Julie Shah, PhD
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract: Every team has top performers—people who excel at working in a team to find the right solutions in complex, difficult situations. These top performers include nurses who run hospital floors, emergency response teams, air traffic controllers, and factory line supervisors. While they may outperform the most sophisticated optimization and scheduling algorithms, they cannot often tell us how they do it. Similarly, even when a machine can do the job better than most of us, it can’t explain how. In this talk Dr. Shah will share recent work investigating effective ways to blend the unique decision-making strengths of humans and machines. She will discuss the development of computational models that enable machines to efficiently infer the mental state of human teammates and thereby collaborate with people in richer, more flexible ways. She will present frameworks employed in her lab’s research to consider social and ethical implications in technology conception, implementation, and deployment.
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