Program

March 22-24, Stanford University

 

 

Monday, March 22 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM: Symposia sessions

 

9:00 – 9:15 AM: Welcome & Symposium Overview by Nathan and Eric

 

9:15 – 10:00 AM: Keynote: Opportunities for Machine Learning in Development
John Quinn, Makerere University, Uganda

 

10:00 – 10:30AM: 1-Minute Introductions I (slide optional)

 

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

 

11:00 – 11:30 PM: 1-Minute Introductions II

 

11:30 – 12:30 PM: Presentations: Insights about People and Behavior
Moderator: John Quinn

11:30 – 11:45 AM: Human Mobility in Advanced and Developing Economies: A Comparative                    

Alberto Rubio, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Enrique Frias-Martinez, and Nuria Oliver

 

11:45 – 12:00 PM: Reality Mining Africa

Shawndra Hill, Anita Banser, Getachew Berhan, and Nathan Eagle

 

12:00 – 12:15 PM: A Gender-centric Analysis of Calling Behavior in a Developing Economy                       

Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Enrique Frias-Martinez, and Nuria Oliver

 

12:15 – 12:30 PM: Parameterizing the Dynamics of Slums             

Amy P. Wesolowski and Nathan Eagle

 

12:30 – 2:00 PM: Lunch

 

2:00 – 2:45 PM: Keynote: Development as Design
Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley

 

2:45 – 3:30 PM: Presentations: AI-D for Health, Education, and Welfare
Moderator: Ashish Kapoor

 

2:45 – 3:00 PM: Learning a Causal Structure for Quality of Schooling         

Noel McGinn and Massoud Moussavi

 

3:00 – 3:15 PM: Intelligent Heartsound Diagnostics on a Cellphone using a Hands-free Kit

T. Chen, K. Kuan, L. Celi, and G. D. Clifford

 

3:15 – 3:30 PM: Networks, Complexity and Economic Development              

César A. Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann

 

3:30 – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break

 

4:00 – 4:45 PM: Presentations: Infrastructure & Agriculture
Moderator: Shawndra Hill

 

4:00 – 4:15 PM: People, Quakes, and Communications: Inferences from Call Dynamics about a Seismic Event and its Influences on a Population 

Ashish Kapoor, Nathan Eagle, and Eric Horvitz

 

4:15 – 4:30 PM: Causal Structure Learning for Famine Prediction                     

Ernest Mwebaze, Washington Okori, and John A. Quinn

 

4:30 – 4:45 PM: Quantifying Behavioral Data Sets of Criminal Activity        

Jameson Toole, Nathan Eagle, and Joshua Plotkin

 

4:45 – 5:45 PM: Panel I: Grand Challenges in AI for Development

Chair: Nathan Eagle

Panelists: Kentaro Toyama, Eric Horvitz, Ravi Jain, Shawndra Hill, Tapan Parikh

 

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Reception

 

 

Tuesday, March 23 
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM: Symposia sessions

 

9:00 – 9:45 AM: Keynote: Behind Google Flu Trends
Rajan Patel, Stanford University

 

9:45 – 10:30 AM: Presentations: AI-D and Healthcare
Moderator: Eric Horvitz

 

9:45 – 9:50 AM: Case for Automated Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy

Nathan Silberman, Kristy Ahlrich, Rob Fergus, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

 

9:50 – 9:55 AM: Routing for Rural Health: Optimizing Community Health Worker Visit Schedules        

Emma Brunskill Neal Lesh

 

9:55 – 10:00 AM: Learning to Identify Locally Actionable Health Anomalies                 

Kuang Chen, Emma Brunskill, Jonathan Dick, and Prabhjot Dhadialla

 

10:05 – 10:10 AM: Machine Learning Methods for Verbal Autopsy in Developing Countries                        

Sean T. Green and Abraham D. Flaxman

 

10:10 – 10:25 AM: An Agile and Accessible Adaptation of Bayesian Inference to Medical Diagnostics for Rural Health Extension Workers

Joel Robertson and Del DeHart

 

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break

 

11:00 – 12:30 PM: Panel II: Learning, Causation, and Effective Action

Chair: Eric Horvitz

Panelists: Ashish Kapoor, Emma Brunskill, John Quinn, Ernest Mwebaze, Massoud Moussavi

 

12:30 – 2:00 PM: Lunch (and poster set up)

 

2:00 – 3:30 PM: Poster Session

 

3:30 – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break

 

4:00 – 4:30 PM: Presentations: Infrastructure and Agriculture II
Moderator: Nathan Eagle

 

4:00 – 4:05 PM: An Approach for Mining Accumulated Crop Cultivation Problems and their Solutions

          Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Ahmed Rafeaγ, Said Mabrouk, and Mahmoud Rafea

 

4:05 – 4:10 PM: Human-enabled Microscopic Environmental Mobile Sensing and Feedback

Prabal Dutta and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

 

4:10 – 4:15 PM: Mining Road Traffic Accident Data to Improve Road Safety: The Role of Road-related Factors on Accident Severity in Ethiopia                    

Tibebe Beshah and Shawndra Hill 

 

4:15 – 4:20 PM: Using Data Mining to Combat Infrastructure Inefficiencies:  The Case of Predicting Non-payment for Ethiopian Telecom

Mariye Yigzaw, Shawndra Hill, Anita Banser, and Lemma Lessa

 

4:20 – 4:25 PM: Who’s Calling? Demographics of Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda      

Joshua E. Blumenstock, Dan Gillick, and Nathan Eagle

 

4:30 – 5:15 PM: Presentations: Information Access
Moderator: Kentaro Toyama

 

4:30 – 4:35 PM: Speech Technology for Information Access: a South African Case Study    

Etienne Barnard, Marelie Davel, and Gerhard van Huyssteen

 

4:35 – 4:40 PM: Social Navigation through the Spoken Web: Improving Audio Access through Collaborative Filtering in Gujrat, India             

Robert Farrell, Rajarshi Das, and Nitendra Rajput

 

4:40 – 4:45 PM: Document Classification for Focused Topics       

Russell Power, Jay Chen, Trishank Karthik, and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

   

4:45 – 4:50 PM: Contextual Information Portals                

Jay Chen, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy, and Lakshminaryanan Subramanian

 

4:50 – 4:55 PM: Development Projects for the Causality Workbench           

Isabelle Guyon

 

4:55 – 5:00 PM: A Step Towards Destabilizing Human Trafficking Network Using Machine Learning Methods              

Shreya Amin

 

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Plenary joint Spring Symposium session

 

 

Wednesday, March 24  9:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Symposia sessions

 

9:00 – 9:45 AM: Keynote: Myths, Asks, and Opportunities in AI-D
Kentaro Toyama, UC Berkeley

      

9:45 – 10:30 AM: Break-outs (continuing through coffee break)

                       

10:30 – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break         

 

11:00 – 11:30 PM: Break-outs (continued)

 

11:30 – 12:15 PM: Break-out Reports

 

12:15 – 12:30 PM: Wrap-up