AI in Healthcare with UCSD Associate Professor and Chief Health AI Officer, Karandeep Singh & Robot Conversations with CSAIL Assistant Professor Andreea Bobu

In this episode

This month’s podcast is a double feature. First up, Associate Professor and Chief Health AI Officer at the University of California San Diego Karandeep Singh explains the reality of using artificial intelligence for medicine. Professor Singh extrapolates on what works, what doesn’t, and how some challenges are social rather than technical.
Plus, MIT CSAIL’s Assistant Professor Andreea Bobu explains how large language models are advancing the field of robotics. Thanks to LLMs, giving directions to robots might soon look more like a conversation, without the need for step-by-step commands.

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About the speakers

Andreea Bobu

Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL

Prof. Bobu leads the Collaborative Learning and Autonomy Research Lab (CLEAR Lab), where they develop autonomous agents that learn to do tasks for, with, and around people. The lab goal is to ensure that these agents' behavior is consistent with human expectations, whether they interact with expert designers or novice end users.

Her research looks at: 1) getting the right data to supervise autonomous agents, whether directly from people or via priors; 2) enabling humans and robots to efficiently and interactively arrive at shared task representations; 3) quantifying and addressing misalignment caused by different human modeling choices. She grounds her work in experiments and user studies with AI systems like assistive robot arms or LLMs, and draws upon methods from deep learning, mathematical human modeling, inverse reinforcement learning, and Bayesian inference.

Prof. Bobu obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley with Anca Dragan. Before MIT, she was a Research Scientist at the AI Institute and an intern at NVIDIA in the Robotics Lab. Prior to her graduate degree, she received a B.S. in Computer Science at MIT.

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Karandeep Singh

Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair and Chief Health AI Officer at UC San Diego Health

Associate Professor, UC San Diego

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