[AI Seminar Series] REMINDER: Seminar by Prof. Shaolei Ren, Friday February 28th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Colleagues,
a reminder for the AI Seminar tomorrow Friday at noon. Please use the 
link below if you plan to attend.

Sincerely,
V. Tsotras


On 2025-02-23 13:11, Vassilis Tsotras wrote:
> The next talk at the AI Seminar Series will be on Friday, February
> 28th, 12:00-1:00pm at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).
> **** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
> 
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-seminar-series-tickets-1257612054509
> 
> The talk will be given by Prof. Shaolei Ren, Dept. of Electrical and
> Computer Engineering, UCR
> 
> TITLE:
> "Reliable AI-Augmented Decision-Making for Good"
> 
> ABSTRACT:
> Sequential decision-making in dynamic, uncertain, and adversarial
> environments is a fundamental challenge in many applications such as
> online resource allocation, planning, and scheduling. While modern AI
> and ML algorithms offer transformative potential, their lack of
> reliability guarantees and possible misalignment with critical design
> goals—such as fairness—hinder their deployment in high-stakes societal
> domains. In this talk, I will present our recent progress in
> developing reliable AI-augmented decision-making algorithms. Our
> approach adaptively integrates reliable domain expertise to guide and
> regularize AI-driven decisions based on real-time conditions,
> exploiting the power of AI for performance improvement while providing
> reliability guarantees. I will conclude by highlighting applications
> of our design to problems of societal importance, including
> health-informed energy management for cleaner air and healthier
> communities.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------
> Sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute, the AI Seminar Series presents
> speakers working on cutting edge Foundational AI or apply AI in their
> research. The goal of these seminars is to inform the UCR community
> about current trends in AI research and promote collaborations between
> faculty in this emerging field. These seminars are open to interested
> faculty and graduate students. Please forward this email to other
> colleagues or graduate students in your lab that may be interested.
> After the seminar a discussion will follow for questions, open
> problems, ideas for possible collaborations etc.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
> 
> Amit Roy-Chowdhury
> Professor, ECE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
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