USC + Amazon Center Kick-Off Meeting for 2021

The Kick-off meeting was scheduled on Friday, September 24 from 9:00 – 1:00 p.m. The meeting highlighted research from five projects that were selected for 2021-2022 and from our two 2021 Amazon Ph.D. fellows.

For a more detailed agenda, including the presentation slides and a recording of the meeting, see below.

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Opening Remarks

Salman Avestimehr (Director of USC-Amazon Center) and Prem Natarajan (USC-Amazon Center Liaison)
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Shri Narayanan

Federated Learning for Human-centered Experience & Perception Modeling with Biobehavioral Data.
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Chaoyang He 

Distributed/Federated Learning for NLP
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Keith Burghardt 

Fast Fair Decentralized Learning
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Xiang Ren and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Federated Learning for Natural Language Processing
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Jose Luis Ambite, Muhammad Naveed, and Paul Thompson

Efficient Federated Learning in Heterogeneous & Corrupted Environments by Secure Performance Weighting
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Ninareh Mehrabi

Towards Trustworthy AI
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Aleksandra Korolova and Marc Juarez

Reconciling Privacy and Fairness in Federated Learning

Slides Available Upon Request

Published on November 5th, 2021

Last updated on November 5th, 2021