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The #AAAI Privacy Preserving AI workshop (#PPAI) is happening again!✨ In Philly on 3/3/25 ppai-workshop.github.io Stay tuned for updates, but for the moment, I hope you submit your work on technical/practical Privacy, privacy & LLMs Agents, and AI/privacy governance!

🧠 How can AI improve mental health support? Join Dr. Tim Althoff as he discusses how language models can act as temporary "training wheels" to help individuals build key mental health skills. 📅 Don’t miss it: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #AI #MentalHealth #TechForGood

🧠 How can AI improve mental health support? Join Dr. Tim Althoff as he discusses how language models can act as temporary "training wheels" to help individuals build key mental health skills. 📅 Don’t miss it: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regist… USC Viterbi School USC Social Work USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

🧠 How can AI improve mental health support? Join Dr. Tim Althoff as he discusses how language models can act as temporary "training wheels" to help individuals build key mental health skills. 📅 Don’t miss it: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regist… USC Viterbi School USC Social Work USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

COLT 2025 Call for Paper is out! learningtheory.org/colt2025/ Submit your awesome ML theory works to COLT 2025 (Feb 6 deadline) and save the date for the conference in Lyon, France (June 30-July 4)! #COLT2025

Daniel Kuhn, Soroosh Shafiee, Wolfram Wiesemann: Distributionally Robust Optimization arxiv.org/abs/2411.02549 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02549

🗳️Can algorithmic tools bring fairness to redistricting? Join Dr. David Shmoys as he explores methods that incorporate political & demographic data for fairer electoral maps: cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cai… USC Viterbi School USC Social Work USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

(reshare) I'm recruiting PhD students Allen School UW NLP (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas incl Human-AI collaboration, language agents, LLM safety & applications to mental health, social sciences, education. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… UW Data Science @UW_iSchool HCI & Design at UW

🔊🔊 We have open #postdoctoral fellow positions. Info below 👇👇👇

Can algorithmic tools bring fairness to redistricting? Join Dr. David Shmoys next week as he explores methods that incorporate political & demographic data for fairer electoral maps. More info: cais.usc.edu/events/usc-cai… USC Viterbi School USC Social Work USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

We won an outstanding paper award at #EMNLP2024! So proud of my PhD students Jaspreet Ranjit and Brihi Joshi, the wonderful @rebeccadorn_ and our generous collaborators at USC's School of Social Work, especially Eric Rice. Thanks for making it happen, USC Center for AI in Society!

Our next session of #DiscreteOptTalks is in 12.5 hours, at 12pm ET on Fri Nov 15, with DOTs by Ksenia Bestuzheva (ZIB) and Güzin Bayraksan (OSU). Details on talks.discreteopt.com. Hope to see you soon! #orms

Next up in the SPS seminars, we will have a Junior Session on Nov 22 at 10-11am ET. We are looking forward to it!

The FATE group at Microsoft Research NYC is now accepting applications for 2025 interns. 🥳🎉 For full consideration, apply by December 18 and include a cover letter. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Interested in AI evaluation? Apply for the STAC internship too! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

🍁 This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for our community, the incredible work being done in AI for social good, and the opportunity to make a positive impact. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #HappyThanksgiving #Gratitude #AIForGood

Our next SPS seminar is by Melvyn Sim, on Dec 6 at 4-5pm ET (please note the irregular time). We are looking forward to it.

DID YOU KNOW? USC just launched first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary PhD Program in artificial intelligence and operations research. AI and OR both harness technology to improve human decision-making, ensuring our decisions are more effective and informed by data. USC Interdisciplinary PhD Program in AI and OR

Congratulations, Phebe Vayanos & Bistra Dilkina, co-directors of first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary PhD program in AI & operations research USC Viterbi School 👏 Supported by a $2.9 million grant from U.S. National Science Foundation to train future leaders, researchers, and educators. tinyurl.com/26ubh42r

The official edition of the USC Viterbi DIGITAL magazine is out. Head to the link in our bio to see it yourself and read a message from our very own Dean Yannis Yortsos & USC’s USC School of Advanced Computing Inaugural Director, Gaurav Sukhatme. magazine.viterbi.usc.edu