Artificial Intelligence and Mis/Disinformation: Where is the Truth?

Speakers for this event

• Andrew Whiskeyman

  Andrew Whiskeyman

  COL USA(ret.)

  Dr. Andrew Whiskeyman, COL USA(ret.), CHEP is an Associate Professor at the National Defense University’s College of Information and Cyberspace where he teaches and researches on the topics of leadership, disruptive technology, information warfare, deception, and strategic foresight. He is an Associate Research Scientist with the University of Maryland (UMD)’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), where is helps coordinate the Phoenix Challenge Series of international Information conferences. Dr. Whiskeyman is also adjunct faculty with Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and the Air University’s Global College of Professional Military Education (GCPME). He has lectured internationally on the use of information as an element of power. He is also the CEO and co-founder of JASSA Professional Services, providing expert advice on organizational leadership, strategic foresight, and disruptive innovation.

  COL USA(ret.)

• Joe Hamilton

  Joe Hamilton

  Joe first entered the startup world with Steve Case’s Revolution Money (prior to AMEX’s $350MM purchase of the company). There he built the card fulfillment, statementing, customer service and communication infrastructure for the innovative credit card company. His next start-up, SavvyCard, raised over 2 million dollars. Joe connected with the company as an investor first and later joined as COO and board member. During Joe’s tenure, SavvyCard enjoyed rapid growth, launching their Real Estate product and expanding rapidly. After earning an MBA from the University of Florida, Joe co-founded ThinkTank — a creative strategy firm that grew by 50% year-upon-year for 5 years before merging in 2016 with Big Sea. Joe exited Big Sea in late 2018 to grow the St Petersburg Group. The St. Petersburg Group was created in 2017 to focus local brain power on solving issues in a new way. By staying agile and connecting across silos, the group drives progress in the public sector with private sector strategies. SPG has launched several projects including Catalyst for Good, Beach Drive and St Petersburg Press. Joe launched the business daily news platform St Pete Catalyst in 2018 to bring a much needed voice to an underserved business community. The Catalyst has grown rapidly providing informative, acumen enhancing, place making and community connecting content. It’s coverage has expanded to include culture, politics and nonprofits. 2 additional sub-brands were launched in 2019: PitchLyst, covering startups and Community Voices, aggregating thought leadership from around the community. As a partner in SeedFunders, Joe supports early stage companies with investment, mentoring and board membership. Joe can also be found hosting St Pete X (SPx), a podcast that features local business, civic and community leaders.

• Larry Hall

  Larry Hall

  Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida and the co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X

  LAWRENCE O. HALL is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida and the co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University (1986) and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology (1980). He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, AIMBE, IAPR, and AAIA. He received the 2021 Fuzzy Pioneer award from the IEEE CI Society. He received the Norbert Wiener award in 2012 and the Joseph Wohl award in 2017 from the IEEE SMC Society. He was the IEEE VP Publications 2021-2. He is a past President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, former EIC of what is now the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He is on the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Spectrum. His research interests lie in learning from big data, distributed machine learning, medical image understanding, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, modeling imprecision in decision making, and integrating AI into image processing. He continues to explore un and semi-supervised learning using scalable fuzzy approaches. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in journals, as well as many conference papers and book chapters. His work has been cited over 40,000 times per Google Scholar with an H-index of 62. He did early work showing that unsupervised fuzzy clustering could be combined with a knowledge-based approach to segment brain tumors in an explainable manner. He has worked on scalable methods for fuzzy clustering and an evolutionary algorithm approach to optimizing fuzzy clusters. With labeled data, he has done work to learn good models of medical images from small data. He has also done work with imbalanced data.

  Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida and the co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X

• Nicolas Sabouret

  Nicolas Sabouret

  Nicolas Sabouret is full Professor at University Paris-Saclay, conducting his research at LISN, the interdisciplinary joint research institute for Digital Science between Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Inria and CentraleSupélec. He is also head of the Graduate School of Computer Science. Nicolas Sabouret is expert in human behaviour modeling and simulation. His research combines Artificial Intelligence models with theories of human cognition and decision making from social science. His goal is to contribute to the construction of artificial agents that adopt human-like behaviours. His research is applied to various domains: multi-agent simulation of human activity to study and predict electrical consumption in households; development of conversational agents with social competencies for customer relationship, for social training or for health coaching; modeling and simulation of human factors in critical systems. He is one of the main actor of the French Local Interest Group of the Association for Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC) and he was the scientific coordinator of the TARDIS European project. His research on multi-agent simulation of human activity for electrical consumption is part of a long-term colloration with the French electricity company EDF.

• Sriram Chellappan

  Sriram Chellappan

  Professor in The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida

  Sriram Chellappan is a Professor in The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida, where he directs the SCORE (Social Computing Research) Lab. His primary interests lie in many aspects of how Society and Technology interact with each other, particularly within the realms of Smart Health, Cyber Safety and Privacy. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing and Cybersecurity. Sriram's research is/has been supported by grants from National Science Foundation, Department of Education, Army Research Office, National Security Agency, DARPA and more. Sriram received the PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio-State University in 2007. Sriram received the NSF CAREER Award in 2013.

  Professor in The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida