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2024 Spring Festival Forum on AI

Date and Time:  Saturday, Feb. 24th, 2024

Location: E2-2350

The registration is free. To register, please click fill out the online registration form or respond to the email announcement from WCCSA.  All participants are encouraged to join WCCSA.

Organizing Committee

· Pengfei Li, Statistics and Actuarial Science, UW

· Victor Cui, Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, UW

· Will Zhao, Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, UW

· Liping Fu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW

Program Details:

Registration: 9:30am –10:00am Registration

Opening Remarks: 10:00am (Liping Fu)

Technical Session (Chair: Changbao Wu, Statistics and Actuarial Science)

10:00am—11:20pm

1.   ChatGPT as an academic toolkit: Harnessing GenAI for research

Dr. Martin Qiu (Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University)

2.   Towards more holistic environment of data, computers, and humans

Dr. Jian Zhao (Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo)

3.   Data poisoning and valuation in machine learning

Dr. Yaoliang Yu (Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo)

4.   AI applications in transportation engineering

Dr. Liping Fu (Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo)

Coffee Break (11:20am-11:30am)

Keynote Presentation (Chair: Xianguo Li, Mechanical and Mechatronics Department)

11:30am—12:00pm

“Stars and morning glow complement each other, dreams and passion go hand in hand, striving and success follow each other”

Dr. En-Hui Yang, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo

Lunch: 12:10pm—2:00pm (Location to be decided)

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