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Discover Experiential AI: Launching the Institute for Experiential AI

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Apr
  
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2022
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The Institute for Experiential AI celebrated the launch of our foundational new center for research and applied AI solutions at Northeastern University.

Serving industry, academia, and society, the event featured presentations, interactive panel discussions, and networking opportunities for key communities to address today's most pressing AI challenges and form partnerships to find real-world solutions.

Our goal is to build the top experiential AI research institute in the world focused on developing applied AI solutions, fortifying talent streams, and presenting a comprehensive, integrated approach to AI.

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Keynote and Industry Speakers

Lila Snyder

CEO

Bose
Bose

Joseph E. Aoun‍

President of Northeastern University

David Roux‍

Managing Partner at BayPine

Sammy Assefa

Head of AI | Research, Development, Innovation

US Bank
US Bank

Nenshad Bardoliwalla

Chief Product Officer

Data Robot
Data Robot

Gaia Bellone

Chief Data Scientist for Digital and Marketing

Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial

Steve Johnson

Senior Fellow & Advisor

Institute for Experiential AI
Institute for Experiential AI

Vipin Mayar

Head of Customer Knowledge & Strategic Insights

Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments

Don Peppers

Author, Speaker & CX Expert

Mike Culhane

Group Chief Executive Officer

Pepper Money Group
Pepper Money Group

Rayid Ghani

Professor of Machine Learning and Public Policy

Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University

Lorena Jaume-Palasí

Founder and Executive Director

Ethical Tech Society
Ethical Tech Society

Melissa Landon

Technology and Business Strategist, AI in Life Sciences

Cyclica (Former)
Cyclica (Former)

Helen Nissenbaum

Professor

Cornell Tech
Cornell Tech

Cynthia Rudin

Professor of computer science

Duke University
Duke University

Northeastern University Speakers

Usama Fayyad

Executive Director

Jennifer Dy

Director of AI Faculty

Silvio Amir

Core Faculty

Cansu Canca

Director of Responsible AI Practice

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Director of Research

Gregory Abowd

Affiliate Faculty

Laurent Audoly

Senior Advisor AI Drug Discovery & Development

Raimond L. Winslow

Affiliate Faculty

Eugene Tunik

Director of AI + Health

Auroop Ganguly

Director of AI for Climate & Sustainability

Alina Oprea

Core Faculty

Ozlem Ergun

Core Faculty

Byron Wallace

Core Faculty

Sarah Ostadabbas

Core Faculty

Christo Wilson

Affiliate Faculty

Tina Eliassi-Rad

Core Faculty

Steve Johnson

Senior Fellow & Advisor

Agenda

Day 1
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Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
9:00 am
Opening Remarks
9:15 am
Opening Keynote
David Roux spoke about the increasingly important role artificial intelligence and machine learning will be playing in the life sciences.
9:30 am
Introducing the Institute
9:45 am
Keynote Address
Lila Snyder spoke about the power and impact AI can have on consumer audio products and experiences.
10:00 am
Panel: Executive Leadership Perspectives on AI in Industry
C-level business leaders discuss the strategic role of AI in industry and how they see it impacting the different sectors they work with. We separated the hype from the reality by focusing on how higher education can help make AI a more useful and practical technology, asking: where do we see AI changing the game across different industries?
10:40 am
Keynote Address: Exploit or Explore? Marketing Changes Everything, But AI Can Help
Marketing has been radically transformed by technology, literally changing the “dimension” of business competition. Rather than focusing on one product or service at a time, broadcasting its benefits, and trying to sell it to as many customers as possible, today’s marketers interact with one customer at a time, trying to sell that customer as many products and services as possible. And today, experiential AI can play an increasingly important role in sorting out the “why” behind any individual customer’s actions, even across millions of customers.
11:05 am
CEO Fireside Chat
11:15 am
Panel: Can We trust AI?
We discussed the ethical issues behind assigning human values—such as trust—to algorithms. Given its limitations, what kind of relationship should we have with AI? How should we design AI systems to improve human life and human intelligence? And if we can't trust AI, who or what should we trust?
12:00 pm
Provost's Address
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Lightning Talks: Academic Leaders
Featuring all nine deans at Northeastern University, these lightning talks provided the foundation for building a strong interdisciplinary community across the university around the critical topic of AI. Our academic leaders will explain how AI can add value to each of their domains, and discuss what different fields can contribute to help make responsible, applicable AI that works in the real world.
2:15 pm
Panel: AI in Health and Life Sciences
3:00 pm
Lightning Talks: Experiential AI for Societal Impact
With over 90 active faculty members, the Institute for Experiential AI is comprised of a diverse team specializing in computer science, engineering, statistics, math, business, to social science, psychology, ethics, law, and many other disciplines. These lightning talks highlight the work of a select few Core Members working on foundations and theory in AI applied to a variety of fields, including health, sciences, cybersecurity, wireless Internet of things, psychology, climate and sustainability, and others.
4:00 pm
Panel: Trustworthy AI
The next frontier of responsibly deploying AI systems is to make AI trustworthy. Building AI systems that are trustworthy and that stakeholders can interact with and rely on in meaningful ways requires incorporating values into the design, development, and deployment of these systems. In this panel discussion, we bring together experts on fairness, interpretability, privacy, and accountability to talk about how to put these values into practice and discuss where we are and where we need to be on the path to achieving trustworthy AI.
5:15 pm
Social Hour
Catered in the East Village building for faculty, leaders, and industry partners.
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Amanda Choflet
Dean, School of Nursing
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Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University
Alisa Lincoln
Director, Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research
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College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Rafael Mestre
Lecturer
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University of Southampton
Christine Zazzaro
President And Chief Executive Officer
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McLeod Centers for Wellbeing
Liz Scharnetzki
Faculty Scientist I
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MaineHealth
Ignacio Sarasua
Solution Architect
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Nvidia
Aynsley Bernard
Principal Data Scientist
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Kooth PLC
Aminat Adebiyi
Research Scientist
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IBM Research
Trinity Coakley
Health Science and Psychology Student
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Adam Woolley
Director of Assessment, Clinical Professor, Pharmacy and Health Systems Science
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Elizabeth Mynatt
Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences
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Sylvain Jaume
Director, School of Computer Science and Data Analytics
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University of New England
Erin O'Neill
Candidate for M.S. in Health Informatics
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Annika Schoene
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The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University
Doug Sawyer
Medical Director
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Maine Medical
Karen Huhn
Professor of Physical Therapy and Program Director
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Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
David Harder
Professor & Director
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University of Maine Institute of Medicine
Dan Koloski
Head of Learning Programs, Roux Institute and Professor of the Practice, College of Professional Studies
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Northeastern University
Connie Yowell
Senior Advisor to the Provost
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Northeastern University
Justin Manjourides
Associate Professor of Public Health and Health Sciences
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Northeastern University
Aarti Sathyanarayana
Assistant Professor in Health Science and Computer Science
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Northeastern University
Jeanne Latourelle
Senior Vice President, Precision Medicine
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Aitia
John Brownstein
SVP and Chief Innovation Officer
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Boston Children’s Hospital
Colleen Hole
Innovation Strategic Advisor
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Atrium Health/Advocate Health
Jens Rueter
Chief Medical Officer; Medical Director
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The Jackson Laboratory; Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative
Predrag Radivojac
Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Research, Khoury College of Computer Science
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Northeastern University
Jason Springs
Co-founder & CEO
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Endpoint Health
Timothy Ruchti
Director Algorithms
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Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions LLC
