Symposiums

Join us as we hear about the wide range of AI-based projects being conducted at UIC in each of the colleges. The AI Ecosystem Continuing Symposium is the first of several events showcasing short talks on how AI is being used by UIC faculty and staff in their work, as well as future directions and perspectives on how AI can transform scholarship and research. The Symposium is also intended for the UIC community to meet people who are working with AI and meet possible research partners toward cross-university collaboration.

Sponsors

  • Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
  • College of Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

September 13, 2024
12:30pm to 1:00pm – Arrival, Registration and Networking

1:00pm to 5:00pm Symposium

UIC Lecture Center D1

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Sponsors

  • Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
  • College of Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Program Comittee

  • Pete Nelson
  • Ying Liu
  • John Dillenburg
  • Hasti Mehta

Symposium Program:

1:00 – 1:10 pm. Opening Remarks

1:10 – 2:30 pm. Keynotes (25 minutes each including Q&A)

  • High-Performance Computing for AI
    Michael Papka – UIC Professor of Computer Science, Director, Argonne National Laboratories Advanced Computing Leadership Facility
  • Trustworthy AI for Natural Language Understanding Tasks
    Cornelia Caragea  – UIC Professor of Computer Science, Director, NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
  • Six Things UIC’s Central IT is Doing Now to Fuel GenAI
    Matt Riley – Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Chief Information Officer

2:30 – 2:40 pm. Coffee Break (10 minutes)

2:40 – 3:10 pm.
Session 1: AI Method Research
(Chair: Matt Riley, Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Chief Information Officer). Learn about projects from the UIC community in developing innovative methods in AI computing and architecture.

  • Wei Tang, Computer Science: Building Intelligent Seeing Machines
  • Elena Zheleva, Computer Science: Causal Discovery in Networks
  • Sathya Ravi, Computer Science: Training and Inferencing Multimodal Models in Computer Vision

3:10 – 3:40 pm.
Session 2: Data Sets for Knowledge Discovery
(Chair: Jeremy Riel, College of Education). Learn about how faculty are using AI to examine and infer insights from data of various types.

  • Corrinne Mills, Physics: The particle went that way”: Smart detectors for high-energy physics
  • Guy Adami, Dentistry: Simple Machine Learning using microRNA profiles of oral lesions to classify them as benign or malignant
  • John Dillenburg, Computer Science: Illinois Department of Transportation Data for AI and Data Mining

3:40 – 4:10 pm.
Session 3: AI Research Projects and Lessons Learned
(Chair: Fatemeh Sarayloo, College of Business). Hear from UIC faculty on important issues and perspectives related to using AI for research and scholarship.

  • Philip Johnson, Law: AI Issues in Law Schools
  • Carla Tejeda, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: The Use of AI to Assess the Way People and Goods Travel in Cities.
  • Ken Suh, Law: The Emerging AI Regulatory Landscape

4:10 – 4:30 pm.
Session 4: AI Safety
(Chair: Houshang Darabi, College of Engineering). Learn about several issues related to the ethical and safe use of AI across industries.

  • Yang Dai, Bioengineering: Fair Machine Learning Models for Integrating EMRs, Dietary Data, and Neighbor Information for Better Disease Screening and Risk Factor Identification.
  • Myunghee Kim, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Leveraging AI for Smarter, Adaptive Wearable Robotics

4:30 – 5:00 pm.
Session 5: Problem Identification and Possible AI Solutions
(Chair: Ken Suh, College of Law). Learn from UIC faculty about the potential of AI toward identifying and solving challenges in several disciplines.

  • Fatemeh Sarayloo, Business: Bridging Innovation to Application: AI-Driven Solutions for Real-World Business Problems
  • Ian Kash, Computer Science: Fair AI for Rich Decisions
  • Emanuelle Neuman Burton, Computer Science: AI and the Changing Conditions of Personhood

Contact:

Ying Liu,
Professor and College of Engineering Interim Associate Dean of Research
312.996.8249 | liuying@uic.edu

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