[Distinguished Seminar] Multimodal Machine Intelligence and its Human-centered Possibilities
Monday, July 24, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Speaker
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory
Host
Prof. Ioannis Pavlidis
Location
Online via
Abstract
Converging developments across the machine intelligence ecosystem–â¶Ä“from multimodal sensing and signal processing to computing–â¶Ä“are enabling new human-centered possibilities both in advancingscience and in the creation of technologies for societal applications including in human health and wellbeing. This includes approaches for quantitatively and objectively understanding human behaviorwith a specific focus on multimodal communicative, affective and social behavior with applications indiagnostics and treatment across varied domains such as distressed relationships, depression, suicide, autism spectrum disorder, addiction to workplace health and wellbeing. There is increasing attention tocreating that are inclusive, equitable, robust, safe and secure. It will also discuss the challenges and opportunities for creating trustworthy machine intelligence approaches that are inclusive, equitable, robust, safe, and secure e.g., with respect to protected variables such as gender/race/age/ability.
About the Speaker
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is and at the University of Southern California (USC), where he is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, and Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Director of the Ming Hsieh Institute and Research Director of the Information Sciences Institute. Prior to USC, he was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Research. His interdisciplinary research focuses on human-centered sensing/imaging, signal processing, and machine intelligence centered on human communication, interaction, emotions, and behavior. He is a Fellow the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a recipient of many awards for research and education. He has widely and his inventions have led to technology commercialization including through startups he co-founded: focused on AI based conversational assistance and focused on mental health care and quality assurance.
