HCAI Research Seminar (class of 2020/21)

Module 01: Introduction to Human-Centered AI (Holzinger Group)

In the first part the students get a rough overview on the concepts of human-centered AI and some currently hot topics from Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to get a good common understanding and basis for further research in our areas. Central questions include: What is Human-Centered AI and why is it important? What is integrative machine learning? Why is the health domain complex? What is probabilistic information? What is the difference between autonomous ML and interactive machine learning? What is the human-in-the-loop supposed to do? What is the difference between Causality and Causability? What is ground truth and why do we need grond truth?

Topic 01: The HCAI approach: Towards integrative AI/ML
Topic 02: The complexity of the application area Health Informatics
Topic 03: Probabilistic Information and Probabilistic Learning
Topic 04: Gaussian Processes
Topic 05: Automatic Machine Learning (aML)
Topic 06: Interactive Machine Learning (iML)
Topic 07: Causality, Explainability, Interpretability, Causability
Topic 08: The #KandinskyPatterns Exploration Environment

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Module 02: The Fundamentals: Theory of Science

In the second part the students get a rough overview on the basic concepts of science (Wissenschaftstheorie). We start with answering the question of what science is and why we should contribute to the international scientific community. We are engineers, so do we need the scientific methodological approach? We see science as the field to provide explanations and to make predictions, so it is highly relevant for any data science student!

Note: Particularly the field of AI/machine learning needs a concerted effort of many people in an international concerted effort *). This also ensures quality control and most of all ethical control.

Topic 01: Motivation: Why should we contribute to the international scientific community?
Topic 02: What is Science? What is Engieering?
Topic 03: Basics of the Theory of Science (Wissenschaftstheorie)
Topic 04: Hypothetico-Deductive Method (the scientific method)
Topic 05: Occam’s Razor
Topic 06: Reichenbach’s Principle
Topic 07: Experiments in Machine Learning
Topic 08: #KANDINSKYPatterns – our “Swiss Knife” for the study of explainable AI
Topic 09: Sample Questions and Conclusion

Lecture slides 2×2 (pdf, 7,344 kB): 2-Student-Research-Seminar-HOLZINGER-2019-20-print-2×2
Lecture slides full size (pdf, 7,769 kB): 2-Student-Research-Seminar-HOLZINGER-2019-20-print

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*) Therefore a research scenario as outlined in the famous movie EX MACHINA by Alex Garland is practically imppossible in reality

Module 03 – The Mechanics: Management of Research

In Module 2 we discussed questions including “What is science?”, “Why contributing to the international scientific community?” and some methodological issues of the Theory of Science (“Wissenschaftstheorie”). Now, in Module 3 we get hands-on and discuss questions including
“How to contribute to the international scientific community?” and learn the basic mechanics of science, the “know‐how”. Of course always with a focus on explainable AI and ethical responsible machine learning.

Topic 01: Introduction and Overview: Successful Management of Research & Development
Topic 02: Workflows for a Research Group
Topic 03: Measurable Output: Publications (What is a “paper”?)
Topic 04: How do I read a paper?
Topic 05: How to find (relevant) papers?
Topic 06: How to manage papers?
Topic 07: Publication targets
Topic 08: How to write a paper?

Lecture slides 2×2 (pdf, 3,257 kB): 3-Student-Research-Seminar-HOLZINGER-2019-20-PRINT-2×2
Lecture slides full size (pdf, 6,065 kB): 3-Student-Research-Seminar-HOLZINGER-2019-20-PRINT

Note: The slides provided here are for printing and reading, the slides shown will be different from a didactial point of view.

Download the review template here (Word doc, 342 KB): REVIEW-TEMPLATE-2020-XXXX
(Note: Fill out the template, rename it with the review number and acronym and save it as pdf)

Here are some good sources to learn reviewing:

[1] In the OpenReview.net you can find papers submitted to conferences (e.g. ICLR, NeurIPS, MIDL, MiCCAI etc.) along with the reviews where you can learn a lot about the sociology of reviewing, see an example: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SkgPvlSYwS

[2] The Springer/Nature tutorial on “how to peer review”: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/authorandreviewertutorials/howtopeerreview

[3] The Elsevier Academy tutorial “becoming a peer reviewer”: https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/navigating-peer-review/becoming-peer-reviewer

[4] The JMLR reviewer guide: http://www.jmlr.org/reviewer-guide.html

[5] A standard model on how to write papers is the IMRAD-model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMRAD

Introduction (and Motivation for Research) > Methods or Background and Related Work > Results or Own Contribution, Lessons Learned, Experiments, Conclusion or Discusssion and Future Outlook

[6] Excellent hints from the perspective of machine learning by Nando de Freitas, Ulrich Paquet, Stephan Gouws, Martin Arjovsky, Kyunghyun Cho (2019):
http://www.deeplearningindaba.com/uploads/1/0/2/6/102657286/research-paper-writing.pdf

They say what I preach to my students for decades: “Don’t wait. Write”

Module 04: Local Specifics

In the last part of our research seminar, the students get some practical hints on the local processes at TU Graz of how to do a Bachelor Thesis, a Master’s Theses and partiucularly a PhD thesis.

Fast Track:
1) Watch the Students Welcome Video https://goo.gl/GoeBek
2) Read the introduction paper https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4990/1/1/1
3) Read the research and teaching statements, availabe at https://www.aholzinger.at/
4a) PhD-students develop carefully your PhD-proposal PhD-Proposal-HOLZINGER-Group-2017
4b) Latex-Template Masterthesis for Students of the Holzinger Group
4c) Bachelor Students just enroll to course 706.170 at TUGOnline and select Group Holzinger
5) Deans Pages of the Computer Science faculty: https://www.tugraz.at/fakultaeten/infbio/faculty/team/deans-office

Topic 01: Bachelor – your first academic and/or practical computer science work
Topic 02: Master – your specialization in computer science
Topic 03: PhD – your rocket to science and industry
Topic 04: Specific PhD checklists (from the first discussion to the doctoral defense (Rigorosum))
Topic 05: Everything starts with the PhD proposal: (a) Written document, (b) Presentation, (c) Discussion
Topic 06: Risk mitigation and fallback solutions

Lecture slides 2×2 (pdf, 3,292kB):  4-Student-Research-Seminar-HOLZINGER-2019-20-PRINT-2×2
Lecture slides full size (pdf, 1,874 kB): 4-Student-Research-Seminar-HOLZINGER-2019-20-PRINT

Note: The slides provided here are for printing and reading, the slides shown during the course will be different from a didactial point of view.