The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
February 20-27, 2024 | Vancouver, Canada
New Faculty Highlights (NFH-24)
This year, AAAI is continuing its invited speaker program, highlighting AI researchers who have just begun careers as new faculty members or the equivalent in industry.
New Faculty Highlight talks will be allotted 30 minutes each; the aim is for these talks to broadly survey the candidate’s research to date. Several talks will be released online and publicized each day of the AAAI conference, following which they will be available archivally as part of the conference program. Invited speakers will be further invited to contribute an article to a corresponding series in AI Magazine.
Program Overview and Schedule
New Advances in Safe and Efficient Large Language Models
Hongyang Zhang
Towards Reproducible, Automated, and Scalable Anomaly Detection
Yue Zhao
Fair and Optimal Prediction via Post-Processing
Han Zhao
Continual Learning in an Open and Dynamic World
Yunhui Guo
The Role of Over-Parameterization in Machine Learning – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Fanghui Liu
Demystifying Algorithmic Fairness in an Uncertain World
Lu Cheng
Making Natural Language Reasoning Explainable and Faithful
Xinya Du
Towards Human-like Learning from Relational Structured-Data
Quanming Yao
Recent Advancements in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Alberto Maria Metelli
Scaling Offline Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning Agents through Abstraction
Josiah Hanna
Towards Trustworthy Deep Learning
Lily Weng
Data-Efficient Graph Learning
Kaize Ding
Harmonious Mobility for Robots That Work with and around People
Christoforos Mavrogiannis
Fostering Trustworthiness in Machine Learning Algorithms
Mengdi Huai
Towards Reliable Learning in the Wild: Generalization and Adaptation
Huaxiu Yao
Algorithmic Foundation of Federated Learning with Sequential Data
Mingrui Liu
Fairness with Censorship: Bridging the Gap between Fairness Research and Real-world Deployment
Wenbin Zhang
Learning Representations for Robust Human-Robot Interaction
Yen-Ling Kuo
Collaborative Learning across Heterogeneous Systems with Pre-Trained Models
Trong Nghia Hoang
From Statistical Relational to Neuro-Symbolic AI
Giuseppe Marra
Symbolic Reasoning Methods for AI Planning
Gregor Behnke
Combating Insider Threat in the Open-World Environments: From Long-Tailed Data to Long-Tailed Model
Dawei Zhou
Towards Reliable Semantic Vision
Tejas Gokhale
Exploiting Data Geometry in Machine Learning
Melanie Weber
Quantifying Political Polarization through the Lens of Machine Translation and Vicarious Offense
Ashiqur Khudabukhsh
When Causal Inference Meets Graph Machine Learning
Jing Ma
Understanding Surprising Generalization Phenomena in Deep Learning
Wei Hu
Empowering Graph Neural Networks from a Data-Centric View
Wei Jin
Large Models, Limited Resources: Navigating Cross-Modality Research in the New Era
Yu Wu
Towards Holistic, Pragmatic and Multimodal Conversational Systems
Pranava Madhyastha
Interactive Theorem Provers: Applications in AI, Opportunities, and Challenges
Mohammad Abdulaziz
Provable and Efficient Machine Learning Algorithms for Optimization, Sampling, and Decision Making
Pan Xu
For More Information
Inquiries concerning submissions and suggestions for the new faculty highlight program may be directed to the program cochairs at aaai24fhchairs@aaai.org. All other inquiries should be directed to AAAI at aaai24@aaai.org.
New Faculty Highlight Co-Chairs
Guy Van den Broeck, University of California, Los Angeles
Vibhav Gogate, The University of Texas at Dallas