Socially-Aware AI: Enabling Autonomous Vehicles, Robots, and Moving Agents. An Interview with Professor Alexandre Alahi, Head of VITA Laboratory at EPFL
I'm honored to be joined by Professor Alexandre Alahi, who leads the Visual Intelligence for Transportation laboratory (VITA) at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Alexandre's research focuses on socially-aware AI systems that are safe, trusted, and reliable. His lab's research brings together technical expertise from Computer Vision (Real-time Perception), Machine Learning (Deep learning), and Robotics (Crowd-Robot Interaction), with the goal of developing AI systems that can "sense and respond to human behavior." Whether in the form of an autonomous vehicle, robot, or a built environment powered by AI, Alexandre's work to incorporate a real understanding of ethics and human behavior into the mathematical frameworks that power AI systems is as crucial and relevant as ever.
In 2022, Professor Alahi was recognized as one of the top 100 Most Influential Scholar in Computer Vision over the past 10 years. His research team received the editor's choice award from the journal Image and vision computing (2021) for their work on human motion prediction, the honorable mention at an ICCV workshop (2019) for their work on human pose estimation, the CVPR Open Source Award (2012) for their work on Retina-inspired image descriptors, and the ICDSC Challenge Prize (2009) for their sparsity-driven algorithm that has tracked more than 100 million pedestrians to date. His work has been licensed to several companies and covered internationally by BBC, abc, PBS, Euronews, Wall street journal, and other national news outlets around the world. Alexandre has also co-founded multiple startups such as Visiosafe, and won several startup competitions. He was elected as one of the Top 20 Swiss Venture leaders in 2010. To preview some of what we'll be discussing, you can find his recent Ted Talk here.
We look forward to an enlightening conversation!
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2023
Time: 8:30 AM PST | 5:30 PM CET
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