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RAI Seminar: Responsible AI for Air Quality: Integrating Observations and Models
Jingqiu Mao
Responsible AI for Air Quality: Integrating Observations and Models, Abstract: Accurate environmental monitoring is essential for protecting public health and informing decision-making, yet many regions—including high-latitude areas and parts of the western United States—remain sparsely observed and poorly represented in models. Recent advances in machine learning offer new opportunities to enhance environmental monitoring, but they also introduce challenges related to interpretability, bias, and robustness, particularly in data-sparse regions.
In this talk, I present an integrated framework that combines in situ observations, ground- and satellite-based remote sensing, chemical transport models, and machine learning to improve our understanding and prediction of air quality. Using examples from Alaska—including wintertime urban pollution, summertime wildfire smoke, and seasonal dust—I demonstrate how observational constraints and physical insights can be incorporated into data-driven approaches…
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB). Alternate Location: https://utah.zoom.us/j/88953831588?pwd=JIQVFr0Lu09CSbRGdS1aaB4xStafoA.1. Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.
AI and Cybersecurity: Building Self-Defending Systems through Biological Blueprints
Royal Hansen
AI and Cybersecurity: Building Self-Defending Systems through Biological Blueprints, Abstract: By applying biological concepts like evolutionary arms races to cybersecurity, this presentation argues for the creation of autonomous, self-defending AI systems capable of automatically discovering and patching vulnerabilities, provided these agents are strictly constrained by safety frameworks, sector-specific guardrails, and broad industry collaboration.
Bio: Royal Hansen is a Vice President of Engineering at Google. Most recently, he led the Privacy, Safety and Security team (the CISO for Alphabet), which is the central engineering function that builds and scales the foundational technology that keeps billions of people safe online.
Over the last several years, Royal and his team have focused on cybersecurity threat detection, analysis and counterabuse, building advanced AI/ML security technologies, and protecting privacy, identity and data. He continues to work on safety innovations across…
Campus Locations: Warnock Engineering Building - John and Marva (WEB). Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, April 24, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Memorial Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, May 25, 2026.
Juneteenth
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Monday, June 15, 2026.
Independence Day
University Observed Holidays
Campus Wide Event: Yes.
Friday, July 3, 2026.