A. Faust, “Autonomous Agents in the Era of Foundation Models”, Mila, Montreal, Canada, April, 2025.
A. Faust, B. Stamm, and L. Stott, “Will agentic AI revolutionize how we interact with technology and solve complex problems?” Plenary Panel, World Summit AI Americas, Montreal, Canada, April, 2025.
A. Faust, “Emerging Trends in AI”, Keynote, CAHSI-Google Institutional Research Program (IRP) Workshop, Mountain View, CA, March, 2025.
A. Faust, “Emerging Trends in AI,” Keynote, Emerging Technologies Workshop, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, January, 2025.
A. Faust, “Agents on the Web,” Expert Invited Speaker, Emerging Technologies Workshop, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, January, 2025.
A. Faust, “Autonomous Systems in the Foundation Models”, Illinois Robotics Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, IL, January, 2025.
A. Faust, “Autonomous Systems in the Large Language Models’ Era,” Eastern European Machine Learning School (EEML), Novi Sad, Serbia, July, 2024. (YouTube)
A. Faust, “Autonomous Systems in the Large Language Models’ Era,” Bay Area Robotics Symposium, April 5, 2024.
A. Beirami, A. Celikyilmaz, Y. N. Chen, A. Faust, L. Li, M. Littman, L. Li, Panel on LLM and RL, The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
A. Faust, “Autonomous Agents in the Age of Large Language Models,” Synergy of Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models at The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Feb. 26, 2024.
A. Beutel, H. Hoos, T. Scialom, A. Jiang, J. Lukasik, A. Faust, Panel on Trustworthiness & Alignment, The International Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), Sep 14, 2023.
J. Preskill, R. P. Feynman, A. Faust, J. Tylko, D. Mindell, “Panel on Quantum Computation and AI: Advances and Applications,” Space Studies Board and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Joint Meeting Spring 2023, National Academy of Sciences, June 7, 2023.
V. Vanhoucke and A. Faust, “The Future of Robots for good: The Quest for Embodied AI,” AI for Good: Keynote, Online, January 31, 2023, Views 2400+.
A. Faust, “Toward Autonomy at Scale,” Keynote, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Auckland, New Zealand, December 18, 2022, views 277. [Online]. Available: YouTube
A. Faust, “Toward Scalable Autonomy,” Keynote, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto Japan, October 24, 2022. Attendees: 2000+.
A. Faust, “Automated Reinforcement Learning Tutorial,” Tutorial, AutoML Fall School, Freiburg, Germany, October 13, 2022, Views 167.
A. Faust, Y. Miao, R. Song, “AutoRL Tutorial,” Tutorial The International Conference on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), August 15, 2022, Views 100+.
A. Faust, “Toward Scalable Autonomy,” 2nd Workshop on Scaling Robot Learning, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) New York City, NY, June 27, 2022, Views 39.
A. Faust, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO), Keynote, May 30, 2022.
A. Faust, “Agent's Nature vs Nurture,” Invited talk, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): Workshop on Motion Planning with Implicit Neural Representations of Geometry, Philadelphia, PA, May 27, 2022, Views 160.
A. Faust, “Reinforcement Learning Keynote,” Keynote, Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML): Serbian Machine Learning Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia, May 7, 2022.
A. Faust, “Deep Reinforcement Learning,” Invited Talk, Re-Work, 2022.
A. Faust, “Invited Lecture on Autonomy,” Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2022
A. Faust, “Towards Scalable Autonomy,” Stanford Robotics and Autonomous Systems Seminar, Stanford, CA, January 28, 2022, views 5,029.
K. Tran, H. Ono, A. Faust and M. Roberts, Panelist, Industry Panel: Physical Reasoning and Inductive Biases , the Real World Workshop, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 14, 2021.
S. Herbert, A. Garg, E. Brunskill, A. Faust and D. Hadfield-Menell, “Safe RL Debate,” Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS): Safe and Robust Control of Uncertain Systems Workshop, December 13, 2021. [Online]. Available: Video
A. Faust, Invited talk, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, November 2021.
A. Faust, Invited talk, Wonderland AI Summit, October 21, 2021.
A. Faust, “Self-supervision in Motion Planning & panel,” Invited talk, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): CLAMP, September 27, 2021. Views 300+.
A. Faust, “Learning to Learn for reinforcement learning & panel,” Invited talk, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): SPAR, Prague, Czech Republic, September 27, 2021.
A. Faust, Panelist on RL & Control & HCI, IROS: RL-Conform, September 27, 2021.
A. Faust, “Toward Autonomous Real World Robot Navigation,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): IPLC, September 27, 2021.
A. Faust, Moderator, Response and Group Discussion, Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation: SFI Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Santa Fe, NM, July 21, 2021.
