For anyone interested, my
#AAAI2024
invited lecture on "ML+Optimization: Driving Social Impact in Public Health and Conservation" is now publicly available at this link:
Excited to join Google Research India as Director of AI for Social Good as an additional appointment to Harvard. Thrilled to help build a new research program in Bengaluru
@GoogleIndia
in
#AIforGood
. If you're a researcher interested in joining our team:
At
#GoogleForIndia
today, we announced Google Research India - a new AI research team in Bangalore that will focus on advancing computer science & applying AI research to solve big problems in healthcare, agriculture, education, and more.
#GoogleAI
I am excited to start new position at Harvard
@hseas
as Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science & Director Center for Research on
Computation & Society
@HCRCS
start Aug'19. Enjoyed years at USC;
onto exciting
#AIforGood
work at Harvard
@harvard_data
@pmphlt
@harvardchanIRC
I am deeply honored for receiving the 2024 AAAI award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. Extremely grateful to my students & postdocs, &
@AAMASconf
community. Excited to discuss our latest work in
#AIforSocialImpact
at
#AAAI2024
.
Applications now open for pre-doctoral positions at
@GoogleAI
India!
#predoc
My team is looking for predocs in
#AIforSocialGood
: advancing AI/ML for public health & conservation
Spend two years with cutting edge AI projects & amazing mentors in our lab!
Interested in
#AIforSocialGood
#AI4SG
at Google Research India, Bangalore? We have a research associate position open in AI4SG. Focus on advancing AI/ML via impactful application in public health, conservation, agriculture; DM or email address in profile
Excited to be in our
@GoogleAI
research India office in Bangalore after two years! Awesome to meet with lab director
@ManishGuptaMG1
, with our
#AIforSocialgood
team, other labmates in the office; most rewarding was Q&A session with predocs.
Finally an in-person gathering of our
@GoogleAI
#AIforSocialGood
team in Bangalore. While a couple of team members could not join us here, in-person meetings seemed to have afforded exciting & energetic discussions on
#AI4SG
.
In my role as Director of AI for Social Good at Google Research India, I am humbled to see presentations from domain experts solving key societal problems at our Workshop on AI for Social Good at Google Bangalore- very excited to explore can AI help
If you are planning
#AIforSocialGood
course for AY’21-22, if it helps, here is my syllabus for CS 288 “AI for Social Impact” from Spring 21, lecture slides, students' key takeaways & some videos:
Pls send a link to your materials
*Announcement*: Call for applications to join in our Google
#AIforSocialGood
workshop that aims to team up NGOs & AI researchers. We invite
-Academics in AI+ from around the world
-NGOs in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia-Pacific
to apply:
@divy93t
1/
Congratulations
@fangf07
Prof. Fei Fang
@SCSatCMU
for selection in IEEE Intelligent systems "AI's 10 to watch"!! Congratulations to all other winners as well.
Applications open for summer 2022 fellowships for PhD students at Harvard Center for Research on Computation & Society (
@hcrcs
)!
Fellowships for 12-16 weeks, focus on computational approaches for public health & conservation.
Application deadline: Dec 1
We are hiring research scientists in AI and of course for
#AIforSocialGood
! We have immediate open positions in Google AI lab in Bangalore, India. Significant opportunities for advancing basic AI research and social impact!
#AIforGood
@GoogleIndia
So fortunate hooding amazing trio of my PhD students
@harvard
today. Dr
@brwilder
(hooded virtually) will join as Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
@mldcmu
. Dr
@BondiElizabeth
will join as Assistant Professor at Michigan
@UMichCSE
. Dr. Han-Ching Ou will be at a startup!
Extremely proud to chair workshop on "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India with amazing non-profit & academic partners. Looking forward to exciting collaborative projects for significant societal impact using AI
@GoogleIndia
@johnplattml
@JeffDean
Interested in a postdoc position with my group at
@Harvard
? Our focus will be on ML+optimization for social impact with particular interest in domains of public health & conservation.
Please email your CV + 3 letters of recommendation to me
Interested in becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Ctr for Research on Computation & Society
@HCRCS
?
Now soliciting applications for Acad year 2022-23. Key areas of interest include computing for public health & conservation.
Deadline: Dec 1
We had a terrific research group retreat after a gap of COVID years!! Very refreshing outing outside of Boston with no research presentations... still that one photo is a group of us trying to spell out RMABs 🙂. Lucky to be working with these amazing scholars!
Very grateful for the Distinguish Alumnus Award in person by my undergraduate institution BITS, PILANI
@bitspilaniindia
@BITSPilaniGoa
at Goa campus today. Thank you also for the wonderful discussion about our research on
#AiforSocialImpact
with students.
