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March 2020

ML@GT Buzz

News

Romance Gets the Georgia Tech Treatment with Machine Learning Algorithm
Thanks to our student club The Agency, Georgia Tech students didn't have to worry about swiping right this Valentine's Day. The group designed an algorithm that matched 800 couples on campus.

News

Accenture Brought Their Tech Symposium to the Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech
Last month, we were thrilled to welcome Accenture and many of their clients to ML@GT during their Tech Symposium. Several of our faculty members shared their research and attendees were treated to a tour of our new offices in Coda.

People
Meet ML@GT: Abhishek Das  Wants to Stop Climate Change and Develop AI Agents with Human-Level Skillsets
ML@GT Ph.D. student Abhishek Das wants to stop climate change and develop AI agents with human-level skillsets...and he's defending his dissertation soon! Get to know more about Abhishek in this month's edition of Meet ML@GT.

News
GT Computing Student Plans to Study Connections Between Law and Machine Learning as a J.P. Morgan Ph.D. Fellow 
Congratulations to Ashwin Vijayakumar on being named a 2020 JP Morgan Ph.D. Fellow. Vijayakumar plans to pivot and explore the relationship between machine learning and law.

Research

Learning to Cooperate in Multi-Agent Environments
New on the blog, Ph.D. student Jiachen Yang explains how AI agents are learning to work together to accomplish goals. This work will also be presented at ICLR in April. 

People
Mark Borodovsky Elected as ISCB Fellow
Congratulations to Regents' Professor and ML@GT faculty member Mark Borodovsky on being elected as a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB.) He is one of 12 fellows selected for the 2020 class. Well deserved, Mark!

Listen

Meet Shimon: A Marimba-Playing Robot That Can Now Play with Other Musicians, Help Amputees, and Write Songs
ML@GT professor Gil Weinberg and his marimba-playing robot, Shimon, are featured on the latest episode of BBC Sounds' podcast "In the Studio." Don't miss this conversation about Shimon's new ability to improvise lyrics in a rap battle and more.

People

New Professor Brings Creativity to Systems Work
As an assistant professor for ML@GT and the School of Computer Science, Alexey Tumanov draws from his personal experience to bring freedom and opportunities through education to his students.
ML@GT Ph.D. students Steven Hickson and Andrew Silva visited the Acton Academy Buckhead to teach students about robotics & machine learning. They also brought a Cozmo robot, demoed deep learning methods, and chatted about life as a grad student. 
For the second year in a row, Georgia Tech students have won the Jump into STEM competition at the DOE/Oak Ridge National Lab. Congratulations to Kira, Taylor, Catherine, Katie, and Steven, who will all be offered DOE internships at one of the national labs.
SAVE THE DATE
March 11 - ML@GT Seminar: Daniel Russo, Columbia University

March 25 - IRIM Robotics Seminar: Soon-Jo Chung, California Institute of Technology

April 1 - ML@GT Seminar: Pradyumna Narayana, Colorado State University

April 15 - ML@GT Seminar: Byron Wallace, Northeastern University

April 20 - ML@GT Seminar: Elad Hazan, Princeton University

For all spring seminar dates please visit our website.
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