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Merritt Moore
Staged Encounters: Dance as a Testbed for Human–Robot Interaction
 August 26, 2025

Merritt Moore Staged Encounters: Dance as a Testbed for Human–Robot Interaction

Hosted by: Prof. Ivan Laptev
Featured
Computer Vision
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Staged Encounters: Dance as a Testbed for Human–Robot Interaction

Science fiction has long been our window to the future, predicting technological advancements and their societal impacts. Fiction doesn’t just entertain—it prepares us to navigate the moral and emotional complexities yet to come. Extending this inquiry into practice, Dr. Merritt Moore shares how dancing with robots has become a living experiment in future human–robot interactions and relationships. Through staged and improvised duets, she tests how machines function not merely as tools but as partners in expression and creativity, raising questions about authorship, agency, and emotional impact. This talk explores how choreography and robotics can inform one another, shaping both creative practice and future possibilities.
Iryna Gurevych
Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate?
 August 18, 2025

Iryna Gurevych Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate?

Hosted by: Prof. Preslav Nakov
Featured
Natural Language Processing
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Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words: can scientists and machines truly cooperate?

How can AI and LLMs facilitate the work of scientists in different stages of the research process? Can technology even make scientists obsolete? The role of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) in science as the target application domain has recently been rapidly growing. This includes assessing the impact of scientific work, facilitating writing and revising manuscripts as well as intelligent support for manuscript quality assessment, peer-review and scientific discussions. The talk will illustrate such methods and models using several tasks from the scientific domain. We argue that while AI and LLMs can effectively support and augment specific steps of the research process, expert-AI collaboration may be a more promising mode for complex research tasks.
Vaishnav Kameswaran
Building Equitable Technology Futures: A Relational Access Approach
 April 14, 2025

Vaishnav Kameswaran Building Equitable Technology Futures: A Relational Access Approach

Hosted by: Prof. Elizabeth Churchill
Featured
Human-Computer Interaction
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Building Equitable Technology Futures: A Relational Access Approach

A grand challenge in HCI is understanding how technology-mediated access can enable fuller participation of people with disabilities in society. However, access, framed solely as a feature of technology, can overlook how communities of people with disabilities actively create, share, and sustain access in their everyday lives. In this talk, I show how drawing from disability justice scholarship can broaden the concept of access and open up novel avenues for design. I will share examples from my work where I reconceptualize access as a relational, socio-technical construct-- one shaped by social and material conditions, as well as community values. I will show how this perspective also expands the design space for emerging technologies like AI, shifting their roles from simply mitigating impairments to augmenting human abilities. By reframing technology-mediated access as a socio-technical and relational concept, my work offers new pathways toward more equitable technological futures in HCI.
Ravi Garg
3D Reconstruction in the era of Machine Learning and Gaussian Splatting
 September 30, 2025

Ravi Garg 3D Reconstruction in the era of Machine Learning and Gaussian Splatting

Hosted by: Prof. Ian Reid
Computer Vision
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3D Reconstruction in the era of Machine Learning and Gaussian Splatting

"The problem of 3D reconstruction from multiple views has traditionally been posed as an inverse problem: estimating structure, appearance, and camera parameters from observed images. Classical approaches emphasised minimal parametrisation, simplified image formation models, and the use of hand-crafted priors to render the optimisation well-posed. This paradigm has recently been challenged by the emergence of overparameterised scene representations—such as Radiance Fields and Gaussian Splatting, and overparameterised camera models. These representations enable efficient inference, rapid novel-view synthesis, and offer greater flexibility in training neural networks for 3D reconstruction. This talk will examine the implications of such overparameterised formulations in recovering scene geometry. I will present recent works demonstrating that while the additional flexibility afforded by overparameterisation can be beneficial, it often necessitates careful geometric regularisation. I will discuss often overlooked considerations in employing these representations by both neural and non-neural 3D reconstruction techniques."
Ravi Solanki
Towards biological discovery with foundation models: applications in neuroscience
 September 30, 2025

Ravi Solanki Towards biological discovery with foundation models: applications in neuroscience

Hosted by: Prof. Eduardo Beltrame
Computational Biology
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Towards biological discovery with foundation models: applications in neuroscience

