AAAI-20 / IAAI-20 / EAAI-20

Conference Program
New York Hilton Midtown
New York, New York
February 7–12, 2020

Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Thirty-Second Conference on
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Tenth Symposium on Educational
Advances in Artificial IntelligenceConference Highlights at a Glance
MORNING

AFTERNOONEVENING

Tutorial Forum
Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DC
Undergraduate Consortium
AIES 2020 ConferenceStudent Welcome Reception

Tutorial Forum
Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DCEAAI Technical Program
AIES 2020 Conference

AAAI Opening Reception

Lunch with a Fellow

AAAI Turing Award Event
Fellows Dinner
Poster / DemoSession 1

Friday, February 7
Tutorial Forum
Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DC
Undergraduate Consortium
AIES 2020 Conference

AIES Opening Reception

Saturday, February 8
Tutorial Forum
Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DCEAAI Award Lecture: desJardins
AIES 2020 Conference

Sunday, February 9
AAAI / IAAI Welcome / AAAI Awards
AAAI Presidential Address: Yolanda Gil
AAAI Classic Paper Award Talk: Junker
EAAI Invited Talk: Shapiro/
Zimmermann-Nieﬁeld
Exhibits

Senior Member Talks
IAAI Technical Program
EAAI Technical Program
Exhibits

Monday, February 10
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast
AAAI Invited Talk: Billard
IAAI Invited Talk: Cox
Student Abstract Spotlights
Sister Conference Track
Exhibits

Lunch with a Fellow
AAAI/IAAI Technical Program
Senior Member Talks
Sister Conference Track
Exhibits

IAAI RSE Award Lecture: Kautz
AAAI-20 Debate
Poster / Demo Session 2

Lunch with a Fellow
AAAI Invited Talk: Athey
IAAI/IAAI Technical Program
Exhibits / AI Job Fair

AI History Panel
Poster / Demo Session 3
Games Night

AAAI Technical Program
AI in Practice

AI in Practice Networking Event

Tuesday, February 11
AAAI Conference Awards
AAAI/IAAI Invited Talk: SongAAAI/IAAI Technical Program
Exhibits

Wednesday, February 12
AAAI Invited Talk: Russell
AAAI Community Meeting
AI in Practice

2 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

Contents
AAAI Community Meeting / 5
Acknowledgments / 4
AI History Panel / 7

Sponsoring Organizations
AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of thefollowing organizations and individuals to AAAI-20:

AI in Practice / 12

Platinum Sponsors

AI Job Fair / 14, 17

IBM Research
Sony

AIES 2020 / 13
Awards / 3–8
Childcare / 17
Conference at a Glance / 2
Diversity and Inclusion / 6
Doctoral Consortium / 12
EAAI-20 Program / 13
Exhibition / 14–17
Games Night / 14
IAAI-20 Program / 13
Invited Talks / Panels / 9–11
Poster / Demo Sessions / 7
Registration / 17
Senior Member, Blue Sky Program / 12
Social Events / 7
Special Meetings / 5Special Track: AI for Social Impact / 12
Sponsors / 3
Student Abstracts / 13
Student Activities & Outreach / 11-14
Talk Length Key / 18
Technical Program Overview / 18–22
Turing Award Event / 10
Tutorial Forum / 8
Undergraduate Consortium / 13
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 14
Workshop Program / 11

AwardsAAAI Special Awards and honors will be presented Sunday, February 9, 8:00 – 8:30 AM, in theGrand Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the New York
Hilton Midtown Hotel. AAAI-20 Awards will bepresented on Tuesday, February 11, 8:00 – 8:30
AM in the same location.

2020 AAAI Special Awards, Honors
AAAI Honors and Special Awards will be presented by Subbarao Kambhampati, Awards
Committee Chair and AAAI Past President,
Yolanda Gil, AAAI President, and Bart Selman,
AAAI President-Elect.

2020 AAAI Fellows Recognition
Each year, the Association for the Advancementof Artificial Intelligence recognizes a small num-Gold Sponsors
AmazonAI Journal
Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd
Bloomberg
Google AI
Happy Elements
Superb AI

Silver Sponsor
Apple
Elsevier, Ltd
Tongdun Technology

Bronze Sponsors
AlegionDataminr
Facebook
iMeritJane Street
Microsoft
NLMatics
Openstream
TheTake.AI
Two Sigma
United Technologies Research Center
USC/ISI
Verisk Analytics
Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Tsukuba
Visa Research

General Sponsors
ACM/SIGAICRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
David E. Smithber of members who have made significant sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence, and who have attained unusual distinction in the profession. AAAI is pleased to announce the ten newly elected Fellows for 2020,
who will be honored during the annual Fellows
dinner on Sunday, February 9, 2020:
Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Cynthia Breazeal (MIT Media Lab, USA)
William T. Freeman (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and Google Research, USA)
Yann LeCun (New York University, USA)
Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University, USA)

Natasha Noy (Google, USA)Martha Palmer (University of Colorado Boulder,
USA)
Dragomir Radev (Yale University, USA)
Thomas Schiex (Institut National de Recherche
pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, France)
Sylvie Thiébaux (The Australian National University, Australia)

2020 Senior Member Recognition
AAAI is pleased to announce the newly elected2020 AAAI senior members, who are being rec-

CONTENTS / SPONSORS / AWARDS 3

Acknowledgements
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence acknowledges and thanks the following individuals for their generous contributions of time and energy to the successful creation and planning of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the ThirtySecond Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and the Tenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-20 and IAAI-20 Program Committee members will appear on the conference website.)
AAAI Conference Committee Chair

Presentation ChairPeter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Eugene Freuder (University College Cork, Ireland)

AAAI-20 General Chair

Student Abstract Cochairs

Francesca Rossi (IBM Research, USA)

Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano | Polimi, Italy)

AAAI-20 Program Cochairs
Vincent Conitzer (Duke University, USA)Fei Sha (Google Research and University of Southern California, USA)

Workflow Chairs
Haoming Li (Duke University, USA)
Yury Zemlyanskiy (University of Southern California, USA)

AAAI-20 Special Track on AI for Social Impact Cochairs

Doctoral Consortium Cochairs
Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Shiwali Mohan (PARC, USA)

Undergraduate Consortium Cochairs
Jim Boerkoel (Harvey Mudd College, USA)
Mehmet Ergezer (Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA)

Student Activities Cochairs

Fei Fang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Eric Sodomka (Facebook Research, USA)
Milind Tambe (Harvard University, USA)

Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
Nathan Sturtevant (University of Alberta, Canada)
William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA)

IAAI-20 Conference Chair and Cochair

K-12 Student Outreach Cochairs

Ruchir Puri (IBM Research, USA)
Neil Yorke-Smith (TU Delft, Netherlands)

Dave Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Christina Gardner-McCune (University of Florida, USA)

EAAI-20 Symposium Cochairs

AI in Practice Chair and Cochair

Nate Derbinsky (Northeastern University, USA)
Lisa Torrey (St. Lawrence University, USA)

Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, USA)
Ashish Jha (Harvard University, USA)

Senior Member Track Cochairs
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)

Sister Conference Track Chair

AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job Fair Cochairs
John Dickerson (University of Maryland, USA)
Michael Albert (University of Virginia, USA)

Diversity and Inclusion Chair

Thomas Schiex (French National Institutefor Agricultural Research, INRA, France)

Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA)

Demonstrations Cochairs

Fundraising Cochairs

Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, USA)
Kartik Talamadupula (IBM, USA)

Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Pingzhong Tang (Tsinghua University, China)

Tutorial Forum Cochairs

AI History Panel Chair

Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
K. Brent Venable (IHMC and Tulane University, USA)Workshop Program Cochairs

Amy Greenwald (Brown University, USA)AI Debate Chair
Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China)
Biplav Srivastava (IBM, USA)

Volunteer Coordinator
Victor Khaustov (The University of Aizu, Japan)

ognized for their long-term participation in
AAAI and their distinction in the field of artificial
intelligence.

Biplav Srivastava (IBM Research, USA)

Yigal Arens (USC Information Sciences Institute,
USA)
Wingyan Chung (University of Central Florida, USA)
Yun Fu (Northeastern University, USA)
Kobi Gal (Ben-Gurion University Israel and University of Edinburgh, UK)
Nick Hawes (University of Oxford, UK)
Lane Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, USA)
Balaraman Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India)
Paolo Remagnino (Kingston University, UK)

Fusun Yaman (BBN Technologies, USA)

Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management
University, Singapore)
Hankz Hankui Zhuo (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

2020 AAAI Classic Paper AwardQUICKXPLAIN: Preferred Explanations and Relaxations for Over-Constrained Problems
Ulrich Junker

For developing an influential approach for formalizing and efficiently computing user-preferred failure explanations in over-constrained problems.

The Classic Paper Award Talk, by Ulrich Junker,
will be held Sunday, February 9, at 9:30 AM in Regent, 2nd floor.

The 2020 AAAI Classic Paper award honors theauthors of the following paper deemed most in-2020 Distinguished Service Award

fluential from the Nineteenth National Confer-

Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)ence on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2004 in
San Jose, California, USA.

4 AWARDS / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / CONFERENCE COMMITTEESFor significant contributions to the field of artificial
intelligence through sustained service to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelli-gence and the furtherance of the field as a researcher, mentor and NSF IIS director.

AAAI 2020 Special Posthumous
Distinguished Service Award
Alan Schultz (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)For significant contributions to the field of artificial
intelligence through sustained service to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the furtherance of the field as an organizer, researcher, and mentor.

