Activities
I am involved with professional volunteer activities like those mentioned on this page: outreaching as co-chair or external guide of PhD committees at major research universities, contributing to running of top-tier conferences, conducting tutorials and workshops, creating new technical communities [AI in India], and guiding students. Additionally, I have a [opinion page/blog] where I post information that students may find useful.
Conference
Collaborative Assistants for Society (CASY) workshops at the AI Institute: A series of hybrid physical/virtual free-to-attend conferences intended to promote the ethical usage of digital assistants in society for daily life activities.
First physical/virtual conference on Collaborative assistants for the society, 16 Oct 2020, (CASY 2020). Had 140 registered participants from around the world [Video, Local coverage].
Second academic year
i. [March 2022, CASY2 phase 2 chatbot workshop, 60 registered] CASY 2.2 - Building Momentum for Collaborative Assistants for Society
ii. [October 2021, CASY2 phase 1 chatbot workshop, 60 registered] CASY 2 - A Practical Way to Look at Collaborative Assistants for Society
Journal and Magazine Editorship
[Associate Editor] ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2021 - current.
[Guest] AI Magazine special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Elections. Co-edited by Biplav Srivastava, Tarmo Koppel, Anita Nikolich, Publication in Winter 2023.
[Guest] Frontier Special Topic in Big Data Series: Collaborative Assistants for Society. Co-edited by Biplav Srivastava, Imed Zitouni, Ullas Nambiar, Publication in Winter 2021.
[Guest] IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Sociotechnical Perspectives on AI Ethics and Accountability, Co-edited by Nadin Kokciyan, University of Edinburgh; Biplav Srivastava, University of South Carolina; Michael N. Huhns, University of South Carolina; Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University. Details. Publication in Winter 2021.
[Guest] AI Magazine special issue Successful Research in Artificial Intelligence. Co-edited by Ching-Hua Chen, James Hendler, Sabbir Rashid, Oshani Seneviratne, Daby Sow, Biplav Srivastava, Publication in Winter 2019.
[Guest] IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Internet of Thing (IoT)-Enhanced Human Experience. Co-edited by Florian Michahelles, Siemens Corporate Research; Amit Sheth, Kno.e.sis – Wright State University; and Biplav Srivastava, IBM T.J. Watson Research. Publication in Jan/ Feb 2018. Details.
Organizing Conference Tracks
Workshop track at (ICAPS-2024) 34th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Shirin Shorabi, Biplav Srivastava,June 1-6, 2024, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Tutorial track at (CODS-COMAD 2024) 7th Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, Preethi Jyothi, Biplav Srivastava, Jan 4-7, 2024, IIIT Bangalore, India.
Workshop track at (AAAI-2021) 35th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Biplav Srivastava, Lyle Ungar, Feb 2-9, 2021, Virtual (Originally British Columbia, Canada).
Workshop track at (AAAI-2020) 34th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Min-Ling Zhang, Biplav Srivastava, Feb 7-12, 2020, in New York, New York, USA.
Workshop track at (IJCAI-2016) 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Biplav Srivastava, Gita Sukthankar, July 9-15, 2016, in New York, New York, USA.
Demonstration track - ICAPS-09 Application Showcase, Mark Giuliano, Biplav Srivastava, September 19-23, 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Demonstration track of AAAI-06 called Intelligent Systems Demonstration, Rob Miller, Biplav Srivastava, July 16-20, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Demonstration track of AAAI-05 called Intelligent Systems Demonstration,Biplav Srivastava, Belinda Thom, July 9-13, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Conducting Tutorials
Vishal Pallagani, Keerthiram Murugesan, Biplav Srivastava, Francesca Rossi, Lior Horesh, Tutorial on Harnessing Large Language Models for Planning: A Lab on Strategies for Success and Mitigation of Pitfalls, 38th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Vancouver, Canada, Feb 2024.
Tutorial on Promoting Sustainable Water Usage and Management With Water Data, AI and Policy, in conjunction with 6th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (10th ACM IKDD CODS and 28th COMAD) (CODS-COMAD 2023), Bihu Suchetana, Biplav Srivastava, Hari Prabhat Gupta, and Manabendra Saharia, January 4–7, 2023, Mumbai, India. [Water Tutorial] (tutorial-slides, paper)
Tutorial on Trusting AI by Testing and Rating Third Party Offerings, in conjunction with 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), Biplav Srivastava, Francesca Rossi, Yokohoma, Japan, Jan 2021.
Tutorial on AI for Data-Driven Decisions in Water Management, in conjunction with 31st Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), Biplav Srivastava, Sandeep Sandha, San Francisco, USA, Feb 2017.
