AI Ecosystem Symposium 1

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

1:00pm to 5:00pm Symposium

UIC Lecture Center D1

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

1:00 – 1:10 pm. Opening Remarks, Pete Nelson – UIC College of Engineering Dean and professor

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

Contact:

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