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October 2020

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Research

Finally, A Site that Crops Headshots Instantly (Without Sharing Your Photos!)

Magic Crop harnesses the power of AI to create the first-ever site that instantly crops photos into headshots, all the while without using your data! What's even more impressive? It took first-year Megan Dass only one week to build with ML@GT Polo Chau's guidance.

Research

Learning Machines: Diyi Yang Explains Natural Langauge Processing

Natural language processing is everywhere. But what exactly is it? ML@GT's Diyi Yang explains NLP in the latest edition of Learning Machines. Bonus: Yang also gives hints for what she thinks makes for a great paper and more.

People
Meet ML@GT: Yuan Yang Looks to Find the 'Right' Problem to Solve

Fresh off his summer internship with Amazon, ML@GT Ph.D. student Yuan Yang is focused on building reliable and controllable AI agents that can help solve real-world problems

News
Diversity in AI: The Invisible Men and Women

In a guest column for MIT Sloan Management Review, College of Computing Dean Charles Isbell and School of Interactive Computing Chair Ayanna Howard address AI's invisibility problem, why it matters, and what we can do about it moving forward.

News
Tao Wins Best Paper Award at Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference

In his first time submitting to a machine learning conference, ML@GT's Molei Tao won the best paper award at AISTATS. A mathematician, Tao hopes his win will encourage others to continue searching for ways to fuse ideas and create new venues of applications.

Research
Georgia Tech Part of $5 Million Grant to Develop AI Tech Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Workplace

Congrats to Jim Rehg's lab for their inclusion on a $5M National Science Foundation grant that will help in the development of AI tech supporting individuals in the workplace with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

News

New Tool Can Detect Covid-19 Outbreaks in U.S. Counties

Together with Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Boston Medical Center, Georgia Tech has created a tool that allows for early detection of Covid-19 outbreaks in US counties. ML@GT's Turgay Ayer is a part of the team.

News
Siva Theja Maguluri Appointed to Fouts Family Early Career Professorship

Congratulations to ML@GT and ISyE Assistant Professor Siva Theja Maguluri, who has been appointed to a Fouts Family Early Career Professorship. Well done!

News

Undergraduate AI Program Ranked in Top 10 Nationally

According to U.S. News and World Reports, Georgia Tech is ranked #9 in artificial intelligence for undergraduate programs. We can do that!

News

NYT R&D Team to Discuss Technology's Impact on Journalism in Live, Virtual Event

On Oct. 30, ML@GT and the University of California, Berkeley will co-host members of The New York Times Research and Development team for a live, virtual event. Members of the R&D team will participate in a virtual conversation to discuss how the Times is embracing new technologies within photogrammetry and spatial computing to bring their readers as close to a story as possible, reveal their research wishlist, and more.

News

Better, Faster, and Less Biased Machine Learning

The truth is machine learning is not a panacea, nor it resolves suddenly all questions in materials science. Machine learning is never perfect, nor is the user,” - ML@GT Professor Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb.

Events

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