Tutorial on AI for Smart City Innovations with Open Data, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), Biplav Srivastava, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tutorial on Composing Web APIs – State of the art and mobile implications, in conjunction with 1st International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobiSOFT), held with 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Biplav Srivastava; Hyderabad, India, June 2, 2014.
Tutorial on AI-Driven Analytics In Traffic Management, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), Biplav Srivastava, Akshat Kumar, at Beijing, China, Aug 3-5, 2013.
Tutorial on Traffic Management and AI, in conjunction with 26th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Biplav Srivastava, Anand Ranganathan, at Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2012 (tutorial-slides).
Promoting Research Culture
Part of the initiative by Benedict College (BC) and the University of South Carolina (USC) along with Google Research to offer a collaborative program promoting research experience in computing for undergraduate students in 2022-2023 called BC-UofSC exploreCSR. I will focus on open innovations around water and traffic building on my work on smart cities and the IJCAI 2015 tutorial I gave about it.
Advisory Role on PhD Committees as External Member
Pramod Anantharam, Wright State University, USA, 2016.
Freddy Lecue, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, 2008.
John Harney, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 2010.
Organizing Workshops/ Symposiums
Workshop (Third) on AI for Credible Elections: A Call to Action, in conjunction with 38th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Andrea Hickerson, Tarmo Koppel, Chris Dawes, Sachindra Joshi, Ponnaguram Kumaraguru, Feb 2024.
Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Financial Services (FinPlan'23), in conjunction with 33rd International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-23), Parisa Zehtabi, Alberto Pozanco, William Yeoh, Biplav Srivastava, July 2023.
Workshop (Second) on AI for Credible Elections: A Call to Action, in conjunction with 37th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Andrea Hickerson, Tarmo Koppel, Chris Dawes, Sachindra Joshi, Feb 2023.
AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium on Thinking Fast and Slow and Other Cognitive Theories in AI, Marianna Ganapini, Lior Horesh, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, Biplav Srivastava, Brent Venable, Arlington, Virginia, November 17-19, 2022.
Workshop on AI for Credible Elections: A Call to Action, in conjunction with Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Huan Liu, Natwar Modani, Tarmo Koppel, Dec 2021.
Workshop on Metacognition in the Age of AI: Challenges and Opportunities, in conjunction with Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), Ingmar Posner, Francesca Rossi, Lior Horesh, Steve Fleming, Oiwi Parker Jones, Rohan Paul, Biplav Srivastava, Andrea Loreggia, Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini, Dec 2021.
Workshop (Fourth) on Reasoning and Learning in Human-Agent Dialogs (DEEP-DIAL), in conjunction with 35th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur (Sathya) , Ullas Nambiar, Imed Zitouni, Biplav Srivastava, Virtual, Feb 2021.
Workshop on Knowledge-infused Mining and Learning (Advancing Decision-making in Health, Crisis Response, and Finance), at the 26th ACM Knowledge Disovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020), Manas Gaur, Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes, Fatma Özcan, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Sameena Shah, Amit Sheth, Biplav Srivastava, San Diego, California, USA. Proceedings are here.
Workshop (Third) on Reasoning and Learning in Human-Agent Dialogs (DEEP-DIAL), in conjunction with 34th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), Ullas Nambiar, Imed Zitouni, Kshitij Fadnis, Biplav Srivastava, New York, NY, USA, Feb 2020.
Workshop (Second) on Reasoning and Learning in Human-Agent Dialogs (DEEP-DIAL), in conjunction with 33rd Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), Biplav Srivastava, Susanne Biundo, Ullas Nambiar, Imed Zitouni, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Feb 2019.
Workshop on Reasoning and Learning in Human-Agent Dialogs (DEEP-DIAL), in conjunction with 32nd Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), Biplav Srivastava, Susanne Biundo, Ullas Nambiar, Imed Zitouni, New Orleans, USA, Feb 2018.
Workshop on SmartIoT: AI enhanced IoT data processing for Intelligent Applications, in conjunction with 32nd Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), Amelie Gyrard, Payam Barnaghi, Amit Sheth, Biplav Srivastava, New Orleans, USA, Feb 2018.
Workshop on Business Process Innovations with Artificial Intelligence (BPAI), in conjunction with Business Process Management Conference (BPM 2017), Jana Koehler, Marco Montali, Biplav Srivastava, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Riccardo De Masellis, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Arik Senderovich, Barcelona, Spain, Sep 2017.
Workshop on Human Aware AI, in conjunction with 31st Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), Kartik Talamadupula, Shirin Sohrabi, Loizos Michael, Biplav Srivastava, San Francisco, USA, Feb 2017.
