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The agenda for the next AI Town Hall, hosted by University of Florida Informatics Institute, includes updates in AI research, courses and programs, faculty and student training and the upcoming NVIDIA AI Technology Center. In addition, we will hear from speakers in short research videos, followed by one-hour breakout sessions (by discipline) to discuss research and training.

Agenda

Session I – 9:00AM

• 9:00 AM – Welcome from Provost (Joe Glover, 10 minutes)
• 9:15 AM – Academics Updates (David Reed, 10 minutes)
  (i) Faculty Learning Communities
• 9:25 AM – Research Updates (David Norton, 15 minutes)
• 9:45 AM – Training Update (Erik Deumens and George Michailidis, 15 minutes)
• David Reed to Moderate Q&A

Session II – 10:00AM

• Panel on Research Thrusts (Moderator: George Michailidis, 30 minutes)
  • Faculty Learning Communities
• Background Research Talk Videos (10 minutes each) [PARTICIPANTS WILL WATCH IN ADVANCE]
  • Ethical – Explainable AI at UF: My Thai, Wanli Xing, Duncan Purves
  • AI in Agricultural and Natural Systems: Ionnis Ampatzidis, Brian Stucky
  • AI in Smart Engineered Systems: Xilei Zhao, Hassan Azad, Dapeng Wu
  • AI in Health: Ruogu Fang, Jiang Bian, Eric Triplett, Tezcan Baslanti
  •  Interactions of AI and Society: Jasmine McNealy, Osubi Craig
  • Foundations of AI: Jose Principe, Hongcheng Liu
  • AI in Natural Sciences: Konstantin Matchev, Adrian Roitberg
• Breakout Sessions (Focus on Research, Training, and Education, 1 hour)
  • Ethical – Explainable AI at UF
  • AI in Agricultural and Natural Systems
  • AI in Smart Engineered Systems
  • AI in Health
  • Interactions of AI and Society
  • Foundations of AI
  • AI in Natural Sciences
• Back to Plenary Session (15 minutes)