Come to meet other members, meet the E-Board, and learn more about our plans for the semester. We hope to see you there!

Come out for a chance to play some fun February GESCoM trivia games, enjoy some light refreshments, hear about an exciting new leadership opportunity that has opened up for you all, as well as be the first to see our March schedule!

P.S Here is the Google Meet info for today's meeting for anyone that wants to join us virtually!

We hope to see you soon!

Conversational Systems (CSys) represent practical and tangible outcomes of advances in NLP and AI. CSys see continuous improvements through unsupervised training of large language models (LLMs) on a humongous amount of generic training data. However, when these CSys are suggested for use in domains like Mental Health, they fail to match the acceptable standards of clinical care, such as the clinical process in Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). The talk will present, Knowledge-infused Learning (KiL), a paradigm within NeuroSymbolic AI that focuses on making machine/deep learning models (i) learn over knowledge-enriched data, (ii) learn to follow guidelines in process-oriented tasks for safe and reasonable generation, and (iii) learn to leverage multiple contexts and stratified knowledge to yield user-level explanations. KiL established Knowledge-Intensive Language Understanding, a set of tasks for assessing safety, explainability, and conceptual flow in CSys.

Manas Gaur is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department at UMBC. Before UMBC, he held the position of Senior AI Research Scientist with the Knowledge and Dialog team within the AI Center at Samsung Research America. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Artificial Intelligence Institute at The University of South Carolina. His Ph.D. research was supported by Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, AI For Social Good Fellowship from Dataminr Inc., EPSRC-UKRI grant through Alan Turing Institute, and NSF-EAGER on Knowledge-infused Learning. His most noted work on Knowledge-infused Learning parallels Neuro-symbolic AI in mental health. His research focuses on knowledge graphs, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and conversational systems for social good applications.

Access GBM slides here! 

I am looking to sell a mini fridge, microwave, 32” Roku tv and a Ninja air fryer. All of the items are no more than a year old. Please email me at alexisp2@umbc.edu for pricing and/or more information. 

Reference and security deposit required. Available February 2023. 

Prefer 1 year min-lease Graduate students, responsible undergraduates. No smokers. No couples. No pets, No drinking. I

House is occupied by female fellow UMBC students.

If interested, please text/call 443-832-3926 to schedule a viewing and see if you like it. 

We will be having our first volunteer event at a soup kitchen. Please choose a day that works best for you. Carpooling will be provided so please RSVP on the link by February 20. 

RSVP at this link https://forms.gle/UoMqsVDPaYDtxAZK9

One room will be available from March 10 for Male. 

Location: 1147 Courtney Road Halethorpe, MD 

UMBC bus stop in front of building.  10 mins walking distance from the campus, and 6 mins walking distance from the grocery store (Weis) and dollar tree. The rent is $475 + utilities. 

If anyone is interested, please reach out to me.

Email : il66977@umbc.edu