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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
From 2018 to 2026, Manuela Veloso was the founder and Head of JPMorganChase AI Research & Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was faculty in the Computer Science Department and then Head of the Machine Learning Department.
Veloso has a licenciatura degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, an M.A. in Computer Science from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Veloso has Doctorate Honoris Causa degrees from the Örebro University, Sweden, the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), Portugal, the Université de Bordeaux, France, and the Universidade Católica of Portugal.
She served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and she is co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of main professional organizations in her area, namely AAAI, IEEE, AAAS, and ACM. She is the recipient of the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, the Einstein Chair of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an NSF Career Award, and the Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research. Veloso is a member of the National Academy of Engineering with a citation “for contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications in robotics and the financial services industry.” She is also a member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal.
Her research interests are in AI, including Autonomous Robots, Multiagent Systems, Continual Learning Agents, and AI in Finance. For further details, see www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv.
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I will talk about AI agents, and multiagent systems, in particular. I will focus on the agent’s perception as the robust processing and sharing of information, the agent’s cognition as their planning and memory-based reasoning abilities, and the agent’s action as the capabilities to execute in their environment. While AI has the potential to assist humans with many tasks, the future aims at a seamless integration of humans and AI with AI agents able to collaborate and continuously learn. The talk will include examples of robot and digital agents.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
AI Agents have limitations, they rely on other agents and humans to improve their performance over time.
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Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
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