Agenda

Nov 17

Keynotes

Trustworthy AI

Thu
9:00 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Jeannette Wing, PhD
EVP for Research and Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Calls for trustworthy AI are widespread from governments, industry, academia, and civil society. Purely data-driven approaches to AI development face well-known barriers to trustworthiness, so one might hope that a knowledge-first approach could overcome these challenges. In this talk, Dr. Wing will explore the nature of trustworthiness — what do we want from a trustworthy AI? — and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to building AI with respect to producing that trustworthiness. I will argue that all current approaches to building trustworthy AI face significant challenges, but integration of different approaches holds enormous promise.

Machines that Get Us

Thu
10:00 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Pete Warden, PhD
CEO of Useful Sensors

In this talk Dr. Warden will tell the story of how new research, engineering, and user interface insights are enabling a new world where machines can understand us much better.‍

Technical Sessions

Session 5: Applied Knowledge-First AI

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Degradation Diagnostics

Thu
10:45 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Chao Hu, PhD
Assoc. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

This talk will first give an overview of battery health prognostics and then discuss the long-term testing and methodology development efforts led by a team of researchers at Iowa State University and the University of Connecticut.

Potential and Challenges of ML in Industrial and Environmental Reacting Flows

Thu
11:10 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Wai Tong Chung
PhD Fellow, Stanford University
Matthias Ihme
Professor of ME and Photon Sciences, Stanford University

In this presentation, we discuss opportunities on how ML can impact the field of industrial and environmental reacting flows, present successful applications, and discuss challenges and requirements that are unique within reacting-flow applications

Business-Driven ML: Building User Confidence & Accelerating Innovation

Thu
11:35 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Jerry Deng
General Manager of BI, Panasonic

As an increasing amount of internal and external business data become available, it is no longer sufficient to maintain an “analytic” competitive advantage by traditional data analysis. Meaningful utilization of modern AI/ML techniques, coupled with business-focused implementation, is the key recipe to build competitive advantage through data. In this session, Mr. Deng will share an ML implementation example with emphasis on the internal business user experience.

Break

Lunch

Thu
12:00 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Courtyard
Elise Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

Technical Sessions

Session 6: Applied Knowledge-First AI 2

Modern Data Governance and Trust for Winning in Manufacturing

Thu
1:30 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Pardhu Gunnam
CEO & Co-Founder, Metaphor Data

The manufacturing and IoT industries are undergoing a rapid digital transformation by adopting state-of-the-art data infrastructures. However, many companies struggle to realize value from their heavy investments and find their people and processes are completely isolated from the technologies. A new approach to data governance that combines data with domain knowledge is needed in order for these companies to fully achieve the promise of data and machine learning. In this talk, Mr. Gunnam will cover a real-world use-case of a manufacturing firm's knowledge-first data governance using Metaphor—a modern metadata platform created by veterans from LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, and Amazon.

Will AI Replace Farmers? What Knowledge-Based Autonomous Growing Taught Us

Thu
1:55 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Doan Ha, DrPH
Director of Operations, Koidra

There is a growing concern that humans are being replaced by automation, artificial intelligence, and other technology breakthroughs. Technology innovation is being viewed often as an onslaught on the current workforce. Will AI and automation replace our farmers? AI and humans can co-exist in a symbiotic way. Learn how AI collaboration with farmers not only yields positive business results but also elevates growers' well-being.

Keynote

The Big Story of Small-Data AI: For Humans, By Humans

Thu
2:30 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Rajamani Sambasivam, PhD
Chief Data Science Officer, Petronas

In the world of AI, there are two schools of thought: Data-centric AI, and Knowledge/Human-centric AI. With the latter, in addition to data, human intelligence, expertise, scientific knowledge and real-life learning need to be explicitly embedded in AI algorithms, for the models to become more accurate and derived insights to add further value to the human intellect. The first approach is widely followed and easily understood. With the advent of decision science, the second approach is gaining gradual traction and its real potential has just started to be realized by the AI world.

