DiDi Lecture: AI for the Marketplace with Applications to Ride-Sharing

Bahen Centre 40 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Abstract In this talk, we will introduce a general analytical framework for large scale data obtained from two-sided markets, especially ride-sharing platforms like DiDi. This framework integrates classical methods including Experiment Design, Causal Inference and Reinforcement Learning, with modern machine learning methods, such as Graph Convolutional Models, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning and Generative Adversarial Network. […]

Seminar: Smart “Predict, then Optimize”

Bahen Centre 40 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University Many real-world analytics problems involve two significant challenges: prediction and optimization. Due to the typically complex nature of each challenge, the standard paradigm is predict-then-optimize. By and large, machine learning tools are intended to minimize prediction error and do not account for how the predictions will be used in the downstream […]

Colloquium: Bodies. Deep Learning

Koffler Student Services Centre 214 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deep learning is a term that WEIRDLY connects the praxis of experiential learning and practices of machine learning while AI, artificial intelligence, and A/I artistic intelligence, are also conceptual aspects of interest for our discussion. Location: Robert Gill Theatre Lobby, Koffler Student Services Centre - 3rd floor

Rotman Health IT Session 2 – Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare – Are we there yet?

Desautels Hall 105 St George Street, Toronto, Canada

Speaker(s): Dr. Trevor Jamieson, Medical Director of IT Implementation and Innovation at St. Michael`s Hospital and Lead, Virtual Care, at WIHV, Dept of Medicine, University of Toronto Dr. Chris O'Connor, President, Think Research Dr. Heather Ross, Loretta A. Rogers Chair in Heart Function, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, UHN Joby McKenzie, Managing Director (Canada), Babylon  

OR Seminar: Derivative-Free Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization with Application to an Energy Storage Problem

Bahen Centre 40 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Speaker: Saeed Ghadimi, Princeton University Abstract In this talk, we propose and analyze derivative-free stochastic approximation algorithms for nonconvex optimization. We first propose generalization of the conditional gradient algorithm achieving a similar rate to the standard stochastic gradient algorithm (SGD) using only noisy function evaluations (zeroth-order information). For the high-dimensional setting, we explore the advantage […]

OR Seminar: Dynamic multistage scheduling for patient-centered care plans

Bahen Centre 40 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Speaker: Adam Diamand Abstract: We investigate the scheduling practices of multistage outpatient health programs that offer care plans customized to the needs of their patients. We formulate the scheduling problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) where patients can reschedule their appointment, may fail to show up, and may even become ineligible. The MDP has […]

CARTE Industry Speaker Series with Andreea Cucu

Please join us for our first seminar with Andreea Cucu. Andreea is a software development engineer at Amazon, and has previously worked at Google and JP Morgan Chase. At the University of Edinburgh, she worked on their NASA robot, and led a series of initiatives to help students develop their technical and personal skills. Please […]

CARTE Industry Speaker Seminar Series on AI Applications in Financial Industries

Online

The Centre for Analytics and AI Engineering (CARTE) is hosting the second industry speaker seminar of this academic year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in financial industries . The speakers are Baiwu Zhang and Christine Yuen. Baiwu is an Applied AI researcher and Christine is an AI Developer in the Bank of Montreal AI Capabilities […]

Building Data Science Solutions for Personalized Health and Medicine

Online

The Centre for Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Engineering (CARTE) hosts Dr. Shiva Amiri, Director of Research Infrastructure at 23andMe, who will discuss building genomic analytics and machine learning platforms for personalized health and drug discovery. Abstract: This seminar will cover building genomic analytics and machine learning platforms for personalized health and drug discovery using the […]

ChatGPT in the Classroom: Understanding Risks and Benefits of Large Language Models

Mechanical Engineering 5 King's College Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Abstract: With the rise of large language models such as ChatGPT, there is growing concern that students may use AI to partly or entirely write their assignments. Join us for an informative talk on how these models work, the potential cheating implications, and strategies to discourage their use. We will discuss methods to try to […]

Event Series Civic Tech TO @ CARTE

How Games can Inspire Civic Change

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship 55 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Topic: People, Politics, and Interactivity: How Games can Inspire Civic Change A discussion of production methodologies of the PeoPoli project and how games and other media can be designed to inspire civic and social change. Speaker: Jordan Sparks Jordan Sparks is a Black-Canadian Multimedia Artist, Designer, and Educator born and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada […]