Pioneer Centre for AI

📣 Join us for a talk on Active Inference and Human-Computer Interaction! 🗓️ Date: January 31, 2025 🕕 Time: 10.00-11.00 📍 Location: Seminar Room, Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 Copenhagen Roderick Murray-Smith is Professor of Computer Science at the University og Glasgow and lead of the Inference, Dynamics and Interaction research group. Professor Murray-Smith will present his research within the grant project, Designing Interaction Freedom via Active Inference (DIFAI), on the integration of Active Inference theory into the human-computer interaction loop, linking human behaviour via sensors and ML/inference embeddings with dynamic mediating mechanisms to create end-to-end mutually adaptive loops between humans and systems. Find more information about the talk, and sign-up here: https://lnkd.in/dDbJjq2Z We look forward to seeing you!

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐚𝐫𝐡𝐮𝐬! Join us for a delightful Danish breakfast and a chance to network over coffee. 📅 Date: Friday, 31 January 2025 🕗 Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM 📍 Location: INCUbistro at INCUBA Katrinebjerg, 8200 Aarhus 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝? 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: Connect with fellow data scientists and industry professionals. 𝐄𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲: Savor a traditional Danish breakfast in a relaxed setting. https://lnkd.in/d9Z3X4Ps #GrowingDanishDataScience Hosted By: DDSA - The Danish Data Science Academy & Danish Data Science Community

Join us for this month's Last Fridays Talks on Friday, 31 January! This time, we'll explore research within our Networks and Graphs Collaboratory with two exciting talks. Christian Djurhuus will begin with a presentation on Large-Scale Network Embeddings and how to leverage social relationships to predict future life events. The second talk will be delivered by Mikko Kivelä, who will discuss how computational social science and network analysis tools can be employed to measure and analyse different types of polarization. 📅 Date: 31 January 2025 🕒 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 📍 Location: Pioneer Centre for AI, Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 København K The talks are organised by Toine Bogers, P1 Chief Scientific Officer, and the Networks and Graphs Collaboratory, led by Sune Lehmann and Roberta Sinatra.

Dear colleagues, We are very happy to announce that this year’s Nordic Pre-CHI Event will take place in Copenhagen! Tl;DR: join us for the Nordic Pre-CHI Event! Dates: 27 March + 28 March, 2025 Location: Gammeltoftsgade 13, Copenhagen, Denmark Times: exact times tba, start ~10:00 (27/3), end: ~12:00 (28/3) Registration deadline: 21 February. The event is free to participate. Due to limited space (180 people), we'll be welcoming participants on a first-come, first-served basis. We will send out confirmation emails after the registration deadline has passed. Paper talks: Please indicate your interest in presenting a paper by filling out the form linked below. If we receive more interest than we have time for, we may balance presentations based on seniority, topic, etc. The Nordic Pre-CHI event provides an opportunity for researchers from the Nordics to present their accepted CHI 2025 papers and discuss them in a smaller circle. Additionally, it provides an excellent opportunity for younger researchers to get a taste of the quality of work presented at CHI and network with other peers, as well as senior researchers. Therefore, everyone from students to professors interested in HCI is welcome. We are planning to have several paper sessions followed by the “usual” CHI discussion, but also comments and suggestions on presentation style, slides, etc. to help prepare you for a presentation at CHI. Please let us know by February 21 if you would like to participate by filling this form: https://lnkd.in/gu4jFkDU. Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues and spread the word! If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Organisers: Tor-Salve Dalsgaard Qiushi Zhou Jonathan Sutton Teresa Hirzle

#P1 collaboratory co-lead, Professor Sune Lehmann, will give a public talk on February 17th. Fascinating work on predicting life’s events👇

📢 Join us for a talk on Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP! 🗓 Date: January 23, 2025 🕛 Time: 12:00 - 13:00 📍 Location: Seminar Room, Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 Copenhagen Zhijing Jin will present her research on developing a causal framework to enhance the robustness and fairness of NLP models. This framework aligns human and model decision-making mechanisms, with applications in combating misinformation and analyzing social phenomena like policy impacts and gender bias. Zhijing Jin is a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She has received multiple awards and her work is published in top NLP and AI venues. 🌟 Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dfriTkk2

Next week, I'll be giving a talk at IDA - The Danish Society of Engineers in Copenhagen. 🎤✨ I will dive into the realm of 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐒𝐒𝐋) and 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. Core concepts and methods of SSL will be introduced, along with demonstrations on how to pre-train models using these techniques. Additionally, we'll explore how these pre-trained models can be deployed for various downstream tasks. Looking forward to engaging with an audience beyond the university campus and exchanging thoughts related to AI and machine learning. 🤖🌟 All are welcome #AI #MachineLearning #SelfSupervisedLearning #ModelPreTraining #Engineering

We are thrilled to announce that P1 Director, Professor Serge Belongie, has been appointed to the Expert Group of the Digital Taskforce for Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector, established by the Danish Ministry of Digitalization in collaboration with KL and Danske Regioner - Danish Regions. The Digital Taskforce aims to position Denmark’s public sector as a global leader in the application of artificial intelligence. The Expert Group brings together leaders from diverse sectors, demonstrating Denmark’s commitment to fostering collaboration between the public sector, private industry, and academia. This ambition aligns closely with our vision of developing human-centric AI through participatory design, emphasizing ethical, responsible, and citizen-focused approaches.   The initiative is a key part of Denmark’s broader strategy of using AI to optimize and enhance the quality of the public sector for the benefit of citizens and businesses alike. Datalogisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - DIKU, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, DTU - Technical University of Denmark, IT-Universitetet i København, Aalborg Universitet, Aarhus Universitet

Congratulations to P1 affiliate Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen on receiving the Lundbeck Foundations grant for a new collaborative project TRUSTMIND: AI in Mental Health – Ensuring Evaluation, Trustworthiness, Ethical and Legal Considerations! 👏 This exciting project brings together a talented team including Aasa Feragen, Merete Osler, Sune Holm, and Katharina Ó Cathaoir, PhD.

Proud to have such talented PhD students at the Pioneer Centre for AI, facilitated by the ELLIS PhD program and network.