AI Lunchbox: Insightful Data Analysis Through AI, 12-1pm 3/7 Online via Zoom, 12-1pm ET Thursday March 7, 2024

UMBC Center for Applied AI Lunchbox Series

We'll dig into data this Thursday with Insightful Data Analysis Through AI: A New Era of Understanding! Our presenter, Dhruv Ratra, is an experienced consultant and trainer in data analysis and visualization.

Together we'll take a look at how to upload and ask questions about your data, then let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting by turning complex information into clear, easy-to-understand insights.

Register for the Lunchbox Series here.

Details:

  • Date: Thursday, March 7th
  • Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
  • Presenter: Dhruv Ratra
  • Platform: Zoom (link in confirmation email after registration
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UMBC Professor Houbing Herbert Song, in collaboration with Dr. Jiawei Yuan of UMass Dartmouth, will offer an online course on applying AI and high-performance computing knowledge and skills to solve cybersecurity challenges.

The 12-week course starts on May 20, 2024. It consists of instruction in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity, supported by teaching assistants. It is followed by faculty-guided research projects in multidisciplinary teams of participants from each area.

The pilot course is available to junior or senior undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or early-career faculty and researchers in related disciplines in a US institute at the time of participation. Those interested in participating can apply online by March 31, 2024. The course is free, and participants who successfully complete the training course will receive a $1,000 stipend.

The development of this pilot course is supported by collaborative NSF grants OAC-2309760 and OAC-2229976. 

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Structured Event Reasoning with Large Language Models

Li "Harry" Zhang
University of Pennsylvania

2:15-3:15 pm ET March 5, 2024

ITE 325b and Webex

Reasoning about real-life events is a unifying challenge in AI and NLP that has profound utility in a variety of domains, while any fallacy in high-stake applications like law, medicine, and science could be catastrophic. Able to work with diverse text in these domains, large language models (LLMs) have proven capable of answering questions and solving problems. In this talk, I demonstrate that end-to-end LLMs still systematically fail on reasoning tasks of complex events. Moreover, their black-box nature gives rise to little interpretability and user control. To address these issues, I propose two general approaches to use LLMs in conjunction with a structured representation of events. The first is a language-based representation involving relations of sub-events that can be learned by LLMs via fine-tuning. The second is a symbolic representation involving states of entities that can be leveraged by either LLMs or deterministic solvers. On a suite of event reasoning tasks, I show that both approaches outperform end-to-end LLMs in terms of performance and trustworthiness.

Li "Harry" Zhang is a 5th-year PhD student working on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania advised by Prof. Chris Callison-Burch. He earned his Bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan mentored by Prof. Rada Mihalcea and Prof.  Dragomir Radev. He has published more than 20 papers in NLP conferences that have been cited more than 1,000 times. He has reviewed more than 50 papers in those venues and has served as Session Chair and Program Chair in many conferences and workshops. Being a musician, producer, content creator of over 50,000 subscribers, he is also passionate in the research of AI music.
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The next event in the UMBC Training Centers AI Lunchbox series covers the Latest Developments in AI.  It will be held online from 12-1:00pm ET on Thursday, February 29, 2024.

The last two weeks were head-spinning weeks in AI with the announcements of Google's rebranding of Bard with Gemini Advanced, the latest Google LLM Gemini 1.5, OpenAI's text to video tool, Sora, and others. Tom Cain and Tushar Rathod invite you to their AI Lunchbox Series conversation about these and other new developments in Artificial Intelligence. 

Register here to get the Zoom link.
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UMBC Assistant Professor Tejas Gokhale delivered an invited talk at the New Faculty Highlights session at the 2024 AAAI conference. The talk, "Towards Robust Visual Understanding: from Recognition to Reasoning", described his research on building perception and reasoning models with a focus on benchmarking and improving robustness of data-driven visual understanding systems. AAAI's New Faculty Highlights session recognizes and invites new AI faculty from across the globe to present their research and contribute an article to AI Magazine.
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UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

GotCHA: CAPTCHAs for an AI Era

Mario Yaksetig
Cryptographer, GotCHA Labs

12-1pm ET, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 via WebEx

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, CAPTCHAs have transitioned from simple tests of humanity to sophisticated challenges that aim to differentiate humans and bots. Presently, CAPTCHAs are a fundamental part of securing the Internet. Unexpectedly, ChatGPT can already solve many real-world CAPTCHAs. Therefore, these AI developments result in an unforeseen problem where AIs are almost indistinguishable from real humans on the Internet. The need for advanced CAPTCHAs that can effectively thwart automated attacks has never been more critical. GotCHA is exploring short games that enhance security and contribute to the overall user experience, turning a traditionally tedious task into an engaging interaction. GotCHA's team includes a former developer from the famous Crash Bandicoot video game and a storyboard artist connected with the popular show Rick & Morty. This talk will highlight the significance of the need for new CAPTCHAs with the latest AI advancements to stay ahead of malicious bots.

