: From AI and IoT to AR/VR and Web 3.0, computer systems are evolving at an unprecedented rate. While this evolution has given rise to exciting applications and opportunities, it has also brought about novel security and privacy challenges within these systems and across their interactions with existing platforms. In this talk, I will discuss how system security researchers can keep up with this everchanging landscape and showcase some of my lab’s recent work on understanding and detecting malicious web bots. I will explore how we can build and roll out research infrastructure to measure web bot activities and later use our newfound understanding to develop practical solutions to counter them. I will highlight how we can apply similar research principles to areas such as AI and IoT. Finally, I will conclude my talk by previewing some of my ongoing work and outlining my research roadmap toward achieving “security at inception” for emerging systems.
Read MoreAbstract: Nature contains many interesting physics we want to search for, but it cannot speak them out loud. Therefore physicists need to build large particle physics experiments that encode nature’s message into experimental data. My research leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to maximally decode nature’s message from those data. The questions I want to ask nature is: Are neutrinos Majorana particles? The answer to this question would fundamentally revise our understanding of physics and the cosmos. Currently, the most effective experimental probe for Majorana neutrino is neutrinoless double-beta decay(0vββ). Cutting-edge AI algorithms could break down significant technological barriers and, in turn, deliver the world’s most sensitive search for 0vββ. This talk will discuss one such algorithm, KamNet, which plays a pivotal role in the new result of the KamLAND-Zen experiment. With the help of KamNet, KamLAND-Zen provides a limit that reaches below 50 meV for the first time and is the first search for 0νββ in the inverted mass ordering region. Looking further, the next-generation 0vββ experiment LEGEND has created the Germanium Machine Learning group to aid all aspects of LEGEND analysis and eventually build an independent AI analysis. As the odyssey continues, AI will enlighten the bright future of experimental particle physics.
Read MoreAbstract: Technology is often designed and deployed without critical reflection of the values that it embodies. Value trade-offs—between security and privacy, free speech and dignity, autonomy and human agency, and […]
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence (AI) systems have made astonishing progress in the last year. In particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) — AI systems trained on massive amounts of text — have reached […]
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