[CTN] CTN Seminar - April 23 - 3:30 p.m. DC 1302 - Marta Kryven, MIT

[Sue Ann Campbell]

Hello Everyone,

In conjuction with the AI group from Computer Science, we are please to present a (bonus!) CTN seminar. Details are below.

Regards,

Sue Ann

Date: Tuesday, April 23, 3:30 p.m.

Place: DC 1302 (same room as Brain Day)

Speaker: Marta Kryven, MIT

Title: Cognitively-inspired AI for planning in realistic scenarios

 Abstract: Engineering cognitively-inspired AI is crucial for building systems that can understand people and interact with them in safe and productive ways. Successful deployment of such systems in real-world applications (such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and AI assistants) requires accurate computational models of human cognition -- and in particular, AI models capable of generating plans and interpreting behavior in human-like ways. To accomplish this goal, I build computational models of how people plan in realistic scenarios -- such as navigating cities and buildings, searching for a lost object, drawing a figure, and forming social attributions based on behaviour. My research connects methods from AI, statistics, neuroscience, and urban planning to validate these models in behavioral experiments, and on real-world data.

 Bio: Marta Kryven completed her PhD in Computer Science in 2018 at University of Waterloo, where she built computational models of visual perception. She then continued her research as a postdoc at MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, in the Computational Cognitive Science lab advised by Joshua Tenenbaum. Her postdoctoral work focuses on modeling how humans plan, form social attributions based on conjectured models of behavior, and use language when solving problems challenging for modern AI. In spare time she enjoys classical piano and designing educational toys.




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Dr. Sue Ann Campbell (she/her)

Professor and University Research Chair

Department of Applied Mathematics

Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience<https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-theoretical-neuroscience/>

Associate Dean, Research

Faculty of Mathematics

University of Waterloo

Waterloo ON N2L 3G1

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~sacampbe/

President, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society<https://caims.ca/>


I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territory of the Chonnonton, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo main campus is located on the Haldimand tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations.

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