2020 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding
Educator Award and Lecture
The AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Awardwas established to recognize a person (or groupof people) who has (have) made major contributions to AI education that provide long-lasting
benefits to the AI community. The 2020 award isbeing presented to Marie desJardins (Simmons
University, USA) for leading the AI community
in cultivating and recognizing advances in AI education, sharing pedagogical advances, increasing diversity, and improving K-12 CS teacher
preparation. This award is jointly sponsored by
AAAI and the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. The lecture will
be held during EAAI-20 on Saturday, February 8,
9:05 AM, in Bryant, 2nd floor. (See lecture description on page 9.)2020 Robert S. Engelmore
Memorial Award and Lecture
The Robert S. Engelmore Award is sponsored by
IAAI-20 and AI Magazine, and will be presented
by Ruchir Puri and Neil Yorke-Smith, IAAI-20
Cochairs, and Ashok Goel, editor-in-chief, AI
Magazine. The award and lecture were established in 2003 to honor Dr. Engelmore's extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Magazine,, and the AI
applications community, and his contributions
to applied AI. The 2020 award will be presented
to Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)for outstanding research contributions in thearea of knowledge representation, data analytics,
and data mining of social media for public good.

IAAI-20 Deployed
Applications Awards
The ten IAAI-20 Deployed Application Awards
will be announced during the Opening Ceremony on Sunday, February 9 by IAAI-20 Cochairs
Ruchir Puri and Neil Yorke-Smith. Certificateswill be presented during paper sessions.
Accelerating Ranking in E-Commerce Search Engines
through Contextual Factor Selection
Anxiang Zeng, Han Yu, Qing Da, Yusen Zan, Chunyan Miao

Automated Conversation Review to Surface Virtual
Assistant Misunderstandings: Reducing Cost and Increasing Privacy
Ian Beaver, Abdullah Mueen

Special Meetings
AAAI Community Meeting / Annual Business Meeting
AAAI welcomes all conference attendees to the AAAI community meeting, which will also serveas the AAAI Annual Business Meeting. Please join us as we explore current initiatives, and help
chart the future course and objectives of AAAI. The meeting will be held Wednesday, February
12, 1:00 – 1:50 PM in the Grand Ballroom. Moderator: Yolanda Gil, AAAI President

AAAI Conference Committee Meeting
The AAAI Conference Committee Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 11, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
Lincoln, 4th floor.

AAAI Executive Council Meeting
The AAAI Executive Council Meeting will be held Saturday, February 8, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM, NewYork Room, 4th floor. Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 AM.

AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner
The AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner will be held Sunday, February 9, 7:30 – 10:00 PM, Herb N’
Kitchen Runway and PDR2, Lobby level.

AAAI Publications Committee Meeting
The AAAI Publications Committee Meeting will be held Monday, February 11, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
Lincoln, 4th floor.

AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting
The AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting will be held Sunday, February 10, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Lincoln, 4th floor.

JAIR Business Meeting
The JAIR Business Meeting will be held Tuesday, February 11, 1:15 – 2:00 PM, New York, 4thfloor.

Clarity: Data-Driven Automatic Assessment of Product Competitiveness
Sheema Usmani, Mariana Bernagozzi, Yufeng Huang,
Michelle Morales, Amir Sabet Sarvestani, Biplav Srivastava

Day-Ahead Forecasting of Losses in the Distribution
Network
Nisha Dalal, Martin Mølnå, Mette Herrem, Magne
Røen, Odd Erik Gundersen

Embedding Convolution Neural Network-Based Defect Finder for Deployed Vision Inspector in Manufacturing Company Frontec
Kyoung Jun Lee, Jun Woo Kwon, Soohong Min,
Jungho Yoon

FedVision: An Online Visual Object Detection Platform Powered by Federated Learning
Yang Liu, Anbu Huang, Yun Luo, He Huang, Youzhi
Liu, Yuanyuan Chen, Lican Feng, Tianjian Chen, Han
Yu, Qiang Yang

Feedback-Based Self-Learning in Large-Scale Conversational AI Agents
Pragaash Ponnusamy, Alireza Roshan Ghias, Chenlei
Guo, Ruhi Sarikaya

How Machine Learning Is Improving U.S. Navy Customer Support
Michael Powell, Jamison A. Rotz, Kevin D. O'Malley

PIDS: An Intelligent Electric Power Management
Platform
Yongqing Zheng, Han Yu, Yuliang Shi, Kun Zhang,Shuai Zhen, Lizhen Cui, Cyril Leung, Chunyan Miao

Question Quality Improvement: Deep Question Understanding for Incident Management in TechnicalSupport Domain
Anupama Ray, Csaba Hadhazi, Pooja Aggarwal, Gargi Dasgupta, Amit Paradkar

Understanding Chat Messages for Sticker Recommendation in Messaging Apps
Abhishek Laddha, Mohamed Hanoosh, Debdoot
Mukherjee, Parth Patwa, Ankur Narang

AAAI-20 Awards
The AAAI-20 Awards will be presented by Program Cochairs Vincent Conitzer and Fei Sha.
AAAI-20 Outstanding Paper Awards
This year, AAAI's Conference on Artificial Intelligence honors the following four papers, which exemplify high standards in technical contribution
and exposition by regular and student authors.
AAAI-20 Outstanding Paper Award
WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema
Challenge at Scale
Keisuke Sakaguchi, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi

AAAI-20 Outstanding Student Paper Award
Fair Division of Mixed Divisible and Indivisible
Goods
Xiaohui Bei, Zihao Li, Jinyan Liu, Shengxin Liu, Xinhang Lu

AWARDS / SPECIAL MEETINGS 5

Diversity and Inclusion Programs
Participation in AI by groups that are underrepresented in computer science is a fraction of what is needed to have an AI workforce thatreflects the diversity in society. Diversity has many facets, including races, ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, disabilities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic status, and cultural background. AAAI-20 will include several programs specifically designed to address this challenging issue. Please consult Guidebook for any additional programs.
Workshop on Diversity in AI:

Undergraduate Workshop:

Artificial Intelligence — Diversity,
Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion:
Mentoring Students from Underserved
Populations

AI-Powered Robotics

Friday, February 7
Concourse E, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
diverseinai.org/workshops/aidbei/aaai2020
twitter.com/DiverseInAI
Organizer: William Hsu (Kansas
State University)
Recognizing intrinsic links between students
from underserved populations, the frequent
incidence among these students of intersectional identity, and a desire to help their communities, this workshop will consist of presentations and a panel discussion on mentoring
students from such populations — the challenges and opportunities. The primary objective is to discuss work at the nexus of inclusive
AI education, education research pertinent to
AI and underrepresented groups of students,
and AI for Good as applicable to underserved
students’ own communities, and to help share
the word about efforts to serve such students.

AI — Its Purpose & Power.
Humans — Our Purpose & Power
Saturday, February 8
Nassau, 9:00 AM – 2:15 PM
Organizer: Tara Chklovski (Technovation)
A hands-on workshop for those of us who are
new to AI. Technovation, a global technology
education nonprofit and Cooper Union, will
host an “Intro to AI” workshop for the broader
public, and educators. The workshop will introduce the basics of AI and how to identify
and address meaningful problems, alignedwith the UN SDGs, using AI-based technologies. The workshop will conclude with realworld insights and strategies from young
women who have used technology (mobile andAI) to address SDGs in their communities. Preregistration required.

Try AI
Saturday, February 8,
City College of New Yorksites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/tryai
Organizers: Elizabeth Bondi (Harvard University), Alexis Stokes (Harvard University), Isha
Puri (Harvard University), Anika Puri (Horace
Greeley High School)
This off-site activity is designed for highschool female students.

Saturday, February 8: Hunter College.
Sunday, February 9: American Museum of
Natural History
bit.do/AAAI20-Outreach
Organizers David Touretzky (CMU), Roozbeh
Aliabadi (ReadyAI LLC), Anita Raja (HunterCollege)
Activity for undergraduates interested in AI
and intelligent robots. On Saturday, participants will work in teams using Calypso and the
Cozmo robot to build demos or games that illustrate how artificial intelligence can improve
our lives. Then, on Sunday, they will host afree, open event where members of the public
can experience their creations. Preregistration
required.

Black in AI Lunch
Sunday, February 9
Papillon Bistro
By invitation and preregistration only.
Chair: Krystal Maughan (University of Vermont)
Black in AI was formed as a space for sharing
ideas, collaborating and discussing initiatives
to increase the presence of Black people in thefield of Artificial Intelligence.

LatinX in AI Lunch
Monday, February 10
Papillon Bistro
By preregistration only. For reservation information, please see www.latinxinai.org/events.
Cochairs: Pablo Castro (Google),
Laura Montoya (Accel.AI)

Women’s Mentoring Breakfast
Monday, February 10
Beekman, 7:30 – 8:45 AM
Organizer: Maria Chang (IBM)The gender gap in computer science has beenwell-documented. One way to make our field
more inclusive toward women is to increase
the visibility of mid- and advanced-career
women in our field. The Women’s Mentoring
Breakfast at AAAI-20 will give women students and early-career researchers the opportunity to meet women leaders in the field. Preregistration required.

DivinAI Hackfest: How Diverse are Top
Artificial Intelligence Conferences?
Monday, February 10
Concourse G, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
divinai.org/hackFestNY20
Organizers: Ana Freire (Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Spain), Emilia Gómez (Joint ResearchCentre, European Commission)
The AI field is suffering a crisis of diversity,
meaning that several minorities are underrepresented in the development of AI systems.
This is particularly reflected in top AI conferences, where the lack of gender and cultural diversity is specially visible. This activity aims toraise awareness on this issue by gathering datafrom top conferences and calculating their corresponding diversity index, in terms of gender,
geographical location and presence of
academia versus industry.

Promoting Deaf Inclusion and
Collaboration in Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, February 11
Concourse G, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Organizers: Prajwal Paudyal, Ayan Banerjee,
Soukaina Lamrani, and Sandeep Gupta (Arizona State University)
An activity in which hearing participants of
AAAI attempt to communicate specific computer science related topics to deaf participants
using sign language. Hearing participants will
be given a set of sentences they have to communicate to deaf participants. In order to learn
the signs needed to communicate them, the activity will include several kiosks with an intelligent sign language tutor application called
Learn2sign. After practicing the signs needed
for communicating the sentences, the hearing
participant will approach one deaf participant
to practice their newly acquired American Sign
Language skills and get feedback.

