With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances toward addressing complex societal problems.
In this talk, Professor Milind Tambe will focus on domains of public health and conservation, and address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains. He will present results from work around the globe in using AI for challenges in public health such as Maternal and Child care interventions, HIV prevention, and conservation such as endangered wildlife protection. Achieving social impact in these domains often requires methodological advances. To that end, Millind Tambe will highlight key research advances in multiagent reasoning and learning, in particular in, restless multiarmed bandits, influence maximization in social networks, computational game theory, and decision-focused learning. In pushing this research agenda, our ultimate goal is to facilitate local communities and non-profits to directly benefit from advances in AI tools and techniques.
This talk is a part of the Inauguration conference of TAIGA and #frAIday.
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Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is also the Principal Scientist and Director of "AI for Social Good" at Google Research. Read more about Professor Milind Tambe here.