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Title: LLMs and Mistrust, Discrimination, and Bugs in Software
Speaker: Yuriy Brun (Professor at the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, and Visiting Researcher at Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Greece)
Abstract: Software is ubiquitous, and trusting it is no longer optional.
Unfortunately, modern software has been caught lying, discriminating, and even causing deaths. This talk will explore how we can measure trust in software, understand what factors affect trust, and increase software trustworthiness. First, I'll describe how trust games, an instrument from psychology, can identify what affects users' trust in software. Second, I'll introduce Seldonian algorithms that fundamentally re-envision machine learning to produce models that are probabilistically guaranteed to satisfy fairness and safety requirements, even on unseen data. Third, I'll show how cutting-edge natural language processing, including LLMs, hold the key to automatically proving software correctness, the ultimate goal in software trustworthiness. Overall, I'll describe significant progress toward understanding software trust and improving software trustworthiness and lay out the challenges that lay ahead.
Short Bio: Yuriy Brun is a Computer Science Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Visiting Researcher at Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center, Greece. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. His research focuses on trust in software systems, including how improving software quality and fairness affect trust, and how formal verification can increase trust. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2008 and was then a Computing Innovation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. Prof. Brun is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the FSE Test of Time Honorable Mention Award, the SEAMS Most Influential Paper Award, the IEEE Computer Society TCSE New Directions Award, and the IEEE TCSC Young Achiever in Scalable Computing Award. Eight of his papers have won Best Paper, Distinguished Paper, or Distinguished Artifact awards.
He has received a Google Inclusion Research Award and a Google Faculty Research Award, an Amazon Research Award, a Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation Award, a Lilly Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, and a College Outstanding Teacher Award. He founded the Rising Stars in Computer Science program at UMass Amherst (https://www.cics.umass.edu/rising-stars) and his recent Science paper (http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag3311) introduced machine learning methods that guarantee safety and fairness. https://people.cs.umass.edu/~brun/
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To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science
To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world
Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 8 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).
First call for papers for the "Workshop on Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective" at the three-day Language Resources Association Conference (LREC) 2026. This workshopwill be held in conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11, 12 and 16 May 2026. It is a hybrid event and attendance can be in person or online.
Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, encourages participation in the "ELLIS Winter School 2026: AI for Earth System, Hazards, and Climate Extremes", taking place on March 16-20, 2026, at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
🌟 The Archimedes Community of the Athena Research Center, Greece, would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a holiday season filled with happiness, gratitude, and good health. ✨
Vassilis Alimisis, a Postdoc at the Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center in Greece, a Collaborating Researcher at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, and a National Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Bodossaki Foundation, Athens, Greece, will deliver a tutorial at the 2025 International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), which will take place on 14-17 December 2025, in Cairo, Egypt.
The Preliminary Phase "Talos" of the Greek Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (PDTN) is now open for online participation. This competition for middle and high school students will run from December 1, 2025 until March 1, 2026, and students will be asked to solve four problems: one on Decision Trees (Δεντρα Αποφασης), one on CAPTCHA Challenges (Επίλυση CAPTCHA), one for Emotion Classification (Συναισθηματα), and one on Movie Recommendation Systems (Επόμενη Ταινία).
The project “ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms” with code OPS 5154714 is implemented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
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