Mid-Career Diversity Tea and Cake
Tuesday, February 11
New York, 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Organizers: Rosina Weber (Drexel University),
Karen Myers (SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center)
The meeting will focus on issues pertinent toresearchers at mid-career levels. It is targeted
to mid-career members of underrepresented
communities. Preregistration required.

Outstanding Paper Award,
Honorable Mention:

Outstanding Student Paper Award,
Honorable Mention:

Outstanding Paper Award: Special Track on
AI for Social Impact

A Unifying View on Individual Bounds and Heuristic
Inaccuracies in Bidirectional Search

Lifelong Learning with a Changing Action Set

A Distributed Multi-Sensor Machine Learning Approach to Earthquake Early Warning

Vidal Alcazar, Pat Riddle, Mike Barley

Yash Chandak, Georgios Theocharous, Chris Nota,
Philip S. Thomas

6 AWARDS / DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMSKevin Fauvel, Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Diego Melgar,

AAAI-20 Social and Special Events
AI History Panel: Advancing AI by Playing GamesAAAI Opening Reception
Saturday, February 8, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor

The AAAI-20 Opening Reception will be held in the Grand Ballroom of
the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. A variety of heavy hors d’oeuvres
and one complimentary beverage will be served. A no-host bar will also
be available. Admittance to the reception is included in the AAAI-20 technical registration. A $125.00 per person fee ($20.00 for children over theage of 12) will be charged for guests and other nontechnical conference
registrants.

AAAI-20 Poster / Demo Sessions
Sunday, February 9, 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Monday, February 10, 7:20 – 9:20 PM
Tuesday, February 11, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Americas Hall I/II

Each AAAI-20 poster / demo session will include posters by authors of
main technical track papers, including all who are presenting poster spotlights as well as those who have made full oral presentations (if they elected to do so). Poster presentations are scheduled on the same evening as
the oral presentation or spotlight presentation, except for Wednesday
oral presentations, which will be presented in poster format on Tuesday
evening. Sunday evening posters will also include International Science
Fair AAAI award-winning projects, Doctoral Consortium papers, andEAAI-20 posters. A total of 25 technical demos and 137 student abstract
posters will be divided among the three evening sessions. For a listing of
posters and demos, please see the online technical schedule via Guidebook and the AAAI-20 Poster/Demo Program Guide.
Poster / Demo sessions will include light suppers and complimentary
soft drinks. A no-host bar will also be available. Admittance to the reception is included in the AAAI-20 registration. A $125.00 per person fee($15.00 for children over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and other nontechnical conference registrants per night.

Pedro Silva, Anthony Simonet, Gabriel Antoniu,
Alexandru Costan, Véronique Masson, Manish
Parashar, Ivan Rodero, Alexandre Termier

Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention:
Special Track on AI for Social Impact
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Advancing Cancer ResearchJohn Kalantari, Heidi Nelson, Nicholas Chia

AAAI-20 Blue Sky Idea Awards
AAAI, in cooperation with the Computing Research Association Computing Community Consortium (CCC), is pleased to present three BlueSky Awards for papers that present ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community
to pursue new directions, such as new problems,
new application domains, or new methodologies.
The recipients of the Blue Sky Idea travel awards,
sponsored by the CCC, are:First Place:
Philip R. Cohen for Back to the Future for Dialogue
Research

Tuesday, February 12, 4:45 – 6:15 PM
Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor
Moderator: Amy Greenwald (Brown University)
Panelists: Murray Campbell (IBM), Michael Bowling (University of Alberta),
Hiroaki Kitano (Sony), David Silver (DeepMind and University College London), and Garry Kasparov (Russian Chess Grandmaster)

Building AI to play games as well as human masters has been a goal of AI
ever since Arthur Samuel’s seminal checkers program in 1959. Today’s
game-playing programs have surpassed human performance in substantially harder games, including backgammon, chess, poker, and Go. Still,in multi-player games, especially those played by embodied agents suchas soccer, significant AI challenges remain. This panel will include representatives of efforts to build machines that excel at playing these games,
discussing the main ingredients of the technology they developed, thechallenges they encountered, and how the agenda of building expert
game-playing machines furthers progress on the real-world goals of AI.

AI Debate: Academic AI Researchin an Age of Industry Labs
Monday, February 11, 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Grand Ballroom, 3rd floor
Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Debaters in this Oxford-style debate will include luminaries from both industry and academia.
Proposition: Academic AI researchers should focus their attention on research
problems that are not of immediate interest to industry.

This lighthearted and entertaining debate will examine the broad themeof how academic AI researchers should direct their efforts to have themost impact now that industry is investing huge amounts into in-houseresearch efforts. Teams of two will argue each side as forcefully as theycan (regardless of more nuanced positions the participants may hold), butwill then conclude by seeking a middle ground and reflecting on strong
arguments from the other side. Finally, we’ll hear from the audience.

Second Place:
Sarit Kraus, Amos Azaria, Jelena Fiosina, Maike
Greve, Noam Hazon, Lutz Kolbe, Tim-BenjaminLembcke, Jorg P. Muller, Soren Schleibaum, andMark Vollrath for AI for Explaining Decisions in
Multi-Agent Environments
Third Place:
Gerardo Ocampo Diaz and Vincent Ng for Unveiling Hidden Intentions

AAAI-20 Outstanding
Program Committee Members
Each year, AAAI recognizes several outstanding
program committee and senior program committee members. These individuals have gone
above and beyond the expectations for the role
showing exceptional judgment, clarity, knowledgeability, and leadership in reaching a consensus decision.
AAAI-20 Outstanding Senior
Program Committee Awards
Anelia Angelova (Google, USA)

Michele Flammini (Gran Sasso Science Institute,
Italy)Zhe Gan (Microsoft, USA)
Thomas Keller (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Junyi Jessy Li (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Dominik Peters (University of Oxford, UK)
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Miquel Ramirez (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Sylvie Thiébaux (The Australian National University, Australia)
Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan, USA)
Yair Zick (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)

AAAI-20 Outstanding
Program Committee Awards
Ingo Pill (TU Graz, Austria)
Sarath Sreedharan (Arizona State University, USA)
Sergio Mover (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Alexander D'Amour (Google Brain, USA)
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (SRI International, USA)
Chris Harshaw (Yale University, USA)
Andrzej Kaczmarczyk (TU Berlin, Germany)

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Tutorial Forum
The AAAI-20 Tutorial Forum is open to all technical registrants for a small fee per tutorial. Half-day tutorials are 4 hours, including breaks;
quarter-day tutorials are one hour and 45 minutes with no break. Quarter-day tutorials are denoted by a ‘Q’ at the end of the tutorial code.
Tutorial coffee breaks will be held at 10:15 AM and 3:45 PM outside the designated meeting spaces.

Friday, February 7
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
FA1: AI in Precision Medicine: Towards Knowledge Empowered Intelligenceover “Small” Data
Fei Wang
Beekman, 2nd floor
FA2: AI Planning for Robotics with ROSPlan
Michael Cashmore and Daniele Magazzeni
Sutton Center, 2nd floor
FA3: Exploration-Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Alessandro Lazaric and Matteo Pirotta
Sutton North, 2nd floor
FA4: Graph Neural Networks: Models and Applications
Yao Ma, Wei Jin, Jiliang Tang, Lingfei Wu and Tengfei Ma
Sutton South, 2nd floor
FA5: Recent Directions in Heuristic-Search
Ariel Felner, Sven Koenig, Nathan Sturtevant and Daniel Harabor
Regent, 2nd floor

SA3: Recent Advances in Fair Resource Allocation
Rupert Freeman and Nisarg Shah
Beekman, 2nd floor

8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
SA5Q: Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction
Besmira Nushi, Dan Weld, Saleema Amershi and Adam Adam
Sutton South, 2nd floor

10:45 AM – 12:30 PM
SA6Q: Modularizing Natural Language Processing
Zhengzhong Liu, Zhiting Hu and Eric Xing
Sutton South, 2nd floor

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
SP1: Rigorous Verification and Explanation of ML Models
Alexey Ignatiev, Joao Marques-Silva, Kuldeep Meel and Nina Narodytska
Regent, 2nd floor

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM

SP2: Optimization and Learning Approaches to Resource Allocation for Social
Good
Sanmay Das, John Dickerson, Duncan McElfresh and Bryan Wilder
Sutton Center, 2nd floor

FP1: Differential Deep Learning on Graphs and its Applications
Chengxi Zang and Fei Wang
Sutton North, 2nd floor

SP3: Representation Learning for Causal Inference
Sheng Li, Liuyi Yao, Yaliang Li, Jing Gao and Aidong Zhang
Sutton South, 2nd floor

FP2: New Frontiers of Automated Mechanism Design for Pricing and Auctions
Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm and Ellen Vitercik
Beekman, 2nd floor

SP7: Synthesizing Explainable and Deceptive Behavior in Human-AI Interaction
Subbarao Kambhampati, Tathagata Chakraborti, Sarath Sreedharan andAnagha Kulkarni
Gibson, 2nd floor

FP3: Probabilistic Circuits: Representations, Inference, Learning and Applications
Antonio Vergari, YooJung Choi, Robert Peharz, and Guy Van den Broeck
Sutton Center, 2nd floor
FP4: Recent Advances in Transferable Representation Learning
Muhao Chen, Kai-Wei Chang and Dan RothSutton South, 2nd floor
FP5: Statistical Machine Learning: Big, Multi-Source and Sparse Data with
Complex Relations and Dynamics
Trong Dinh Thac Do, Longbing Cao and Jinjin Guo
Regent, 2nd floor

Saturday, February 8
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
SA1: Explainable AI: Foundations, Industrial Applications, Practical Challenges, and Lessons Learned (3/4-day extending until 3:45 PM)
Freddy Lecue, Krishna Gade, Fosca Giannotti, Sahin Geyik, Riccardo Guidotti,
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Pasquale Minervini, Varun Mithal and Ankur Taly
Sutton North, 2nd floor

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
SA1: Explainable AI: Foundations, Industrial Applications, Practical Challenges, and Lessons Learned (Part Two)
Freddy Lecue, Krishna Gade, Fosca Giannotti, Sahin Geyik, Riccardo Guidotti,
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Pasquale Minervini, Varun Mithal and Ankur Taly
Sutton North, 2nd floor
SP4Q: Multi-Agent Distributed Constrained Optimization
Ferdinando Fioretto and William Yeoh
Beekman, 2nd floor

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
SP5Q: Creative and Artistic Writing via Text Generation
Juntao Li and Rui Yan
Beekman, 2nd floor
SP6Q: Recent Advances in Machine Teaching: From Machine to Human
Yao Zhou and Jingrui He
Sutton North, 2nd floor

SA2: Fairness and Bias in Peer Review and other Sociotechnical Intelligent Systems
Nihar Shah and Zachary Lipton
Sutton Center, 2nd floor

Dario Bertero (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)

Konstantin Mishchenko (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,

Mahmoud Assran (McGill University / Facebook AI Research, Canada)

Saudi Arabia)

Brais Martínez (Samsung AI Research, USA)

Mak Roberts (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

8 AWARDS / TUTORIAL FORUM

AAAI-20, IAAI-20, EAAI-20 Invited Presentations
AAAI-20 and IAAI-20 Invited Presentations will be held in the Grand Ballroom, February 9-12. EAAI-20 Invited Presentations will be held in Bryant,
2nd floor, February 8-9. Overflow seating for AAAI-20 plenary events in available in the Trianon Ballroom, 3rd floor.