Isaac Kohane
Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
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Harvard Medical School
Patricia Geli
Co-founder, Managing Director, and COO
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C10 Labs
Crystal Brown
CEO & Co-Founder
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CircNova
David Levine
Associate Professor and Clinical Director
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Mass General Brigham
Marinka Zitnik
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
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Harvard Medical School
Larry Brilliant
CEO
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Evity.AI
Rasu B. Shrestha
Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer
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Advocate Health
John Halamka
Dwight and Dian Diercks President
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Mayo Clinic Platform
Hoda Sayed-Friel
Former Executive Vice President
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MEDITECH
Yakov Bart
Associate Professor of Marketing at D'Amore-McKim School of Business
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Northeastern University
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Director of Research
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Institute for Experiential AI
Michael Workman
Creative Director of the AI Literacy Lab
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Northeastern University
Joanna Weiss
Executive Director of the AI Literacy Lab
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Northeastern University
Sam Scarpino
Director of AI + Life Sciences
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Institute for Experiential AI
David De Cremer
Dean of the D'Amore-McKim School of Business
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Northeastern University
Manish Worlikar
Heads the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
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Fidelity Institutional
Xuning (Mike) Tang
Associate Director of Responsible AI
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Verizon
Ashok Srivastava
Senior VP and Chief Data Officer
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Intuit
Jay Schuren
Chief Customer Officer
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Data Robot
Rudina Seseri
Founder and Managing Partner
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Glasswing Ventures
Dan Rosensweig
Chief Executive Officer
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Chegg
Peter Norvig
Researcher
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Google
Michael Nieset
Partner
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Heidrick & Struggles
Dan Lothian
Executive Producer
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The World
Aleksandar Lazarevic
Partner
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Sigmoid Analytics
John Havens
Director of Emerging Technologies & Strategic Development
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IEEE Standards Association
Michelle Gansle
VP of Global Insights and Analytics
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McDonald's
Ronke Ekwensi
Vice President, Chief Data Officer
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T-Mobile
Cynthia Dwork
Professor of Computer Science
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Harvard University
Philip Brey
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology
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The University of Twente
Linda Avery
Former CDAO
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Verizon Communications, Federal Reserve Board of New York
Christo Wilson
Affiliate Faculty
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Cynthia Rudin
Professor of computer science
, 
Duke University
Helen Nissenbaum
Professor
, 
Cornell Tech
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Core Faculty
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
John Basl
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College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University
Byron Wallace
Core Faculty
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Sarah Ostadabbas
Core Faculty
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Alina Oprea
Associate professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
, 
Northeastern University
Auroop Ganguly
Director of AI for Climate & Sustainability
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Ozlem Ergun
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
, 
Northeastern University
Rai Winslow
Director of Life Science and Medical Research, Roux Institute
, 
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Experiential AI
Eugene Tunik
Director of AI + Health
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Melissa Landon
Technology and Business Strategist, AI in Life Sciences
, 
Cyclica (Former)
Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Director of Life Sciences and Engineering
, 
the Roux Institute
Laurent Audoly
Senior Advisor, AI Drug Discovery & Development
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Jared Auclair
Associate Dean of Professional Programs and Graduate Affairs; Director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory
, 
Northeastern University
Emery Trahan
Interim Dean, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
, 
Northeastern University
Hazel Sive
Dean, College of Science
, 
Northeastern University
Carmen Sceppa
Dean, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
, 
Northeastern University
Uta Poiger
Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
, 
Northeastern University
Beth Mynatt
Dean, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
, 
Northeastern University
Elizabeth Hudson
Dean, College of Arts, Media and Design
, 
Northeastern University
James Hackney
Dean, School of Law
, 
Northeastern University
David Fields
Interim Dean, College of Professional Studies
, 
Northeastern University
Gregory Abowd
Dean, College of Engineering
, 
Northeastern University
David Madigan
Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs
, 
Northeastern University
Lorena Jaume-Palasí
Founder and Executive Director
, 
Ethical Tech Society
Rayid Ghani
Professor of Machine Learning and Public Policy
, 
Carnegie Mellon University
Cansu Canca
Director of Responsible AI Practice
, 
The Institute for Experiential AI
Silvio Amir
Core Faculty
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Mike Culhane
Group Chief Executive Officer
, 
Pepper Money Group
Don Peppers
Author, Speaker & CX Expert
, 
Vipin Mayar
Head of Customer Knowledge & Strategic Insights
, 
Fidelity Investments
Steve Johnson
Senior Fellow & Advisor
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Gaia Bellone
Chief Data Scientist for Digital and Marketing
, 
Prudential Financial
Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Chief Product Officer
, 
Data Robot
Sammy Assefa
Head of AI | Research, Development, Innovation
, 
US Bank
Lila Snyder
CEO
, 
Bose
Jennifer Dy
Director of AI Faculty
, 
Institute for Experiential AI
Usama Fayyad
Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI
, 
Professor of the Practice, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
David Roux‍
Managing Partner at BayPine
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Watch Highlights from our Discover Experiential AI Conference

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Discover Experiential AI provided a forum for collaboration and an exchange of ideas between industry stakeholders, academic researchers, and the next generation of AI talent. It included:

  • Keynotes: Insights from global leaders on making AI work in the real world
  • Panels: Interactive sessions with industry experts and academic researchers
  • Lightning Talks: Academic leaders and core faculty members on multidisciplinary AI applications
  • AI Career Fair: Strengthening AI talent pipelines by connecting students to a range of career opportunities
  • Poster Sessions: In-depth technical presentations demonstrating active AI research projects

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