Originally written for Penn State News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Sherry Tongshuang Wu, a doctoral candidate in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, will deliver the inaugural lecture of the Young Achievers Symposium organized by the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence. Wu’s talk, “Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction,” will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18, via Zoom, and will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
The symposium series, which will be held virtually throughout the spring, highlights early career researchers in diverse fields of AI for social impact and seeks to focus on emerging research, stimulate discussions, and initiate collaborations that can advance research in artificial intelligence for societal benefit.
All events in the series are free and open to the public. Penn State students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty with an interest in socially responsible AI applications are encouraged to attend. You can view the full symposium series schedule and watch recordings of past events on the CSRAI website.
The series is organized by CSRAI Program Chair Amulya Yadav, PNC Career Development Assistant Professor in the College of Information Science and Technology. All the talks will be hosted by Hangzhi Guo, a second-year doctoral student in the College of IST.
About “Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction”
Research in artificial intelligence has advanced at an incredible pace, to the point where it is making its way into our everyday lives, explicitly and behind the scenes. However, beneath their impressive progress, many AI models hide deficiencies that potentially amplify social biases or even cause fatal accidents. How do we identify, improve and cope with imperfect models, while still benefiting from their use? “Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction” will discuss Wu’s work empowering humans to interact with AI models in order to debug and correct them. She will describe both (1) how she helps experts run scalable and testable analyses on models in development, and (2) how she helps end users collaborate with deployed AI in a transparent and controllable way. In her final remarks, she will discuss her future research perspectives on building human-centered AI through data-centric approaches.
About the speaker
Sherry Tongshuang Wu is a final year doctoral candidate in computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where she is advised by Jeffrey Heer and Dan Weld. She received her bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing (NLP), and aims to empower humans to debug and correct AI models interactively, both when the model is under active development and after it is deployed for end users. She has authored 19 papers in top-tier NLP, HCI and visualization conferences and journals.
About the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence promotes high-impact, transformative AI research and development, while encouraging the consideration of social and ethical implications in all such efforts. The center supports a broad range of activities from foundational research to the application of AI to all areas of human endeavor.