What have been doing for
#AIforGood
at
@GoogleIndia
AI research? Delighted as Director of
#AIforSocialGood
to point to our blog outlining projects on AI for PublicHealth, Conservation, Education in India; projects also reveal novel AI research challenges
*Pre-doctoral* research program at Google research India!
For recent & 2021 graduating MS or undergrad students, spend two years with cutting edge AI projects & amazing mentors in our lab (including projects in AI for Social Good).
Please apply:
Honored to lead effort at
@GoogleAI
India that helped set in motion 30 new
#AIforSocialGood
projects across 17 countries: projects pair AI researchers with non-profits in Asia & Africa to advance AI for public health, conservation & agriculture.
1/4
As director
@hcrcs
(Center for Research in Computation and Society
@Harvard
) I am pleased to bring to attention upcoming "AI for Social Impact" workshop for PhD students, postdocs & junior researchers:
Apply by January 10. Travel funding.
#AIforGood
@HCRCS
is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop on AI and Society geared toward junior researchers. 03/05/20 - 03/06/20. Visit our website for more info on how to attend or apply to present your work!
Reminder: Applications open for summer 2022 fellowships for PhD students at
@Harvard
Center for Research on Computation & Society
@hcrcs
!
Fellowships for 12-16 weeks, focus: computational approaches for public health & conservation.
New deadline: Dec 15
Excited to be part of the AI Summer School at Google Research India. Looking forward to lectures & welcoming students; and particularly
#AIforSocialGood
track talks/discussions. Thanks
@divy93t
for leading this effort!
@ManishGuptaMG1
#aiforgood
As AI & Multiagent Systems researchers, happy to present our interdisciplinary work on agent-based model of COVID-19 dynamics. Pre-print (lead author
@brwilder
)
code
Work co-advised by
@maiamajumder
& myself. It was an honor.
Interested in becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the
@Harvard
Center for Research on Computation & Society
@HCRCS
?
Now soliciting applications for Academic year 2023-24. Key areas include computing for public health & conservation. Deadline: Dec 1
Our first paper with
@armmanindia
using ML to improve maternal health outcomes by increasing program engagement
#AIforGood
@ravi_iitm
@divy93t
@Harsha_64
Missed calls, Automated Calls & Health Support: Using AI to improve maternal health outcomes by...
Multiple postdoc openings in our group at
@Harvard
Computer Science focused in multiagent systems, including computational game theory, social networks, reinforcement learning etc. Relevant work:
Deadline 8/15(flexible). Please ping me if interested.
So absolutely thrilled to have
@michaelmina_lab
as the next speaker in our
#AIforSocialImpact
seminar series
@HCRCS
!! Can AI help us get out of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic & prevent similar global catastrophes in the future? Apr 19 at 11 ET.
Extremely proud of my student
@brwilder
PhD research. Awesome that he will join as faculty member
@mldcmu
& grateful for this outcome as an
@SCSatCMU
alum. Looking forward to many years of new impactful results in
#AIforSocialImpact
!
I'll be an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University starting Fall 2022 -- couldn't be more excited for this next adventure!
@SCSatCMU
@mldcmu
We are lucky to have Manish Jain join our
#AIforSocialGood
team at
@GoogleAI
India & help us with his multiagent systems expertise. As proud PhD advisor, I still remember his AAMAS best PhD thesis award presentation from sometime ago: at AAMAS 2014!
Really fortunate hooding this amazing trio of my PhD students at
@harvard
at
@hseas
. Dr
@kaiwang_gua
will join as assistant professor at Georgia Tech CSE; Dr
@adityamate22
will join Microsoft Research New England; Dr
@JacksonAKillian
will join Harbinger Health in Cambridge MA.
Thoroughly enjoyed my keynote on
#AIforSocialImpact
today at
#KDD2022
@kdd_news
! Honored to be invited and really appreciated all the very thoughtful questions and interactions after my talk! (Thx Prof Hongning Wang for photos!).
25 incredible years of our Teamcore research group! I am extremely fortunate to have worked with amazingly talented group of students/mentees; deeply honored many alumni & group gathered in our hybrid
#AIforSocialImpact
conference yesterday to celebrate
Best paper runners up
#AAAI2021
(contd): (2) information interaction inside transformers by Yaru Hao: , and (3) dual-mandate patrols by Lily Xu,
@MilindTambe_AI
: . Congratulations!!! <3 of 3>
NEWS: Outstanding computer scientist Cynthia Dwork has been made an Honorary Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute in recognition of her services to the national institute for data science and AI.
Find out more:
#DataScience
#Artificialintelligence
#AI
Fortunate to have an actual real-life meeting of our research group today -- first in-person group meeting after after Feb'20!
Absolutely thrilled to have Prof Sharad Goel
@5harad
present and discuss research at the meeting!
