September 2024 Newsletter

CSAIL Alliances Podcast: How AI Can Help with Financial Decision Making with Andrew Lo

Andrew Lo, Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), believes that AI has the potential to democratize financial advice and assist everyday consumers in making crucial financial decisions. His research focuses on tackling the challenges associated with integrating AI into finance, such as addressing issues of responsibility and collaborating with financial advisors to ensure the practical utility of these tools. Professor Lo also serves as the faculty director for the FinTechAI@CSAIL research initiative. Hear from Prof. Lo in conversation with host Kara Miller in the latest Alliances podcast: https://bit.ly/3Z5Y1zv

Researcher Spotlight: Algorithmic Design with Assistant Professor Mina Konakovi? Lukovi?

Advancements in computer technology are rapidly transforming the world of design, offering a way to iterate that is faster, more efficient, and works at a dramatically larger scale. As leader of the Algorithmic Design Group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) , Assistant Professor Mina Konakovi? Lukovi? is working on a variety of design problems, developing algorithms which can search for better performing designs, discover designs impossible to create manually, and generally enhance the design possibilities for future engineers, artists, healthcare providers, and more. Learn about the work her group is doing here: https://bit.ly/4dXxzws

Student Spotlight: Marianne Rakic on Computer Vision for Medical Imaging

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) PhD student Marianne Rakic works in the lab's Clinical and Applied Machine Learning Group. Rakic’s most recent project, Tyche, is a medical image segmentation model that aims at generalizing new tasks and capturing uncertainty in the medical image. Read more about Marianne and her research: https://bit.ly/3B4WJLf

Case Study: Alice & Bob

Even though the quantum computer industry is still in its infancy compared to that of conventional computers, global excitement around quantum is rapidly gaining momentum. With the exciting potential to be at the forefront of a second computer revolution, enterprising companies are working to solve the challenges of quantum and bring a functional quantum computer to market. One such company is French startup and CSAIL Alliances Startup Connect Plus member Alice & Bob , who believes their self-correcting cat qubit could be the key to bringing about the useful and widely applicable quantum computers of tomorrow.?Learn more about how Alice & Bob collaborates with CSAIL Alliances: https://bit.ly/3Xf5ISo

Upcoming Events and Professional Programs

October 2, 2024 | Digital Course - Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design

October 9, 2024 | Digital Course - Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy

October 15, 2024 | Digital Course - Driving Innovation with Generative AI (Use code CSAILINK10 to receive 10% off course registration and a free copy of Prof. Daniela Rus’ new book, The Mind’s Mirror: Risk & Reward in the Age of AI upon course completion.)

October 16, 2024 | Digital Course - Machine Learning in Business

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