Reception

Executive Reception & Networking

Thu
3:30 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Courtyard
Elise Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

Nov 17

Executive Session

Trustworthy AI

Thu
9:00 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Jeannette Wing, PhD
EVP for Research and Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

Calls for trustworthy AI are widespread from governments, industry, academia, and civil society. Purely data-driven approaches to AI development face well-known barriers to trustworthiness, so one might hope that a knowledge-first approach could overcome these challenges. In this talk, Dr. Wing will explore the nature of trustworthiness — what do we want from a trustworthy AI? — and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to building AI with respect to producing that trustworthiness. I will argue that all current approaches to building trustworthy AI face significant challenges, but integration of different approaches holds enormous promise.

Machines that Get Us

Thu
10:00 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Pete Warden, PhD
CEO of Useful Sensors

In this talk Dr. Warden will tell the story of how new research, engineering, and user interface insights are enabling a new world where machines can understand us much better.‍

Executive Panel: How To Succeed In Industrial AI

Thu
10:45 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Palm
Nanda Kishore
Chief Operating Officer, Aitomatic

Matthias Ihme – Professor, Stanford | Chetan Gupta – Head of Industrial Al, Hitachi | Yoshikuni Hirayama – Head of APAC, Aitomatic | Jeremy Coupe – Lead, NASA | Jürgen Müller – Head of Knowledge Architecture, BASF

Table Conversations

Thu
11:45 am
Stanford Faculty Club, Palm
Alexandra Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

Executive Panel: Future of Industrial AI

Thu
12:15 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Palm
Ben Lorica, PhD
Program Chair, Knowledge-First World Symposium

Paco Nathan – Managing Partner, Derwen Al | Ovidiu Daescu – Professor, UT Dallas | Patrick Hall – Principal Scientist, BNH.Al | Pete Warden – CEO, Useful Sensors | Rajamani Sambasivam – Chief DS Officer, Petronas

Lunch

Thu
1:15 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Palm
Alexandra Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

The Big Story of Small-Data AI: For Humans, By Humans

Thu
2:30 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Redwood
Rajamani Sambasivam, PhD
Chief Data Science Officer, Petronas

In the world of AI, there are two schools of thought: Data-centric AI, and Knowledge/Human-centric AI. With the latter, in addition to data, human intelligence, expertise, scientific knowledge and real-life learning need to be explicitly embedded in AI algorithms, for the models to become more accurate and derived insights to add further value to the human intellect. The first approach is widely followed and easily understood. With the advent of decision science, the second approach is gaining gradual traction and its real potential has just started to be realized by the AI world.

Executive Reception & Networking

Thu
3:30 pm
Stanford Faculty Club, Courtyard
Elise Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

Nov 16

Registration

Wed
8:30 am
LACC Lobby
Elise Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

Welcome & Introduction

Wed
9:30 am
LACC Sequoia
Ben Lorica, PhD
Program Chair
Timothy Rozario, PhD
Technical Program Chair

Keynotes

Knowledge-First AI: Key to Success in Life-Critical Industries

Wed
9:45 am
LACC Sequoia
Christopher Nguyen, PhD
CEO, Aitomatic

Automating Common-Sense Reasoning

Wed
10:20 am
LACC Sequoia
Gopal Gupta, PhD
Erik Jonsson Chair Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

A discussion on essential elements needed for automating the human thought process and how they are realized in ASP and the s(CASP) goal-directed ASP engine developed in Dr. Gupta's lab. Find out how default rules, expressible in ASP, help solve the explainable AI problem.

Technical Sessions

Session 1: Physics-Inspired ML

Giving Advice to Machine Learners: Forty Years of Knowledge-Intensive Machine Learning

Wed
11:10 am
LACC Sequoia
Jude Shavlik, PhD
(Emer.) Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Listen to Dr. Shavlik's decades of research on creating machine learning algorithms that accept instruction beyond input-output pairs. Several algorithms and associated experimental results will be presented, along with shortcomings and challenges. The impact and role of the amazing recent large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-3, which widely "read the web," and hence read concrete facts as well as general knowledge.

