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9:00-9:35 A.M.
Check-In, Breakfast, & Welcome
Check-In, Breakfast, & Welcome
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Check-In & Breakfast
Check-In & Breakfast
Coffee & Pastries will be provided
9:30-9:35 a.m.
WelcomeÂ
WelcomeÂ
Eric Rice and Phebe Vayanos (USC CAIS Co-Directors)
9:35-10:00 A.M.
Homelessness, Policy, and AI
Homelessness, Policy, and AI
Moderated by Angel Hwang, Assistant Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
9:35-9:45 a.m.
Angela Zhou, Assistant Professor, USC Marshall School of Business
9:45-9:55 a.m.
Pixie Popplewell, DSW student, USC Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work
9:55-10:00 a.m.
Q&A
Q&A
10:00-10:15 A.M.
Keynote I
Keynote I
Introduced by Eric Rice, USC CAIS Co-Director, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work
10:00 - 10:10 a.m.
Care Amidst Crisis: Applying AI to Understanding Community Resilience Responses
Care Amidst Crisis: Applying AI to Understanding Community Resilience Responses
MichĂ lle Mor Barak, Dean Endowed Professor of Social Work and Business, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, USC Marshall School of Business
10:10 - 10:15 a.m.
Q&A
Q&A
10:15-11:15 A.M.
AI Methods for Good
AI Methods for Good
Moderated by Jaspreet Ranjit, USC CAIS Student Leader, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
10:15-10:25 a.m.
Jieyu Zhao, Assistant Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
10:25-10:35 a.m.
AI Reveals Financial Issues: A Study of CFPB Complaints for Older Adults and Veterans
AI Reveals Financial Issues: A Study of CFPB Complaints for Older Adults and Veterans
Yidan Sun, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
10:35-10:45a.m.
Jaiv Doshi, Leslie Moreno, Aryan Gulati, Aditya Kumar, Allison Lim undergraduate students, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
10:45-10:55 a.m.
William Resh, Associate Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
10:55-11:05 a.m.
Huey Chuan "Linda" Huang, EdD student, USC Rossier School of Education
11:05-11:15 a.m.
Q&A
Q&A
11:15-12:00 P.M.
Poster Session I
Poster Session I
11:15-12:00 p.m.
Homelessness, Policy, and AI
Homelessness, Policy, and AI
Covariate Shift Robust Offline Policy Learning - Bill Tang, PhD student
Exclusionary Public Spaces for Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Experience with Police, Local Business, and their Communities - Olga Koumoundouros, PhD student, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Mixed-feature Logistic Regression Robust to Distribution Shifts - Qingshi Sun, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Aspect Based Summarization for Public Perceptions Towards Homelessness - Aryan Gulati, Undergraduate student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
AI Methods for Good
AI Methods for Good
Peer Disambiguation in Self-Reported Surveys using Graph Attention Networks -Â Aryan Sharad Shetty, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Examining Speaker Error in LLM Based on Prompts in African American Vernacular English vs. Standard American English - Claire Smerdon, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
How to Teach Humans to Teach AI to Analyze Police Footage: A Multi Perspective Multimodal Approach - Jackson Trager, Master's student, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Finetuning Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Accented Speech - Ronaldo Benjamin Lopez-Tucux, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Behind the Virtual Mask: The Influence of the Virtual Influencer and the Creator on Prompting Online Content - Donggyu Kim, PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Auditing Political Exposure Error: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election - Jinyi Ye, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Legally-CompliantSpatial Fairness Framework: Advancing Beyond Spatial Fairness - Nripsuta (Ani) Saxena, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Confounding Robust Logistic Regression - Yingxiao Ye, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Evaluating Individual Culture Value Understanding in Real-Life Conversations - Ziyi Liu, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
A Challenge-Based Reflective Learning Framework for Transdisciplinary AI/ML Education - Ariel Han, Postdoctoral researcher, USC Iovine and Young Academy
Textual Entailment as an Error Metric for Large Language Models - Allison Lim, Undergraduate student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Fragility in Gerrymandering Metrics - Mengchu Yue, Undergraduate student, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Leveraging Human Mobility Data for Real-Time Food Access Policy Analysis: Insights from 99 Cents Only Store Chain Closures in Los Angeles - Kia Kazemi-Nia, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
12:00-12:45 P.M.
Lunch
Lunch
12:45-1:25 P.M.
