2024 Program

8:30am - 9:00am Welcome, Introduction and opening remarks

RELIABILITY THEME

9:00 am - 9:10 am

• Presentation of the RELIABILITY theme : Foutse Khomh (Polytechnique Montréal)

9h10 - 10h10 :

• Keynote presentation: Gopal Ramchurn (University of Southampton)

10h10 - 10h35 : Towards a valid external evaluation of artificial intelligence systems

• Technical presentation: Olawale Salaudeen (UIUC/Stanford University)

11h00 -11h30 Networking break (with student poster)

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Scientific round table on reliability (research and industry)

• Amel Bennanceur (Open University UK)
• Gopal Ramchurn (University of Southampton)
• Olawale Salaudeen (Stanford University)
  
• Bertrand Braunschweig (Confiance.ai)
• Laure Hugot-Derville (CS Canada)

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break

CONFIDENTIALITY THEME

2:00 pm - 2:10 pm

• Presentation of the CONFIDENTIALITY theme: Marc-Olivier Killijan (Université du Québec à Montréal)

14h10 - 15h10 : Privacy and Machine Learning: It's complicated

• Keynote presentation: Emiliano De Cristofaro (University of California, Riverside)

15h10 - 15h40 : Trained Random Forests Completely Reveal your Dataset

• Technical presentation : Julien Ferry (Polytechnique Montréal)

3.40pm - 4.10pm: Networking break

16h10 - 16h40 : DP-SGD without clipping: The Lipschitz neural network method

• Technical presentation: Louis Béthune (Apple)

16h40 -17h10 : Presentations by DEEL students:

• Zelma Aubin Birba (UQAM), Graph reconstruction from neighborhood data and partial edge knowledge.
• Sofiane Azogagh (UQAM), A toolbox based on homomorphic encryption for privacy-preserving machine learning.

8:30am - 9:00am Welcome, Introduction, Opening opening remarks

09h00 - 10h10 Theme 3 - ROBUSTNESS

Theme presentation 

• Thematic presenter : Liam Paull, Université de Montréal
• Keynote : Tamara Broderick

10h10 - 10h40 Building robust machine learning systems with causal models

• Keynote: Dhanya Sridhar (Université de Montréal)

10h40 -11h00 : Presentations by DEEL students

• Kaustubh Mani (UdeM, Mila), Risk awareness for safer exploration
• Mahtab Sandhu (UdeM, Mila), Alignment of multimodal systems
• Samer B. Nashed (UdeM, Mila), Causal explanations for sequential decision making under uncertainty.

11h00 -11h30 Networking break (with student poster)

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. : Robustness panel

• Tamara Broderick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Dhanya Sridhar (Université de Montréal)
• Rahat Yasir (International Air Transport Association)
• Emmanuel Zhang, (CATHAY Pacific)

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break

2:00 - 3:10 pm : Theme 4 - EXPLICABILITY Presentation of the theme

• Thematic presenter : Mario Marchand, Laval University
• Keynote : Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research

15h10 - 15h40 Technical presentation

• Technical presenter: Lucas Mentch, University of Pittsburgh

15h40 - 16h00 : Presentations by DEEL students

• Benjamin Djian (PolyMTL), Evaluating and quantifying the bias of dnn classifiers using likelihood predictions
• Gabriel Laberge (Polytechnique Montréal), Addressing the problem of xai disharmony with regional explanations
• Fanny Jourdan (IRT Saint Exupéry), TaCo: Targeted concept removal in output encodings for NLP via information theory and explicability 

4:00 - 4:30 pm : Networking break

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm : EXPLAINABILITY panel

• Rich Caruana (Microsoft Research)
• Lucas Mentch (University of Pittsburgh)
• Ola Ahmad (Thales)
• François-Marie Lesaffre (ANITI)

17h30 Closing event