<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><h3 style="font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><font size="4"><b><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>TTIC Distinguished Lecture Series:</i></font></b></font></h3><h3 style="font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><b><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.266667px"><a href="http://danielarus.csail.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Daniela Rus</a>,</span></font> </font></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:18pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></h3><div><img style="margin-right: 0px;"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Monday</b><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">, June 14, 2021 </span><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">at 11:10 am CT</span></b></font><b><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></b></div><h3 style="font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"><br></p></h3><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span></div><img src="cid:ii_kpekwx683" alt="image.png" width="172" height="209" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><br><div class="gmail_default"><div><b><i><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lecture will be held virtually:</font></span></i></b><b><i><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></i></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:13.91px"><span style="line-height:13.91px"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gfZAGLoWTW6bRybyThL00g" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font size="4">register in advance here</font></span></b></a></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Daniela Rus</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:14.95px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="line-height:14.95px;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><i><font color="#000000"><br></font></i></span></p></div><hr style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><b>Title:</b> Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems<br><br><b>Abstract: </b>Deployment of autonomous vehicles (AV) on public roads promises increases in efficiency and safety and requires intelligent situation awareness. We wish to have autonomous vehicles that can learn to behave in safe and predictable ways, are capable of evaluating risk, understanding the intent of human drivers, and adapting to different road situations. This talk describes an approach to learning and integrating risk and behavior analysis in the control of autonomous vehicles. I will introduce Social Value Orientation (SVO), which captures how an agent’s social preferences and cooperation affect interactions with other agents by quantifying the degree of selfishness or altruism. SVO can be integrated in control and decision making for AVs. I will provide recent examples of self-driving vehicles capable of adaptation.<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio:</b> Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the science and engineering of autonomy. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of the Engelberger Award for robotics. She is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.<br><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:13.91px">Host:</span></b><span style="line-height:13.91px"> </span><a href="mailto:mwalter@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="line-height:13.91px">Matthew Walter</span></a></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;line-height:13.91px"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:19.26px;color:rgb(85,85,85);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For questions and comments contact </span><b><span style="line-height:19.26px"><a href="mailto:j3xu@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(0,110,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Jinbo Xu</span></a><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.</span></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:15.6933px"><span style="font-size:28pt;line-height:39.9467px"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"></p><img src="cid:ii_kn66edsg2" alt="image.png" width="189" height="58" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><br></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 5:13 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1119.2px"><div><div id="gmail-m_-5439235663746554703m_-3247003469944107581m_-5556763599885415427gmail-:1pb" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-m_-5439235663746554703m_-3247003469944107581m_-5556763599885415427gmail-:1pa" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5"><div dir="ltr"><div><h3 style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em"><font size="4"><b><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>TTIC <span>Distinguished</span> <span>Lecture</span> <span>Series</span>: </i></font></b><br></font></h3><h1 style="margin:0in;line-height:26.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><b><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff"><font><span style="letter-spacing:-0.266667px"><a href="http://danielarus.csail.mit.edu/" target="_blank">Daniela Rus</a>,</span></font></font><font> </font></font></b><b style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></b><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:18pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></h1><div><img style="margin-right: 0px;"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Monday</b><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">, June 14, 2021 </span><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">at 11:10 am CT</span></b></font><b style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></b></div><h3 style="font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal"><br></p></h3><span style="outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial"></span></div><img src="cid:ii_kpekwx683" alt="image.png" style="margin-right: 0px;" width="191" height="233"><br><div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b><i><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span>Lecture</span> will be held virtually:</font></span></i></b><b><i><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></i></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><span style="line-height:107%"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gfZAGLoWTW6bRybyThL00g" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><b><span style="line-height:107%"><font size="4">register in advance here</font></span></b></a></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Daniela Rus</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</i></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Director
of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:14.95px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="line-height:14.95px;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><i><font color="#000000"><br></font></i></span></p></div><hr style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><b>Title:</b> Learning Risk and Social Behavior in Mixed Human-Autonomous Vehicles Systems<br><br><b>Abstract: </b>Deployment of autonomous vehicles (AV) on public roads promises increases in efficiency and safety and requires intelligent situation awareness. We wish to have autonomous vehicles that can learn to behave in safe and predictable ways, are capable of evaluating risk, understanding the intent of human drivers, and adapting to different road situations. This talk describes an approach to learning and integrating risk and behavior analysis in the control of autonomous vehicles. I will introduce Social Value Orientation (SVO), which captures how an agent’s social preferences and cooperation affect interactions with other agents by quantifying the degree of selfishness or altruism. SVO can be integrated in control and decision making for AVs. I will provide recent examples of self-driving vehicles capable of adaptation.<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio:</b> Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus' research interests are in robotics and artificial intelligence. The key focus of her research is to develop the science and engineering of autonomy. Rus is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of the Engelberger Award for robotics. She is a senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.<br><br></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height:107%">Host:</span></b><span style="line-height:107%"> </span><a href="mailto:mwalter@ttic.edu" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="line-height:107%">Matthew
Walter</span></a></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:107%;color:rgb(85,85,85);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For
questions and comments contact </span><b><span style="line-height:107%"><a href="mailto:j3xu@ttic.edu" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,110,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Jinbo
Xu</span></a><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.</span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><span style="font-size:28pt;line-height:107%"> </span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"></p><img src="cid:ii_kn66edsg2" alt="image.png" width="189" height="58" style="margin-right: 0px;"><p style="font-size:12.16px;color:rgb(48,48,48)"><br></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b><div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-5439235663746554703m_-3247003469944107581m_-5556763599885415427gmail-:1q4" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;margin:15px 0px;clear:both"><div style="width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden">Attachments a</div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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