Saturday, February 8

AAAI Presidential Address

9:05 – 9:55 AM

Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA)

AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award Lecture:

8:30 – 9:20 AM#AIForAll: A 64-Year Perspective on
AI, Computing, Inclusion, and Diversity
Marie desJardins (Simmons University, USA)As the AI community prepares to celebrate the 2^8anniversary of the Dartmouth Summer Research
Project on Artificial Intelligence that launched AI
as a field, it is an appropriate time to look back overthe last 64 years to consider how far we have progressed. This presentation will focus particularly
on trends in education, diversity, and inclusion in
AI and in computing more generally. The talk will
also include recommendations for the field, including an increased emphasis on ethical computing,best practices for inclusive classroom and work environments, and how to be an effective ally for underrepresented groups.
Marie desJardins is the Dean of the College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences at Simmons University in Boston. She waspreviously a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she was a UMBC
Presidential Teaching Professor, Academic Innovation Fellow, Honors Faculty Fellow, and Associate Dean of UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology. She is a AAAI Fellow, an
ACM Distinguished Member, and the recipient of
the A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award, theUC Berkeley Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science, and mentoring awards from CRA-E
and NCWIT. Dr. desJardins is known for her research in artificial intelligence, her work in expanding access to K-12 computer science education, and her leadership as a mentor, teacher, andchampion for diversity in computing. While at
UMBC, she advised 12 Ph.D. students, 26 M.S. students, and over 100 undergraduate researchers.

Yolanda Gil is Director of Knowledge Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute of
the University of Southern California, and Research Professor in Computer Science and in
Spatial Sciences. She is also Director of the USC Center for Knowledge-Powered Interdisciplinary Data Science. She received her M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from
Carnegie Mellon University, with a focus on artificial intelligence. Dr. Gil collaborates with
scientists in many domains on intelligent, workflows, semantic metadata capture, social
knowledge collection, computer-mediated collaboration, and automated discovery. Her current focus is on
using artificial intelligence for environmental resources, integrating climate, hydrology, agriculture, andsocioeconomic models. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Past Chairof its Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence. She is also Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and was elected as its 24th President in 2016.

with problems in human-computer interaction
alone spanning natural language processing, visual, audible, and tangible interfaces, accessible design, social computing, art-making. Machinelearning is now being applied in every one of these
domains. Bruner claimed that “any subject can betaught effectively in some intellectually honest
form to any child at any stage of development.”
Computing education must take up this call, including offering developmentally-appropriate machine learning education. I will present a vision for
how this could unfold, share progress on my team’s
efforts to develop machine learning education foryouth, and discuss ongoing challenges.
5:20 – 7:20 PM
AAAI-20 Special Event

Special ACM Turing 2018 Award
Winner Event and Panel

Sunday, February 9

Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila),
Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector Institute, andUniversity of Toronto), Yann LeCun (New York University and Facebook)

8:00 – 8:30 AM

See description on page 10

AAAI-20 / IAAI-20 Welcome and Opening
Remarks, AAAI Organizational Awards andHonors8:30 – 9:20 AM

AAAI Presidential Address
Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute,USA)
See description above
9:40 – 10:30 AM
EAAI-20 Invited Talk

On Contemporaneous Computing
Education: ML for K-12R
Benjamin Shapiro and Abigail ZimmermannNiefield (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Computer science is a field of remarkable breadth,

Monday, February 10
8:30 – 9:20 AM

Combining Machine Learning
and Control for Reactive Robots
Aude Billard (EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Federalede Lausanne, Switzerland)
Robots have got out of the secure and predictableenvironment of factories and start to face the complexity and unpredictability of our daily environments. To avoid that robots fail lamely at the task
they are programmed to do, robots now need toadapt on the go. I will present techniques from machine learning to allow robots to learn strategies toenable them to react rapidly and efficiently tochanges in the environment, and applications ofthese techniques for rapid and robust manipulation of objects.

11:15 – 12:15 PM

IAAI-20 Invited Talk
David Cox (MIT-Watson AI Lab, USA)David Cox is the IBM Director of the MIT-IBM
Watson AI Lab, a first of its kind industry-academic collaboration between IBM and MIT, focused on
fundamental research in artificial intelligence. The
Lab was founded with a $240m, 10-year commitment from IBM and brings together researchers at
IBM with faculty at MIT to tackle hard problems at
the vanguard of AI. Prior to joining IBM, David
was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the
Natural Sciences and of Engineering and Applied
Sciences at Harvard University, where he held appointments in Computer Science, the Departmentof Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Center
for Brain Science. Please see Guidebook for talk description.
5:20 – 6:10 PM
IAAI-20 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture:

The Third AI Summer
Henry Kautz (University of Rochester, USA)The first AI summer was based on optimism about
the power of general power solving, and the secondon the power of knowledge engineering. Advances
in machine learning have brought us into the third
AI summer. This time, however, the stakes are incalculably higher than in the past. The danger is
not just, as before, that marketplace hype and an
overly narrow scientific focus will lead to disillusionment and retrenchment; but rather that AI
now works well enough that it can be used – and isalready being used – to eliminate human freedom
and dignity. A dystopian future is not inevitable;
progress in AI might instead usher in an era of unprecedented prosperity, knowledge, and freedom.
This talk will explore the scientific, social, andgeopolitical forces at play in the third AI summer.
Henry Kautz is currently serving as director for thedivision for Information and Intelligent Systems at
the National Science Foundation. He is a professorof computer science and founding director of theGoergen Institute for Data Science at the Universi-

INVITED PRESENTATIONS 9Special ACM Turing 2018 Award Winner Event and Panel
Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector Institute, and University of Toronto),
Yann LeCun (New York University and Facebook)
Sunday, February 9, 5:20 – 7:20 PM, Grand Ballroom
This special two-hour event will feature individual talks by each speaker, followed by a panel session. ACM named Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, andYann LeCun recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. Bengio is Professor at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director at Mila, Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute;
Hinton is VP and Engineering Fellow of Google, Chief Scientific Adviser of The Vector Institute, and University Professor Emeritus at the University ofToronto; and LeCun is Professor at New York University and VP and Chief AI Scientist at Facebook.

Turing Award Winner AAAI Talk

presence and poses of object capsules. The encoder is trained by backpropagating through a decoder, which predicts the pose of each alreadydiscovered part using a mixture of pose predictions. The parts are discovered directly from an image, in a similar manner, by using a neural encoder, which infers parts and their affine transformations. We learn object- and part-capsules on unlabeled data, and then cluster the vectors ofpresences of object capsules. When told the names of these clusters, weachieve state-of-the-art results for unsupervised classification on MNIST.

Deep Learning for AI
Yoshua Bengio (Mila (Quebec AI Institute)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has been transformed infundamental ways by the development and success of deeplearning. Whereas symbolic approaches to AI focused on human-provided formal knowledge presented as logical rules
and facts, much of what humans know is not accessible tothem consciously and is thus difficult to communicate withcomputers. Machine learning bypasses this problem by allowing the computer to acquire that knowledge from data, observations and interactions
with an environment. Neural networks and deep learning are machinelearning methods inspired by the brain in which information is not represented by symbolic statements but instead where concepts have distributed
representations, patterns of activations of features which can overlap acrossconcepts, making it possible to quickly generalize to new concepts. When we
make it possible to compose modules which process such distributed representations (either recursively or through layers of processing) it is possible
to represent very rich functions compactly and obtain even better generalization. More recently, deep learning has gone beyond its traditional realmof pattern recognition over vectors or images and expanded into many selfsupervised methods and generative models able to capture complex multimodal distributions, into models with attention which can process graphs
and sets, leading to breakthroughs in speech recognition and synthesis,
computer vision and machine translation, for example. The talk closes witha discussion of current limitations and forward-looking research directions
towards human-level AI.

Turing Award Winner AAAI Talk

Self-Supervised Learning
Yann LeCun (Facebook AI Research & New York University)
Almost all the recent progress in computer perception,
speech recognition, and NLP has been built around supervised deep learning, in which machines are required to predict human-provided annotations. Today, DL systems areat the core of search engines and social network content filtering and retrieval, medical image analysis, driving assistance, and many areas of science. But the best machine learning methods
still require considerably more data or interaction with the environment
than human and animal learning. How do we get machines to learn massive amounts of background knowledge about how the world works by observation in a task-independent way, like animals and humans? One
promising avenue is self-supervised learning (SSL), where the machine
predicts parts of its input from other parts of its input. SSL has alreadybrought about great progress in discrete domains, such as language understanding. The question is how to use SSL for high-dimensional continuous domains such as audio, images and video.

Turing Award Winner AAAI Talk

Stacked Capsule Autoencoders
Geoffrey Hinton (Google and The Vector Institute)An object can be seen as a geometrically organized set of interrelated parts. A system that makes explicit use of thesegeometric relationships to recognize objects should be naturally robust to changes in viewpoint, because the intrinsic
geometric relationships are viewpoint-invariant. We describe an unsupervised version of capsule networks, inwhich a neural encoder, which looks at all of the parts, is used to infer thety of Rochester. He has been a researcher at AT&T
Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and a full professor at
the University of Washington, Seattle. In 2010, he
was elected President of AAAI, and in 2016 waselected Chair of the AAAS Section on Information,
Computing, and Communication. His interdisciplinary research includes practical algorithms forsolving worst-case intractable problems in logicaland probabilistic reasoning; models for inferring
human behavior from sensor data; pervasive
healthcare applications of AI; and social media analytics. In 1989 he received the IJCAI Computers
and Thought Award, which recognizes outstanding
young scientists in artificial intelligence, and 30
years later received 2018 ACM-AAAI Allen NewellAward for career contributions that have breadth
within computer science and that bridge computerscience and other disciplines.

8:30 – 9:20 AM

6:15 – 7:15 PM

AAAI-20/IAAI-20 Joint Invited Talk:

AAAI-20 Oxford-Style Debate:

AI and Security: Lessons,
Challenges and Future Directions

Academic AI Researchin an Age of Industry Labs
Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown(University of British Columbia, Canada)
See page 7 for details.

Tuesday, February 11
8:00 – 8:30 AM

AAAI-20 Conference Awards
Presented by Vincent Conitzer and Fei Zha, Cochairs

10 INVITED PRESENTATIONS / TURING AWARD WINNER EVENT

Dawn Song (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Dawn Song is a Professor in the Department ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science at
the University of California, Berkeley. Her researchinterest lies in AI and deep learning, security andprivacy. She is the recipient of various awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, and Best Paper
Awards from top conferences in Computer Securi-

Workshop Program
Friday – Saturday, February 7–8

Registration for a workshop requires a supplemental fee for AAAI-20 technical registrants. Individuals who do not wish to participate in any other
AAAI-20 programs or events may elect the workshop only registration fee. Coffee breaks will be held at 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM outside the designatedmeeting space. Please consult the website to confirm starting and ending times.
Friday, February 7, 2020
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
W1: Affective Content Analysis (AffCon2020): Interactive Affective Response
Bryant, 2nd floor
W5: Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT)
Lincoln, 4th floor
W6: Artificial Intelligence Safety(SafeAI)
Concourse G, Concourse level
W7: Cloud Intelligence: AI/ML for Efficient and Manageable Cloud Services
Hudson, 4th floor
W10: Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems
Concourse D, Concourse level

W12: Generalization in Planning
Morgan, 2nd floor
W13: Health IntelligenceGibson, 2nd floor
W14: Intelligent Process Automation —RPA Meets AI
Concourse C, Concourse level
W16: Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services
Madison, 2nd floor
W18: Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence
Clinton, 2nd floor
W22: Reproducibility in AI (RAI 2020) –Future Direction and Reproducibility
Challenge
Midtown, 4th floor

8:30 AM – 5:30 PM

W11: Evaluating Evaluation of AI Systems
Gramercy East, 2nd floor

W2: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (AICS)
Concourse C, Concourse level

W15: Interactive and Conversational
Recommendation Systems (WICRS)Clinton, 2nd floor

W3: Artificial Intelligence for Education
Concourse E, Concourse level

W17: Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (PAIR)
Murray Hill West, 2nd floor

Saturday, February 8, 2020

W4: Artificial Intelligence in TeamSportsConcourse D, Concourse level
W8: Deep Learning on Graphs: Methodologies and Applications
Murray Hill East, 2nd floor
W9: Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC8)
Concourse G, Concourse level

W23: Statistical Relational AI (StarAI)
Concourse A, Concourse level

Student Welcome Reception
Sponsored by
USC/Information Sciences Institute
Friday, February 7, 6:00 – 7:30 PM,
Mercury Suite, 3rd floor

All students are welcome at the AAAI-20
Student Welcome Reception.
Light refreshments will be served.
ty and Deep Learning. She is an ACM Fellow and
an IEEE Fellow. She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She obtained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Prior tojoining UC Berkeley as a faculty, she was a faculty
at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007.
She is also a serial entrepreneur and has been
named on the Female Founder 100 List by Inc. and
Wired25 List of Innovators. Please see Guidebook
for talk description.
3:50 – 4:40 PM
AAAI-20 Invited Talk:

The Economic Value of Data
for Targeted Pricing
Susan Athey (Stanford University, USA)This presentation reviews recent research about
consumer choices in shopping, for example in supermarkets. Historically a large literature in economics and marketing studied consumer choices
among brands, considering one product category
at a time. A series of recent papers makes use of advances in computation and techniques from matrix
factorization to study consumer responses to pricechanges using observational data from consumertransactions. One question that arises is the valueof data (for example, the increase in profit from using additional data), comparing the value of different types of data, e.g. more consumers or longer retention for each consumer.
4:45 – 6:15 PM
AAAI-20 AI History Panel:

Advancing AI by Playing GamesSee page 7 for details.

Wednesday, February 12
8:40 – 9:40 AM
AAAI-20 Invited Talk:

How Not to Destroy the World With AI
Stuart Russell (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-classhonours in physics from Oxford University in 1982
and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in1986. He then joined the faculty of the Universityof California at Berkeley, where he is Professor(and formerly Chair) of Electrical Engineering andComputer Sciences, holder of the Smith-Zadeh
Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Centerfor Human-Compatible AI. He has served as an
Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC
San Francisco and as Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on AI and Robotics. He is arecipient of the Presidential Young InvestigatorAward of the National Science Foundation, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the World
Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell
Prize of the American Statistical Association, theFeigenbaum Prize of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and Outstanding Educator Awards from both ACM and AAAI.
From 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal

W19: Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine
Dialogues(DEEPDIAL20)
Morgan, 2nd floor
W20: Reasoning for Complex Question
Answering
Madison, 2nd floor
W21: Reinforcement Learning in Games
Gramercy West, 2nd floor

in Paris, and he has been awarded the Andrew
Carnegie Fellowship for 2019 to 2021. He is an
Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; Distinguished Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI; Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House);and Fellow of the Association for the Advancementof Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. His book Artificial
Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter
Norvig) is the standard text in AI. His researchcovers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic
reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking,computer vision, computational physiology, andphilosophical foundations. He also works for theUnited Nations, developing a new global seismic
monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty.
His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity.

Student Activities
and Outreach
AAAI is pleased to offer the following student activities designed to enrich the student experienceat the AAAI conference. For complete information about Student Programs at AAAI-20, pleasesee aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/aaai-20-student-activities-overview.

Student Welcome Reception
See boxed description on this page.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOP PROGRAM / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH 11

Special Tracks at AAAI-20
AAAI-20 Special Track on AI for Social Impact
Sunday – Monday, February 9-10, Sutton South, 2nd floor

AAAI-20 is pleased to present the Special Track on AI for Social Impact. This track recognizes that high- quality research on social impact
domains often leads to papers that differ from traditional AAAI submissions along multiple dimensions. These are motivated by the following issues:
Data collection may be difficult and may require innovative methods andvalidations, for instance to address large scale data gathering in the field,
eliminate bias and ensure fairness.
Problem modeling is a time-intensive activity that require significant collaborations with domain experts and needs to balance a variety of tradeoffs in decision making.
Social impact may be realized through time-consuming field studies thattypically compare a baseline with the application of novel algorithms in
the real world, and the experimental design can be challenging and theevaluation may be multifaceted.

The goal of this track at AAAI 2020 is to highlight these technical challenges and opportunities and to showcase the social benefits of artificial intelligence. The program includes 25 technical papers in full oralpresentations. For complete schedule information, please consult theonline program.

Senior Member Presentations
Sunday and Monday, February 9 –10, Regent, 2nd floor

The AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation track comprises two subtracks: Summary Talks: established researchers provide broad talks
on a well-developed body of research or an important new researcharea; and Blue Sky Talks: authors present ideas and visions that canstimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as
new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies, thatare likely to stimulate significant new research. Six summary talks andeight Blue Sky talks will be presented (please see the online conference
schedule for exact times). For more information about the Blue Sky
Awards, please see page 7.

Sister Conference Track
Monday, February 10, Nassau, 2nd floor

The AAAI-20 Sister Conference Track is designed to foster communication inside the field of artificial intelligence. The track will present
exciting recent advances in subareas of artificial intelligence throughthe lens of major sister conferences. Sixteen talks derived from the following conferences will be featured: ICML, ICLR, UAI, AAMAS,

AAAI 2020 Sticker Social Event
In past years AAAI has hosted a research speed
dating event to facilitate social interactions at theconference. This year, there will not be a single
social event for this purpose, but participants areencouraged to interact throughout the conference. To facilitate this, participants will be provided with stickers and are encouraged to place
the answer to social questions on their name tag.
Doing so means that you are open to social interactions with people at the conference that you do
not know. Find stickers and instructions near theregistration desk and at the student reception. A

ECML-PKDD, ICAPS, SAT, CP, ICCV, ACL, AIIDE, ILP, ICWSM,
CogSci, ACM EC, and ACM FAT*. Please see the online conference
schedule for exact talk times.

