Humanitarian-AI

Weekly humanitarian AI reading group at Mila.

Contact: Kris Sankaran
Regular Time and Location: Thursdays 5 - 6pm in the Mila Auditorium
Potential Topics and Papers
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This reading group serves several complementary purposes,

Educate ourselves about the state of machine learning applications in the social good space.
Discover unifying themes, and clarify humanitarian AI research problems aligned with Mila’s strengths.
Create a space to coordinate and evaluate potential collaborations between Mila people and those working directly on problems of social relevance.

Reflecting these goals, the format for meetings will vary,

Discussions of specific papers related to humanitarian AI.
Summaries of historical work in general application areas (e.g., crisis response or sustainability).
Descriptions of projects from potential collaborators, along with QA.

Date	Topic	Presenters
4 April, 2019	TBA	Anna Bethke
28 March, 2019	TBA	Alexandra Olteanu
21 March, 2019	Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges	Fei Fang
14 March, 2019	Bridging gaps between climate sciences and AI	Karthik Mukkavilli
7 March, 2019	No Talk
28 February, 2019	Addressing Ethical and Privacy Concerns in Data Products and Initiatives	Aman Ahuja
21 February, 2019	Data Science for Tenants’ Good in NYC: Proactive Outreach to Reduce Rental Housing Harassment	Teng Ye
14 February, 2019	No Talk
7 February, 2019	No Talk
31 January, 2019	Mila Roundtable: Crisis Mapping, Climate Change AI, Biasly, q&ai	Pablo Fonseca, Kris Sankaran, Victor Schmidt, Yasmeen Hitti, Bhairav Mehta
24 January, 2019	No Talk
17 January, 2019	Technology for Good: Perspectives from Bangalore and Chicago	Kris Sankaran
27 November, 2018	Automatic classification of different types of online sexual harassment and identification of their emotional content (recording)	Sima Sharifirad
20 November, 2018	No meeting
13 November, 2018	A Survey of Tasks and Tools for the Visually Impaired (recording)	Martin Weiss
6 November, 2018	Tackling gender bias in text (Label!, recording)	Yasmeen Hitti
30 October, 2018	A Scalable, Flexible Augmentation of the Student Education Process (recording)	Bhairav Mehta
23 October, 2018	Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Challenges and opportunities (recording)	Anthony Ortiz
16 October, 2018	No meeting
9 October, 2018	An Invitation to Humanitarian AI + Project Discussions	Kris Sankaran

If you are interested in either (1) presenting or (2) contributing to one of our ongoing collaborations, please write to Kris!