Join Yalies in Inland Pacific Northwest for an evening with Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science.
The Yale Club of Inland Pacific Northwest invites you to spend the evening with Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale
Tuesday, May 9 at 6 p.m. at a private residence in Spokane
(Address will be provided to registrants prior to the event)
Please register through this Eventbrite link: Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald, YAA Redpath Faculty Speaker Tickets, Tue, May 9, 2023 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Reception will begin at 6 p.m. | Speaking program will begin at 7 p.m.
This program is supported by the Redpath Fund, in memory of Robert Redpath Jr. ’28.
Talk Topic: Interactive Robot Learning
We interact with AI every day through voice assistants, spam filters, content recommenders, and more. While AI becomes increasingly commonplace, development in robotics has followed a different trend, finding traction in highly-specialized settings such as manufacturing and surgery. What is keeping us from developing robots that can help us in our everyday lives, such as around the home or the workplace?
A key challenge is that, unlike disembodied AI, robots must accommodate the physical and sensory complexity of the real world. This is further complicated by the peculiarities of every home, task, object, or routine that a robot may need to accommodate.
Dr. Fitzgerald's research takes a collaborative lens toward this problem: by enabling a robot to ask for help, it can leverage a human’s experience and domain knowledge. In this talk, she will describe how robots can reason about their uncertainty and learn from various forms of interaction.
About our Speaker
Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Her research is centered around interactive robot learning, with the aim of developing robots that are adaptive, robust, and collaborative when faced with novel situations. Before joining Yale, Dr. Fitzgerald was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, received her PhD in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, and completed her B.Sc at Portland State University. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2014), Microsoft Graduate Women Scholar (2014), and IBM Ph.D. Fellow (2017).
Website: www.tescafitzgerald.com
Registration link: Dr. Tesca Fitzgerald, YAA Redpath Faculty Speaker Tickets, Tue, May 9, 2023 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