AI in Practice
Wednesday, February 12, Grand Ballroom

The 2020 edition of AI in Practice will focus on emerging applicationsof AI in healthcare. The aim of the program is to offer a venue for exchanging ideas among participants from different disciplines, fromgeneral computer science, to AI and ethics, to medicine and publichealth. The event program will include keynotes, invited talks, and a
discussion panel. Keynote addresses will be presented by Vivian Lee(President, Health Platforms, Verily Life Sciences) and Aneesh
Chopra (President, CareJourney, former first CTO of the UnitedStates).
KeynoteBig Data, AI and the Journey to Value Driven Care
Vivian S. Lee (Verily Life Sciences)
To improve outcomes and reduce the costs of care, health systems are increasingly being expected to deliver higher levels of value to their patientsand families. How can new and existing sources of data, combined with AI
tools and analytics support the move to value-based care? What are themost promising ways in which they can improve the engagement of bothpatients and physicians in the co-production of health? Vivian Lee, President of Verily Health Platforms and former CEO of University of Utah
Health, will explore these questions in her presentation, Big Data, AI and
the Journey to Value Driven Care.
KeynoteConnecting Dots: How Open Data, Open APIs, and Payment
Reform will Fuel Care Delivery Reform
Aneesh Chopra (CareJourney, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer (20092012)
The need to reform the way we delivery care continues as fiscal, access andquality pressures continue to mount. Building on the progress of the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration has launched the “MyHealthEData” initiative anchored on consumer-directed health exchange;
opened up more government data for measuring performance, including
Medicare Advantage and Medicaid encounters; and added more riskbased alternative payment models. In this presentation, Chopra shares his
views on how AI-powered consumer-trusted applications will help patients make better decisions at each step of their care journey.For detailed
presentation information, please refer to the online conference schedule.

A full list of AI in Practice presentations and a schedule is available ataaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/ai-in-practice.

special AI sticker will be given to those who meet
new people at the conference.

Unofficial Student Slack Channel
If you are interested in finding and meeting otherstudents to participate in activities at AAAI, consider joining the (unofficial) student slack channel. Instructions for joining can be found at at
movingai.com/AAAI20.

AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium
Friday – Saturday, February 7-8
Nassau West, 2nd floor

The Twenty-Fifth AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consor-

12 STUDENT PROGRAMS / SPECIAL TRACKS AT AAAI-20

tium (DC) provides an opportunity for a group of
Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of
established researchers. The seventeen students
accepted to participate in this program will also
participate in the AAAI-20 evening Poster / Demo Session 1 on Sunday, February 9. All interested AAAI-20 student registrants are invited to observe the presentation, as space allows.
AAAI and SIGAI gratefully acknowledge thegenerous grants from AI Journal and David E.
Smith, which make this program possible. The
DC schedule is available at aaai-dc.github.io.

Colocated Conferences at AAAI-20
gram registration. The proceedings of the IAAI program will be included in the full AAAI-20 proceedings, and electronic copies of all papers
are available via the online schedule (Guidebook). For full informationon the three IAAI-20 invited talks, please see pages 9–10. For theschedule of paper presentations, please refer to the online schedule.

AAAI/ACM Conference
on AI, Ethics, and Society
Friday and Saturday, February 7-8
Trianon Ballroom, 3rd floor

As AI is becoming more pervasive in our life, its impact on society ismore significant and concerns and issues are raised regarding aspects
such as value alignment, data handling and bias, regulations, andworkforce displacement. Only a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder effort can find the best ways to address these concerns, including experts of various disciplines, such as ethics, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, law, history, and politics. In order toaddress these issues in a scientific context, AAAI and ACM joined
forces to start this conference in 2018. Attendance at AIES 2020 isavailable for an additional fee. The full schedule for the AIES 2020
Conference is available at www.aies-conference.com, and will be distributed in hard copy to registered attendees.

The Thirty-Second Annual Conferenceon Innovative Applications of Artificial
Intelligence (IAAI-20)
Sunday – Tuesday, February 9-11
Sutton Center, 2nd floor

The Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications ofArtificial Intelligence (IAAI-20) focuses on successful applications
that showcase novel uses of AI technology. The conference includes
technical papers, challenge papers, and invited talks to explore issues,
methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment ofAI applications; and to promote an interchange of ideas between basic
and applied AI. IAAI-20 has three tracks: (1) 11 deployed applicationcase studies, (2) 27 emerging applications or methodologies, and (3)one challenge problem paper.
Registration for IAAI-20 is included in the AAAI-20 technical pro-

AAAI Undergraduate Consortium
Friday, February 7
Nassau East, 2nd floor

The AAAI Undergraduate Consortium (AAAIUC) will include a mentoring program for undergraduates attending AAAI and offer undergraduate students an opportunity to enrich their conference experience by (1) presenting and receiving critical feedback about their work in a professional, academic setting; (2) meeting prospective
graduate advisors; (3) receiving mentoring about
the advantages (and disadvantages) of pursuing
graduate studies in AI as well as practical early career advice; (4) expanding their professional network to include both AI experts, current graduate
students, and undergraduate peers; and (5) providing advice, tools, and resources for successfully applying to and attending graduate school in an
AI-related research. All interested AAAI-20 un-

The Tenth Symposium on Educational
Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Saturday – Sunday, February 8-9
Bryant, 2nd floor

EAAI-20 (eaai.cs.mtu.edu) provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss issues and share resources related to teaching AI andusing AI in education. Most contributions address undergraduate andgraduate education, but some extend to the K-12 and postgraduatelevels. The program comprises two invited talks, including the Outstanding Educatior Award Lecture, a main track, and special tracks on
AI for Education, Blue Sky Ideas, Model AI Assignments, and the
EAAI-21 Undergraduate Research Challenge.
Registration for EAAI-20 is included in the AAAI-20 technical program registration. An EAAI-20 only registration is also available forregistrants who wish to attend the symposium only. The proceedingsof the EAAI program will be included in the full AAAI-20 proceedings, and electronic copies of all papers are available via the online
schedule (Guidebook). EAAI posters will be presented Sunday, February 9 in the AAAI-20 Poster / Demo Session in Americas Hall I/II.
EAAI-20 presentation lengths will be as follows:
Main Track full papers: 20 minutes each
Main Track Poster lightning talks: 5 minutes each
Model AI Assignment papers: 15 minutes eachBlue Sky Ideas: 5 minutes each

For full information on invited talks and panels, please see page 9.
For the schedule of paper presentations, please refer to the online
schedule.

dergraduate student registrants are invited to observe the presentations, as space allows.
AAAI gratefully acknowledge the generous
grants from AI Journal, which makes this program possible. Please consult Guidebook for thepresentation schedule.

AAAI Fellow / Student Lunches
Sunday – Wednesday, February 9 – 12
12:30 – 2:00 PM

First held in 2006, the AAAI Fellow / Student
Lunches program provides an opportunity for asmall number of students to chat with a AAAI
Fellow over an informal lunch during the conference. Sign-up sheets will be available AFTER 3:00
PM on Saturday, February 8 at the onsite registration desk on the 2nd floor Promenade. Students
should meet their designated Fellow in onsite
registration on their assigned day.

Student Abstract and Poster Program
Oral Presentations: Monday, February 10, 9:30 –10:45 AM, Bryant, 2nd floor
Poster Presentations: Sunday – Tuesday
February 9-11 evenings, Americas Hall I/II

The Student Abstract and Poster program provides a forum in which students can present anddiscuss their work during its early stages, meetsome of their peers who have related interests,
and introduce themselves to more senior members of the field. Students who have been selected
as part of a group of 20 finalists to compete forthe “Best Student 3-Minute Presentation” will
present their work in 3-minute spotlight talks inparallel with other technical sessions. These students will present their posters on Monday
evening during the conference-wide poster/demo session. The remaining student abstract
posters will be presented on all three evenings.

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An award will be presented for the “Best Student
Poster.” For a list of posters each night, please see
the online schedule and the AAAI-20 Poster/Demo Program Guide.

Breakfast with Champions:
A Women's Mentoring Event
Monday, February 10
7:30 – 8:45 AM
Sutton South, 2nd floor

AAAI is holding the sixth annual women's mentoring event for women students and junior
women professionals to meet with senior womenin computer science and/or artificial intelligence.
Pre-registration was required and admittance isby ticket only. Sponsored by Elsevier and AAAI.

AAAI-20 Games Night
Tuesday, February 11
8:00 – 10:00 PM
Sutton Center, 2nd floor

For details, please consult the online schedule.

AAAI/SIGAI AI Job Fair
Tuesday, February 11, 12:30 – 3:00 PM
Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd floor
1-Minute Company Presentations: 12:30 – 1:00 PM
Tabletop exhibits: 1:00 – 3:00 PM

The AAAI and ACM SIGAI AI Job Fair will provide an opportunity for a host of companies andinstitutions to highlight their current job opportunities. The short presentations will be followedby meet-and-greet sessions. Over 30 employers
will be participating. Be sure to stop in during thelunch break. For a list of participating companies
and a schedule of presentations, please see theonline schedule and aaaijobfair.com.
For further information about student programs, please refer to the Diversity events on
page 6.

Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of thelongest established and most respected journals
in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has
published many of the key papers in the field.
The operation of the Editorial Board is supported
financially through an arrangement with AIJ's
publisher, Elsevier. The editorial board of Artificial Intelligence is now in the unique position of
being able to make available substantial funds, ofthe order of EUR 240,000 per annum to support
the promotion and dissemination of AI research.

providing human-scored model testing, andmaking available human-in-the-loop exception
handling. We completely offload these activities,
freeing data professionals to focus on their areasof specialization. We support machine learning
projects broadly, with particular emphasis on
Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing
and Entity Resolution, in financial services, retail, defense, technology and manufacturing.

Exhibitor / Job Fairamazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/AAAIAI Singapore

Sunday – Tuesday, February 9 – 11
Rhinelander Gallery

The AAAI-20 sponsor and exhibit program provides an opportunity for AI-related companies
and publishers to support the goals of AAAI andreach out to AI professionals. In some cases,
sponsors have elected to exhibit at AAAI-20.
AAAI wishes to thank all sponsors and exhibitors
for their participation at AAAI-20!

