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SUMMARY:Distribution Shifts in Human-Centered Representation Learning - Dr
  Ali Etemad - Associate Professor at Queen’s University\, Canada. Visiti
 ng academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Ben Karniely
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Distribution shift is a naturally occurring phenomen
 on that manifests in various forms of real-world data when the underlying 
 distribution of the data changes over time or between different contexts. 
 This is especially important in the area of human-centered AI where distri
 bution shifts could have important implications in terms of performance\, 
 robustness\, and bias\, among others. In this talk\, I will discuss our re
 cent works on addressing distribution shifts in representation learning fo
 r different types of human-centered data and their implications.\n\nBio: D
 r. Etemad is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Co
 mputer Engineering\, Queen's University. He holds an endowed professorship
  of Mitchell Professor in AI for Human Sensing & Understanding\, and leads
  the Ambient Intelligence and Interactive Machines (Aiim) lab. His main ar
 ea of research is human-centered machine learning and deep learning. Dr. E
 temad received his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer En
 gineering from Carleton University\, Ottawa\, Canada\, in 2009 and 2014\, 
 respectively.  Prior to joining Queen’s\, he held several industry posit
 ions as lead scientist. He has published over 170 papers in top venues in 
 the area  (e.g.\, NeurIPS\, ICLR\, AAAI\, CVPR\, T-PAMI\, ECCV\, ICCV\, et
 c.)\, is a co-inventor of 10 patents\, and has given over 25 invited talks
 .  Dr. Etemad is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Co
 mputing and IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. He has served as
  a PC member/reviewer\, and has held organizing roles at various venues. H
 e has received a number of awards including Supervisor of the Year Award (
 at Queen’s)\, Instructor of the Year Award (at Queen’s)\, and several 
 Best Paper Awards (e.g.\, at ACM ICMI'23). Dr. Etemad’s lab and research
  program have been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
  Council (NSERC) of Canada\, Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE)\, Canadia
 n Foundation for Innovation (CFI)\, Mitacs\, and other organizations\, as 
 well as the private sector. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Unive
 rsity of Cambridge and has previously been a Visiting Faculty at Google Re
 search.\n\nLink to join virtually: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81322468305
 \n\nThis talk is not being recorded.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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