Foundation models offer the potential to transform discovery for the biological science, promising novel biomarkers as well as new directions for therapeutic application. Design of such models however can be challenging, and their application can be equally difficult. Here, I will discuss our work generating the infrastructure to enable biological discovery robustly, efficiently, and at-scale with foundation modelling. Applied specifically to the neurosciences and the study of neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, we have shown foundation models can learn complex representations of disease, and derive novel biomarkers and therapeutic directions. I will also share our thinking about future directions for frontier AI for treating these major causes of global mortality.
Matuesz Dubiel
Exploring the Power of Speech: How Synthetic Voices Shape User Perception and Behavior
 September 29, 2025

Matuesz Dubiel Exploring the Power of Speech: How Synthetic Voices Shape User Perception and Behavior

Hosted by: Prof. Elizabeth Churchill
Human-Computer Interaction
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Exploring the Power of Speech: How Synthetic Voices Shape User Perception and Behavior

Speech-enabled Conversational Agents (CAs), such as Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, and Google Assistant, are becoming increasingly more popular interaction platforms for users to engage with their mobile devices and smart speakers. While CAs have the potential to support users in achieving behavioural change goals, such as increasing physical activity or improving productivity at work, they can also lead to complacent behaviour and a lack of reflection. In the first part of my presentation, I will discuss how different types of synthetic voices that vary in terms of prosodic qualities and method of synthesis can affect users' perception of CAs, and what impact they can have on users' behaviour in decision-making tasks. Specifically, we will analyse how differing voice characteristics can affect user trust and engagement. In the second part, we will explore several research avenues to enable the design and development of proactive conversational agents that can effectively support users while preserving their agency.
Haiyan Huang
Computational and AI-Driven Design of Random Heteropolymers as Protein Mimics
 September 29, 2025

Haiyan Huang Computational and AI-Driven Design of Random Heteropolymers as Protein Mimics

Hosted by: Prof. Mladen Kolar
Statistics and Data Science
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Computational and AI-Driven Design of Random Heteropolymers as Protein Mimics

Synthetic random heteropolymers (RHPs), composed of a predefined set of monomers, offer a promising strategy for creating protein mimicking materials with tailored biochemical functions. When designed appropriately, RHPs can replicate protein behavior, enabling applications in drug delivery, therapeutic protein stabilization, biosensing, tissue engineering, and medical diagnostics. However, designing RHPs that achieve specific biological functions in a time- and cost-effective manner remains a major challenge. In this talk, I will review this problem and discuss several successful efforts we have made to address it, using statistical, computational, and AI approaches. These include a generalized semi-hidden Markov model (GSHMM) and a hybrid variational autoencoder (VAE), which we call DeepRHP and implement within a semi-supervised framework. Both methods are designed to capture the structures of critical chemical features as well as individual RHP sequence patterns, but they offer different advantages in terms of interpretability and flexibility. These studies highlight the potential of computational approaches to accelerate the rational design of RHPs for a wide range of biological, medical, and healthcare applications.
Benjamin Guedj
On Generalisation and Learning
 September 24, 2025

Benjamin Guedj On Generalisation and Learning

Hosted by: Prof. Mladen Kolar
Statistics and Data Science
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On Generalisation and Learning

"Generalisation is one of the essential problems in machine learning and foundational AI. The PAC-Bayes theory has emerged in the past two decades as a generic and flexible framework to study and enforce generalisation abilities of machine learning algorithms. It leverages the power of Bayesian inference and allows to derive new learning strategies. I will briefly present the key concepts of PAC-Bayes and pinpoint how generalisation-driven principled approaches can help further advance a better mathematical understanding of AI systems, and will highlight a few recent contributions from my group including connections to information theory, with a particular focus on our AISTATS 2024 paper https://proceedings.mlr.press/v238/hellstrom24a in which we present a unifying framework for deriving information-theoretic and PAC-Bayesian generalization bounds based on arbitrary convex comparator functions that quantify the gap between empirical and population loss. References: https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fbguedj.github.io%2fpublications%2f&umid=22d342e6-1e2d-415e-ac94-86c451c45ff8&rct=1756738884&auth=2558bcdb84e02b0c27cd7aa4822a24989cb4e596-640ea02a57d89009a8841304e29c786fa103dcca"
Yanding Zhao
Decoding Genome Instability: Regulatory Rewiring in Osteosarcoma and Beyond
 September 18, 2025

Yanding Zhao Decoding Genome Instability: Regulatory Rewiring in Osteosarcoma and Beyond

Hosted by: Prof. Eran Segal
Computational Biology
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Decoding Genome Instability: Regulatory Rewiring in Osteosarcoma and Beyond

