Human + AI: Combining AI and Human Expertise

Join us for an insightful event featuring Padhraic Smyth, Distinguished Professor and Hasso Plattner Chair in AI at UC Irvine. Discover how human and AI teams can outperform either working alone and learn how to determine which decisions should be made by people and which by AI models. 🤖✨

Ideal for: Engineers, founders, product leaders, researchers, and students engaged with AI. Whether you're deploying AI in production or just beginning your exploration, all are welcome!

🎤 Speakers

• Padhraic Smyth
  Distinguished Professor and Hasso Plattner Chair in AI at UC Irvine. Fellow of ACM, AAAI, IEEE, and AAAS. Academic advisor to Netflix for the Netflix Prize.

• Hadar Ziv
  Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Informatics, UC Irvine.
  Lightning Talk: Student Perceptions of AI in Computer Science Education.
  Hadar's team surveyed large cohorts of CS students about their perceptions and usage of AI in their coursework, sharing insights on how student attitudes evolve over their academic journey.

🗓 Agenda

• 6:00 PM · Doors open, networking
• 6:30 PM · Lightning talk: Hadar Ziv
• 6:45 PM · Keynote: Padhraic Smyth
• 7:20 PM · Open audience Q&A
• 7:35 PM · Networking until 8:00 PM

You will leave with a clearer understanding of:

• When combining human and AI judgment is more effective than either working alone.
• How to allocate tasks between people and AI agents based on research.
• Insights into how UCI computer science students perceive and utilize AI, measured across three survey years.

📍 Logistics

Location: Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, 1 Federation Way, Irvine.
Light refreshments and soft drinks will be provided.

🎟 Tickets

• Early Bird: $22 through August 19
• Standard: $26