A. Faust, Invited Talk, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Workshop on Social Robot Navigation, July 13, 2021.
A. Faust, “Integrated planning and learning,” Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Workshop on Integrating Learning and Planning, July 12, 2021.
A. Faust, Invited Talk, AI Frontiers Meetup, June 2021.
A. Faust, “Real World Robot Navigation,” Invited Talk, IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Embodied AI workshop, New Orleans, LA, June 20, 2021, views 392.
A. Faust, “Towards Autonomous Robot Navigation in Real World,” Invited talk, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Perception and Action in Dynamic Environments, June 10, 2021, Views 200.
N. Díaz-Rodríguez and A. Faust, Panelist. International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR), A Roadmap to Neverending RL, Online, May 7, 2021.
A. Faust, Invited seminar, University of Utah, 2021.
A. Faust, Multidrone Cinematography Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020.
A. Faust, “Towards autonomous agents through evolution, reinforcement, and self-supervision,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): Perception, learning, and controls workshop, November 2020, 100+ attendees.
A. Faust, “Toward autonomous agents through evolution, reinforcement, and self-supervision,” Invited Talk, Summer Symposium on AI Research, July 25, 2020, 3000+ live attendees. Views 861.
A. Faust, V. J. Reddi, “Let it be resolved that: Robotics research is over-reliant on benchmark datasets and simulation,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Debates on the Future of Robotics Research, 2020, views 2,500+.
A. Faust, “Toward autonomous agents through evolution, reinforcement, and self-supervision,” University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020.
A. Faust, “Deep learning for robot navigation and Panel,” Google ML Summit, Kirkland, WA, November, 2019, views 3,533.
A. Faust, “Deep Learning for Motion Planning,” Demo, CoRL, Osaka, Japan, October, 2019
A. Faust, “Deep learning motion and task planning,” University of Illinois: Illinois Computer Science, October 21, 2019.
A. Faust, “Deep Learning for Motion Planning,” Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 2019.
A. Faust, “Deep learning motion and task planning,” University of California, Berkeley DREAM Seminar: CPAR, September 2019, [Online]. Available: YouTube
A. Faust, “Robotics at Google: Navigation in Dynamic Environments,” Demo, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Long Beach, CA, June, 2019.
A. Faust, “Task and Motion Planning - Learn locally, apply globally,” University of California, Berkeley BAIR/Google Meeting, Berkeley, CA, 2019.
A. Faust, “Deep Learning for Motion Planning in the Dynamic World,” Stanford University: Google Navigation Workshop, Mountain View, CA, 2019.
A. Faust, “Deep Learning Motion and Task Planning,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2019.
A. Faust, “Overview of Deep Learning Motion and Task Planning,” Industry forum at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, 2019
A. Faust, “Robot navigation with automated reinforcement learning,” AI for Mankind, Adobe, San Jose, CA, April 11, 2019.
A. Faust, “Automating Robot Learning Experiments”, Automating Robot Experiments: Manipulation and Learning, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018.
A. Faust, “Robot Navigation: From Abilities to Capabilities,” Machine Learning in Robot Motion Planning Workshop, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid Spain, October 5, 2018.
A. Faust, “Robot Navigation: From Abilities to Capabilities,” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 2018.
A. Faust, AI for Transportation Summit, Deepmind, Mountain View, CA, 2018.
A. Faust, “PEARL: Continuous Action Model-based Reinforcement Learning,” Columbia University, New York, NY, 2018.
A. Faust, “PEARL: Continuous Action Model-based Reinforcement Learning,” Electronic Materials Symposium (EMS), Palo Alto, CA, 2018.
A. Faust, Plenary speaker, Society of Women Engineers WE17 Plenary on AI and Hi. - 15,000 attendees. 2017
A. Faust, “Self-Driving Cars, Quadrotors, and Computing, Three Faces of Motion Planning,” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2016.
A. Faust, “Self-Driving Cars, UAVS, Computing, Many Faces of Motion Planning,” University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, 2016
A. Faust, “Google Self-driving Car Project,” Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math Committee, Palo Alto Unified School District, Palo Alto, CA, 2016.
A. Faust, “Aerial Coffee Delivery: Preference Appraisal Reinforcement Learning in Presence of Stochastic Input Disturbances for Control-affine Systems," INFORMS Computing Society Conference, Richmond, VA, January 13, 2015.
A. Faust, “PrEference Appraisal Reinforcement Learning (PEARL)," Robotics Seminar, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 2014.
A. Faust, “Preference Appraisal Reinforcement Learning for Space Applications," Seventh Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Spaceborne Computing Employing New Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, June 17, 2014.