Genome instability in cancer spans from small-scale mutations, such as non-coding SNVs that alter transcription factor motifs, to large-scale structural variants (SVs) and extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) that reconfigure the 3D genome. Together, these alterations promote tumor growth and remodel the tumor microenvironment. Yet existing technologies remain siloed—each illuminates one layer of the genome, but none can connect structural change to regulatory consequence in a unified way. My work in the TCGA Pan-Cancer 3D Genome Project established integrative computational frameworks to bridge these gaps, linking variants of different scales to enhancer rewiring. Building on this methodological foundation, I applied and refined this framework in osteosarcoma, the most instability-driven pediatric cancer, providing a natural context to test this framework. Using longitudinal and multi-modal profiling, I identified MYC enhancer hijacking linked to chemoresistance and uncovered high-risk instability trajectories associated with poor prognosis. Spatial and single-cell analyses further revealed that these trajectories propagate into distinct stromal and immune states. Together, these studies show how integrative methods can decode regulatory rewiring across multiple levels, from genome architecture to the tumor microenvironment. Looking forward, I aim to extend this platform beyond osteosarcoma by integrating the Emirati Genome Programme with publicly available genomic resources to advance our understanding of instability-driven regulation and therapeutic opportunities.
Yu Zeng
Bridging Digital and Physical Intelligence: from Generative to Embodied AI and Beyond
 September 9, 2025

Yu Zeng Bridging Digital and Physical Intelligence: from Generative to Embodied AI and Beyond
Gregory S. Chirikjian
From State Estimation on Lie Groups to Robot Imagination
 September 8, 2025

Gregory S. Chirikjian From State Estimation on Lie Groups to Robot Imagination
Ujwal Gadiraju
The Human Quotient for Better AI Systems: Agents, Appropriate Reliance, and Alignment
 September 8, 2025

Ujwal Gadiraju The Human Quotient for Better AI Systems: Agents, Appropriate Reliance, and Alignment
Edward Boone
Bayesian Monitoring of a Pandemic: A Case Study
 September 4, 2025

Edward Boone Bayesian Monitoring of a Pandemic: A Case Study
Ryad Ghanam
Statistical Inference on Fractional Partial Differential Equations
 September 4, 2025

Ryad Ghanam Statistical Inference on Fractional Partial Differential Equations
Hongyuan Cao
Testing composite null hypotheses with high-dimensional dependent data
 September 2, 2025

Hongyuan Cao Testing composite null hypotheses with high-dimensional dependent data
David Ayman Shamma
Building AI Systems for Sustainable Automotive Behaviors
 September 2, 2025

David Ayman Shamma Building AI Systems for Sustainable Automotive Behaviors
Yong Zhang
DB+AI: A Paradigm to Stimulate the Value of Data
 August 27, 2025

Yong Zhang DB+AI: A Paradigm to Stimulate the Value of Data
Tianyi Zhou
Memorization-to-Generalization in Foundation Model Pretraining: Through the Lens of Pathway Optimization
 July 29, 2025

Tianyi Zhou Memorization-to-Generalization in Foundation Model Pretraining: Through the Lens of Pathway Optimization
Stephanie Milani
Rethinking AI Agents: Human-Centered Reinforcement Learning
 July 10, 2025

Stephanie Milani Rethinking AI Agents: Human-Centered Reinforcement Learning
Haoyu Yang
Causal Mediation Analysis Integrating Exposure, Genomic, and Phenotype Data via Tail Likelihood Ratio Method in Epigenome-Wide Studies
 July 9, 2025

Haoyu Yang Causal Mediation Analysis Integrating Exposure, Genomic, and Phenotype Data via Tail Likelihood Ratio Method in Epigenome-Wide Studies
Reut Tsarfaty
Multilinguality in LLMs with an Eye on Semitic Languages
 June 12, 2025

Reut Tsarfaty Multilinguality in LLMs with an Eye on Semitic Languages
Yan Gong
Causal Spatial Quantile Regression
 June 10, 2025

Yan Gong Causal Spatial Quantile Regression
Liuhua Peng
Enhanced localized conformal prediction with imperfect auxiliary information
 June 2, 2025

Liuhua Peng Enhanced localized conformal prediction with imperfect auxiliary information
Milad Alshomary
From Argument Generation to Explainable AI: My Research in Natural Language Processing
 May 26, 2025

