Congratulations to DAIR Undergrad RA, Alisa Leshchenko, who will join the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Neuroscience at Columbia University in Fall 2024! Best Wishes Alisa!

Prof. Raja gave a talk on “Demystifying AI: From Medicine to Infrastructure” at the TEDxCUNY 2024 event which was titled “UNRAVEL” held in John Jay College on April 12, 2024. A big shout out to CUNY’s Macaulay Scholar students who organized this impressive event, working closely with the speakers for over 6 months!

With my terrific student curator Mamoona Hasan!

With the other 2024 speakers.

Raja gave the closing keynote the AAAI 2024 undergraduate consortium and served as a panelist at the Women’s mentoring lunch.

Alisa presented our work on bridging cognitive reasoning and generative algorithms titled “Leveraging Conflict to Bridge Cognitive Reasoning and Generative Algorithms” coauthored with Jihie Kim at the 2023 AAAI Fall Symposium on Integrating Cognitive Architectures and Generative Models in Arlington, VA.

The forthcoming 2024 report will be posted here.

Prof. Raja gave the talk titled “Towards Responsible AI: Mitigating Uncertainty in Mission-Critical Systems” at the AAAI 23 Third International Workshop on Modelling Uncertainty in the Financial World (MUFin’23).

Prof. Raja will be collaborating with Biology faculty from Hunter College and Queens College on studying Predicting Transformation of Living Systems in Evolving Environments.

Congratulations to Daniel Mallia for succesfully defending his thesis on Unsupervised Bayesian Network learning. We wish Daniel the very best as he now moves on with his career!