6th Workshop on Cognition & Control

The 6th incarnation was held on the UF campus, January 26 & 27

Organized by Prof. Sean Meyn, co-organized by Profs. Shreya Saxena and Yuheng Bu,  
with help from graduate students including Caio Lauand, Fan Lu and Yongxu Zhang.
Many thanks to Erlinda Lane and Marcy Lee for their expert help in organization

And thanks to the Army Research Office for their financial support,  
along with help from the National Science Foundation and the UF Pittman Endowment

As always, we had a stellar cast of speakers!
Talks will be held in the Chamber Room @ Reitz Union, with poster session will take place in Rooms 3315 & 3320 @ Reitz Union.     
Click here for the schedule in PDF

Most of the video can be found on this YouTube channel.   Apologies to speakers who were victims to technology failures.

Jan 26th Thursday
9:00 AM	Opening Remarks (Chamber Room)
9:10  AM	Derya Cansever	Army Research Office	Integrated Reinforcement Learning
9:30 AM	Dimitris Metaxas	Rutgers University	Learning Interacting Dynamic Systems with Prediction using Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
10:15 AM	Prashant Girdharilal Mehta	University of Illinois	Ensemble Kalman Filter for Reinforcement Learning
11:00 AM	Pulkit Grover	Carnegie Mellon University	A Two-Way Communication Channel between the Scalp and the Brain
11:45 AM	Lunch Break
1:00  PM	Maryam Shanechi	University of Southern California	Next-Generation Brain-Machine Interface Systems for Decoding and Control of Neural Dynamics
1:45  PM	Mihailo Jovanovic	University of Southern California	Robustness of Accelerated First-Order Optimization Algorithms
2:30  PM	Benjamin Van Roy	Stanford University	Reinforcement Learning for Generative Artificial Intelligence
3:15  PM	Break
3:30  PM	Poster Session (Rooms 3315 & 3320)
Jan 27th Friday
9:00 AM	Ken Duffy	Northeastern University	DNA Forensics – A Numerate Scientist’s Introduction
9:45 AM	Muriel Medard	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Revisiting What We Knew About the Usefulness of Code Construction      Video of a prior lecture on the same topic
10:30 AM	Break
11:00 AM	Shaofeng Zou	University of Buffalo	Robust Reinforcement Learning Under Model Uncertainty
11:45 AM	Lunch Break
1:00  PM	Kaiqing Zhang	University of Maryland	Independent Learning in Stochastic Games
1:45  PM	Sridevi Sarma	Johns Hopkins University	Cognitive States as a Source of Subject-Dependent Movement Variability and their Representation by Large-Scale Brain Networks
2:30  PM	Todd Coleman	Stanford University	Information Processing Methods to Decipher Electrical Oscillations Along the Gut-Brain Axis

 

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