AI Singapore (AISG) is a national AI programme
launched by the National Research Foundation(NRF) to anchor deep national capabilities in Artificial Intelligence (AI) thereby creating socialand economic impacts, grow the local talent,build an AI ecosystem, and put Singapore on theworld map.
Exhibitor

Exhibitor

AITopics

Appenwww.aitopics.org

www.appen.com

AITopics is powered by AI technology from i2k
Connect Inc., AITopics is an official publicationof the AAAI. AITopics is the Internet’s Largest
Collection of Information on Research, People,
News, and Applications of AI
Register to Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card!
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Appen collects and labels data used to build andcontinuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. With expertisein more than 180 languages, a global crowd ofover 1 million skilled contractors, and the industry’s most advanced annotation platform, Appen
works with leading companies and governments
worldwide.

Sunday, February 9:
Monday, February 10:
Tuesday, February 11:
Tuesday Job Fair only:

Alexander von Humboldt Foundationwww.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent
scientists and scholars from Germany, the US,
and abroad, offering prestigious fellowships andresearch awards for all career stages. Amongthese fellowships is the AvH Professorship for
Artificial Intelligence for top researchers in AI.
Sponsor / Exhibitor

Alegionalegion.com

Exhibit Hours
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
12:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Sponsor / Job Fair

AI Journal
www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence/

AmazonWe fundamentally believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It's this ability to havean impact at scale that allows us to attract someof the brightest minds in artificial intelligenceand related fields. Amazon’s machine learning
teams are looking forward to meeting you at
AAAI 2020. Come and visit us at the Amazon
booth!

www.aisingapore.org/

Exhibitor

Sponsor andExhibit Program

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Alegion offloads from enterprise data scienceteams the preparation of training data for machine learning initiatives. Our offering operates
at massive scale, combining a data and task management software platform with a nearly millionmember global pool of trained data specialists.
We assist data science teams throughout the AI
lifecycle, delivering custom training datasets,

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Exhibitor / Job Fair

AppZen, Inc.
www.appzen.com

Aimesoft develop Multimodal AI solutions. Multimodal AI combines multiple input sources(text, voice, image, numerical data, ...) and various intelligence algorithms into a single system
to solve complicated problems. We will present
various Multimodal AI solutions for smart document processing, billnote processing, stock prediction and Healthcare.
Sponsor/ Job Fair

Apple
www.apple.com

We’re a diverse collection of people, reimagining what’s possible to help us do what we love in
new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone,
iPad, and Apple Watch, and with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, andApple Pay. Employees in machine learning and
AI are building amazing experiences into every
Apple product, allowing millions to do what
they never imagined. Because Apple fully integrates hardware and software across every device, these researchers and engineers collaboratemore effectively to improve the user experience
while protecting user data. Come make an impact with the products you create and the research you publish.

ness that helps scientists and clinicians to find
new answers, reshape human knowledge, andtackle the most urgent human crises.

Exhibitor

Facebook

Association for Computing Machinery

ai.facebook.com

www.acm.org

Facebook's mission is to give people the power tobuild community and bring the world closer together. Our teams accelerate research breakthroughs across both existing and new learning
paradigms to develop state-of-the-art AI that has
a positive impact on people and society. We'readvancing artificial intelligence through fundamental and applied research in open collaboration with the community.

ACM is a global organisation which brings together computing educators, researchers, andprofessionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd

Sponsorwww.baidu.com

Baidu is the leading Chinese language Internet
search provider and the largest Chinese website
globally. Baidu aims to make the complicatedworld simpler through technology.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Bloomberg
www.techatbloomberg.com

Bloomberg is building the world's most trusted
information network for financial professionals.
Among our 6,000+ software engineers,
Bloomberg employs 150+ data scientists and research engineers who employ machine learningand natural language processing to solve complex, real-world problems related to core document understanding, recommendation, and customer-facing systems.

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Googlewww.cambridge.org/academic

Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit
publisher that dates from 1534. We are part of
the University of Cambridge and our mission isto unlock people's potential with the best learning and research solutions. Visit our stand to discuss publishing with us, browse our publications
and get a 20% discount.

Google's mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible anduseful, and we advance that mission every day inincredible new ways. Research across Google
provides new ways of looking at old problems
and helps transform how we all work and live,
and we think the biggest impact comes when everyone in the world can access it. To that end, we
use state-of-the-art computer science techniques
to solve problems for our users, our customers
and the world, making it easier for you to do
things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of people you love, breaking down language
barriers, or helping you get things done withyour own personal digital assistant.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Happy Elements
www.happyelements.com

Founded in 2009, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Kyoto and San Francisco, Happy Elements is a leading interactive entertainment
company with products in games, comic and animation, IP affiliated products. We apply AI ingames to optimize the game productivity andgenerate the best experience for all users.

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Dataminr

Exhibitor

IOS Presswww.iospress.com

IOS Press is headquartered in Amsterdam withsatellite offices in the USA, Germany, India, andChina and serves the information needs of scientific and medical communities worldwide.
IOS Press publishes more than 80 international
peer-reviewed journals and about 75 book titles
each year on subjects ranging from computerscience, AI, and engineering to medicine, neuroscience, and cancer research.

ai.google

Exhibitor

Cambridge University Press

provides high-volume data annotation services
using our internal workforce of 2,500+ full time,
in-house, data technicians located domesticallyand abroad. We specialize in image/video/audio/text data (PHI, PII, HIPAA, FOUO, etc.) andhave labeled over 150 million data points.

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

www.dataminr.com

IBM Research

We are Dataminr. The Leading AI Platform forReal-Time Event and Risk Detection. Dataminr’s
advanced AI platform detects the earliest signalsof high-impact events and emerging risks, enabling enterprise and public sector clientsaround the globe to know critical information
first, respond with confidence, and manage
crises more effectively.

research.ibm.com/labs/watson

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Sponsor / Exhibitor

Elsevier Ltd.

iMeritwww.elsevier.com

www.imerit.net

Elsevier is a global information analytics busi-

We structure u-n-s-t-r-u-c-t-u-r-e-d data. iMerit

IBM Research has been exploring AI and machine learning for decades. Today, we’re advancing the field through our portfolio of research focused on Advancing, Scaling, and Trusting AI.
We’re also collaborating with like-minded institutions and individuals to push the boundaries ofAI faster – for the benefit of industry and society.

Sponsor / Exhibitor

Jane Street
janestreet.com

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that uses
innovative technology, a scientific approach, anda deep understanding of markets to guide ourbusiness. We are a global liquidity provider andmarket maker, operating around the clock andaround the globe, out of offices in New York,
London and Hong Kong.
Exhibitor

John Wiley & Sons
wileyonlinelibrary.com

Wiley publishes leading research, empoweringresearchers, learners, universities, and corporations to achieve their goals in an ever-changing
world. With open research, we will build a future where answers and evidence are more accessible, opening up the discovery process to thewhole world.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Microsoft
www.microsoft.com/research

Microsoft Research is where leading scientists
and engineers have the freedom and support to
tackle complex problems that propel innovationand improve lives. Come by our booth to learn
more about our research and open opportunities
with Microsoft. aka.ms/aaai-2019.
Exhibitor

Applied Computational Intelligence
Laboratory, Missouri University of
Science and Technology
acil.mst.edu

The Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory performs research at the interface of unsupervised and reinforcement learning. Supportedby the DARPA L2M program, Night Vision Labs,
and the Leonard Wood Institute, among others,

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the ACIL is a diverse (in every sense,) multidisciplinary group.
Exhibitor

The MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu

Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of thelargest and most distinguished university presses
in the world and a leading publisher of books andjournals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.
Exhibitor

Morgan & Claypool Publishers
www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com

Morgan & Claypool publishes the Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning edited by Ronald Brachman, Francesca
Rossi, and Peter Stone. Synthesis lectures are 75to 200-page electronic and print books presenting key topics written by prominent contributors
for an audience of students, researchers, and developers.
Exhibitor

NHB Elite Health
elitehealth.com

We are on a mission to create a world where you
can achieve and sustain optimal health in the advancing field of AI.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

NLMatics
www.nlmatics.com

NLMatics is an enterprise Natural Language
Processing (NLP) platform designed for decision makers to transform vast quantities of unstructured text into insightful analytics. NLMatics’s proprietary semantic discovery engine uses
a combination of unsupervised learning, active
learning and robust models pre-trained with avariety of language comprehension tasks toeliminate time consuming training with customer data.
Sponsor / Exhibitor

Openstream
www.openstream.com

Provider of leading virtual assistant platform
employing open standards based multimodal
conversational AI for unparalleled user experience and intelligent process automation acrossmultiple channels for financial, insurance,
healthcare, communications, retail and life-sciences industry solutions with documented productivity enhancement and RoI.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Sony
www.sony.net/SonyInfo/sony_ai

Sony is a major electronics, entertainment andfinance conglomerate. Artificial Intelligence and

16 SPONSOR AND EXHIBIT PROGRAM

Machine Learning are one of the key drivers inSony’s business success and the company has
been at the forefront of developing Machine
Learning technologies for finance, manufacturing, music and entertainment among many others.

neers who build tools that channel massive
amounts of data into insights. And people acrossmultiple disciplines to support our growth andposition at the forefront of investment management, insurance, securities, private equity, andventure capital.

Exhibitor

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Springer

United Technologies Research Center

springer.com

www.utrc.utc.com

Springer is a leading global scientific and technical portfolio, providing researchers in academia,
scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative
information, products and services.

UTRC conducts research in various AI areas, including autonomy and human-machine interaction, computer vision and deep learning for revolutionary aircraft systems. Our diverse technicalstaff (76% PhD) collaborates with our business
units, universities and national laboratories on
impactful scientific advances in AI that culminate in novel aerospace products.