Milad Alshomary From Argument Generation to Explainable AI: My Research in Natural Language Processing
Tiffany Knearem
Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: A User-Centered Approach to Shaping AI Systems in Practice
 May 20, 2025

Tiffany Knearem Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: A User-Centered Approach to Shaping AI Systems in Practice
James Landay
“AI For Good” Isn’t Good Enough: A Call for Human-Centered AI
 May 15, 2025

James Landay “AI For Good” Isn’t Good Enough: A Call for Human-Centered AI
Utkarsh Mall
Visual Discovery for Science
 May 15, 2025

Utkarsh Mall Visual Discovery for Science
Anees Kazi
Multi-modal data analysis using Graph Deep Learning for applications in healthcare
 May 14, 2025

Anees Kazi Multi-modal data analysis using Graph Deep Learning for applications in healthcare
Houbing Herbert Song
Neuro-symbolic AI: The Third Wave of AI
 May 14, 2025

Houbing Herbert Song Neuro-symbolic AI: The Third Wave of AI
Sean Xuefeng Du
Teach AI What It Doesn't Know
 May 14, 2025

Sean Xuefeng Du Teach AI What It Doesn't Know
Augusto Guerra
Connecting dots between different science fields towards better treatments – Breast Cancer Research - from HTA to performance assessment using real world data and genomics
 May 13, 2025

Augusto Guerra Connecting dots between different science fields towards better treatments – Breast Cancer Research - from HTA to performance assessment using real world data and genomics
Mathew Magimai Doss
Explainable Speech and Sign Language Processing using Posterior Features
 May 13, 2025

Mathew Magimai Doss Explainable Speech and Sign Language Processing using Posterior Features
Diyi Yang
The Future of Human-AI Interaction: Teaching, Talking & Teaming Up
 May 12, 2025

Diyi Yang The Future of Human-AI Interaction: Teaching, Talking & Teaming Up
Fabricio A. B. da Silva
Deep Learning in the Brazilian Network for Genomic Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
 May 8, 2025

Fabricio A. B. da Silva Deep Learning in the Brazilian Network for Genomic Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Laure Berti
Towards Uncertainty-Aware, Multimodal Data-Centric AI Pipelines
 May 5, 2025

Laure Berti Towards Uncertainty-Aware, Multimodal Data-Centric AI Pipelines
Sven Behnke
Towards Conscious Service Robots
 May 5, 2025

Sven Behnke Towards Conscious Service Robots
Junyuan Hong
Harmonizing, Understanding, and Deploying Responsible AI
 May 5, 2025

Junyuan Hong Harmonizing, Understanding, and Deploying Responsible AI
Andrew P. Feinberg
New advances in the epigenetics of common disease
 May 1, 2025

Andrew P. Feinberg New advances in the epigenetics of common disease
Mohammad Naseri
Trustworthy Decentralized AI
 May 1, 2025

Mohammad Naseri Trustworthy Decentralized AI
Joyce Chai
Words Meet World: Grounded Language in Embodied AI
 April 30, 2025

Joyce Chai Words Meet World: Grounded Language in Embodied AI
Shilong Liu
Object-centric Open-world Visual Understanding
 April 30, 2025

Shilong Liu Object-centric Open-world Visual Understanding
Ken-ichiro Kamei
Reverse Bioengineering to recreate multicellular animals in vitro
 April 29, 2025

Ken-ichiro Kamei Reverse Bioengineering to recreate multicellular animals in vitro
João Paulo Papa
Pattern Recognition with Optimum-Path Forests
 April 28, 2025

João Paulo Papa Pattern Recognition with Optimum-Path Forests
Chong Li
An Introduction to Decentralized AI
 April 23, 2025

Chong Li An Introduction to Decentralized AI
Deva Ramanan
Cameras as rays: spatial representations for 2D and 3D understanding with foundation models
 April 22, 2025

Deva Ramanan Cameras as rays: spatial representations for 2D and 3D understanding with foundation models
Prakash Chandra + Rajkumar Saini
Towards Robust Self-supervised Representation Learning
 April 22, 2025

Prakash Chandra + Rajkumar Saini Towards Robust Self-supervised Representation Learning
Mattia Soldan
Scalable and Efficient Semantic Search in Videos
 April 21, 2025

Mattia Soldan Scalable and Efficient Semantic Search in Videos
Lizhen Qu
Harnessing Causal Discovery for Robust and Adaptive Natural Language Processing
 April 18, 2025

