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SUMMARY:Campus Lecture: Raquel Urtasun "An AI-First Approach to Revolution
 ize Self-Driving at Scale"
DTSTART:20220930T120000
DTEND:20220930T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Since the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004\, the self-driving ind
 ustry has made meaningful progress\, but struggled to achieve commercial d
 eployment. Building on the lessons of the last two decades\, Raquel Urtasu
 n is pioneering a radical AI-first approach to self-driving\, starting wit
 h the trucking industry. In this presentation\, Raquel unpacks the innovat
 ive AI-first approach needed to "drive" safely in the real world and bring
  the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
 \n \nRaquel Urtasun\, who completed her PhD in Computer Science at EPFL i
 n 2006\, is one of the most prominent figures in the self-driving vehicle 
 industry. After leading Uber’s self-driving car division\, in 2021 she f
 ounded her own company Waabi\, an AI company building the next generation 
 of self-driving technology. Raquel is also a Full Professor in the Departm
 ent of Computer Science at the University of Toronto\, co-founder of the V
 ector Institute for AI\, and the recipient of several high profile awards 
 including three Google Faculty Research Awards and an Amazon Faculty Resea
 rch Award.\n\n12:00 pm  Welcome address\nLeïla Ojjeh\, EPFL Alumni Direc
 tor\n12:05 pm  Introduction \nPascal Fua\, Computer Science Professor\, C
 omputer Vision Laboratory (CVLAB)\, EPFL\n12:10 pm  Campus Lecture\n"An A
 I-First Approach to Revolutionize Self-Driving at Scale"\nRaquel Urtasun\,
  Professor in the Department of Computer Science\, University of Toronto a
 nd Founder & CEO\, Waabi\n12:45 pm  Q&A\n01:00 pm  Cocktail
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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