10:00-10:05 AM
CASY Begins
Opening Remarks - Prof. Biplav Srivastava, AI Institute, University of South Carolina
10:35-10:45 AM
Transition Break
10:45-11:00 AM
Inauguration Session
About the CASY event - Prof. Biplav Srivastava, AI Institute, University of South Carolina
Inaugural Remarks - Prof. Hossein Haj-Hariri, Dean, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina
11:00-12:00
Session 1: Panel on Impact Being Made by Collaborative Assistants
Introduction of AAAS, Leshner Fellowship on AI - Emily Cloyd, AAAS
[AAAS Leshner Fellows Panel] AI / Collaborative Assistants and its Role in Handling of COVID19 at University campuses and Local Communities
Prof. Lyle Unger, University of Pennsylvania – Where do chatbots help?
Prof. Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University - Education
Prof. Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University - Collecting Data on School Response during COVID-19
Prof. Michael Littman, Brown University
Prof. Brian Scassellati, Yale University - Social Robots during COVID19
Prof. Anita Nikolic, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign - Project Domino, De-Fanging COVID Misinformation
Prof. Biplav Srivastava, AI Institute, University of South Carolina - AI during COVID19 - moderator
12:00-01:00 PM
Session 2: Talks on The Science of Building Collaborative Assistants
Chatbots RESET,
Venkataraman Sundareswaran, MCHC Fellow, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, World Economic ForumTowards Intelligent Agents with Open World Visual Understanding ,
Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur, Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Oklahoma State UniversityCommand Line Artificial Intelligence (CLAI)
Kartik Talamadupula , IBM Research - AIScaling skill development with Alexa, Shreyansh Bhatt, Amazon, Candace Thille, Amazon & Stanford University, and Jinjin Zhao, Amazon
01:00-02:00 PM
Session 3: Panel on Product and Services Trends in Collaborative Assistants
Product Trends - Dr. Imed Zitouni, Google
Services Trends - Dr. Ullas Nambiar, Accenture
Document Grounded Dialog Systems - Dr. Luis Lastras, IBM Research
k-bot -Knowledge-driven Chatbot for Health - Joey Yip, AI Institute, University of South Carolina
Prof. Brian Scassellati, Yale University - moderator
02:00-02:55
Session 4: Panel on Potential of Collaborative Assistants for South Carolina and South-East US
Prof. Amit Sheth, AI Institute, University of South Carolina - AI Perspective
Prof. Dezhi Wu, Integrated Information Technology, University of South Carolina - Usability Perspective - moderator
Prof. Barnett Berry, College of Education, University of South Carolina - Education Perspective
Prof. Ronda Hughes, College of Nursing, University of South Carolina - Health Perspective
Prof. Bryant Walker Smith, School of Law, University of South Carolina - Legal Perspective
2:55-3:00
Closing Comments