AIML@TU presents Raj Dasgupta, Ph.D. – Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

Please join AIML@TU for a remote presentation and conversation with Raj Dasgupta, Ph.D. on Friday, Feb. 27, in Rayzor Hall.

Dasgupta is a research scientist in the Distributed Intelligent Systems Section, Information Technology Division at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D. C. His group conducts research in the field of AI and machine learning around the areas of adversarial AI, reinforcement learning, game theory and multi-robot/multi-agent systems.

From 2001-2019, Dasgupta was the Union Pacific Endowed Professor (tenured) with the Computer Science Department at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. There he established and directed the CMANTIC Robotics Lab and led several large projects supported by NASA, Office of Naval Research and NAVAIR. Dasgupta also received the prestigious ADROCA research award in 2017; served as the Director of the Ph.D. in Information Technology program at the university from 2010-2014; and is a senior member of IEEE.

More information about Dasguptas research can be found at his personal site and his Google Scholar profile.

AIML@TU pop quiz: What is AI?

– (A) An irrational financial bubble (bigger than .com and the global housing crisis of ’08 combined) fueled by the greed of a circular and self-congratulatory cabal of malevolent tech bros

– (B) The culmination of decades of theoretical and technological innovations that heralds the dawn of a new age of prosperity, health, leisure, and equity

– (C) A destructive technology that’s wasting resources, polluting the planet, exploiting the powerless, stealing art, killing jobs, filling the world with slop, and distracting us from our real lives and real problems

– (D) The next of many phases in the evolution of life and consciousness in the universe

– (E) None of the above / all of the above and more

However you view artificial intelligence, AIML@TU is a student-driven community at The University of Tulsa where your voice is welcome and valued. Now in our fourth semester as a registered student organization, we meet every other week to foster discourse, collaboration, research and connection across disciplines and perspectives – from students and faculty on campus, and from academia and industry at large.

We invite you to join us at our upcoming meeting, and we look forward to your presence and contributions.

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