报告人：Ryan Shi

              Assistant Professor

                The University of Pittsburgh

主持人：杨耀东 助理教授

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时   间：2023/10/25  18:00 - 20:00

地   址：必赢71886网址登录资源西楼2201会议室

        腾讯会议：701 582 347

 报告题目：Iterative Learning and Planning for Public Sector Applications: Deployed Studies

 报告摘要:   

This talk will mostly focus on our line of work around iterative learning and planning. We will start with a 4-year collaboration with a crowdsourcing food rescue platform, where we combined offline ML model with online optimization to improve volunteer engagement. We will discuss our randomized controlled trial, and our experience rolling it out to over 25 cities across North America. Lifting ourselves beyond this particular application domain, we propose bandit data-driven optimization, a theoretical paradigm for principled iterative prediction-prescription to address the unique challenges that arise in low-resource sustainability settings. We will also briefly discuss our other projects, including one with the World Wildlife Fund which won a 2023 IAAI Deployed Application Award. We will conclude the talk with a discussion of how recent advances like large language models can be leveraged by public sector organizations.

报告人简介:   

Ryan Shi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh as of January 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Societal Computing from Carnegie Mellon University. He works with nonprofit organizations to address societal challenges in food security, environmental conservation, and public health using AI. His research has been deployed at these organizations worldwide. He was the recipient of a 2023 IAAI Deployed Application Award, a 2022 Siebel Scholar Award, and a 2021 Carnegie Mellon Presidential Fellowship, and was selected as a 2022 Rising Star in Data Science by UChicago. Previously, he consulted for DataKind and interned at Microsoft and Facebook.