A number of institutions are coming together to discuss how researchers are using generative AI as a tool for research in The Generative AI Coast to Coast webinar series. Co-hosted by Johns Hopkins University; the Ohio State University; Rice University; the International Computer Science Institute, an Affiliated Institute of the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Michigan; and the University of Washington the webinars will bring feature speakers from peer institutions to discuss Generative AI in research with the larger goal of fostering a broad community of cross-institutional and interdisciplinary researchers, and building research ideas and collaboration. Each webinar will include extensive audience discussion time.

Included in the line-up of speakers is CCC Council Member Rada Mihalcea. Rada, also a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, will team up with David Evan Harris, Chancellor’ s Public Scholar at the University of California Berkeley and Senior Research Fellow at the International Computer Science Institute in their webinar “An Under the Hood look at GenAI: Potential and Pitfalls” on August 31 at 3PM EST.

The complete list of webinars in the Series are the following, with the first starting August 8th at 2pM EST.

• Generative AI in Healthcare and Public Health, August 8, 2023, 2 PM EST
  • Mark Dredze, John C Malone Professor of Computer Science; Director of Research (Foundations of AI), JHU AI-X Foundry; Johns Hopkins University
  • Abraham D. Flaxman, Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington
• Generative AI in the Lab, August 23, 2023, 1 PM EST
  • Xia Ning, Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
  • Ankit Patel, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
• Conversations on Policy, Ethics, and Generative AI, August 28, 2023, 1 PM EST
  • Marjory Blumenthal, International Computer Science Institute
  • Merve Hickok, School of Information – University of Michigan; President, Center for AI & Digital Policy; Founder, AIethicist.org

• An Under the Hood Look at Generative AI: Potentials and Pitfalls, August 31, 2023, 3 PM EST

  • David Evan Harris, Senior Research Fellow, International Computer Science Institute
  • Rada Mihalcea, Janice M Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; University of Michigan

You can read more about each session and presentation topics on the University of Michigan’s website. The Zoom information is below.