Lizhen Qu Harnessing Causal Discovery for Robust and Adaptive Natural Language Processing
Zhang Jie
Building Trustworthy Text-to-Image Models: Risks, Defenses, and Forensics
 April 16, 2025

Zhang Jie Building Trustworthy Text-to-Image Models: Risks, Defenses, and Forensics
Jian Kang
Operationalizing Fairness in an Interconnected World
 April 16, 2025

Jian Kang Operationalizing Fairness in an Interconnected World
Homanga Bharadwaj
Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning Meets Web Videos
 April 16, 2025

Homanga Bharadwaj Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning Meets Web Videos
Amin Beheshti
From Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Future of Humanity
 April 15, 2025

Amin Beheshti From Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Future of Humanity
Deming Chen
A3C3 – AI Algorithm & Accelerator Co-design, Co-search, and Co-generation
 April 15, 2025

Deming Chen A3C3 – AI Algorithm & Accelerator Co-design, Co-search, and Co-generation
Bashar Alhafni
Controlled Natural Language Generation for Morphologically Rich Languages: The Case of Arabic
 April 14, 2025

Bashar Alhafni Controlled Natural Language Generation for Morphologically Rich Languages: The Case of Arabic
Lingqi Yan
Next-generation Photorealistic Rendering
 April 14, 2025

Lingqi Yan Next-generation Photorealistic Rendering
Dilip K. Prasad
Digital Twin of a living Cell using Physics based Artificial Intelligence
 April 11, 2025

Dilip K. Prasad Digital Twin of a living Cell using Physics based Artificial Intelligence
Tanmoy Chakraborty
Don't underestimate the power of small language models
 April 10, 2025

Tanmoy Chakraborty Don't underestimate the power of small language models
Guosheng Hu
Reduce AI’s Carbon Footprint
 April 9, 2025

Guosheng Hu Reduce AI’s Carbon Footprint
Haritz Puerto
Unpacking Reasoning in LLMs: Input Formats, Generating CoTs, and Fair Evaluation
 April 8, 2025

Haritz Puerto Unpacking Reasoning in LLMs: Input Formats, Generating CoTs, and Fair Evaluation
Andreas Bender
Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Computational Biology: Current Status, Successes, and Pitfalls
 April 8, 2025

Andreas Bender Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Computational Biology: Current Status, Successes, and Pitfalls
Shaobo Cui
Navigating Uncertainty in Commonsense Causal Reasoning 
 April 8, 2025

Shaobo Cui Navigating Uncertainty in Commonsense Causal Reasoning 
Eduard Gorbunov
Stochastic First-Order Optimization with Gradient Clipping
 April 7, 2025

Eduard Gorbunov Stochastic First-Order Optimization with Gradient Clipping
 Johannes Schoning
The Role of Human-Computer Interaction Perspectives in Advancing AI-Driven Next-Generation Spatial User Interfaces
 April 7, 2025

Johannes Schoning The Role of Human-Computer Interaction Perspectives in Advancing AI-Driven Next-Generation Spatial User Interfaces
Lena Maier-Hein
Failing Forward: Rethinking the Foundations of Medical Imaging AI
 April 3, 2025

Lena Maier-Hein Failing Forward: Rethinking the Foundations of Medical Imaging AI
Klaus Maier-Hein
Towards Generalist Medical AI
 April 3, 2025

Klaus Maier-Hein Towards Generalist Medical AI
Yotam Margalit
The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
 March 24, 2025

Yotam Margalit The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Anthony Lin
Automated Reasoning over Strings and Sequences
 March 24, 2025

Anthony Lin Automated Reasoning over Strings and Sequences
Dongxia Wu
Uncertainty Quantification for Scientific Machine Learning
 March 24, 2025

Dongxia Wu Uncertainty Quantification for Scientific Machine Learning
Bhat Suma Pallathadka
Towards Enhanced Linguistic Reasoning in Language Models
 March 20, 2025

Bhat Suma Pallathadka Towards Enhanced Linguistic Reasoning in Language Models
Jun Wen
Enhancing Computational Precision Medicine with Electronic Health Records
 March 20, 2025

Jun Wen Enhancing Computational Precision Medicine with Electronic Health Records
Raul Astudillo
AI-Assisted Experimentation: Challenges, Advances, and Future Directions
 March 20, 2025

