Computer Science Lectures

For this lecture series, we invite top-tier researchers from across the globe to present state-of-the-art work from their respective fields to a broad and computer science-minded audience at the IT University of Copenhagen. Researchers, students and practitioners of all stages and backgrounds are invited to participate in these exchanges and to join the discussion. If you would like to stay informed of upcoming talks, please consider subscribing to the mailing list.

Upcoming Talks

Lecturer

Sihem Amer-Yahia / A Database Researcher Perspective on Ethical AI for Education

Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble
Nov
21
14:00
Aud 4

Abstract

The last few years has seen a proliferation of digital work and education platforms from crowdsourcing and freelancing marketplaces to MOOC-type platforms. Educational technologies coupled with AI hold the promise of helping learners better upskill but like in any other societally critical AI-powered system, the question of ethics arises. I will describe my perspective on rethinking the design of AIED by combining the power of data management and machine learning to better implement education theories and provide safe data-informed personalized upskilling.

About the Speaker

Sihem Amer-Yahia is a Silver Medal CNRS Research Director and Deputy Director of the Lab of Informatics of Grenoble. She works on exploratory data analysis and algorithmic upskilling. Sihem worked as Principal Scientist at QCRI, Senior Scientist at Yahoo! Research and Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs. Sihem served as PC chair for SIGMOD 2023 and as the coordinator of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative for the database community. In 2024, Sihem received the 2024 IEEE TCDE Impact Award, the SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the VLDB Women in Database Award.

ITU Host

Zoi Kaoudi

Past Talks

Ferrante and Gichoya

Enzo Ferrante / Demographically-Informed Prediction Discrepancy Index: Early Warnings of Demographic Biases for Unlabeled Populations

Judy Wawira Gichoya / “Shortcuts” Causing Bias in Radiology Artificial Intelligence: Causes, Evaluation, and Mitigation

Sep
18
13:00
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ZOOM LINK
Brett Becker

Brett Becker / The Robots are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education

University College Dublin
Feb
08
14:00
Streamed online in Aud 4
ZOOM LINK
Lecturer

Paul Ralph /Evidence Standards Improve the Reliability of Scholarly Peer Review - CANCELED

Dalhousie University
Nov
23
11:00
2A52
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Organizers

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou
Stefan Heinrich Stefan Heinrich
Carsten Schürmann Carsten Schürmann

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