UMaine Artificial Intelligence Webinar Series 2020 Recordings


Note: Times indicate the start of each session within the video. View the transcript of the Maine AI Webinar.  

Introduction by University of Maine Vice President Ali Abedi and opening remarks by President Joan Ferrini-Mundy.

(4:00) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Moderator: Terry Yoo, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UMaine 

  • (5:25) Roy Turner, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UMaine. Turner slides (PDF)
  • (10:50) Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UMaine. Sekeh slides (PDF)
  • (16:00) Carla Brodley, Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University.

(32:00) Applications of AI in Business, Industry, Government, Healthcare and Environment – Moderator: Ali Abedi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Assistant Vice President for Research, UMaine. Abedi slides (PDF) 

  • (36:30) Kay Aikin, Co-founder of Introspective Systems. Aikin slides (PDF)
  • (43:00) Sepideh Ghanavati, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UMaine. Ghavanati slides (PDF)
  • (47:30) Yonggang “Tim” Lu, Harold Alfond Associate Professor of Business Analytics, Maine Business School. Lu slides (PDF)
  • (51:45) Auroop Ganguly, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Sustainability and Data Science Laboratory, Northeastern University. Ganguly slides (PDF)

(1:02:00) Education and Workforce Development – Moderator: Penny Rheingans, Director of the School of Computing and Information Science, UMaine

(1:29:30) Social, Ethical, Policy and Legal Considerations – Moderator: Shaleen Jain, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UMaine

  • (1:32:30) Jim Isaak, Past President of IEEE Computer Society. Isaak slides (PDF)
  • (1:39:27) Harlan Onsrud, Professor of Spatial Informatics, UMaine. Onsrud slides (PDF)
  • (1:43:50) Peter Guffin, Co-Director of the Information Privacy Program, University of Maine School of Law. Guffin slides (PDF)

To view a list of questions asked during the AI Webinar and panelist responses, please visit the Webinar Q&A webpage.

Organized by: UMaine AI

Sponsored by: University of Maine

Contact: um.ai@maine.edu

Rebecca Hwa, National Science Foundation, Program Director
Kaushik Chowdhury, Associate Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, Northeastern University
Fawzi Behmann, North American Director of IEEE Communications Society

Mohamad Musavi, Associate Dean, College of Engineering, UMaine
Owen McCarthy, President, and Co-founder of MedRhythms Inc.
Somayeh Khosroadzad, Signal Processing Specialist, Activas Diagnostics LLC

Yifeng Zhu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMaine
Torsten Hahmann, Associate Professor of Computing and Information Science, UMaine
Walter Rawle, Chair IEEE Maine Section

Manuel Woersdoerfer, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Science, UMaine
Leigh Saufley, Dean of the University of Maine School of Law
Jim Isaak, Past President of IEEE Computer Society, IEEE NH Section Chair.