Raul Astudillo AI-Assisted Experimentation: Challenges, Advances, and Future Directions
Joshua Bakita
Moving GPU Systems from “Real-Fast” to “Real-Time”
 March 19, 2025

Joshua Bakita Moving GPU Systems from “Real-Fast” to “Real-Time”
Marzena Karpinska
Evaluating Long-Context Language Models
 March 17, 2025

Marzena Karpinska Evaluating Long-Context Language Models
Hao Chung
Mechanism Design for Decentralized Systems
 March 17, 2025

Hao Chung Mechanism Design for Decentralized Systems
Jibang Wu
Towards Strategic Alignment in AI: Foundations, Progress and Outlook
 March 13, 2025

Jibang Wu Towards Strategic Alignment in AI: Foundations, Progress and Outlook
Yomna Abdelrahman
Thermal Imaging For Amplifying Human Perception
 March 12, 2025

Yomna Abdelrahman Thermal Imaging For Amplifying Human Perception
Ali Valikian
Algorithms in the AI Age: Fair and Learning-Augmented
 March 11, 2025

Ali Valikian Algorithms in the AI Age: Fair and Learning-Augmented
Haonan Li
AI Advance Pathway: From Targeted Evaluation to Holistic Intelligence
 March 10, 2025

Haonan Li AI Advance Pathway: From Targeted Evaluation to Holistic Intelligence
Ishtiaque Ahmed
Fear of Small Data: AI’s Blind Spot in Ethics, Lifecycle Assessment, and Policy
 March 10, 2025

Ishtiaque Ahmed Fear of Small Data: AI’s Blind Spot in Ethics, Lifecycle Assessment, and Policy
Gustavo Carneiro
Advancing Medical AI:  Robust, Interpretable, and Collaborative Solutions
 March 10, 2025

Gustavo Carneiro Advancing Medical AI:  Robust, Interpretable, and Collaborative Solutions
Tatsuki Kuribayashi
Next-Word Prediction in Language Models and Humans
 March 4, 2025

Tatsuki Kuribayashi Next-Word Prediction in Language Models and Humans
Shmuel Peleg
Speech Enhancement & Video Summarization - Technology Transfer of Academic Research
 March 4, 2025

Shmuel Peleg Speech Enhancement & Video Summarization - Technology Transfer of Academic Research
Utkarshani Jaimini
Causal Neuro-Symbolic AI: synergy between neuro-symbolic and causal AI
 March 3, 2025

Utkarshani Jaimini Causal Neuro-Symbolic AI: synergy between neuro-symbolic and causal AI
Yannic Noller
Automated Program Repair for Security
 March 3, 2025

Yannic Noller Automated Program Repair for Security
David Basin
Formal Methods for Modern Payment Protocols
 February 24, 2025

David Basin Formal Methods for Modern Payment Protocols
Prem Devanbu
LLMs (for code) sometimes make mistakes. When should I trust them?
 February 21, 2025

Prem Devanbu LLMs (for code) sometimes make mistakes. When should I trust them?
James Ehrlich
Applying Machine Learning and GenAI to the design and operation of climate-resilient residential infrastructure
 February 21, 2025

James Ehrlich Applying Machine Learning and GenAI to the design and operation of climate-resilient residential infrastructure
Nan Lin
Sequential Quantile Estimation for Distributed and Streaming Data
 February 20, 2025

Nan Lin Sequential Quantile Estimation for Distributed and Streaming Data
Gülşen Eryiğit
Multimodal Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents
 February 19, 2025

Gülşen Eryiğit Multimodal Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents
Yuxia Wang
Towards safe, factual, and empathetic human-AI interaction
 February 19, 2025

Yuxia Wang Towards safe, factual, and empathetic human-AI interaction
Junpei Komiyama
Balancing Explore-exploit, or Purely Exploring
 February 18, 2025

Junpei Komiyama Balancing Explore-exploit, or Purely Exploring
Peter Haas
PEaRCE: A Platform for Ethical and Responsible Computing Education in CS Courses
 February 17, 2025

Peter Haas PEaRCE: A Platform for Ethical and Responsible Computing Education in CS Courses
Lijie Hu
Towards Usable and Useful Explainable AI
 February 11, 2025

Lijie Hu Towards Usable and Useful Explainable AI
Yannis Ioannidis
Open Science: A New Paradigm for the Research Lifecycle and the Role of Computing
 February 6, 2025

