More than 150 teachers and students graduated from the 10 schools and colleges of the George Mason University met in the center on Friday, February 3 to discuss artificial intelligence (IA). Called the AI innovation symposium, it was a concerted effort of the Digital innovation institute (Idia) to build communities of practice around AI subjects and bring together researchers sharing the same ideas that could never meet in a large research university with four campuses.
Amarda Shehu, associated vice-president of Idia’s research, welcomed the participants and helped establish the agenda of the day. Andre Marshall, vice-president of research, innovation and economic development, and Gurdip Singh, the divisional dean of the Computer schoolmade opening and expressed comments Their support for strengthening capacity and the establishment of Mason as an AI university.
“These are not only research institutes,” said Marshall about the Mason research company, “but emerging innovation ecosystems, addressing holistic ways of urgent societal need by engaging the stakeholders inclusive through disciplines and geographies.”
Marshall also talked about the research objectives of the university, the growth in research financing, the huge Masonly Talent Basin and the University’s ability to take ideas for “business experience”.
Tables in the Hub Ballroom was labeled with subjects such as AI4HEHEALTH, 4Science, Policy, Learning, Equity, Justice, Automy, Future of Work, and even more. Shehu encouraged participants to find other people who shared their passion for a subject and seek critical mass.
“The objective is to build a community of AI of teachers and researchers with shared passion and complementary expertise to trigger and support long-term collaborations, ambitious research and educational programs, and large-scale research activities, training and development of labor,” said Shehu.
Participants spent the best part of the symposium working with their colleagues and constituting teams of common interests around AI. The teams articulated their vision and their abilities, and rich discussions followed.
“The faculty has enjoyed the opportunity to connect with old and new colleagues in a relaxed format conducive to significant interactions,” said Kammy Sanghera, executive director of Idia.
It was the second time that Idia has organized such a symposium, said Sanghera. In 2020, there was a meeting surrounding the subject of succession of great challenges.
During the symposium, the inaugural class of Idia of predoctoral scholarships was introduced to the participants sharing their multidisciplinary research projects. Scholarship holders and their projects are
- Facundo Nicolas Airaudo, “Optimal Hvac tendlay to minimize the transmission of pathogens”
- SOELEM AAFNAN BHUIYAN, “Develop a data assimilation technique to improve surveillance and forecasting coastal dangers”
- Michael Timothy Crawshaw, “multiple guarantees in distributed depth learning: calculation, communication and effective algorithms of samples”
- Jinyi Kim, “a several level approach to measure the risks for the positive results of young people”
Shehu concluded: “We think it is an important step towards a real expulsion of synergies and connect in -depth expertise pockets through Mason to build a rich ecosystem of impacting transdisciplinary activities while we continue to activate Mason Square and to merge and position Mason for the impact. Innovation space.”