Mario Yaksetig is an applied cryptographer who thrives at the intersection of privacy and the intricate world of cryptographic protocols. Mario started his cryptography journey at UMBC under Professor Alan Sherman, notable student of cryptography icon Ron Rivest. He then worked alongside David Chaum, the creator of digital cash, blind signatures, and mix networks. While working with Chaum, Mario has created multiple state-of-the-art cryptographic protocols. Recently, Vitalik Buterin, one of the creators of Ethereum, has cited some of his work on ZK-rollups. Mario's latest paper exposes a sublinear forgeability attack on a post-quantum signature scheme created by Vitalik Buterin. Email: myaksetig@gmail.com

Host: Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu, Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681.  The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1pm.  All meetings are open to the public. Upcoming CDL meetings: March 8, Cyrus Bonyadi, Metametaphysical Ontologies for Consensus; March 29, Maksim Eren, Tensor Decomposition Methods for Cybersecurity; April 12, Anupam Joshi; April 26, Dan Ragsdale, National Cybersecurity Policy; May 10, Enis Golaszewski, Automatically Binding Cryptographic Context to Messages Using Formal Methods

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The next event in the UMBC Training Centers AI Lunchbox series is on Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity with HackerGPT.  It will be held online from 12-1:00pm ET on Thursday, February 22, 2024.

Join us for this engaging demonstration of HackerGPT an advanced artificial intelligence program designed for ethical hacking and cybersecurity tasks. Nick Anthis will show how HackerGPT can be used to identify vulnerabilities, simulate cyber attacks, and suggest defenses in digital systems.

Register here to get a link to the free Zoom session.

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Creative Visual Storytelling: Laying the 
Foundations and Pushing the Boundaries

Dr. Stephanie Lukin
U.S. Army Research Laboratory

2:30-3:30 pm, Friday, February 23, 2024, ITE 325b

Creative visual storytelling - that is, the creative task of storytelling based on visual input - involves both assigning meaning to the visual input and conveying that meaning in story form.  The resulting stories are more than literal descriptions of events or scenery: they contain narrative arcs with characters, goals, and conflicts in potentially endless circumstances. In this talk, I will lay out my research exploring the foundations of creative visual storytelling and automating this novel type of storytelling. I examine three properties critical to such systems and the narratives they generate: the systems are highly expressive, their productive capability is key to problem solving and establishing story frames; the systems are responsible, the narratives they generate are grounded in the source material and avoid biases; and the system narratives are "co-constructive" with a human partner, they enable interlocutors to share common ground of experiences in different physical spaces across time through evolving events.

Bio: Dr. Stephanie Lukin is a Computer Scientist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Los Angeles regional site (ARL-West). She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California Santa Cruz, and had interned at Xerox PARC, Microsoft Research, and Google before joining ARL in 2017. Dr. Lukin specializes in narrative intelligence, examining the multi-modal interactions between humans and robots, and how stories can be told from the myriad of multi-modal data surrounding us.
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William Gao, a senior in the Centennial High School, was selected as one of the 40 finalists in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search from among more than 2,000 entrants. Each finalist was awarded a $25,000 prize.

William was mentored by UMBC Professor Yi Huang, an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. Their research led to the development of an artificial intelligence-driven, resource-efficient, mobile diagnostic system to identify cancerous regions in patient tumor samples which is described in an article in Cancer Informatics:

Gao W, Wang D, Huang Y, Designing a Deep Learning-Driven Resource-Efficient Diagnostic System for Metastatic Breast Cancer: Reducing Long Delays of Clinical Diagnosis and Improving Patient Survival in Developing Countries, Cancer Informatics 2023;22.

Finalists will participate in a week-long competition in March 2024, during which they will undergo a rigorous judging process that goes beyond their own research to encompass other scientific disciplines and compete for more than $1.8 million in awards.
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The NSF launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot on January 25. Its goal is to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources needed to advance AI research and research that employs AI. Federal agencies are collaborating with partners to implement the Pilot as a preparatory step toward an eventual full NAIRR implementation.

The NAIRR effort currently has several items relevant to the AI community:
  • Survey on Researcher and Educator Use Cases for the NAIRR. NSF invites researchers, faculty, and both graduate and undergraduate students who are struggling to access GPUs, data resources, know-how, and expertise to fill out this survey, which will inform directions for the pilot and demonstrate the need for the full NAIRR.   
  • The first open call for NAIRR Pilot resources can be found on the nairrpilot.org. It targets a few NSF and DOE high-performance computing systems and testbeds and is focused on supporting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI research.
  • A webinar on the NAIRR Pilot will be held on Wednesday, February 21 at 3:00-4:30pm ET via zoom. The webinar will include a Q&A period with attendees.
Here are additional information and links:
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