With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems.

In this seminar, Professor Milind Tambe will focus on the problems of public health and conservation, and address how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains.

About the speaker

Professor Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University; he is also Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India.

Prof.Tambe is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), as well as recipient of the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, the Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award, the INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice and others.

Abstract

With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. Prof. Tambe will focus on the problems 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 HIV prevention, maternal and child care interventions, TB prevention and COVID modeling, as well as for wildlife conservation.

Achieving social impact in these domains often requires methodological advances. To that end, he will highlight key research advances in multiagent reasoning and learning, in particular, in computational game theory, restless bandits and influence maximization in social networks. In pushing this research agenda, he believes, our ultimate goal is to facilitate local communities and non-profits to directly benefit from advances in AI tools and techniques.

Monash Data Futures Institute

The Monash Data Futures Institute is an initiative of Monash University, Australia’s largest university, and acts as the access point to Monash’s vast network of researchers, academics, engineers and scientists in AI and the data sciences. The Institute forms the nucleus of one of the largest cohorts of AI and Data Science researchers in the Asia-Pacific, with more than 400 researchers.

Partnering with industry, governments and not-for-profits at all levels to address the most pressing global and scientific challenges of our time, we emphasise a cross disciplinary approach to transformative change in health sciences, sustainable development, governance and policy.

Monash Prato Dialogue - Fostering Global Dialogue & Discovery in AI and Data Science

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Please note: this lecture series is virtual in 2021.

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