Yannis Ioannidis Open Science: A New Paradigm for the Research Lifecycle and the Role of Computing
Ali Sarvghad
Towards Responsible Visual Analytics: Fostering Inclusivity, Accessibility and Trustworthiness in the AI Era
 February 5, 2025

Ali Sarvghad Towards Responsible Visual Analytics: Fostering Inclusivity, Accessibility and Trustworthiness in the AI Era
Carlo Maj
Polygenic Score Modeling to Investigate Genotype-Phenotype Associations
 February 5, 2025

Carlo Maj Polygenic Score Modeling to Investigate Genotype-Phenotype Associations
Narges Mahyar
Community-Centered Computing  for Collective Action and Societal Impact
 February 4, 2025

Narges Mahyar Community-Centered Computing  for Collective Action and Societal Impact
Umang Bhatt
Trustworthy Machine Learning: Transparency, Collaboration, and Evaluation
 February 4, 2025

Umang Bhatt Trustworthy Machine Learning: Transparency, Collaboration, and Evaluation
Justin Hong
Deep generative modeling of sample-level heterogeneity in single-cell genomics
 February 3, 2025

Justin Hong Deep generative modeling of sample-level heterogeneity in single-cell genomics
Fatemeh Vafaee
AI-enhanced Personalized Medicine and Therapeutic Development
 January 29, 2025

Fatemeh Vafaee AI-enhanced Personalized Medicine and Therapeutic Development
Yingyao Hu
The Econometrics of Unobservables: Identification, Estimation, and Empirical Applications
 January 27, 2025

Yingyao Hu The Econometrics of Unobservables: Identification, Estimation, and Empirical Applications
Senthil Arumugam
Cell Biology of Developmental Processes: Imaging Across Scales
 January 23, 2025

Senthil Arumugam Cell Biology of Developmental Processes: Imaging Across Scales
Jihong Kim
Optimizing 3D Flash-Based SSDs through Device-Aware Techniques
 January 23, 2025

Jihong Kim Optimizing 3D Flash-Based SSDs through Device-Aware Techniques
Seth Fraden
How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program
 January 22, 2025

Seth Fraden How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program
Qi Wu
Human-Computer Conversational Vision-and-Language Navigation
 January 21, 2025

Qi Wu Human-Computer Conversational Vision-and-Language Navigation
Zhongyu Wei
From Individual to Society: Social Simulation Driven by LLM-based Agent
 January 20, 2025

Zhongyu Wei From Individual to Society: Social Simulation Driven by LLM-based Agent
Jingshan Li
AI-based Whole-cycle Health Care Management: Problems, Challenges, and Opportunities
 January 17, 2025

Jingshan Li AI-based Whole-cycle Health Care Management: Problems, Challenges, and Opportunities
Surya Narayanan Hari
Memory representation and retrieval in neuroscience and AI 
 January 15, 2025

Surya Narayanan Hari Memory representation and retrieval in neuroscience and AI 
Yu Li
Complex disease modeling and efficient drug discovery with large language models
 January 14, 2025

Yu Li Complex disease modeling and efficient drug discovery with large language models
Ahmed Elhag
Efficiently Approximating Equivariance in Unconstrained Models
 January 13, 2025

Ahmed Elhag Efficiently Approximating Equivariance in Unconstrained Models
Youjip Won
Bring an order to the chaos: Order-Preserving IO stack for Modern Flash storage
 January 13, 2025

Youjip Won Bring an order to the chaos: Order-Preserving IO stack for Modern Flash storage
Joonhyuk Kang
Communication in the Age of AI: AI for Communication and Communication for AI
 December 9, 2024

Joonhyuk Kang Communication in the Age of AI: AI for Communication and Communication for AI
Masanori Hashimomo
Reliability Exploration of Neural Network Accelerator
 December 5, 2024

Masanori Hashimomo Reliability Exploration of Neural Network Accelerator
Youngsoo Shin
Chip Design and Manufacturing with AI
 December 5, 2024

Youngsoo Shin Chip Design and Manufacturing with AI
Zeke Xie
Golden Noise and Ziazag Sampling of Diffusion Models
 December 4, 2024

Zeke Xie Golden Noise and Ziazag Sampling of Diffusion Models
 David Brown
Many-cell sequencing: machine learning principles and methods for moving beyond single cells to population-scale analysis
 November 26, 2024

David Brown Many-cell sequencing: machine learning principles and methods for moving beyond single cells to population-scale analysis
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