AI for Health & Mental Health I
AI for Health & Mental Health I
Moderated by Hannah Murray, USC CAIS student leader, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
12:45-12:55 p.m.
Angel Hwang, Assistant Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
12:55 p.m.-1:05 p.m.
Charles Bickham, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
1:05-1:15 p.m.
Vidur Mushran, undergraduate student, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
1:15-1:25 p.m.
Q&A
Q&A
1:25-1:50 P.M.
AI for Environment
AI for Environment
Moderated by John Bunyi, USC CAIS student leader, PhD student, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
1:25-1:35 p.m.
Frederick (Tony) Fernandes, undergraduate student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
1:35-1:45 p.m.
Hannah Murray, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
1:45-1:50 p.m.
Q&A
Q&A
1:50-2:15 P.M.
Keynote II
Keynote II
Introduced by Phebe Vayanos, USC CAIS Co-Director, Associate Professor, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
1:50 - 2:10 a.m.
Innovations in Using AI for Military and Veteran Suicide Preventation
Innovations in Using AI for Military and Veteran Suicide Preventation
John Blosnich, Associate Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Eric Rice, USC CAIS Co-Director, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work
2:10-2:15 p.m.
Q&A
Q&A
2:15-3:00 P.M.
Poster Session II
Poster Session II
2:15-3:00 p.m.
AI for Health & Mental Health
AI for Health & Mental Health
VISIONMATE: Independent Navigation for the Visually Impaired in Unmapped Spaces - Arushi Saran, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Machine Learning for Substance Use in Adolescence - Divyajyoti Panda, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Revolutionizing Spravato Treatment: A Smartphone App Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Accessible and Holistic Care - Jessica Javier, Doctor of Social Work student, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Limited Effectiveness of LLM-based Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Misinformation Stance Detection - Eun Cheol Choi, PhD student, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Early Detection of Problematic Cannabis Use Among Young Adult Users Using Sequential Models - Jiyang He, PhD student, USC Viterby School of Engineering
Interconnectedness, Mental Health, and Help-Seeking in Army Soldiers: A Socioeconomic Investigation - John Bunyi, PhD student, USC Suzanne-Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
TBD - Rohit Ramachandran, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Learning Optimal Gateway Placement for Low Cost Smart Cities - Thomas Reeves, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
CER-EF: Chemical Emergency Response Evaluation Framework for Language Models - Risha Surana, Undergraduate student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
AI for Environment
AI for Environment
A Multimodal Framework for Spatiotemporal Causal Analysis of Mumbai's Air Pollution Using Social Media Insights and Remote Sensing - Kaushal Patil, Master's student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
A Machine Learning Pipeline for Examining the Impact of Environmental Pollution Exposure on Mental Health - Sean Minns, PhD student, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Can You Spot the Pangolin? Building Pangolin-Specific Species Identification Models- Jeena Mahajan, Liana Zhu & Anisha Chitta, Undergraduate students, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
3:00-3:40 P.M.
AI for Health & Mental Health II
AI for Health & Mental Health II
Moderated by Lindsay Young, USC CAIS Associate Director, Assistant Professor, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
3:00-3:10 p.m.
Jaspreet Ranjit, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
3:10-3:20 p.m.
Rodrigo Aguilar Barrios, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
3:20-3:30 p.m.
Maxyn Rose Leitner, PhD student, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
3:30 - 3:40 p.m.
Q&A
Q&A
3:40-3:55 P.M.
Keynote III
Keynote III
Introduced by Eric Rice, USC CAIS Co-Director, Associate Dean for Research, Professor, USC Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work
3:40 - 3:55 p.m.
Artificial Intelligence and Global Migration: A Call to Action
Artificial Intelligence and Global Migration: A Call to Action
Larry Palinkas, Clinical Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego
3:50 - 3:55 p.m.
Q&A
Q&A
3:55-4:00 P.M.
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
Eric Rice and Phebe Vayanos (USC CAIS Co-Directors)
Following the ShowCAIS event, we will announce via our CAIS platforms the winners of the best student presentations. Thank you to our sponsors for the student awards for best post and oral presentations with winners for each student level and to the following individuals for serving as our ShowCAIS student presentation judges: Tina Atherall, DSW, Dixie Baker, PhD, John Blosnich, PhD, Evi Micha, PhD, Shinyi Wu, PhD, and Angela Zhou, PhD.
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