Events

Colloquium Seminar (AI for Social Impact): Deployed Resource Optimization and Future Acceleration with Foundation Models

Speaker: Milind Tambe (Harvard)

Location: TBA

Date: Monday, February 24, 2025

Location: Kaufman Management Center 4-90

For nearly two decades, my team’s work on AI for social impact (AI4SI) has focused on optimizing limited resources in public health, conservation, public safety, and other critical areas. I will highlight recent results from our deployed work in India on using bandit algorithms to improve effectiveness of  the world’s two largest mobile health programs for maternal and child care that have served millions of beneficiaries. Additionally, I will briefly discuss our previous work on influence maximization for HIV prevention among youth experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Deploying an end-to-end AI4SI systems  pipeline requires us to repeat three steps of understanding stakeholders’ resource allocation challenges, building a tailored model and testing in the field. I'll share initial results on how we can leverage foundation models and LLMs to dramatically accelerate this AI4SI process.