In the framework of the Advanced Training Program in Data Science and Machine Learning of the CMU Portugal Program which is planned to start in 2021, the CMU Portugal Program is organizing a series of webinars entitled “Data Science Talks @ CMU Portugal”.
The second talk will take place on February 11th, from 2-3 p. m. (Lisbon) / 9-10 a.m. (Pittsburgh) by Eric Nyberg (Professor at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) on “AI Learns to Race: Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving”.
The first talk took place on January 28th and was given by Jamie Callan ( Professor at Carnegie Mellon University) on “Conversational Assistants for Complex Search Tasks” on January 28th, video available here.
Registration is free but mandatory.
Abstract
This talk will present the Roborace challenge, the first global event for autonomous Formula-1 race cars. The Roborace organization provides full-size autonomous vehicles, as well as simulation software for training and testing autonomous driving agents; the competing research teams are responsible for improving the driving capabilities of the vehicle to navigate increasingly difficult autonomous racing challenges. In 2020, a team of students from CMU’s Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) program became the first U.S. team to participate in Roborace. In this talk, we present our experiences so far, and outline our efforts to move beyond classic approaches with a completely general, reinforcement learning approach for training autonomous driving agents.
Eric Nyberg
Noted for his contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering, Eric Nyberg holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992) and a B.A. from Boston University (1983). He is a recipient of the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (for his contributions to the field of question answering and his work as an original developer on the Watson project) and the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award. Eric currently directs the Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) program at Carnegie Mellon. He is also co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at Cognistx, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for Fairhair.ai
Should you have any doubts regarding registration please contact info@cmuportugal.org.
