Hi Everyone, I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware that one of our newest AI faculty, Professor Sandhya Saisubramanian will be offering a new course this Winter 2022. It was added to the catalog late, so you may have missed it when considering courses. The course is AI 539 ST/Safe and Reliable Autonomy which is a very important topic these days. See below for more details. Regards, -Alan -------------- AI 539 ST/Safe and Reliable Autonomy Course description: This course will highlight the challenges and recent trends in intelligent decision-making to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous systems, and identify important open research questions. This is a seminar-style course in which each student will summarize the papers in the reading list, lead the discussions on analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each paper, and apply the learned concepts in a final project. The reading list will contain a mix of papers that cover both theory and applications of safe and reliable autonomy, published at leading AI/ robotics conferences and journals. Application areas include robotics, autonomous cars, and healthcare, among others. The topics covered will broadly include techniques for safe sim-to-real transfer; using human assistance to improve system reliability, including human feedback and imitation learning; explainability to improve reliability; and safe exploration. More details about the course are available at https://www.sandhyasai.com/ai-539-st-safe-and-reliable-autonomy<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandhyasai.com%2Fai-539-st-safe-and-reliable-autonomy&data=04%7C01%7CAlan.Fern%40oregonstate.edu%7Cbdb5e518fe774080e7ef08d9b1e058ad%7Cce6d05e13c5e4d6287a84c4a2713c113%7C0%7C0%7C637736399382919032%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=U%2FsnuWTuoQuJ36FZlRGCOKx%2BkhpcZDOEIiXwXDJl38k%3D&reserved=0>.