CRCS AI for Social Impact Seminar Series

CRCS hosts the CRCS Seminar Series  from 11 AM – 12 noon Eastern on Mondays during the academic year. CRCS fellows, faculty and friends are encouraged to join us. See here for information about past seminars.

CRCS also hosts regular internal events - professional development panels on topics including interviewing for jobs; putting together application packages; and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

CRCS Spring 2022 Seminar Schedule -

February 7: Hamsa Bastiani (University of Pennsylvania)
March 7: Carl Boettiger (University of California, Berkeley)
March 28: Nithya Sambasivan (Google Research)
April 4: Erroll Southers (University of Southern California)
April 11: Joshua Blumenstock (University of California, Berkeley)
April 25: Nisarg Shah (University of Toronto)
May 2: Miguel Hernan (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)

CRCS Fall 2021 Seminar Schedule

September 13: Francesca Dominici (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)
September 27: Marzyeh Ghassemi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
October 4: Meredith Gore (University of Maryland)
October 25: Sheena Erete (DePaul University)
November 15: Kayse Maass (Northeastern University)
November 29: Haifeng Xu (University of Virginia)
December 6: Andrew Plumptre (Key Biodiversity Areas)

 

CRCS Spring 2021 Seminar Schedule

January 25 through April 19: AI for Social Impact Seminar Series

January 7 and 8: IJCAI 2020 AI for Social Good workshop

 

CRCS Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule

August 24 through December 14: AI for Social Impact

July 20th and 21st: AI for Social Good workshop

 

CRCS Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule

  • Monday, March 2nd: Jukka-Pekka (JP) Onnela of HSPH: "Smartphone-based Digital Phenotyping"
  • Wednesday, March 4th: Google Research India: A Peek at Research Activities in Fundamental and Applied CS Research (please RSVP at https://google-india-ai.splashthat.com/)
  • Monday, March 9th: Ece Kamar of Microsoft Research: In the Pursuit of Responsible AI: Developing AI Systems for People with People
  • Monday, March 23rd: Stefano Ermon of Stanford: Measuring Economic Development from Space
  • Wednesday, March 25th: Speaker and Details TBA
  • Monday, March 30th: Francesca Dominici of HSPH: Can Data Science save the Environment?
  • Monday, April 6th: Harvard Global Health Institute: Details TBA
  • Monday, April 13th: Shahin Jabbari of CRCS: Details TBA
  • Monday, April 20th: Rohini Pande of Yale: Details TBA
  • Monday, April 27th: Eric Rice of USC: Details TBA
2024 Apr 22

Alexandra To (Northeastern University)

11:30am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Science and Engineering Complex 3.301/302/303

Talk Title: Designing Technology for BIPOC Joy and Flourishing

Research and design in human-computer interaction centers problem-solving, causing an unintended downstream effect of framing work centering marginalized communities predominantly from the lens of deficit and damage. In this talk I will present "designing for BIPOC flourishing" - a design framework that centers values such as joy, play, pleasure, rest, and cultural heritage for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color as well as a...

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2024 Apr 25

Leveraging technology to create scalable solutions in maternal and child health in India: the ARMMAN story

11:45am to 12:45pm

Location: 

SEC 3.301/302/303

Talk Title: Leveraging technology to create scalable solutions in maternal and child health in India: the ARMMAN story

Speaker: Aparna Hegde, MD, DNB, FCPS, DGO, MS

ARMMAN is an India-based non-profit leveraging mHealth technology to create scalable, cost-effective, equity-based and gender-transformative, non-linear, systemic solutions to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity in India. Our integrated 360 degree approach leverages deep mobile penetration to provide weekly preventive care information to women so they...

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