NEOACM REMOTE TECH TALK: Towards Interpretable & Sustainable AI 09/19/26
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"The Nexus: AI, Computing and Our Future" is an annual event featuring speakers who will discuss the advancements and concerns of the current state of AI and computing, and their impact on practitioners, researchers, students, the general public, and the quality of our lives and society.
For our inaugural event, we are honored to welcome Dr. C.-C Jay Kuo, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC), who will present his lecture entilted:
# Toward Interpretable and Sustainable AI
Dr. Kuo holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAI, and SPIE. His presentation will cover his pioneering research in green computing. This event will be a remote presentation and will take place on September 19, 2026 at 2:00 – 3:30 EDT PM.
Given that data centers and large Deep Learning networks have a high carbon footprint that threatens our environment, it is imperative to find alternative AI technologies that are interpretable and sustainable. Dr. Kuo has researched Green AI/ML models characterized by low carbon footprints, small model sizes, low computational complexity, and mathematical transparency. Green AI/ML has been successfully applied to various applications and he discusses several examples during his presentation to demonstrate their effectiveness and efficiency.