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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/ai-tsunami-where-will-it-take-us
LOCATION:Jobsite Brewing Co. 45 Cambria Street Stratford ON Canada
SUMMARY:The AI tsunami – Where will it take us?
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to Research Talks\, a public event and panel\n
 discussion featuring guest speakers Kesha Bodawala - P & P\nOptica\, E
 van Jones - Stitch Media\, and Sirisha Rambhatla and Will\nZhao - Uni
 versity of Waterloo.\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI)\, the study of machin
 es and software that\nexhibit intelligence\, is transforming every aspect 
 of society\, from\nfinancial services\, technology\, healthcare\, manufact
 uring\, and more.\nAI is dependent on data\, that is\, AI uses data to mak
 e predictions so\nhumans can make data-driven decisions. With the explosio
 n of data over\nthe past two decades\, there is an AI tsunami on our thres
 hold. So\, we\nare left with the question\, “Where will AI take us?”\n
 \nCHALLENGE OF THE BOTS: EXPLORING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF CONTEXTUAL\nCONVER
 SATIONAL AI\n\nWill Zhao\n[https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-intera
 ction-design-and-business/people-profiles/will-zhao] is\nan Assistant Pro
 fessor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design\nand Business\n[http
 s://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-business/]\,\n
 University of Waterloo. He earned his Ph.D. from the French _Grande\nEcol
 e _EM Lyon Business school and pursued his postdoctoral research\nat Stan
 ford University. He is an interdisciplinary researcher\ninterested in stud
 ying innovation from organizational\, educational\,\nand engineering persp
 ectives\, particularly using multimodal methods\nthat draw on semiotics an
 d/or artificial intelligence techniques. His\nmost recent research on arti
 ficial intelligence has been published in\nleading journals such as _IEEE
  Transactions on Cybernetics._\n\nWHAT’S IN YOUR FOOD? ASSESSING THE QUA
 LITY OF FOOD PRODUCTS USING AI\n\nKesha Bodawala\n[https://ppo.ca/people-a
 t-ppo-kesha-bodawala-software-developer/] is\nthe Model Development Lead 
 at P&P Optica [https://ppo.ca/] (PPO)\,\nbased in Waterloo\, ON. At PPO\
 , she oversees the Machine Learning Team.\nShe works with the team to deve
 lop models to assess the quality of\nmeat products. Kesha has a Master's d
 egree in Electrical and Computer\nEngineering with a focus on machine lear
 ning and a Bachelor's degree\nin Electronics Engineering.\n\nINCORPORATING
  AI INTO STORYTELLING AND VIRTUAL REALITY\n\nEvan Jones [https://www.stitc
 h.media/team] is the founder of Stitch\nMedia [https://www.stitch.media/
 ]\, an interactive media production\nservices company which tells stories 
 using new technology and timeless\ntechniques. A two-time Emmy Award winn
 er\, Evan’s work combines web\,\nmobile and games with TV\, film\, radio
 \, and the real world. He has been\nrecognized as a 'Top 10 New Media Grou
 ndbreaker' by the Bell Fund and\nchosen as one of the ‘most innovative a
 nd influential minds in\nMcMaster history’ by his alma mater. His intera
 ctive documentary\nwork has won ‘Best in Electronic Culture’ at the UN
 ESCO World\nSummit and his experience with branded entertainment has won 
 ‘Best\nin Digital Marketing’ by the Digi Awards. Evan has guest lectur
 ed on\nthe art & business of interactive story internationally at the\nCan
 adian Film Centre\, the Australian Film\, Television & Radio School\nand t
 he University of Southern California. He has consulted for the\nSmithsonia
 n\, Greenpeace\, Microsoft\, Disney\, NBC\, Universal\,\nNickelodeon\, and
  20th Century Fox on the future of entertainment.\n\nAI AND THE FUTURE OF 
 HEALTHCARE\n\nSirisha Rambhatla\n[https://uwaterloo.ca/management-sciences
 /profile/srambhat] is an\nAssistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineeri
 ng at the University of\nWaterloo\, where she leads the Critical ML Lab as
  the director. Her\nresearch focusses on developing deep learning-based re
 liable\nartificial intelligence (AI) models for critical real-world decisi
 on\nmaking in surgery and healthcare\, covid spread\, climate change\, and
 \nintelligent manufacturing and aviation using spatiotemporal modelling\,\
 nrepresentation learning\, and explainable AI. Her inter-disciplinary\nwor
 k spans both theory and practice of machine learning (ML)\, has been\npubl
 ished at top ML venues such as NeurIPS\, ICLR\, KDD\, IJCAI\, AAAI\,\nand 
 clinical venues such as AMIA\, Surgery\, American Association for\nthe Stu
 dy of Liver Diseases. Recipient of the 2021 Merit Award for\nExcellence in
  Postdoctoral Research at the University of Southern\nCalifornia\, Dr. Ram
 bhatla received her Ph.D. (EE) from the University\nof Minnesota -- Twin C
 ities in 2019.\n\nPizza and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.\n\n
 Donations of non-perishable food items for the Salvation Army -\nStratford
  Food Bank will be accepted.
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