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Professor Jesse Hoey in Davis Centre
Friday, March 13, 2020

Applying enterprising ideas from mathematics and computer science to help solve societal and environmental problems

Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Jesse Hoey has had a curious career trajectory.

His academic life began with an undergraduate degree in physics, followed by a master’s in physical oceanography, then a PhD in computer science with specialization in artificial intelligence. He even had a stint working with occupational therapists as part of his postdoctoral studies, where he applied his expertise in AI to develop assistive technologies for people with dementia.

Tuesday, May 12, 2020 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Systems and Networking — On the Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into Public Airspace

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Mirmojtaba Gharibi, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles will soon be integrated in the airspace and start serving us in various capacities such as package delivery, surveillance, search and rescue missions, inspection of infrastructure, precision agriculture, and cinematography.

Friday, March 13, 2020 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar • Waterloo AI Institute — Fair Reward Division

Kate Larson
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Axiomatic approaches are an appealing method for designing fair algorithms, as they provide a formal structure for reasoning about and rationalizing individual decisions. However, to make these algorithms useful in practice, their axioms must appropriately capture social norms.

We explore this tension between fairness axioms and socially acceptable decisions in the context of cooperative game theory for the fair division of rewards.