Achin Bhowmik

Personnal Introduction

Achin Bhowmik,Ph.D., was elected President of the Society for Information Display (SID) in2022, and has served on the board of directors for SID since 2014. He is afellow of the IEEE, AAIA, and SID.

Dr. Bhowmik isthe Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering atStarkey, a private medical devices company with over 5,000 employees andoperations in over 100 countries, where he leads the development ofmultifunctional health and communication devices with advanced sensors andartificial intelligence technologies.

Previously, heserved as the Vice President and General Manager of Perceptual Computing at Intel.There, he was responsible for R&D, engineering, operations, and businessesin the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, computer vision andartificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtualand merged reality devices.

Dr. Bhowmik is onthe faculty of Stanford University, where he advises research and lectures as anadjunct professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and Wu Tsai NeurosciencesInstitute. He serves on the board of advisors for the Fung Institute for EngineeringLeadership at the University of California, Berkeley, industry advisory boardfor the Institute for Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at theUniversity of Minnesota, board of trustees for the National CaptioningInstitute, and board of directors for OpenCV.

He has authoredover 200 publications, including two books and 80 patents, and won numerousawards.

Speech Introduction

Recent advancesin artificial intelligence (AI) based on machine learning (ML) techniques arehaving an unprecedented impact on the society, with increasingly ubiquitousapplications in image recognition, language understanding, self-driving cars,and autonomous machines, among numerous other areas.

Computer visionbased on deep learning architectures have enabled image recognition accuraciesthat have surpassed the human levels, thought to be impossible even a decadeago. Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have ushered inchatbots that have passed the Turing test which remained a historical barrierfor AI until recently, and even passed qualifying exams from law and businessschools. Developments of advanced sensors and power-efficient artificialintelligence algorithms are also enabling assistive technologies that enhanceand augment human sensory perception and our abilities to understand andinteract with the world.

In thisseminar, we will review the advances and future trends in AI and MLtechnologies and their deployments in applications in the fields of computervision, chatbots based on LLMs, and human sensory augmentation.