Abstract:
Being able to efficiently and effectively solve hard real-world problems critically depends on what algorithmic techniques are employed at what abstraction levels of these problems. In this talk, Mr. Satish will present some case studies that emphasize the importance of algorithm design in AI systems. For students aspiring to pursue graduate education, he will also talk about how to be successful in a PhD program and how to be a successful researcher.
Mr Satish Kumar (https://www.tkskwork.org/):
Prof. Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli (T. K. Satish Kumar) leads the Collaboratory for Algorithmic Techniques and Artificial Intelligence at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. He is a Research Associate Professor in USC's Department of Computer Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He has published more than 160 papers on numerous topics spanning such diverse areas as Constraint Reasoning, Planning and Scheduling, Probabilistic Reasoning, Machine Learning and Data Informatics, Robotics, Combinatorial Optimization, Approximation and Randomization, Heuristic Search, Model-Based Reasoning, Computational Physics, Knowledge Representation, and Spatiotemporal Reasoning. He has served on the program committees of many international conferences and is a winner of three Best Paper Awards. He has also consulted for companies such as Meta and Averlon. Prof. Kumar received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in March 2005. In the past, he has also been a Visiting Student at the NASA Ames Research Center, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, a Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida, and a Senior Research and Development Scientist at Mission Critical Technologies.
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