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

Superb AI
www.superb-ai.com

Superb AI, Inc. provides a new generation machine learning data platform powering international 30+ AI enterprises to build better AI in lesstime. 'Superb AI Suite', an enterprise softwareas-a-service (SaaS) platform is built to manipulate, manage and understand machine learning
datasets and to accelerate advanced AI application.
Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

TheTakeSponsor / Exhibitor

Center for Artificial Intelligence
Research, University of Tsukuba
air.tsukuba.ac.jp/en

Based in Tsukuba Science City, 60 km from
Tokyo, C-AIR is a multidisciplinary research hubwith a mission to develop and promote humancentered AI technologies. We collaborate withmany research centers of the University ofTsukuba as well as such national research institutes as NIMS, JAXA, and RIKEN

thetake.ai

At TheTake, we are dedicated to giving TV viewers immediate access to the products they discover in the content they love. We use proprietary deep learning technology to extract contextual product metadata at scale to power enhanced shoppable experiences on viewing platforms with partners like LG, WarnerMedia, and
NBCUniversal.
Sponsor / Exhibitor

Tongdun Technology

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

USC/ISI
www.isi.edu/homePart of the University of Southern California’s
highly ranked Viterbi School of Engineering, ISI
is one of the nation’s largest, most successful university-affiliated computer research institutes.
USC/ISI is home to 400 research scientists, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students, andstaff. Half our researchers hold Ph.D.s and 40 are
USC faculty.

www.tongdun.cn

Tongdun Technology is a professional third-party intelligent risk management and decisionmaking service provider headquartered in
Hangzhou, Zhejiang. By integrating artificial intelligence into business scenarios, Tongdun
Technology offers solutions in intelligent user
analysis, intelligent risk management, intelligent
antifraud and intelligent operation to clientsfrom various industries including financial industry, internet business, government bodies.
Sponsor / Exhibitor

Sponsor / Exhibitor

Verisk Analytics
www.verisk.com

Verisk Analytics is a leading data analytics
provider in insurance, financial services, energy
and specialized markets serving customers inover 30 countries. Verisk|AI conducts R&D forbuilding human-machine collaborative systems
and workflows for extraction of knowledge andinformation from data, capable of closed-loop,
interpretable reasoning and continuous learning.

Two Sigma

Sponsor / Exhibitor / Job Fair

www.twosigma.com

Visa Research

Two Sigma uses data science and technology todiscover value in markets worldwide. We’relooking for people who see beauty in data and thepossibilities it reveals. Modelers who see connections and patterns in unexpected places. Engi-

research.visa.com

Visa Research is transforming commerce by accelerating innovation and focusing on the scientific foundations of existing, emerging and futurecommerce related technologies across broad

time horizons. Our research focus areas are Artificial Intelligence, Security and Future of Payments.

Job FairTuesday, February 11, 12:30 – 3:00 PM,
Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd floor

In addition to those existing sponsors and exhibitors listed above (where indicated), the Job
Fair will include the following companies:• Audatic GMbH
• Beijing Century Tal Education Technology Ltd.
• Charles River Analytics• Hewlett Packard• Kitware• MayoClinic• Point72 Asset Management• Raytheon BBN Technologies• SigOpt

Registration
Registration is located on the 2nd Floor Promenade. If you have already registered, please go directly to the preregistration area. Registration isdivided into the following sections: AAAI-20
main conference registration, AIES-20 only registration, and exhibitor registration. All otherregistrants, such as workshop only or visitors,
should proceed to the onsite registration desk fortheir badge. If you have not yet registered, wish
to make a change to your registration, or have abalance due, please proceed to the onsite registration area. Registration hours are:Friday, February 7
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday, February 8
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday, February 9
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Monday, February 10
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday, February 11 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Wednesday, February 12 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM

AAAI attendees are required to register via theonline system at aaaiconf.cvent.com/AAAI-20
prior to arrival or at online kiosk in onsite registration. All onsite registrations must be accompanied by payment via credit card, check or cash.
All attendees must pick up their registration
packets/badges for admittance to programs.

General Information
ADA Accessibility
The New York Hilton Midtown is an Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant facility.
The facility design includes accessible parking
and entrances, wheelchair ramps, multiple elevators, automatic doors and accessible restroom facilities.
Admission
Each conference attendee will receive a namebadge upon registration. This badge is required

for admittance to the technical, AIES, IAAI,EAAI, AI Job Fair, tutorial, workshop, and allother programs, as well as all social events. The
New York Hilton Midtown is a smoke-free facility, and smoking is strictly forbidden in all meeting and sleeping rooms, as well as public areas.

BreaksCoffee breaks will be available in mid-morningand mid-afternoon each day of the technical conference in Rhinelander Gallery, 2nd floor (exhibitarea) and the 2nd Floor East Corridor. For exact
times, please consult the full detailed schedule.
For early morning coffee, please consult the suggestions listed on page 18.

Internet Access
AAAI-20 has arranged for complimentary
wifi access for AAAI-20 registrants in meeting areas. To access the internet in the meeting space area, please select Artificial Intelligence, and enter the following password:
AAAI20. AAAI-20 attendees staying at the
New York Hilton Midtown will also enjoy
complimentary wifi access in their sleeping
rooms. A password will be available uponcheck-in.

Business Center
A business center is available at the New York
Hilton Midtown. The center provides a photocopying service, printing, fax, and express mail.

Guidebook app (guidebook.com/g/aaai20/; short
name: aaai20, no password required). No hardcopies are available.

Career Information

List of Attendees

A general information table for job opportunities
in the artificial intelligence industry will be madeavailable in the registration area. Attendees arewelcome to post job descriptions of openings attheir company or institution. Please also visit the
AI Job Fair for additional career information.

A list of preregistered attendees of the conference
will be available for review at the AAAI onsite
registration desk. Attendee lists will not be distributed.

Printed Materials
Display tables for the distribution of promotional
and informational materials of interest to conference attendees will be located in the registrationarea.

Family Friendly Initiative
Childcare
Concourse B, Concourse LevelAAAI has contracted with KiddieCorp to provide
onsite childcare during the AAAI-20 conference.
The program is designed for children ages 6
months through 12 years old. Snacks and water
will be provided; meals must to be supplied byparents. For complete details on the programand a registration form, visit www.jotform.com/
KiddieCorp/aaaikids
Preregistration required. For onsite availability, please contact KiddieCorp directly.

Proceedings/Technical Reports

Family Room

Sticker / Ribbon Table

Concourse H, Concourse level

AAAI has arranged for a room for young familyneeds relaxation between sessions. We ask thatyou be respectful of others' privacy, as this room
may be used by nursing mothers. The room locks
from the inside when being used privately.
Children at Social Events
AAAI welcomes young children (under 12) at all
AAAI social events, such as the reception orposter / demo receptions, for no additionalcharge. If your child would like a souvenir of attendance at the conference, please come by registration for a badge!

AAAI proceedings will be available after the conference in electronic format only via the AAAI
Digital Library. Preliminary PDFs of all papers
are available via the online AAAI-20 schedule(Guidebook). The preliminary PDFs will be removed once the final papers are placed in thedigital library. Links to individual guidebook papers may not be made.

As part of AAAI’s Diversity and Inclusion program, a selection of stickers and ribbons areavailable at a table in the registration area. Attendees may optionally select gender identification
stickers or other specialty ribbons. Social networking event stickers are also available at thistable. See Student Activities on page 11-14 formore information.

Volunteer Station
The volunteer station will be located in the onsite
registration area. All volunteers are required tosign in prior to their shifts, and sign out when
they finish.

Guidebook App and Online Schedule

New York City Information

The full list of all AAAI papers for all programs isavailable in the online schedule and via the

NYCGo: (212) 484-1200. For more information,

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including restaurant suggestions, activities and additional information about
the area please visit nycgo.com

Hotel Parking
Valet parking is available for $75 per night ($80 per night for an SUV). Hotelovernight self-parking is not available.

Hotel Restaurants
Bridges Bar
Specialty Sandwiches
5:30 PM-2:00 PM
Herb N’ Kitchen
Grab & go, 6:00 AM-1:00 AM

Nearby Grab & Go

Disclaimer
In offering the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel, Freeman, PSAV, andall other service providers (hereinafter referred to as “Supplier(s)” forthe AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence), AAAI acts only in thecapacity of agent for the Suppliers that are the providers of the service.
Because AAAI has no control over the personnel, equipment or operations of providers of accommodations or other services included aspart of the AAAI-20 program, AAAI assumes no responsibility for
and will not be liable for any personal delay, inconveniences or otherdamage suffered by conference participants which may arise by reason of (1) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part ofany Supplier or its employees, (2) any defect in or failure of any vehicle, equipment or instrumentality owned, operated or otherwise usedby any Supplier, or (3) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on
the part of any other party not under the control, direct or otherwise,of AAAI.

Angela’s Sandwich Shop
1428 6th Avenue (7-minute walk)Specialty Sandwiches
6:00 AM-12:00 AM

AAAI-20 Technical Session Overview

Melt Shop
135 W 50th Street (6-minute walk)
Sandwiches
11:00 AM-10:00 PM

Included on the following pages is an overview of the AAAI, IAAI, and EAAITechnical Sessions. Please consult the Guidebook app and the Technical Program Schedule PDF at aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20/ for detailed information.

Coffee Shops
AAAI-20 will serve coffee at the mid-morning and afternoon breaks. For early morning coffee, please visit one of the following locations:Talk Lengths

Herb N’ Kitchen
New York Hilton Midtown
6:00 AM – 1:00 AM

AAAI and AISITalks = 20 minutes
AAAI Spotlight Talks = 2 minutes
Senior Member Talks = 15 minutes

Joe & the Juice350 6th Avenue(3-minute walk)

Sister Conference Talks = 20 minutes
IAAI Deployed Talks = 20 minutes

Zibetto Espresso Bar
1221 6th Avenue

IAAI Emerging Talks = 15 minutes

Groceries/Sundries

EAAI Poster Previews = 5 minutes

Morton Williams
140 West 57th Street

EAAI Model AI Assignments = 15 minutes

EAAI Main and AI for Education Tracks = 20 minutes

EAAI Blue Sky Talks = 5 minutes

Pharmacies
The following pharmacies are located within walking distance of the hotel:
Duane Reade, 51 W51st Street
CVS, 241 W 57th Street and 630 Lexington Avenue
Rite Aid, 301 W 50th Street
Walgreens, 1471 Broadway
Windsor, 1419 6th Avenue

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