AI Seminar

Upcoming Seminars

January 20, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Frank Rudzicz, University of Toronto
Title: First, We Shape Our Tools: How To Build A Better Speech Recognizer
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

Past Seminars

December 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Marek Grzes, University of Waterloo
Title: Relational Approach to Knowledge Engineering for POMDP-based Assistance Systems as a Translation of a Psychological Model
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

November 25, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Omar Zia Khan, University of Waterloo
Title: Automated Refinement of Bayes Networks' Parameters based on Test Ordering Constraints
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

November 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Lachlan Dufton, University of Waterloo
Title: Randomised Budget Balanced Mechanisms and Envy-Free Housemates
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

November 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Ahmed Farahat, University of Waterloo
Title: An Efficient Greedy Method for Unsupervised Feature Selection
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

October 21, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Arthur Carvalho, University of Waterloo
Title: On a Reliable Peer-Review Process
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

October 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Milad Khaki, University of Waterloo
Title: Economic Dispatch using Advanced Dynamic Thermal Rating
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

September 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo
Title: Analyzing and Escaping Local Optima in Planning as Inference for Partially Observable Domains
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

August 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Speaker: Zinovi Rabinovich, Bar Ilan University
Title: Providing Manipulative Advice to Humans
Location: DC 2314

August 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM

Speaker: Parthipan Siva, Queen Mary University of London
Title: Weakly Supervised Detector Training
Location: E5 6111

July 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Greg Hines, University of Waterloo
Title: Preference Elicitation for Plane Travel
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

July 27, 2011 at 10:30 AM

Speaker: Richard Hu, University of Waterloo
Title: Vision-Based Observation Models for Lower Limb 3D Tracking with a Moving Platform
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

July 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Ruth Urner, University of Waterloo
Title: Access to Unlabeled Data can Speed up Prediction Time
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

June 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Jasper Snoek, Intelligent Assistive Technology and Systems Lab, University of Toronto
Title: Semiparametric Latent Variable Models for Guided Representation
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

June 10, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo
Title: Closing the Gap: Improved Bounds on Optimal POMDP Solutions
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

June 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Richard Hu, University of Waterloo
Title: 3D Pose Tracking of Walker Users' Lower Limb with a Structured-Light Camera on a Moving Platform
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 16, 2011 at 2:30 PM

Speakers: Chris Reed, University of Dundee and Katarzyna Budzyńska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
Title: Inference Anchoring Theory and Argument Interchange Format
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Speaker: Chris Reed, University of Dundee
Title: Time for a Good Argument
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Speaker: Quanyan Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Title
Location: DC3549A

May 10, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: Quanyan Zhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Hybrid Learning in Games with Applications to Network Security
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 5, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Speaker: Pooyan Khajehpour, University of Waterloo
Title: TesseraMap: Unfolding Manifolds by Tessellation of Linear Subspaces
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 02, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Speaker: James Tung, University of Waterloo
Title: Smartphone monitoring of lifestyle factors related to Alzheimer's disease
Location: DC 1304

April 29, 2011 at 12:00 noon

Speaker: Marek Grzes, University of Waterloo
Title: Efficient Planning in R-max
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

April 1, 2011 at 12:00 noon

Speaker: Reid Kerr, University of Waterloo
Title: Detecting and Identifying Coalitions
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

March 25, 2011 at 12:00 noon

Speaker: John Champaign, University of Waterloo
Title: Learning from a network of peers via peer-driven adjustment of a corpus
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

February 03, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Speaker: Joshua Gorner, University of Waterloo
Title: Advisor Networks and Referrals for Improved Trust Modelling in Multi-Agent Systems
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

January 28, 2011 at 12:00 noon

Speaker: Pooja Viswanathan (PhD candidate at UBC)
Title: NOAH: Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Help for Wheelchair Users with Dementia
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

January 21, 2011 at 12:00 noon

Speaker: Shehroz Khan, University of Waterloo
Title: One Class Classification: Review and Application to Raman Spectroscopy
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

December 3, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Dmitry Pyryeskin, University of Waterloo
Title:A MultiTouch Coffee Table
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

December 3, 2010 at 10:30 am

Speaker: Chris Reed, University of Dundee
Title:Time for a good argument: Engineering the Argument Web
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

Novermber 12, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, INRIA, France
Title:Analysis of Classification-based Policy Iteration Algorithms
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

July 26, 2010 at 9:30 am

Speaker: John Champaign, University of Waterloo
Title:Peer-Based Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Corpus-Oriented Approach
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

July 23, 2010 at 10:30 am

Speaker: Hyunggu Jung, University of Waterloo
Title: Reasoning about benefits and costs of interation with users in real-time decision making environments with applications to healthcare scenarios
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306 C)

June 25, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Farheen Omar, University of Waterloo
Title: Comparative Analysis of Probabilistic Models for Activity Recognition with an Instrumented Walker
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306 C)

June 18, 2010 at 2:00 pm

Speaker: Pooyan Khajehpour Tadavani, University of Waterloo
Title: Learning an Affine Transformation for Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 28, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Lachlan Dufton, University of Waterloo
Title: Paradoxes of Voting
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

May 7, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Rita Ackerman, University of Waterloo
Title: Characterization of Linkage-Based Clustering
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

April 9, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Greg Hines, University of Waterloo
Title: Preference elicitation for risky and intertemporal choices
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)

March 5, 2010 at 11:30 am

Speaker: Chris Marriott, University of Waterloo
Title: Foraging strategies of artificial ants
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306 C)

Date: February 12, 2010 at 11:30 pm

Speaker: Claus Strommer
Title: Paragraph Context Determination Through Rhetorical Figures - A Practical Approach Using Epanaphora
Location: AI Lab (DC 2306C)