Multimodal Reasoning and its Applications to Computer Use & Robotics | A UPenn Lecture Sponsored by Turing

​You are invited to join a special virtual stream of Prof. Mayur Naik’s CIS 7000 course on Large Language Models at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by Turing.

​​Speaker: 

​Aakanksha Chowdhery
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Meta
https://www.achowdhery.com

​​Abstract:
In this talk, Aakanksha Chowdhery will explore recent advances in multimodal reasoning and the design of agentic workflows for web and Android environments. Drawing from her extensive research experience at Meta, Google, and Microsoft, she will also share key insights into interdisciplinary applications of LLMs.

​​Bio:
Aakanksha has been a lead researcher in pre-training of large language models, such as PaLM and Gemini. She led the 540B PaLM model at Google and was a core member of the Gemini, Pathways, PaLM-E and MedPaLM projects. Before Google, she led interdisciplinary teams at Microsoft Research and Princeton University across machine learning, distributed systems and networking. Recently, she is experimenting with agentic workflows in open Llama models at Meta. She completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and was awarded the Paul Baran Marconi Young Scholar Award for the outstanding scientific contributions in her dissertation.

​​​​​Learn more about the course at CIS 7000 - Large Language Models.