Abstract With the successful demonstration of world’s first fully autonomous ferry in 2018, it is anticipated that ship intelligence will continue to reshape the maritime industry in the coming years. The shipping industry doesn’t envision requiring the onboard AI to fully control the vehicle in every circumstance – at least not for a long time. The vision put forward is to augment a mostly autonomous system with remote control. It is expected that human operators would be called on to carry out higher level executive functions or deal with more difficult situations. Thus, ensuring safety at sea would require AI and human to coexist and cooperate in a complex sociotechnical system. In this talk, we discuss how the technological element, human element, organizational element, and societal element are all equally critical to develop a roadmap for safe, fair, and sustainable maritime AI-transition.

Bio: Dr. Mashrura Musharraf joined the Marine Technology group at Aalto University in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. She received her PhD (2018) and M.Eng. (2014) in Computer Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She has been an active researcher since 2012 with a vision to apply data mining, machine learning, and AI techniques to build and deploy human-centered systems and solutions and create a safer marine industry. Her expertise includes knowledge elicitation from subject matter experts, data collection by conducting full-scale experiments in marine simulators, integration of different data types, and predictive and diagnostic data analysis using machine learning methods. The choice of the analytic tools used in her research is heavily influenced by their interpretability. As the foundations for intelligent ships are being set, her current and future research aims to achieve interpretability and transparency of the AI algorithms that would govern the decision-making in ship design and operation.

Time and place: Room T4 at Aalto CS-building on monday 11th, at 14:00 (sharp), and at zoom