HCII Seminar Series - Lisa Anthony
Speaker
Lisa Anthony
Associate Professor, Department of CISE, University of Florida
When
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Where
Newell Simon Hall - Room 1305
Video
Video link
Description
* TALK POSTPONED - Will be rescheduled at a later date *
"Mentoring as a Way of Life: Scholarship in a Post-LLM World"
The role of the teacher-scholar includes a significant component of mentoring junior students or colleagues to become independent scientists. Mentoring support that graduate and undergraduate research students receive varies greatly, for example, by advising style, program expectations, and department, university, or research community culture. In my post-tenure career, driving positive change in the status quo of advisor-advisee relationships has become a passion. My students can publish papers, run research programs, and apply for funding. My focus is on impacting the environments, philosophies, and social norms in which these activities take place. By fostering a positive and safe learning environment, we can “get out of their way” and let them thrive. At the same time, we live in a world where the idea that “LLMs will do everything for us” is gaining traction. LLMs can write papers for us, run analyses for us, design posters for us, and review papers for us. However, there is still no effective substitute for hands-on, direct training in research methods and science. Continuing to serve adequately in our role as teacher-scholars will require a firm commitment to interrogating and evolving our approaches to training and advising. (And yes, I’ll also share some of the projects my amazing former advisees have worked on!).
Speaker's Bio
Lisa Anthony is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. She holds a BS and MS in Computer Science (Drexel University, 2002) and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (Carnegie Mellon University, 2008). After earning her PhD, Lisa worked in both industry and academic research, including two years in a DARPA- and ONR-funded R&D lab and two years at the University of Maryland Baltimore County focusing on multimodal interaction. Her lab has made its primary impact in understanding how to develop advanced interaction interfaces and algorithms for children in a variety of contexts, including education, healthcare and serious games. Dr. Anthony has received industry and government funding, including the NSF CAREER award, and is known for her work on multistroke gesture recognition, particularly the $N and $P gesture recognizers, and gesture applications for children. Her research has earned multiple best paper awards, including two “Ten Year Impact” awards (ACM ITS/ISS 2021, ACM ICMI 2022). Currently, Dr. Anthony is focusing on efforts to create a symmetrical mentoring program
within UF and beyond.
Speaker's Website
CISE UFL page
INIT Lab website
INIT Lab website
LisaAnthony.com
LisaAnthony.com
Host
Jessica Hammer