Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 10:00 am
Seminar Room, AI Institute, 1112 Greene St, Columbia (5th Floor; Science & Technology Building) 

Two Lectures on AI Explainability 

As part of Trusted AI course in Fall 2021 by Prof. Biplav Srivastava https://sites.google.com/site/biplavsrivastava/research-1/trustedai  

Oct 19, Tuesday, 10:00-11:15 am - Talk 

Blackboard link: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/f567247c101145cebc6eaa937af2cecd  

 Oct 21, Tuesday, 10:00-11:15 am – Talk and Working Session 

Blackboard link: https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/f567247c101145cebc6eaa937af2cecd  

On campus class at Seminar Room, AI Institute, 1112 Greene St, Columbia (5th Floor; Science & Technology Building) 

 

Speakers: Dr. Diptikalyan Saha (Dipti) and Dr. Vijay Arya 

 

Speakers Bio

Dr. Diptikalyan Saha (Dipti) is a Senior Technical Staff Member and manager of Reliable AI team in Data&AI department of IBM Research at Bangalore. His research interest includes Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge representation, Program Analysis, Security, Software Debugging, Testing, Verification, and Programming Languages. He received a  Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University. His group’s work on Bias in AI Systems is available through AI OpenScale in IBM Cloud as well as through open-source AI Fairness 360.  

 

 

Vijay Arya is a senior researcher in IBM Research AI at the IBM India Research Lab where he works on problems related to Trusted AI. Vijay has 15 years of combined experience in research and software development. His research work spans Machine learning, Energy & smart grids, network measurements & modeling, wireless networks, algorithms, and optimization. His work has received outstanding technical achievement awards at IBM and has been deployed by power utilities in USA. Before joining IBM, Vijay worked as a researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA) and received his PhD in Computer Science from INRIA, France, and a Masters from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He has served on the program committees of IEEE, ACM, and IFIP conferences, he is a senior member of IEEE & ACM, and has more than 60 conference & journal publications and patents.