A 2-day conference dedicated to artificial intelligence research and innovation. This event is designed to engage a broad audience, from faculty and students to industry professionals.
Overview
The conference is organized by CHAIR (Chalmers AI Research Centre), and is supported in part by WASP Lighthouse at Chalmers University of Technology.
The programme includes keynote talks from international experts in AI and its applications, as well as thematic sessions in topics of special interest to Chalmers researchers and CHAIR partners Ericsson, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and Volvo AB. This year’s sessions will span AI and Health, AI Foundations, and AI in Research.
Agenda
29 October:
08:30 Coffee
09:00 Welcome!
09:15 Keynote: Photonic AI for the 2030’s: can we realize 1000x higher performance AI systems? Volker Sorger, Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Professor in Semiconductor Photonics at the University of Florida.
10:15 Coffee break with fika
10:45 AI Foundations, thematic session with invited talks & panel discussion: Kathlén Kohn (KTH), Alexandre Proutiere (KTH), Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers).
11.45 Lunch (provided)
13:00 Keynote: Beyond the Average Doctor: Uncertainty-Aware AI for Clinical Triage. Julie Josse, Senior researcher at Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology.
14:00 Information on ongoing initiatives (ELLIS Unit Sweden, Chalmers Next Labs).
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 AI in Research, thematic session with invited talks on how AI is changing science and how we do research: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University and Chalmers), Jesus Pineda (IFLAI), Richard Beckmann (Chalmers).
16:00 Panel discussion with international experts about the AI risks that have been dominating news headlines lately. Julian Togelius (New York University), Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University and Chalmers), Julie Josse (Inria). Moderator: Devdatt Dubhashi (Chalmers).
16:45 Mingle + provided food
30 October:
08:30 Coffee
09:00 Keynote: Optical Computing: Past, Present and Future. Demetri Psaltis, Professor of Optics and the Director of the Optics Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).
10:00 Coffee break with fika
10:30 AI and Health, thematic session with invited talks from AI and health researchers: Markus Lingman (Sahlgrenska), Rocío Mercado (Chalmers), Robin Strand (Uppsala University).
11:30 Keynote: Can we invent problems worth solving? Julian Togelius, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University, soon to be Wallenberg Chair at Chalmers.
12:30 Closing remarks
12:45 Lunch + mingle
Keynote speakers and abstracts:
Julie Josse
Senior researcher at Inria and the leader of the PreMeDiCaL (Precision Medicine by Data integration and Causal Learning) team.
Beyond the Average Doctor: Uncertainty-Aware AI for Clinical Triage
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Demetri Psaltis
Professor of Optics and the Director of the Optics Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Optical Computing: Past, Present and Future
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Volker Sorger
Walden and Paula Rhines Endowed Professor in Semiconductor Photonics at the University of Florida.
Photonic AI for the 2030’s: can we realize 1000x higher performance AI systems?
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Julian Togelius
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Can we invent problems worth solving?
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Programme team:
Fredrik Johansson
- Associate Professor, Data Science and AI, Computer Science and Engineering
Fredrik Johansson
- Associate Professor, Data Science and AI, Computer Science and Engineering
Simon Olsson
- Associate Professor, Data Science and AI, Computer Science and Engineering
Simon Olsson
- Associate Professor, Data Science and AI, Computer Science and Engineering
Giovanni Volpe, University of Gothenburg
