San Francisco State University Graduate Certificate in Ethical AI – Overview and Early Experiences
Overview
Abstract
This talk first overviews San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) Graduate Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence launched in Fall 2019 by combined efforts of the Computer Science department, department of Philosophy, and the College of Business. It is designed to offer both professionals and graduate students (matriculated or non-matriculated, AI experts or not) the opportunity to acquire a deeper grasp of the ethical, legal, policy, and technical issues of AI, thus enabling them to effectively participate in the development or auditing of ethical and trustworthy AI systems and applications across a spectrum of employment sectors. The talk then gives a bit more details on CSC 859 AI Explainability and Ethics class created and taught by Prof. Petkovic which is also a core class in the certificate. More on SFSU Graduate Certificate in Ethical AI can be found here https://bulletin.sfsu.edu/colleges/science-engineering/computer-science/certificate-ethical-artificial-intelligence/
Speaker Biography
Dragutin Petkovic (IEEE Life Fellow since 2018, IEEE Fellow since 1998) received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UC Irvine in 1983 in the area of biomedical image analysis, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and multidisciplinary studies respectively from University of Belgrade, Serbia with emphasis on image and signal analysis. He is currently a professor of computer science at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 2003 where he was computer science department chair from 2003 to 2015. In 2019, he founded and co-leads the multidisciplinary SFSU Graduate Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence together with SFSU Department of Philosophy and School of Business. He was a founder and Director of SFSU Center for Computing for Life Sciences from 2005 till 2018 and collaborated on multiple NIH grants with Stamford University in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for bioinformatics. He held positions at VMware as a Senior Director, Applications, and as senior manager and researcher at IBM Almaden Research center, San Jose (1983-2000). His research focus included content based retrieval (he was founder of trend-setting IBM Query by Image Content QBIC project). For last 10 years his work combines AI and ease of use and has a goal to bring technology closer to people and users. Due to his concerns about the state of the ethics and trustworthiness of AI systems and their possibly negative implications to society, his recent focus is on explainable and trustworthy AI to which he contributes by papers, books, workshops, talks and importantly by education of broader community via SFSU Certificate of Ethical AI.