USC Center for Autonomy and AI

Fall 2024 Workshop on AI Safety in the GenAI Era

October 10, 2024

MCB 101, UPC Campus

We invite you to join us at our USC Center for Autonomy and AI Fall Workshop for a day of learning, sharing, and tackling some of the most vexing challenges facing the development of intelligent autonomy. The Workshop on the campus of USC will bring together expert faculty from USC Viterbi School of Engineering and industry researchers such as you to explore current topics in research on AI Safety in the GenAI Era.

The Fall 2024 Workshop will include lightning talks, panels, and breakout sessions. Participants will cross-pollinate with researchers from other industries as well as take deeper dives with colleagues from their own industries. Our 2023 Workshop featured presenters from 10 companies.

Come learn new approaches to solving current challenges in intelligent autonomy research, share your own challenges, and make new connections with fellow researchers in the field. Our Workshop day will run from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, lunch is included as is our cocktail reception. 

Click the Register Now button to join the USC Center for Autonomy and AI Fall 2024 Workshop on October 10th. We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda

8:30 AM  Event Registration, Coffee, Welcome

9:05 AM  Opening Remarks and Center Overview 

Rahul Jain, Co-Director, USC Center for Autonomy and AI

9:20 AM  Autonomy Research in the USC School of Advanced Computing 

Gaurav Sukhatme, Director, USC School of Advanced Computing

9:40 AM  Panel Discussion: “Autonomy in the GenAI Era” 

Moderator: Jyo Deshmukh, Co-Director, USC Center for Autonomy and AI 

Panelists: 

Prakash Sarathy, Chief Engineer, Northrop Grumman 

Gaurav Sukhatme, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, USC School of Advanced Computing 

Chetan Gupta, GM, Advanced AI Research Center, Japan; Leader of Industrial AI Lab, North America, Hitachi 

Georgios Fainekos, Senior Principal Scientist, Toyota

10:25 AM  Morning Networking Break

10:40 AM  Faculty Research Talks – Part 1 

Session Chair: Prof. Lars Lindemann 

Speakers: 

Prof. Stefanos Nikolaidis “Robot Adaptation for Intuitive Human-Robot Collaboration”

Prof. Yan Liu Topic to be announced 

Prof. Jesse Thomason “Bringing LPTMs and Symbolic Reasoning Together for Robots” 

Prof. Erdem Biyik Topic to be announced

11:40 AM AAI Industry Affiliates Program Overview 

Maurena Nacheff-Benedict, Assistant Dean, Corporate & Foundation Relations

12:00 PM  Lunch & Poster Session

12:45 PM  Industry Lightning Talks – Part 1 

Session Chair: Jyo Deshmukh, Co-Director, USC Center for Autonomy and AI 

Speakers: 

Adam Molin, Technical Manager – Corporate R&D, DENSO “Scenario-based testing for automated driving” 

Michael Warren, Group Leader, Operational Autonomy, HRL "Data and autonomous system robustness” 

Georgios Fainekos, Senior Principal Scientist, Toyota “From Multi-Robot Task Allocation to Safe Motion Planning in Uncertain Environments” 

Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Senior Researcher, Artificial Intelligence, Nissan “AI Trends at Nissan Advanced Technology Center in the Gen AI era” 

Uttara Thakre, Manager: ADAS-Autonomous Driving Technologies & Future Platforms, Ford Topic to be announced

1:45 PM  Afternoon Networking Break

2:00 PM  Industry Lightning Talks – Part 2 

Session Chair: Rahul Jain, Co-Director, USC Center for Autonomy and AI

Speakers: 

Alberto Speranzon, Chief Scientist, Lockheed Martin “On Neuro-Symbolic Methods in Autonomy” 

Tom Youmans, CEO, Rhoman Aerospace "Moving AI: AI in Autonomous Flight" 

Bala Chidambaram, Chief Engineer/Director, Boeing “Aerospace Autonomy – Applications, Challenges, and the Path Forward” 

Lauren Perry, AI/ML Principal Engineer, The Aerospace Corp. “Additional Considerations for Trust In the Advent of GenAI” 

Christof Budnik, Senior Key Expert, Siemens "Challenges and Opportunities of Integrating Large Language Models in Industrial Automation Systems."

3:00 PM  Faculty Research Talks – Part 2 

Session Chair: Prof. Stefanos Nikolaidis 

Speakers: 

Prof. Yue Wang “Drive Everywhere with LLMs” 

Ketan Savla “Human-Centered Autonomy: workload, recommendations and incentives” 

Prof. Souti Chattopadhyay Topic to be announced 

Prof. Lars Lindemann “Verification and Safe Control for Learning-Enabled Autonomy”

3:50 PM  Closing Remarks & Announcements

4:00 PM  Reception & Poster Session Continuation

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