Imperial College ICARL Seminars - Manuela Veloso (J.P. Morgan)

We are excited to continue our series with Manuela M. Veloso (J.P. Morgan) who will be talking about Humans and AI: The Journey.

The talk will be hybrid and you will be able to listen and ask questions both in person or in remote. After the talk there will be a catered networking session. Please note that the link to the session will be available at the end of the confirmation email, where it says "Additional information".

Abstract
This talk explores the evolving interaction between humans and AI, from experience in AI in robotics and AI in finance. We will examine AI as a collaborator in problem solving, address the challenges and opportunities to use AI, and give examples and discuss the future of this symbiotic partnership.

The talk will conclude with a Q&A session.

About the speaker

Manuela Veloso is Head of AI Research at JPMorganChase and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Veloso pursues research interests in core AI as AI robot and digital agents with perception, cognition, and action. She further aims at a seamless human-AI symbiotic interaction. Veloso is a member of the National Academy of Engineering for “her contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications to robotics and to the financial domain.” She is a past president of AAAI, and a co-founder of RoboCup. Veloso is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. She has a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST, an MA in Computer Science from BU, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from CMU. Veloso has doctorate honorary degrees from the Catholic University of Portugal, University of Bordeaux, ISCTE, and University of Orebro. See www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv for detailed information.

Sponsors

This event is sponsored by InstaDeep, Google DeepMind and Iconic.