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SUMMARY:Co-Optimizing and Designing Pervasive Mobile Systems and Built Inf
 rastructure with Humans-in-the-Loop for Smarter\, Healthier\, and Safer En
 vironments. - Stephen Xia\, Northwestern University
DTSTART:20250730T130000Z
DTEND:20250730T140000Z
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CONTACT:Cecilia Mascolo
DESCRIPTION:We have seen remarkable growth in smart devices and artificial
  intelligence in all aspects of our lives. Despite these successes\, there
  still exists a large gap between realizing robust\, practical\, and omnip
 resent AI that coexists and interacts with humans and the physical world. 
 There are many great success stories in bringing the benefits of AI from t
 he productivity tools\, digital assistants\, and chatbots in the digital w
 orld to our physical world\, ranging from smart wearables that track healt
 h and fitness\, to sensors for monitoring the environment and robots that 
 interact with our physical world. Traditionally\, these diverse areas are 
 explored by equally diverse communities. In this talk\, we argue that to c
 reate truly autonomous and intelligent physical spaces\, we need to co-des
 ign applications and services at all scales and levels with both humans an
 d computers in the loop\, ranging from infrastructure found all around our
  environments (e.g.\, sensors and smart speakers) down to wearables and pe
 rsonal smartphones enable humans and computers to interface with each othe
 r. Towards this vision\, we will present several lines of work that 1) dem
 onstrates how co-optimizing our environments with humans-in-the-loop can s
 ignificantly improve important metrics for both our built environments (e.
 g.\, energy consumption) and humans (e.g.\, health and comfort)\, 2) enabl
 es new modalities for computers and AI to interact with our physical world
  through drones\, robots\, and foundation models\, and 3) enhances the nat
 ural language interface between humans and the digital world through effic
 ient AI architectures for speech enhancement.\n\n\nBiography:\nStephen Xia
  is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer En
 gineering at Northwestern University. His research lies at the intersectio
 n between systems\, embedded machine learning\, and signal processing\, sp
 anning areas in mobile and embedded computing\, Internet-of-Things\, cyber
 -physical systems\, artificial intelligence\, and smart health. His work f
 ocuses on realizing truly intelligent and autonomous environments by embed
 ding and utilizing compute\, perception\, actuation\, storage\, and networ
 king resources commonly found all around us. Stephen’s research has been
  highlighted by many popular media outlets\, including Mashable\, Fast Com
 pany\, and Gizmodo\, and has received various distinctions including multi
 ple Best Demo Awards\, Best Presentation Awards\, and Best Paper Awards. P
 rior to Northwestern\, Stephen was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley\,
  received his Ph.D. from Columbia University\, and received his B.S. from 
 Rice University\, all in Electrical Engineering.\n
LOCATION:Computer Lab\, FW26 and Online
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