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IDS Distinguished Speaker Series #3 - Professor Nitesh Chawla

Title: Charting the AI Convergence to Translation Journey
Speaker: Professor Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame; Director, Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society; ACM & IEEE Fellow
Moderator: Dr Chao Huang, Assistant Professor, HKU IDS / Department of Computer Science
Date: Oct 26, 2023
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

Mode: Hybrid. Seats for on-site participants are limited. A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.

Abstract

AI and data science are at the forefront of several fundamental advances, innovations and potential for societal impact. While there is a pertinent movement in advancing societal applications of data science / AI, there are also challenges in truly realizing that potential. In this presentation, I’ll discuss our experience in navigating research convergence for innovation to translation journey, and also opportunities and challenges to truly realize the potential of data science / AI for society.  

Speaker

Professor Nitesh Chawla
Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame; Director, Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society; ACM & IEEE Fellow
Nitesh Chawla is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society at University of Notre Dame. His research is focused on artificial intelligence, data science, and network science, and is motivated by the question of how technology can advance the common good through interdisciplinary research. He has published more than 300 papers, accumulating over 58,000 citations and an h-index of 78. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
He is the recipient of multiple awards including National Academy of Engineers New Faculty Fellowship, IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award, Rodney F. Ganey Community Impact Award, IBM Big Data & Analytics Faculty Award, IBM Watson Faculty Award, and the 1st Source Bank Technology Commercialization Award. He is co-founder of Aunalytics, a data science software and cloud computing company.

Moderator

Dr Chao Huang
Assistant Professor @ HKU IDS & Department of Computer Science 

Dr Chao Huang is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is a faculty member of the Institute of Data Science and Department of Computer Science. Before that, he was a research scientist at JD Research America in Silicon Valley. He obtained the Ph.D degree from the Computing Science and Engineering Department at University of Notre Dame in United States.

For full biography of Dr Huang, please refer to: https://datascience.hku.hk/people/chao-huang/

For information, please contact:
Email: idatasci@hku.hk