Schedule
8:45-9:30 A.M.
Check-In & Welcome
8:45-9:15 a.m.
Check-In & Poster Display
Coffee & Pastries will be provided
9:15-9:30 a.m.
Welcome & Acknowledgements
Bistra Dilkina, Eric Rice, and Phebe Vayanos (USC CAIS Co-Directors)
9:30-10:15 A.M.
Homelessness, Policy, and AI
9:30-9:40 a.m.
AI Can Mitigate Inequality - If We Design It Right
Phebe Vayanos
9:40-9:48 a.m.
A Practical System for Forecasting the Large-Scale Complex and Emergent Effects of Policies and Interventions
Stephen Lieberman
9:48-9:56 a.m.
Making Sense of Sensitive Conversations at Scale: A Case for LLMs in Understanding Language on Homelessness and Suicides
Swabha Swayamdipta
9:56-10:04 a.m.
Mapping the Distribution of Homelessness via Remote Sensing Imagery
Keith Burghardt
10:04-10:15 a.m.
Q&A
10:15-10:45 A.M.
AI for Environment, Climate, and Sustainability
10:15-10:23 a.m.
AI and Conservation
Bistra Dilkina
10:23-10:31 a.m.
AI for Climate: Leveraging Pre-Trained Neural Networks for Cloud Classification
Kayley Butler
10:31-10:39 a.m.
EiS ATLAS Project
Marc Ballon
10:39-10:45 a.m.
Q&A
10:45-11:05 A.M.
Messages from USC Leadership
10:45-10:50 a.m.
Words from the Senior Vice President of Research and Innovation, USC Office of Research
Ishwar K. Puri
10:50-10:55 a.m.
Words from the Inaugural Director of the USC School of Advanced Computing
Gaurav Sukhatme
10:55-11:00 a.m.
Words from the Associate Vice President for Strategic Health Alliances, USC Office of the Senior Vice President of Health Affairs
Michele Kipke
11:00-11:05 a.m.
Words from the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Associate Professor in the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Michael Hurlburt
11:05-11:50 A.M.
Poster Session I
11:05-11:50 a.m.
Poster Session I
Homelessness, Policy, and AI
AI for Environment, Climate, and Sustainability
AI for Mental Health
AI Methods for Good
Coffee Break
11:50 A.M.-12:05 P.M.
Messages from Impactful USC Organizations
11:50-11:55 a.m.
Public Exchange
11:55 a.m-12:05 p.m.
CAIS++
Aryan Gulati & Leslie Moreno (CAIS++ Co-Presidents)
12:05-12:40 P.M.
AI for Mental Health
12:05-12:13 p.m.
Unveiling the Dynamics of Suicide-Related Self-Disclosure Among Military Service Members: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Generalized Linear Mixed-Model Decision Trees
Eric Rice & Aditi Hande
12:13 p.m.-12:21 p.m.
Leveraging Novel Data to Improve the Prediction of Pain in Military Veterans with PTSD
Shaddy Saba
12:21-12:29 p.m.
Social Media and Youth Mental Health Crisis
Kristina Lerman
12:29-12:40 p.m.
Q&A
12:40-1:40 P.M.
Lunch
1:40-2:30 P.M.
Media, Misinformation, Policing, and AI
1:40-1:48 p.m.
How Susceptible are Large Language Models to Ideological Manipulation?
Kai Chen
1:48-1:56 p.m.
Democratizing Hollywood: Envisioning a Future with Singular AI-Driven Film Creation
Stephen Gibler
1:56-2:04 p.m.
CVAT-BWV: A Web-Based Video Annotation Platform for Police Body-Worn Video
Parsa Hejabi
2:04-2:12 p.m.
Empathy through AI: Empowering Stories Through Interactive Interviews
Mike Jones & Craig Stubing
2:12-2:20 p.m.
Insights from Social Network Data for Mitigating Online Harm
Julie Jiang
2:20 - 2:30 p.m.
Q&A
2:30-3:15 P.M.
Poster Session II
2:30-3:15 p.m.
Poster Session II
Media, Misinformation, and AI
AI for Health
Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 P.M.
AI for Health
3:15-3:23 p.m.
Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Ensemble Algorithm for Risk Stratification of Uncontrolled Diabetes in FQHC Patients
Shinyi Wu
3:23-3:31 p.m.
Benchmarking of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Mortality in Sepsis from Transcriptomic Data
Karishma Chhugani
3:31-3:39 p.m.
Informing Public Health with Epidemiology, Humans, and AI Collaboration
Ajitesh Srivastava
3:39-3:47 p.m.
The Nutritional Quality of Restaurants Across the US
Abigail Horn
3:47 - 4:00 p.m.
Q&A
4:00-4:15 P.M.