{"id":3272,"date":"2023-03-03T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2023\/speakers\/young-bang-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:25:49","slug":"susmit-jha","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2023\/speakers\/susmit-jha\/","title":{"rendered":"Susmit Jha"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3272\" data-postid=\"3272\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3272 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row dropPadding-bottom tb_t7lu101 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_ogbr808 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_6kaf090 image-top  track defense tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/analytics2023\/files\/2023\/03\/Susmit_Jha.jpg\" title=\"Susmit Jha\" alt=\"Susmit Jha headshot\">    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <div class=\"image-content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"image-title\">\n                                    Susmit Jha                            <\/h3>\n                    <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-content -->\n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_p6sm007 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_addh059   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1>Susmit Jha<\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 23.04px;\">Director, Neuro-symbolic Computing and Intelligence at SRI International<\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>Dr. Susmit Jha is a Technical Director in Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, where he leads the research group on Neuro-symbolic Computing and Intelligence. He did his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2011, where his thesis work on \u201cAutomated Synthesis Using Structurally Constrained Induction and Deduction\u201d was awarded the Leon O Chua Award. His program synthesis work influenced the development of the FlashFill feature in Excel. Dr. Jha was at Intel Labs and Raytheon Technologies Research Center at Berkeley before joining SRI, where he received a Division Recognition Award in 2012 and Research Technology Scoping Award in 2014. He is the recipient of the 10 year Most Influential Paper award at IEEE\/ACM ICSE 2020 and has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications with over 3100 citations in AI, ML and automated reasoning venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, JAR, and CAV. Dr. Jha has been a Principal Investigator on DoD and US Govt. programs on trustworthy and neuro-symbolic AI, including DARPA Assured Autonomy, DARPA Symbiotic Design of Cyber-physical Systems, IARPA TrojAI, NSF Self-Improving Cyber-Physical, and Army Research Laboratory\u2019s Internet of Battlefield Things REIGN CRA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"cjvb986\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth_row_container tb_cjvb986 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_beqk600 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0fps397 track defense  \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h6>Track: Defense<\/h6>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_pii3900   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>Neuro-symbolic Learning with Large Foundation Models<\/h2>\n<p>State-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning approaches have achieved remarkable success over the last decade and reached near-human level performance in many applications, such as natural language text generation and image processing. Despite these successes, these approaches are known to be fragile and not trustworthy, impeding their adoption in high-assurance safety-critical applications such as ISR. Phenomena such as hallucinatory fact generation in the large foundation models demonstrate that this fragility is persistent even with the scaling of the models. In this talk, we will describe a collaborative effort between SRI International and ACI\/USMA, WestPoint, to develop a neuro-symbolic machine learning and reasoning approach inspired by Hierarchical Predictive Processing (HPP, a theory of mind) that uses context-based learning and decision-making to address the trinity of challenges \u2013 trustworthiness, robustness and interpretability of AI.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susmit Jha Director, Neuro-symbolic Computing and Intelligence at SRI International Dr. Susmit Jha is a Technical Director in Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, where he leads the research group on Neuro-symbolic Computing and Intelligence. 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He did his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2011, where his thesis work on \u201cAutomated Synthesis Using Structurally Constrained Induction and Deduction\u201d was awarded the Leon O Chua Award. His program synthesis work influenced the development of the FlashFill feature in Excel. Dr. Jha was at Intel Labs and Raytheon Technologies Research Center at Berkeley before joining SRI, where he received a Division Recognition Award in 2012 and Research Technology Scoping Award in 2014. He is the recipient of the 10 year Most Influential Paper award at IEEE\/ACM ICSE 2020 and has published over 70 peer-reviewed publications with over 3100 citations in AI, ML and automated reasoning venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, JAR, and CAV. Dr. Jha has been a Principal Investigator on DoD and US Govt. programs on trustworthy and neuro-symbolic AI, including DARPA Assured Autonomy, DARPA Symbiotic Design of Cyber-physical Systems, IARPA TrojAI, NSF Self-Improving Cyber-Physical, and Army Research Laboratory\u2019s Internet of Battlefield Things REIGN CRA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Track: Defense<\/h6>\n<h2>Neuro-symbolic Learning with Large Foundation Models<\/h2> <p>State-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning approaches have achieved remarkable success over the last decade and reached near-human level performance in many applications, such as natural language text generation and image processing. Despite these successes, these approaches are known to be fragile and not trustworthy, impeding their adoption in high-assurance safety-critical applications such as ISR. 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