2021-2022 Distinguished Lecture Series

This annual series showcases outstanding researchers, scholars and thinkers in the field of computer science and related disciplines, and gives them a forum to present their views and ideas to students, faculty, and the interested public.

2021–2022 Distinguished Lecture Series

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Raquel Urtasun
Founder and CEO
Waabi Innovation Inc.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Co-founder, Vector Institute for AI

Inaugural 2021–22 DLS Presentation
An AI-first Approach to Self-driving

Thursday, October 7, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Online presentation

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Karl J. Friston
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Scientific Director
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology
University College London

Active Inference

Thursday, November 4, 2021
11:00 a.m
Online presentation

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Milind Tambe
Director, Center for Research in Computation and Society
Harvard University
Director, AI for Social Good
Google Research India

AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation

Tuesday, February 15, 2022
1:30 p.m.
Online presentation

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Kai Li
Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor 
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University

Machine Learning Meets System Designs: Experience with Designing Learned Cache Systems

Wednesday, May 25, 2022
11:00 a.m.
Online presentation

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Tony Chan
President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

A Personal and Historical View of Computational Mathematics

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
2:00 p.m. • DC 1302 | Livestreamed

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