“Winds of Change” Conference
Saturday, March 2, 2024 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Seal Beach, CA

Artificial Intelligence and the Christian Professor. Two Christian computer science professors will inform us of the origins, limits, ethics and other facets of AI. Several professors from other disciplines will explain how they are using AI, and what they have learned.

Registration and more information for in person conference participation here.

If you are unable to attend in person, a free webinar option is available (9am-2pm PST). While online small group breakout sessions will not be offered, you’re welcome to watch and discuss with colleges . Please register by Feb. 29th here.

George Varghese (https://samueli.ucla.edu/people/george-varghese/) is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Networking in the Computer Science department at UCLA. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, to the National Academy of Inventors in 2020, to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2021, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. He has worked on algorithmic techniques for speeding up routers, on new formal methods to proactively prevent Internet errors, and most recently on using Large Language Models (that underlie ChatGPT for example) in networking. https://www.internethalloffame.org/2023/05/11/george-varghese-speeding-up-the-internet-finding-confluence/

After earning his PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University, George Montañez became a data scientist with Microsoft (AI+R), and is currently an assistant professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA. He holds an M.S. in computer science from Baylor University and a B.S. in computer science from the University of California Riverside. A former NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, he served as an intern at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Labs during graduate school. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning, algorithmic search, and information theory. His work has garnered five conference awards, including Best Paper at CIKM 2014 and ICAART 2020. He is passionate about mentoring and teaching, and has worked with roughly 90 undergraduate student researchers, being awarded a Diversity Mentoring Award by the Claremont Colleges Consortium and the Iris and Howard Critchell Assistant Professorship from 2019-2022 in recognition of his mentoring efforts inside and outside the classroom. https://www.hmc.edu/about/news/experts/george-montanez/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgemontanez/

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