Outreach


ExplOR Event

  • Organized the second iteration of the ExplOR event for high school students (Dec. 2021)

  • Organized ExplOR, a day-long program aimed to bring STEM education to underserved communities, focusing on topics in Operations Research (OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to problems of Social Good in collaboration with educators, staff, and students at Code in the Schools and STEM Academy of Hollywood (Nov. 2020)

  • Presented the event at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2021

Figure. Snapshots from the virtual explOR event from November 2020 hosted on the gather.town platform

Housing allocation for homeless persons: fairness, transparency, and efficiency

  • Virtual presentation to prospective domestic PhD students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as Hispanic Serving Institutions

How can artificial intelligence mitigate homelessness?

  • Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Computer Science Zoom Series (Sept. 2020) ~150 middle and high school students of LAUSD's Linked Learning Pathway

Assisting vulnerable communities through artificial intelligence and operations research

  • 2020 IISE Western Regional Conference, The New Age of Analytics (Feb. 2020)

Assisting vulnerable communities through artificial intelligence and operations research

  • Santa Monica Rotary Club (Jan. 2020)

Figure. Presenting at the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) West 2019

AI and Operations Research for mitigating homelessness

  • Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) West, San Francisco, CA (Nov. 2019)

Housing allocation for homeless persons: fairness, transparency, and efficiency

  • AIRES Conference: An Ex-Ante Approach on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, hosted by the AI Robotic Ethics Society, a UCLA organization on a mission to ensure artificial intelligence is designed ethically and responsibly, Los Angeles, CA (Jun. 2019)

Figure. Introducing students from the STEM Academy of Hollywood to research at the Center for AI in Society

Figure. Group photo with the students from the STEM Academy of Hollywood

Introduction to the Center for AI in Society

  • USC STEM Spotlight for high school students from the STEM Academy of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA (Mar. 2019)

Assisting low resource communities via data-driven optimization

  • USC WiSE Research Horizons Symposium, Los Angeles, CA (Mar. 2019)

Figure. Panelist at AI LA Panel on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency

Figure. Speaking at AI LA Meet-up on

“AI and Society: Creating a Fair and Ethical Future”

Panel on "Fairness, accountability, and transparency" and Talk on "Fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI for allocating housing to the homeless"

Figure. At LAUSD Local District East Family College and Career Day fair, telling students about engineering

Figure. The game we designed to introduce students to optimization

Meet an Engineer Here! (Conozca una Ingeniera Aqui!)

Improving Medical Decision-Making using Data, Math, and Computers

  • Mirman School Women in STEAM Conference 2017, Los Angeles, CA (Mar. 2017)

Data-driven decision-making in healthcare

  • USC Bridge Faculty Luncheon Seminar, Los Angeles, CA (Mar. 2017)

Engineering better decisions in healthcare

  • USC WiSE STEM Bytes Seminar, Los Angeles, CA (Nov. 2016)