Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture - Raquel Urtasun

— 6:15pm

Location:
In Person and Virtual - ET - McConomy Auditorium, Cohon University Center and Livestream

Speaker:
RAQUEL URTASUN, Founder and CEO, Waabi, and Full Professor, University of Toronto
https://waabi.ai/

Bringing Generative AI to the Physical World

Martial Hebert,  Dean of the School of Computer Science and University Professor of Robotics invites you to the Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture  honoring Raj Reddy (HON 2022), Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics.

With distinguished guest 
  Raquel Urtasun
   Founder and CEO, Waabi and Full Professor, University of Toronto
— Bringing Generative AI to the Physical World

Advances in AI over recent years have been nothing short of remarkable, but we've only scratched the surface. The next frontier for AI will see the technology move from the virtual world and into the physical world. Join Raquel as she explores how generative AI is unlocking the future of robotics, starting with self-driving.

REGISTER → by Monday, 4 November 2024 

About the Speaker:   Raquel Urtasun is the Founder and CEO of Waabi. A world-renowned expert within the field of AI, Raquel is pioneering the application of generative AI technology to build innovative self-driving solutions. Raquel is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and co-founded the Vector Institute for AI together with Geoff Hinton. Over her 25 year career within AI, she has been the recipient of several high profile and prestigious awards including a Longuet-Higgins Prize (test of time award), an Everingham Prize, an NSERC EWR Steacie Award (best scientist in Canada), two NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Awards, three Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Faculty Research Award, two Best Paper Awards at CVPR, the leading conference in computer vision, and more. She has published more than 200 papers in AI, which have been cited more than 70,000 times, giving her an h-index of 117, and she has filed more than 100 patents in AI for self-driving. 

Prior to founding Waabi, Raquel was the Chief Scientist and Head of R&D at Uber ATG and a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Raquel received her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006 and did her postdoc at MIT and UC Berkeley. In 2024, Raquel was included on the CNBC Changemakers: Women Transforming Business list. In 2023, she was named one of the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI, made Business Insider’s AI 100 list of Top People in AI, and was awarded the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s Emerging Tech CEO Award and the Order of Ontario, the highest civilian honor in the province. In 2021, she was named one of the 100 Women of Impact by Entrepreneur Magazine, 100 People Transforming Business by Business Insider, and Toronto’s Most Influential Torontonians according to Toronto Life Magazine. She was also named Chatelaine 2018 Woman of the Year and 2018 Toronto's top influencers by Adweek magazine. 

About the Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture

The Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture Series was established in honor of Raj Reddy and his critical work in AI during his now 50 year career at CMU. Reddy was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of Computer Science from 1991 to 1999. He has been active in AI research for over five decades in the areas of AI, Speech Understanding, Image Understanding, Robotics, Multi-sensor Fusion, and Intelligent Agents.