Milind Tambe is the winner of the 2024 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. This award recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways. Milind gave an invited talk at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in which he spoke about some of the work that won him the award. For more than 15 years, Milind and his team have been focused on advancing AI and multi-agent systems for three purposes: public health, conservation, and public safety and security. The emphasis in all cases has been to optimise limited intervention resources.

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we meet three AAAI doctoral consortium participants, find out how machine learning can help monitor bird flocks, and cover the 38th AAAI conference. The AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. We're meeting the participants in a series of interviews to find out about their research, PhD life, and why they decided to study AI. This month, we caught up with Fiona Anting Tan, Elizabeth Ondula, and Célian Ringwald.

The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) kicked off on Tuesday 20 February. The in-person event is being held in the Vancouver Convention Centre. We take a look at what the participants have been getting up to over the past few days. We are excited to welcome everyone to #AAAI24! pic.twitter.com/UN8RUzrq1C We will present a tutorial on "Knowledge Editing for Large Language Models" at #AAAI2024 from 2-6PM PST on Feb 20.

The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2024) will take place in Vancouver, and runs from Tuesday 20 February to Tuesday 27 February. Find out about some of the main events that are taking place throughout the conference. The following distinguished invited speakers will be presenting at this year's conference. We will be holding a science communication training session on Wednesday 21 February. This will comprise a one-hour talk (starting at 2pm), and a two-hour informal drop-in session (starting at 3pm).