| 9:00 - 10:00am |
- Introduction
Carla Gomes (Cornell University)
- Welcome Address
Greg Morrisett (Dean of Computing and Information Science, Cornell University)
Chair: Zico Kolter
- CompSustNet & Conference Overview
Carla Gomes (Cornell University)
- Intelligent Collection and Analysis of Data for Computational Sustainability
Thomas Dietterich (Oregon State University)
- Green Security: How AI can help in protecting forests, fish and wildlife
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)
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| 10:30 - 12:00pm |
Chair: Thomas Dietterich
- Landscape Design for Conservation and Management of Animal Populations using Computational Sustainability Solutions
Angela Fuller (US Geological Survey, Cornell University)
- Computational Sustainability @ Georgia Tech
Bistra Dilkina (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Algorithmic and Big Data Challenges in Ecology and Conservation
Daniel Sheldon (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
- Optimization approaches for energy scheduling under uncertainty
Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Enabling solar fuels technology and a new paradigm in materials discovery by integrating materials and computer science
John Gregoire (California Institute of Technology)
- Computational Sustainability @ Stanford
Stefano Ermon (Stanford University)
- Outreach, Education, Diversity, and Synthesis in CompSustNet
Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt University)
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| 1:30 - 3:00pm |
- Multi-Agents, Citizen Science, and Mechanism Design (Conservation and Poverty Mitigation)
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Short TalksChair: Daniel Sheldon
- Crowdsourcing, computer vision, and data science for ecology and conservation
Tanya Berger-Wolf
- Inferring Citizen Scientists' Skills from Species Accumulation Curves
Weng-Keen Wong
- Avicaching: A Two Stage Game for Bias Reduction in Citizen Science
Yexiang Xue, Ian Davies, Daniel Fink, Christopher Wood and Carla Gomes
- Don't Follow the Crowd: Incentives for Directed Spatial Sampling
Nathan Jensen, Russell Toth, Yexiang Xue, Rich Bernstein, Eddy Chebelyon, Andrew Mude, Chris Barrett and Carla Gomes
- PAWS: Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security
Fei Fang
- Elephant Listening Project
Peter Wrege
Lightning TalksChair: Nicole Sintov
- Computational Challenges in Passive Acoustic Monitoring
Geoff Pleiss, Carla Gomes, Peter Wrege and Elizabeth Rowland
- Monitoring A, While Hoping for A & B: Field Experimental Evidence on Multidimensional Task Monitoring
Nathan Jensen, Elizabeth Lyons, Eddy Chebelyon, Ronan Le Bras and Carla Gomes
- BlimpIt: Persistent Autonomy for the Developing World
Ross Knepper
- A Computational Model to Detect Illegal Wildlife Sales Online
Jennifer Jacquet and Sunandan Chakraborty (NYU)
- Modeling Adaptive Human Adversary Behavior in Green Security Games
Debarun Kar
- Empirical Evaluation of Human Behavior Models to Predict Wildlife Crime
Benjamin Ford and Milind Tambe
- Efficient resource allocation for protecting coral reef ecosystems
Bo An
- Collective Graphical Models for Bird Migration
Tao Sun
- Large-Scale Analysis of Bird Migration using Weather Surveillance Radar
Kevin Winner
- Consistently Estimating Markov Chains with Noisy Aggregate Data
Garrett Bernstein and Daniel Sheldon
- Visualization of Species Distributions Using Representation Learning on Bird Watching Data
Di Chen, Yexiang Xue, Shuo Chen, Steve Kelling and Carla Gomes
- Improved poverty targeting: An application to the USAID Poverty Assessment Tools
Linden McBride and Austin Nichols
- Sustainable Fair Division
Martin Aleksandrov
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| 3:30 - 5:00pm |
- Dynamic Optimization, Simulation and Sequential Decision Making for Conservation and Natural Resources
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Short Talks- Dynamic Optimization, Natural Capital, and Ecosystem Services
Jon Conrad
- Bio-economic Model of Externalities and Foreign Capital in Aquaculture Production in Developing Countries
Worku Bitew and Wisdom Akpalu
- Constrained Transductive Selection for ReserveDesign
Liping Liu and Thomas Dietterich
- Dynamic Sustainability Games for Renewable Resources -- A Model-Free Optimization Approach
Jinkun Lee and Sung Hoon Chung
- Optimizing Ecological Sustainability by Integrating Intuition and Machine Learning via Gamification
Ben Saylor, Anagha Kulkarni, Neo Martinez and Ilmi Yoon
- Fast Simulation for Computational Sustainability Sequential Decision Making Problems
Sean McGregor, Rachel Houtman, Hailey Buckingham, Ronald Metoyer, Claire Montgomery and Thomas Dietterich
Lightning Talks- Sample-Efficient Algorithms for Simulator-Defined MDP Planning
Majid Alkaee Taleghan and Thomas Dietterich
- On The Timing Of Actions To Save An Endangered Species
Yu Ye
- Robust Spatial Optimization for the Dynamic Invasive Species Management
Nahid Jafari
- Using Model-Based Estimators of Connectivity for Landscape Corridor Design
Amrita Gupta, Bistra Dilkina, Dana Morin, Angela Fuller, J. Andrew Royle, Chris Sutherland and Carla Gomes
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- Policy, Data, Experiences and Technology
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Chair: William Moreto
Panelists- Developing a Framework to Assess and Prioritize the Harms Caused by India's Sand Mafia
Aunshul Rege (Temple University)
- U.S. and Intl Policy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking
Jessica Graham (Department of State)
- Jessica Hansen (C4ADS)
- Conservation Tech and Conservation Needs- lessons from the field
Chris Hallam (Panthera)
- Community-Ranger Relations: Implications for Conservation Science Policy
William Moreto (University of Central Florida)
- Legislation, policy and tech innovation against wildlife crime
Ariella Knight (Stimson Center)
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| 5:30 - 6:30pm | Poster Session (Clark and Baker Atria) |