Combining Human Input & ML: NASA's Machine Learning Airport Surface Model

Wed
11:35 am
LACC Sequoia
Jeremy Coupe, PhD
Aerospace Engineer Lead, NASA

This talk will describe the ML Airport Surface Model and discuss how Dr. Coupe and his team developed prediction models that best support FO and ATC decision making with human-in-the-loop. We will show how we leverage a combination of human input and ML models to generate delay predictions which are used to recommend reroute opportunities to the FO. The talk will conclude with lessons learned throughout the deployment cycle.

Applications of Rule-Based Sequential Procedures in Industrial Setting

Wed
12:00 pm
LACC Sequoia
Francis Bilson Darku, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics & Operations, University of Notre Dame

In this presentation, Dr. Darku will cover a little history of sequential analysis and highlight its applications and importance to today’s business sectors. He will also talk about some recent works in sequential analysis and how businesses can embrace them in their everyday operations.

Using Knowledge Graphs to Bridge Humans and AI in Industry

Wed
12:25 pm
LACC Sequoia
Paco Nathan
Derwen AI Managing Partner
Jürgen Müller
BASF Head of Knowledge Architecture

A brief introduction to the concepts and practices of leveraging knowledge graphs in the industry. Learn different ways organizations can leverage domain expertise and machine learning together for a more knowledge-based approach to AI applications.

Session 2: Human-Centric & Medical AI

Expert Knowledge in Autonomous Robots for Healthcare

Wed
11:10 am
LACC Birch
Thuc Vu, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder, OhmniLabs

Developing an autonomy stack for a highly dynamic environment such as a hospital is not straightforward. In this talk, Dr. Vu will share how we could get from development to deployment of our autonomous UV-Disinfection robots within only six months by leveraging the knowledge of healthcare experts.

Prioritizing the Human Experience in an AI-Powered Gig Economy

Wed
11:35 am
LACC Birch
Dharmin Parikh
Head of Product, Uber AI

In this session, we’ll explore the role Human-centered AI plays in trust and safety of users in the gig economy.

Respecting The Variation Among Physicians in Labeling The Clinical Data

Wed
12:00 pm
LACC Birch
Steve Jiang, PhD
Barbara Crittenden Chair Professor in Cancer Research, University of Texas Southwestern

Dr. Jiang will discuss the noisy annotation problem due to expertise errors, i.e., the inconsistencies between different observers due to human subjectivity, using medical image segmentation as an example.

Controlling Neural Networks with Rule Representations

Wed
12:25 pm
LACC Birch
Sungyong Seo, PhD
Software Engineer, Google Cloud AI

Sungyong Seo and his team at Google Cloud AI propose a novel training method that simultaneously combines human rules and data into deep learning. The relative contributions of rules and data are themselves a learned parameter.

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Break

Lunch

Wed
12:50 pm
LACC Birch
Elise Nguyen
Knowledge-First World Symposium

Keynote

Industrial AI: Use Cases, Problem Formulations, and Future Opportunities

Wed
1:35 pm
LACC Sequoia
Chetan Gupta, PhD
Head of Industrial AI, Hitachi

In this talk, Dr. Gupta will present an introduction to Industrial AI, give some real world examples, highlight challenges and lessons learned and point out new research directions and developments.

Technical Sessions

Session 3: Industrial AI Applications

Enabling Environmentally-Friendly Fishing with Knowledge-First AI

Wed
2:25 pm
LACC Sequoia
Roshan Nanu, PhD
Head of Product-Engineering, Aitomatic

The commercial fishing industry is extremely harmful to our world's oceans and under-sea ecosystems. In order to reduce the impact of industry on the environment, a more sustainable method of fishing, fixed-net fishing, exists, but hasn't been able to be profitable until now. AI enables fishermen to tell when the most profitable catch is within the net. However, the data needed to training this AI through traditional methods would take years to acquire. Instead, by incorporating generations of fisherman knowledge into the AI system, this system became possible now.

