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Upcoming Events

October15

AI/ML Seminar Series

Towards Self-Improving Machine Perception

Georgia Gkioxari

Assistant Professor, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech

11:00 AM

4011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Self-Improving machine perception explores how we can build visual systems that do not just perceive the world, but continually improve at doing so. In…

October15

Statistics Seminar Series

Novel Applications of Item Response Theory in Environmental Health: Quantifying Cumulative Exposome Burden Scores for Harmonization and Report-Back

Shelley H Liu

Associate Professor, Population Health Science and Policy Icahn, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

4:00 PM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Summary scores of cumulative chemical exposure burden are increasingly used in environmental health research. These summary scores can be useful for risk assessment, harmonization…

October16

CS Seminar Series

Learning Hyperparameters with Variational Bayes: The Case for a Data-Emphasized Objective

Michael Hughes

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Tufts University

11:00 AM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: A basic problem in supervised machine learning is avoiding overfitting when training a big neural network classifier. To solve this today, practitioners often resort…

October16

Informatics Seminar Series

From Harm to Repair: A Participant-Grounded Account of Sociability in Games Under Extreme Constraint (Prison)

Constance Steinkuehler

Professor, University of California, Irvine‬

1:00 PM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Commercial multiplayer games are producing a crisis of sociability alongside their crisis of mal-engagement. As the social platforms mediating an increasingly atomized social life…

October21

Alumni Event

Brains, Brews & Deans: UC Irvine Trivia Night

Common Space Brewery

3411 W El Segundo Blvd, Hawthorne, CA 90250

6:00 PM

Common Space Brewery,

Three deans and a chief innovation officer walk into a brewery… and you’re invited too! Join fellow South Bay Anteaters for an after-work evening of…

October22

Statistics Seminar Series

From Data to Decisions: Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI for Precision Medicine

Yanxun Xu

Professor, Joseph & Suzanne Jenniches Faculty Scholar Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Data Science & AI Institute, Johns Hopkins University

4:00 PM

6011, Donald Bren Hall

Abstract: Precision medicine aims to transform complex patient data and clinical knowledge into individualized treatment decisions. However, this remains challenging when treatments are sequential, patient…

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