Workshop on Semantic Cities: Beyond AI Models, Proofs and Reasoning, In conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), Freddy Lecue, Biplav Srivastava, Alexandre Rademaker, Sheila McIlraith and Theo Damoulas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Workshop on Cognitive Computing for Augmented Human Intelligence, In conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), Biplav Srivastava, Janusz Marecki, Gerald Tesauro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Workshop on Open Government Data and Smart City at SciDataCon 2014, Neeta Verma, Biplav Srivastava, Nov, 2014, New Delhi
Workshop on AI for Cities, in conjunction with Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI-15), Theo Damoulas, Biplav Srivastava, Freddy Lecue and Sheila McIlraith, at Austin, 28-29 January, 2015.
Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities, in conjunction with 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Payam Barnaghi, Jan Holler, Biplav Srivastava, John Davies, John Breslin, Tope Omitola, at Riva del Garda, Italy, 20 October, 2014.
Workshop on Cognitive Computing for Augmented Human Intelligence, in conjunction with Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI-14), Biplav Srivastava, Janusz Marecki, Aurelie Lozano, Irina Rish, Gerald Tesauro, Manuela Veloso, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, at Québec City, Québec, Canada; July 27-31, 2014.
Workshop on Semantic Cities, in conjunction with Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI-14), Mark Fox, Freddy Lecue, Sheila McIlraith, Biplav Srivastava and Rosario Usceda-Sosa, at Québec City, Québec, Canada; July 27-31, 2014.
Workshop on Inclusive Web Programming – Programming on the Web with Open Data for Societal Applications , in conjunction with 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, Biplav Srivastava, Neeta Verma, at Hyderabad, India; May 31-June 4, 2014.
Workshop on Semantic Cities, in conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-13), Freddy Lecue, Biplav Srivastava, Ziaqing Nie, at Beijing, China, Aug 3-5, 2013.
The Semantic Smart City Workshop (SemCity-13), in conjunction with International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS-13), Tope Omitola, John Breslin, Biplav Srivastava, John Davies, at Madrid, Spain, June 12-14, 2013.
Workshop on Semantic Cities, in conjunction with 26th Conference of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-12), Biplav Srivastava, Freddy Lecue and Anupam Joshi, at Toronto, Canada, July 22-26, 2012.
AI for an Intelligent Planet, in conjunction with 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11) (with Carla Gomes and Anand Ranganathan), at Barcelona, Spain, July 16-22, 2011.
Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb2011), in conjunction with World Wide Web Conference (WWW-11), at Hyderabad, India, March 2011.
7th International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2009) along with 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) (with Ullas Nambiar and Craig Knoblock), at the Pasadena Conference Center in Pasadena, California, July 11-17, 2009.
CSSSIA 2008 - International Workshop on Context enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation, In conjunction with the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008) (with Michael Sheng, Ullas Nambiar, Amit Sheth, Said Elnaffar and Zakaria Maamr), 22 April 2008, Beijing, China.
Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb'07), to be held at AAAI 2007, Vancouver, Canada
OWL-S: Experiences and Future Developments, to be held at ESWC 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
Workshop on Service Composition and Adaptation (SDWP 2007), to be held at ICWS 2007, Salt Lake City, USA
ICAPS-06 Workshop on Plan Analysis and Management (with Lee McCluskey and Karen Myers), June 6-10, 2006, in Ambleside, The English Lake District, U.K.
3rd International Workshop on Semantic and Dynamic Web Processes (SDWP 2006), to be held at ICWS 2006, Chicago, USA
4th International Workshop on AI for Service Composition, to be held at ECAI 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
AAAI-05 Workshop on Exploring Planning and Scheduling for Web Services, Grid and Autonomic Computing (with Jim Blythe), July 9-13, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
ICAPS 2004 Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services, Whistler, Canada
ECAI 2004 Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Valencia, Spain
ICAPS 2003 Workshop on Planning for Web Services, Trento, Italy
Senior Program Committee, Program Committee
Area Chair:
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2021
Senior Program Committee:
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2022, 2020, 2019, 2016, 2015, 2013
Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on AI: 2022, 2021; Web track: 2010
Program Committee:
Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on AI: 2017, 2012, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2023, 2010, 2009, 2007
International Conference on Representational Learning (ICLR): 2023
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC): 2020, 2017, 2008
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS): 2021, 2016, 2015, 2009, 2007
ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM): 2021
International Conference on Services Computing (SCC): 2012, 2009
International Conference on Web Services (ICWS): 2008,
International Conference on Service-oriented Computing (ICSOC): 2005