Knowledge-Driven, Data-Centric Methods for Practical AI Applications

Wed
2:50 pm
LACC Sequoia
Phong X. Nguyen, PhD
Chief AI Officer, FPT Software

In this talk, Dr. Nguyen will share the key takeaways on how to practice knowledge-driven data-centric AI and talk about the examples while applying this concept.

Cold-Chain Predictive Maintenance by Combining ML and Human Expertise

Wed
3:15 pm
LACC Sequoia
Seiya Miyazaki, PhD
Panasonic Cold Chain Solutions PM
R. Chiewvanichakorn
Panasonic Cold Chain Solutions DS

We introduced the combined system of machine learning models and diagnostic algorithms based on machine expertise to analyze possible causes of detected anomalies. The combined system effectively enhanced the precision of detecting failure events of cold chain equipment by 30% and reduced the daily workload of operation engineers for monitoring equipment condition by 89%.

Panasonic’s Digital Transformation: Succeeding in industrial AI using Knowledge-driven AI

Wed
3:40 pm
LACC Sequoia
Hiro Kutsumi
Panasonic Group Director, Digital & AI Technology Center
Takashi Kawamura
Panasonic Group Manager, Digital & AI Technology Center

Panasonic, leader in rechargeable batteries, automotives and avionic systems, industrial systems, is transforming its business through knowledge-driven AI. This is being achieved by leveraging their greatest asset, domain expert knowledge, and incorporating it systematically into the AI systems. This has resulted in higher accuracies at scale across multiple use cases such as Cold Chain Predictive Maintenance, Energy Optimization and Forecasting and overcome some of the practical challenges faced due to data-related issues and data-centric-ML that have plagued AI performance in the past. In this talk, Mr. Kutsumi and Mr. Kawamura will detail out the Panasonic way of building impactful knowledge-driven-AI solutions at scale.

Turning Medical Expert Knowledge into Responsible Language Models

Wed
4:05 pm
LACC Sequoia
David Talby, PhD
CTO, John Snow Labs

This session is a case study that summarizes the processes, tools, and lessons learned while addressing these challenges over the past five years, building the Spark NLP for Healthcare models in oncology.

Session 4: Ethical & Secure AI

Bias in AI

Wed
2:25 pm
LACC Birch
Rayid Ghani, PhD
Professor of ML & CS, Carnegie Mellon University

TBA

Building Trustworthy AI Systems

Wed
2:50 pm
LACC Birch
David Danks, PhD
Professor of Data Science & Philosophy, UC San Diego

In this talk, Dr. Danks will explore the nature of trustworthiness — what do we want from a trustworthy AI? — and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to building AI with respect to producing that trustworthiness.

AI-RULE: A Framework for Trustworthy Industrial AI

Wed
3:15 pm
LACC Birch
Vinh Luong
Head of Solution-to-Product Engineering, Aitomatic

TBA

Empathic AI: The Science and Ethics of Coevolving with AI

Wed
3:40 pm
LACC Birch
Olaf Witkowski, PhD
Director of Research, Cross Labs

Investing early into complexity and intelligence sciences, we present a new model for AI research to investigate the integration of biological and artificial intelligence in the age of information. We designed new institutional structures and an international network of artificial life scientists, driving a new vision of the tech ecosystem through strong fundamentals rooted in academic research.

Seven Legal Questions for Data Science

Wed
4:05 pm
LACC Birch
Patrick Hall
Principal Scientist, bnh.ai

Take note of the seven questions aligned to the nascent NIST AI Risk Management Framework that we can use to map, measure, and manage the risks and liabilities associated with AI systems.

Keynote

Computing-Based Models and Human in the Loop: The Case of Medical AI

Wed
4:45 pm
LACC Sequoia
Ovidiu Daescu, PhD
Head of Computer Science Department, University of Texas

In general, AI models target to match the human when making a choice, yet when the choices diverge, there is often no secondary method to verify a claim. The question then arises of what the right answer is, and how human and machine can learn from each other in deriving the right answer. This talk will address that question in the context of medical applications.

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