Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
9:00 am – 10:00 am Pacific Time
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Eastern Time
Location: Weekly Seminar, Zoom
Title: Leveraging Data and Artificial Intelligence for Human Centered Computational Reasoning and Choice
Abstract:
In recent years there has been an explosion in interest in topics that sit at the intersection of applications of computing technology and societal issues. There has been significant work in the academic, industrial, and policy spaces to clarify and formalize best practices regarding the deployment of computational decision making (e.g., artificial intelligence and machine learning) at scale. Part of this work has been a new found interest in many age old conversations about the roles and limits of technology and society. In this talk I’ll give an overview of recent work covering several projects that use tools from computational social choice, data science, and artificial intelligence more generally to build systems and algorithms that are context aware, flexible, and human-centered. This work includes multi-stakeholder recommender systems that use social choice to balance competing fairness and efficiency objectives and online decision making systems that use (inverse) reinforcement learning and human cognitive models for making choices in complex environments.
Bio:
Nicholas Mattei is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University and Co-Director of the Tulane Center for Community Engaged AI in New Orleans, LA, USA. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning with applications in data science, economics, decision making, and psychology. His projects leverage theory, data, and experiments to create novel algorithms, mechanisms, and systems that enable and support individual and group decision making. He has published over 100 academic articles in top conferences and journals and is a co-author of the new book Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging Through Science Fiction from MIT Press. Before joining Tulane he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Laboratory in New York, USA; a Senior Researcher at Data61/CSIRO/NICTA and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney in Australia; and before that was an aerospace technology engineer at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, USA. He completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Kentucky, USA.