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CRCS held AI-Assisted Decision-Making for Conservation Workshop

October 21, 2022

In Oct, 2022, the AI-Assisted Decision-Making for Conservation workshop convened to explore the opportunities to expand the breadth of AI methods — particularly for optimization, planning, and evaluation — that are being developed for and applied to conservation. In this workshop, we discussed the challenges raised during the workshop in conservation area management; methods discussed in AI, earth observation, and causality; and limitations in the application of AI for conservation.

After hearing from experts on these topics, we as a group discussed...

CRCS Postdoc Manish Raghavan awarded 2021 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

June 2, 2022

CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow Manish Raghavan has been recognized with the 2021 Association for Computing Machinery Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled, "...

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Milind Tambe is Pioneering AI for Social Good

March 8, 2022

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University featured Milind Tambe and described the evolution of his work in a recent article. Read more about Milind Tambe is Pioneering AI for Social Good

COMPUTER CONSERVATION: CRCS's Lily Xu uses artificial intelligence to stop poaching around the world

December 9, 2021

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Lily Xu knew from a young age how much the environment and conservation mattered to her. By 9 years old, she’d already decided to eat vegetarian...

Milind Tambe keynote at INFORMS Annual Meeting

October 25, 2021

CRCS Director Milind Tambe gave the keynote on Monday, October 25, 2021. Professor Tambe's talk, titled, "“Multiagent Reasoning for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation," discussed using artificial intelligence (AI) to create research solutions for complex societal problems. Additional information is available here.

Accepting applications for CRCS postdoctoral fellowship and Summer 2022 Fellowships

October 5, 2021

The Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) is currently accepting applications for postdoctoral fellows and summer fellows for 2022. Applications are due December 15th, 2021 though the postdoc position will accept applications until the positions are filled.

CRCS brings together computer scientists and scholars from a broad range of fields to make advances in computational research that serve public interest. We are currently collaborating on interdisciplinary projects in areas such as population health, poverty and inequality, and conservation...

Lily Xu's Paper Selected as Runner-Up for AAAI2021 Best Paper Award

February 4, 2021

Lily Xu's paper, Dual-Mandate Patrols: Multi-Armed Bandits for Green Security, was selected as runner up for best paper at the AAAI 2021 conference. Co-authors are Elizabeth Bondi, Andrew Perrault, Kai Wang, and Milind Tambe from Harvard and Fei Fang from Carnegie Mellon.

CRCS Alumna Fei Fang to present at AI for Economics Seminar on February 2

February 2, 2021

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Cynthia Dwork Awarded 2020 Knuth Prize

May 29, 2020

CRCS faculty member Cynthia Dwork is the winner of the 2020 Knuth Prize for her sustained record of contributions to theoretical computer science over the past four decades. https://sigact.org/prizes/knuth/citation2020.pdf. Congratulations, Cynthia! Read more about Cynthia Dwork Awarded 2020 Knuth Prize

CRCS Postdoc Pragya Sur Accepts Position at Harvard University

May 29, 2020

Congratulations to CRCS Postdoc Pragya Sur, who will join the Harvard Statistics Department as an Assistant Professor this summer. Go Pragya!

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