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April 2020

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Blog

Explaining Machine Learning Models for Natural Language
ML@GT Ph.D. students Sarah Wiegreffe and Yuval Pinter discuss their natural language processing work on plausible vs. faithful reasoning and why it's important to understand a model's reasoning process.

News

Passing the Torch: Georgia Tech Roboticists Lead Future Generation of Women in the Field
In honor of Women's History Month, we're recognizing some amazing roboticists who are blazing a trail for future women in STEM. 

People
Meet ML@GT: Cusuh Ham, a World Traveller Focused on Understanding Uncertainty in Machine Learning
Cusuh Ham is a first-year machine learning Ph.D. student who hopes to live abroad after graduation and ultimately become a professor. Get to know more about her in this month's edition of Meet ML@GT!

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How AI Can Speed Up Your Hiring Process
In the latest episode of "The Uncommon Engineer," ML@GT assistant professor Swati Gupta discusses how AI can speed up the hiring process, but with one big caveat. Listen to the podcast wherever you get your pods to learn more.

Research

Machine Learning Tool May Help Us Better Understand RNA Viruses
E2Efold is an end-to-end deep learning model developed at Georgia Tech that can predict RNA secondary structures, an important task used in virus analysis, drug design, and other public health applications. Learn more about it at ICLR 2020. 

Research
Improving Safety and Well-being on the Web and in Society
With high-stakes decisions being made via the web, the ways in which malicious users engage with us online can have a profoundly negative impact on our lives and on society as a whole. ML@GT assistant professor Srijan Kumar explores this concept that transcends social media.

News

How This Robot Taught Itself to Walk in Just a Few Hours
Using reinforcement learning, ML@GT assistant professor Sehoon Ha and researchers at Google Robotics trained a robot to teach itself to walk in just a few hours...about 12 months faster than the average human. Popular Mechanics explores how they did it.

News

Monitoring Coronavirus
For the latest information regarding coronavirus and Georgia Tech, please visit the Stamps Health Center COVID-19 updates page. 
Congratulations to all of our Ph.D. students who have been defending their dissertations this semester. We are so proud of you and cannot wait to cheer you on as you continue to do big things. 
Do you trust your AI assistants? How did they earn that trust? Do you trust them, maybe ... a little too much? The latest episode of "The Interaction Hour" with Matthew Gombolay and Ayanna Howard examines factors that lead to trust and how that can go too far.
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