The Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) is an ongoing program in the Department of Computer Science (CS) that invites distinguished leaders to present lectures to the computing community. Since it began in the Fall of 2000, the DLS has successfully hosted many prominent computer scientists.

On Friday, December 6th, 2024 at 2:30 pm, the DLS is proud to present Dr. Mohit Bansal, John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor and the Director of the MURGe-Lab (UNC-NLP Group) in the Computer Science department at UNC Chapel Hill. Bansal will present a lecture titled “Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation.” The lecture will be held in New Computer Science, Room 120.

In this talk, Bansal will present his journey of developing diverse, adaptive, uncertainty-calibrated AI planning agents that can robustly communicate and collaborate for multi-agent reasoning (on math, commonsense, coding, etc.) as well as for interpretable, controllable multimodal generation (across text, images, videos, audio, layouts, etc.).

Dr. Mohit Bansal is the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor and the Director of the MURGe-Lab (UNC-NLP Group) in the Computer Science department at UNC Chapel Hill. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2013 and his BTech from IIT Kanpur in 2008. His research expertise is in natural language processing and multimodal machine learning, with a particular focus on multimodal generative models, grounded and embodied semantics, faithful language generation, and interpretable, efficient, and generalizable deep learning.