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CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Elizabeth Churchill
Date April 26 – May 1, 2025
Location
Intercontinental Yokohama Grand, Yokohama, Japan Show on Map

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A snapshot into MBZUAI’s plans for the fast-growing HCI department. Prof. Elizabeth Churchill, Professor and Department Chair of HCI at MBZUAI will share ideas about key focus areas for the new department and entertain discussion with interested parties about collaboration opportunities.

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MBZUAI Silicon Valley AI Forum

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Tim Baldwin
Chair Tim Baldwin
Date May 20, 2025
Location
Venue TBD, Palo Alto, USA Show on Map

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A great opportunity to find out more about MBZUAI.

MBZUAI Provost will present the vision for the university, the rapid expansion to two new schools (Digital Public Health and decision Science), launch of the undergraduate AI program, and share some projections of the expected student and faculty growth plans.

Several MBZUAI Department Chairs will provide more detailed plans for Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Statistics & Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Natural Language Processing, and Robotics.

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MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum

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Tim Baldwin
Chair Tim Baldwin
Date June 4, 2025
Location
Venue TBD, Boston, USA Show on Map

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A great opportunity to find out more about MBZUAI.

MBZUAI Provost will present the vision for the university, the rapid expansion to two new schools (Digital Public Health and decision Science), launch of the undergraduate AI program, and share some projections of the expected student and faculty growth plans.

Several MBZUAI Department Chairs will provide more detailed plans for Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Statistics & Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Natural Language Processing, and Robotics

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MBZUAI Statistics and Data Science Symposium

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Mladen Kolar
Chair Mladen Kolar
Date November 24 – 27, 2025
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MBZUAI Lecture Hall, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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Information about this event will be shared soon.

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CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 26 – May 1, 2025
Yokohama, JapanYokohama, Japan
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MBZUAI Silicon Valley AI Forum
May 20, 2025
Palo Alto, USAPalo Alto, USA
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MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum
June 4, 2025
Boston, USABoston, USA
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MBZUAI Statistics and Data Science Symposium
November 24 – 27, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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Abu Dhabi Conference on AI-Robotics (AD-AIRoC 2025) Dialogue on Healthcare
2025-04-23
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium
2025-04-21
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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AI4Bio
2024-10-09
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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The Future of HCI in the Era of AI
2024-02-22
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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2nd MBZUAI Workshop on Collaborative Learning
2023-12-09
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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Natural Language Processing
2023-12-09
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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AI Speaker Series at MBZUAI
Yann LeCun
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Objective-Driven AI: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan Yann LeCun
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

How could machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals? How could machines learn how the world works and acquire common sense? How could machines learn to reason and plan? Current AI architectures..., such as Auto-Regressive Large Language Models fall short. I will propose a modular cognitive architecture that may constitute a path towards answering these questions. The centerpiece of the architecture is a predictive world model that allows the system to predict the consequences of its actions and to plan a sequence of actions that optimize a set of objectives. The objectives include guardrails that guarantee the system's controllability and safety. The world model employs a Hierarchical Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (H-JEPA) trained with self-supervised learning. The JEPA learns abstract representations of the percepts that are simultaneously maximally informative and maximally predictable.
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Gülşen Eryiğit
Multimodal Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents Gülşen Eryiğit
Professor at the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
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David Basin
Formal Methods for Modern Payment Protocols David Basin
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
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Dinesh Manocha
Robot Navigation in the Wild Dinesh Manocha
Paul Chrisman-Iribe Chair in Computer Science & ECE and Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland College Park
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Pedro Moreno
Past, Present and Future of Speech Technologies Pedro Moreno
Formerly led the ASR R&D Team at Google
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Lena Maier-Hein
Failing Forward: Rethinking the Foundations of Medical Imaging AI Lena Maier-Hein
"Professor at Heidelberg University Managing Director of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg, Head of the division Intelligent Medical Systems (IMSY) at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)"
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Babak Falsafi
Computing in the Post-Moore Era Babak Falsafi
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and Founder of EcoCloud
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MBZUAI Faculty on the Global Stage

Our world-renowned faculty at MBZUAI are frequently invited to prestigious events worldwide to share their insights on the cutting edge of AI. Below, you’ll find some of our upcoming and more recent talks at esteemed institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford University, and more.

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Toward Public and Reproducible Foundation Models Beyond Lingual Intelligence ODSC East 2025 May 13 – 15, 2025 More Details
Toward AI-Driven Digital Organisms Biomedical Science and AI April 30 – May 3, 2025
Toward Next Generation AI Systems Beyond Lingual Intelligence Stanford University March 10, 2025 More Details
AI for Accelerating Invention Princeton University March 3, 2025 More Details
AI, Science and Society IP Paris February 6 – 7, 2025 More Details
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Keynote Talk: The Long and Winding Road of NLP 30th Anniversary Symposium of the Association for Natural Language Processing October 19, 2024 More Details
Safe, Open, Locally-aligned Language Models Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology December 18, 2024
Fact-checking Language Models: Generating the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology December 17, 2024
Fact-checking Language Models: Generating the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth Hanoi University of Science and Technology December 17, 2024 More Details
Safe, Open, Locally-aligned Language Models VinAI December 16, 2024 More Details
Keynote Talk: Safe, Open, Locally-aligned Language Models 13th International Symposium on ICT December 14, 2024 More Details
Safe, Open, Locally-aligned Language Models George Mason University December 2, 2024
Safe, Open, Locally-aligned Language Models University of Maryland December 2, 2024
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Research in Industry and Academic Contexts ARPPID 2025 February 1, 2025 More Details
Panel Discussion Future Health Summit January 30, 2025 More Details
AI for All: Unlocking an Inclusive Future with Technology Special Olympics Global Center Summit December 11, 2024 More Details
Technology Talks Austria 2024 Human Centered Transformation September 12 – 13, 2024 More Details
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A System of Multiscale Foundation Models for Biology AAAI 2025 March 3, 2025 More Details
Towards AI-Driven Digital Organism AI + Biomedicine Seminar February 18, 2025 More Details
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Visual Intelligence AI Elevate Conference December 13, 2025
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Personalized Medicine Based on Deep Human Phenotyping World Immune Regulation Meeting March 12 – 15, 2025

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