Hiring at Google Research AI lab in India:
Hiring research scientists in AI -- if you’re attending
@NeurIPSCon
we could find some time to chat. As director
#AIforSocialGood
particular interest in hiring researchers focused in this area.
@ManishGuptaMG1
AAMAS-2021 call for papers with deadlines
Abstract submission: 2 October 2020
Paper submission: 9 October 2020
@aamas2021
International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
I'm looking for PhD students at CMU next year! If you're interested in AI, public health, and equity, please consider applying to the Machine Learning Department
@mldcmu
. Topics span ML/stats/optimization/algorithms methods through community-focused work with nonprofits.
At
#AAAI20
next month we have a few papers combining machine learning & game theory; this paper advocates a tighter integration (against separation) of learning of adversary model with downstream game-theory reasoning (e.g. improve poaching prediction)
Interested in becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation & Society
@HCRCS
for academic year 21-22? Key areas of interest include: Computing for public health & conservation.
Deadline: December 1
Congratulations Dr.
@shahrzaadghlm
for successfully defending your PhD thesis today: "Predicting and Planning against Real-world Adversaries: An End-to-end Pipeline to Combat Illegal Wildlife Poachers on a Global Scale". So proud!!
We just had an absolutely awesome workshop on "AI assisted decision making for conservation" at
@Harvard
at
@HCRCS
; will publish our workshop report soon. Big thx to all the amazing participants!! Thx to my co-organizers
@lilyxu0
&
@rolf_comma_e
for their leadership.
#aiforgood
My
#AIforSocialImpact
seminar course focuses on pipeline of processes beyond AI advances to achieve impact. To encourage this research, AI conferences need to include review criteria as
@realAAAI
#AIforSocialImpact
track beyond algorithmic advances.
Interested in
#AIforSocialGood
#AI4SG
@ Google Research India? We have research scientist & postdoc position open: advancing AI via impactful application in public health, conservation, agriculture; apply at link or DM:
AI4SG info
Terrific hosting my teammates from Google AI Research India at Harvard Center for Research on Computation & Society
@HCRCS
. Several open positions for research scientists, pre-docs and post-docs at
@GoogleIndia
in
#AIforGood
& AI/ML in general.
@divy93t
@fooobar
📢📢 Excited to launch call for applications for our
@Google
#AIforSocialGood
workshop 2022. Workshop aims to team up NGOs & AI researchers from North, Central & South America.
Key themes: (i) Sustainability/Climate (ii) Economic opportunity.
To apply:
Wonderful talk by Kevin LeytonBrown in AI for Social Impact track at
#AAAI20
. How can AI researchers impact society. Not model 1...result in just writing papers..
#AAAI20
@RealAAAI
@fangf07
@esodomka
#AAAI20
track on AI for Social Impact papers to be presented on Feb 9 &10 on topics include use of AI for health, disaster response, addressing bias, fairness+ four great invited speakers. Awesome to have co-organized with
@fang07
@esodomka
. Hope track continues.
#AIforGood
We are organizing a special track at AAAI2020 on AI for Social Impact (AISI). Evaluation criteria different from traditional AAAI, e.g., social impact, data gathering, modeling effort considered. Pls submit if working in AISI.
@fangf07
@esodomka
Grateful for collaboration with
@armmanindia
, who have inspired us by their work on maternal & child care. Our joint paper on real-world
#AIforSocialImpact
study: restless multiarmed bandits optimize service delivery to beneficiaries
@adityamate22
I learned a tremendous amount leading interdisciplinary workshop on "AI for Tuberculosis prevention" at Harvard India Research center. Discussed where AI could assist with Govt & NGO partners: (i) active screening (ii) diagnosis (iii) treatment & adherence; also data limitations.
#AIforSocialImpact
seminar series
@Harvard
Center for Research on Computation & Society
@hcrcs
continues next week. On 9/28, we are delighted host Stefano Ermon
@StefanoErmon
, Assistant professor, Stanford university.
Register:
Excited to be part of the AI Summer School at Google Research India. Looking forward to lectures & welcoming students; and particularly
#AIforSocialGood
track talks/discussions. Thanks
@divy93t
for leading this effort!
@ManishGuptaMG1
#aiforgood
Interested in becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the
@Harvard
Center for Research on Computation & Society
@HCRCS
? Now soliciting applications for Academic year 2024-25. Key areas include computing for public health & conservation. Deadline: Dec 1
Research scientist positions open for
#AIforSocialGood
#AI4SG
@GoogleAI
India! Focused on advancing AI for social impact in public health, conservation, agriculture.
Apply at link below (research SWEs welcome):
Recent
#AI4SG
work
Four open-rank faculty positions at
@Harvard
at SEAS
@hseas
in climate, energy science and technology. Successful applicants will join Environmental Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or another areas of SEAS!