AI Seminar: Developing AI Decision Tools for Conservation

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Event Speaker
Iadine Chades
Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
Event Type
Artificial Intelligence
Date
Event Location
KEC 1003
Event Description

I will give an overview of the AI research we have been conducting to help make better decisions in the field of conservation (e.g. adaptive management) over the last 10 years. In particular, we have developed algorithms to solve and increase interpretability of Markov decision models and stochastic dynamic programming. I will be highlighting that the current bottleneck is not necessary our ability to solve complex decision problems, rather it is our ability to make solutions easy to interpret and more likely to be trusted.

Speaker Biography

Iadine Chades is a principal research scientist with the CSIRO. She is an activity leader with the MLAI Future Science Platform (2019-) where she focuses on developing Artificial Intelligence algorithms for decision-making in applied domains such as conservation, biosecurity and health. Iadine is also a Chief Investigator with NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence SPECTRUM (Supporting Participatory Evidence generation to Control Transmissible diseases in our Region Using Modelling). More recently, Iadine is investigating when and how to integrate social sciences and machine learning.