Lectures

AI4SI book is available at ai4sibook.org

 

Date Topic Lecturer Assignment
1/22

Class Introduction

Milind Tambe  
1/24

Overview of AI for Social Impact Projects

Milind Tambe

Lily Xu*, Shahrzad Gholami *, Sara Mc Carthy, Bistra Dilkina, Andrew Plumptre, Milind Tambe, Rohit Singh, Mustapha Nsubuga, Joshua Mabonga, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Tom Okello, and Eric Enyel. 4/20/2020. “Stay Ahead of Poachers: Illegal Wildlife Poaching Prediction and Patrol Planning Under Uncertainty with Field Test Evaluations.” In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-20).Abstract icde_arxiv_version.pdf

Lily Xu, Andrew Perrault, Fei Fang, Haipeng Chen, and Milind Tambe. 7/27/2021. “Robust Reinforcement Learning Under Minimax Regret for Green Security.” Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).Abstract xu_uai21_robust_rl.pdf

Bryan Wilder, Laura Onasch-Vera, Graham Diguiseppi, Robin Petering, Chyna Hill, Amulya Yadav, Eric Rice, and Milind Tambe. 2021. “Clinical trial of an AI-augmented intervention for HIV prevention in youth experiencing homelessness.” In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.Abstract aaai21_hiv.pdf

Kai Wang*, Shresth Verma*, Aditya Mate, Sanket Shah, Aparna Taneja, Neha Madhiwalla, Aparna Hegde, and Milind Tambe. 2/14/2023. “Scalable Decision-Focused Learning in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Application to Maternal and Child Health.” AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).Abstract 10767.wangk_full.pdf

Shresth Verma, Aditya Mate, Kai Wang, Neha Madhiwala, Aparna Hegde, Aparna Taneja, and Milind Tambe. 5/28/2023. “Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Maternal and Child Health:Results from Decision-Focused Learning.” In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). dfl_2022_study_aamas_2023_camera_ready.pdf

Arshika Lalan, Paula Rodriguez Diaz, Panayiotis Danassis, Amrita Mahale, Kumar Madhu Sudan, Aparna Hegde, Milind Tambe, and Aparna Taneja. 2/28/2024. “Improving Health Information Access in the World’s Largest Maternal MobileHealth Program via Bandit Algorithms.” In Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI). iaai_2024_kilkari_camera_ready_1.pdf

1/29 AI and Public Health Jessica Haberer

Benitez et al.

Navarro et al.

David Adam

1/31 AI and Conservation Andrew Davies

Uncovering Ecological Patterns with Convolutional Neural Networks

Find Rhinos without Finding Rhinos: Active Learning with Multimodal Imagery of South African Rhino Habitats

2/5

AI and Bias & Fairness

Sharad Goel

Risk Scores, Label Bias, and Everything but the Kitchen Sink

2/7

AI for Social Impact Discussion on Partnerships

Milind Tambe

Lessons from ICT and International Development

2/12

Public Health Challenges in Madagascar

Dimeji Mudele & Marissa Lynn Childs (Chris Golden lab)

A three-step machine learning approach for algal bloom detection using stationary RGB camera images

Improving accuracy of air pollution exposure measurements

2/14

LLMs, Generative AI, and Social Good

Marinka Zitnik

Zero-shot drug repurposing with geometric deep learning and clinician centered design

Deep learning for diagnosing patients with rare genetic diseases

2/19

Presidents' Day - No Class

   
2/21 In-class OH for projects   Project Proposal Due
2/26 Initial Survey Results I    
2/28

Initial Survey Results II

   
3/4 Beyond the AI hype: Balancing innovation and Social Responsibility Virginia Dignum  
3/6 Midterm Project Presentations  

Midterm Project Presentation Due

3/11 Spring Break - No Class    
3/13 Spring Break - No Class    
3/18 Harvard Business School Case Study: PAWS Brian Trelstad  

3/20

Causal Inference for Conservation

Lily Xu  
3/25 Work period    
3/27 Partnerships for AI4SI    
4/1

Paper Discussion

   
4/3 Paper Discussion    
4/8 Guest Lecture Malihe Alikhani Final Survey Paper Due.
4/10 Ethics Lecture Embedded Ethics  
4/15 Implementation Science Shoba Ramnadhan  
4/17 Work Period    
4/22 Final Presentations    
4/24 Final Presentations    

 

brodrick_etal_2019_tree_using_cnns_in_ecology.pdf4.67 MB
biasinairesearch.pdf246 KB
benitez_sl_uarto.pdf270 KB
medicalai_dangerous_poorer_nations_who.pdf979 KB
2305.12638.pdf512 KB
lessons_from_ictd.pdf219 KB
deep_learning_genetic_diseases.pdf22.06 MB
zeroshot_drug_repurposing.pdf26.59 MB