Our group will present their work at the upcoming CSE Research Symposium on March 15th.

Our group was involved at the premier AI conference, AAAI 2024, with:

• A tutorial on 'Harnessing Large Language Models for Planning: A Lab on Strategies for Success and Mitigation of Pitfalls during that time' on Feb 21st.
• A paper called 'From Cloud to Edge: Rethinking Generative AI for Low-Resource Design Challenges' at 'Artificial Intelligence for Design Problems' bridge program on Feb 21st.
• A paper on deployed application: 'Promoting Research Collaboration with Open Data Driven Team Recommendation in Response to Call for Proposals' on Feb 22nd. Presented with the Deployed Application Award.
• A demonstration paper on 'Expressive and Flexible Simulation of Information Spread Strategies in Social Networks Using Planning' on Feb 24th. Presented with the Best Demo Award.
• A workshop on 'AI for Credible Elections: A Call To Action with Trusted AI' on Feb 26th.

Our group has lead the University of South Carolina in getting itself included as a collaborator with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). [announcement, members]

Vishal Pallagani got elected to the Student Committee of the AAAI - the international Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence!

Likitha Valluru successfully defended her dissertation proposal on February 2nd: Trustable Methods for Group Recommendations With Application to Team Formation.

Rushil Thareja is joining us as a new Ph.D. student.

Likitha Valluru will present a demo paper at CODS-COMAD 2024 conference (Group recommendation). We are also co-organizing the tutorial track for the conference.

Vishal Pallagani will present a paper at Neurips 2023 workshop on Generalized Planning (LLMs and Planning).

Biplav Srivastava will participate with two posters at Americal Geophysical Union (AGU) (AI and water).

Kausik Lakkaraju is presenting one paper each at IEEE TPS and ACM AI and Finance (ICAIF) conferences (AI trust).

Vishal Pallagani completed second internship at IBM Research, invited for next summer as well.

Sai Teja Paladi graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science. He helped our team in developing and deploying various tools.

Kausik Lakkaraju secured the best graduate student poster presentation award in the Computer Science department for his work on 'Rating of AI Systems through a Causal Lens' at the Discover USC event.

First physical/virtual conference on Collaborative assistants for the society, 16 Oct 2020, (CASY 2020). Had 140 registered participants from around the world.