Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop 

 50th Anniversary Edition

1-2 July 2024

About LASR

Started about 50 years ago by Professor Kanti Mardia as an Annual Event to foster Interdisciplinary Research in Statistics in emerging area of science

 

Themes and Structure

  • Mon 1st July 13.20-17 : AI and Ethics
  • Tue 2nd July 9.30 -12.30 :  Medical Imaging
  • Tue 2nd July 13.30 - 17 : Decision Making

Bringing together experts to discuss and advance these critical areas

Goals

https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2024/

Housekeeping

  • Posters Discussion: During Break and lunch time for today and tomorrow 
  • Lightening Talks: Today 16:30-17
  • Please engage with speakers and participants during breaks

Organisers

  • Luisa Cutillo
  • Sofya Titarenko
  • Richard Mann

Thanks to

  • Kanti Mardia
  • Tim Heaton

Kanti Mardia OBE
Senior Research Professor, University of Leeds (from 2000)
and Professor of Applied Statistics

AI and Ethics

ethical challenges and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence.  

This session is designed for professionals and scholars interested in the intersection of AI and ethics, offering insights into the development of more responsible and fair AI systems.

Today's Program

  • 12:30 – 13:20: Lunch  (room EC Stoner 7.83)
  • 13:20 – 13:30: Welcome  (room EC Stoner 7.79)  
  • 13:30 – 14:30 Alessandra Tosi, Mind Foundry (Keynote) – Responsible AI: Navigating Ethical Frontiers 
  • 14.30-15.00 Coffee Break
  • 15:00 – 15.30 Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds – Large Language Models: ethics of interpretability
  • 15:30 – 16:00 Eric Atwell, University of Leeds – Large Language Models to detect unethical practices at Leeds University
  • 16:00 – 16:30 Rebecca Stone, University of Leeds – Towards fairer AI: bias mitigation in modern vision models. 
  •  16:30 – 17:00 Lightning talks & Closing