CRISP faculty Bagchi, Chaterji, Qiu, and Xue discuss physical AI's opportunities and challenges
CRISP faculty Bagchi, Chaterji, Qiu, and Xue discuss physical AI's opportunities and challenges
| Author: | Leon Yee |
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| Event Date: | March 26, 2024 |
Panel on Physical AI at the ECE Design Studio. From L to R: Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue), Anthony Gregory (Southwest), Shiv Vitaldevuni (Amazon), Somali Chaterji (Purdue), Arvind Ramanathan (Argonne National Lab), Jim Katter (Caterpillar)
Purdue Vice President of Research, Karen Plaut, addressing the audience
CRISP faculty Bagchi, Chaterji, Qiu, and Xue discussed physical AI's opportunities and challenges with external experts from Amazon Science, Caterpillar, Argonne National Lab, and Southwest Airlines.
CRISP faculty participated in IPAI's inaugural panel on Physical AI on March 26 at the ECE Design Studio. This panel, the first in the series, was titled “Shaping AI in the Physical World: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities”. CRISP Director Saurabh Bagchi moderated the panel, with panelists from Amazon, Argonne National Laboratory, Caterpillar, Purdue and Southwest Airlines. CRISP faculty Somali Chaterji was the Purdue panelist.
CRISP faculty Qiang Qiu and Yexiang Xue presented their work to the Amazon visitor, Shiv Vitaldevuni, in a separate discussion.
The panelists were:
- Somali Chaterji, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue.
- Jim Katter, director of engineering, artificial intelligence at Caterpillar.
- Anthony Gregory, chief operating officer at Southwest Airlines Renewable Ventures.
- Arvind Ramanathan, computational biologist at Argonne National Laboratory and senior scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.
- Shiv Vitaladevuni, director of applied science, Amazon.