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2nd MBZUAI Workshop on Collaborative Learning

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Date December 9 – 11, 2023
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, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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Natural Language Processing

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Date December 9, 2023
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, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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The Future of HCI in the Era of AI

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Date February 22 – 23, 2024
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, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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Date October 9 – 10, 2024
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MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium

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Eran Segal
Chair Eran Segal
Date April 21 – 22, 2025
Location
Executive Theater, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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Prof. Eran Segal, Chair of MBZUAI’s Computational Biology Department will host a symposium with internationally renowned researchers about the future of Computational Biology and how these align with global public health priorities. The symposium will cover diverse areas, including Personalized Medicine, Foundation AI Models for Biology, Multi-omics and Integrative Data Analysis, Population-level Cohort and EHR Analysis, Epidemiology, and Biomedical Imaging. We invite you to register at the link below to attend the talks and hear about cutting edge research in the field.

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Speakers

Bin Zhang
Bin Zhang PhD Candidate, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Jianpeng Zhang
Jianpeng Zhang Researcher at Alibaba, Postdoctoral Researcher at Zhejiang University
Nigam H. Shah
Nigam H. Shah Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Health Care
Renato Polimanti
Renato Polimanti PhD. Departments of Psychiatry and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale University School of Medicine; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health.
Vijay Tiwari
Vijay Tiwari Professor and Head of Genome Biology, Institute for Molecular Medicine (IMM), Leader, Center for Multiomics in Precision Medicine, Leader, Translational Cancer Hub, Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS), Chair, Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF, University of Southern Denmark
Bryan He
Bryan He Stanford University
Tal Korem
Tal Korem Program for Mathematical Genomics, Departments of Systems Biology and Ob/Gyn, Columbia University, New York, United States of America
Hagai Rossman
Hagai Rossman Pheno.AI & Weizmann Institute of Science
Zeeshan Syed
Zeeshan Syed Co-Founder and CEO, Health at Scale Corporation
Jiancheng Yang
Jiancheng Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Robail Yasrab
Robail Yasrab Senior Researcher, University of Cambridge
Georgios Pavlopoulos
Georgios Pavlopoulos Director of Research,Institute of Fundamental Biological Research, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Greece
Emmanouil Dermitzakis
Emmanouil Dermitzakis CEO and Co-Founder, Antithesis Therapeutics (stealth mode)
David van Dijk
David van Dijk Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Jianing Qiu
Jianing Qiu Postdoctoral Researcher, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dwarikanath Mahapatra
Dwarikanath Mahapatra Senior Research Scientist, Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Abu Dhabi Conference on AI-Robotics (AD-AIRoC 2025) Dialogue on Healthcare

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Yoshihiko Nakamura
Date April 23 – 25, 2025
Location
MBZUAI Lecture Hall 1, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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Prof. Yoshihiko Nakamura, Chair of MBZUAI’s Robotics Department has assembled a group of highly motivated young scholars and will host a symposium about the future of AI in Robotics.

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Keynote Speakers

H.E. Abdulla Abdulalee Abdulla AlHumaidan
H.E. Abdulla Abdulalee Abdulla AlHumaidan Secretary-General Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination, UAE
Timothy Baldwin
Timothy Baldwin Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI, UAE
Sami Haddadin
Sami Haddadin Vice President of Research and Professor of Robotics, MBZUAI, UAE
Hassa Saif Al Mazrouei
Hassa Saif Al Mazrouei Medical Director Executive & International Patient Services, Physician Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC, UAE

Master of Opening

Abdalla Swikir
Abdalla Swikir Assistant Professor

Moderators

Elizabeth Churchill
Elizabeth Churchill Department Chair and Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Dezhen Song
Dezhen Song Professor and Deputy Chair of Robotics Department

Speakers

Ali Khalilian Motamed Bonad
Ali Khalilian Motamed Bonad PhD Candidate Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Anqing Duan
Anqing Duan Visiting Assistant Professor, MBZUAI
Cesare Stefanini
Cesare Stefanini Professor & Director of the BioRobotics Institute Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Cristina Piazza
Cristina Piazza Assistant Professor School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Eran Segal
Eran Segal Adjunct Professor and Chair Computational Biology Department, MBZUAI, UAE
Hanan Salam
Hanan Salam Assistant Professor, Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hassa Al Mazrouei
Hassa Al Mazrouei Medical Director Executive & International Patient Services, Physician Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC, UAE
Hideki Kadone
Hideki Kadone Associate Professor, Institute of Medicine, Tsukuba University, Japan
Imene Tarakli
Imene Tarakli PhD Candidate, Department of Computing, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Jun Morimoto
Jun Morimoto Professor, School of Informatics Kyoto University, Japan
Ke Wu
Ke Wu Visiting Assistant Professor, Robotics Department, MBZUAI, UAE
Mohammad Modassir Firdaus
Mohammad Modassir Firdaus PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
Olivier Oullier
Olivier Oullier Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Aix-Marseille University, France
Sunil Agrawal
Sunil Agrawal Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine，Columbia University, USA
Tetsunari Inamura
Tetsunari Inamura Professor, Brain Science Research Institute, Tamagawa University, Japan
Waseem Aziz
Waseem Aziz MD, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City - SSMC, UAE
Yoshi Nakamura
Yoshi Nakamura Professor and Chair, Robotics Department, MBZUAI, UAE

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.

Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop

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Aziz Khan
Chair Aziz Khan
Date April 28 – 29, 2025
Location
Visitor Center, Masdar City, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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  • Welcome to the first Data Carpentry Genomics Workshop at MBZUAI, organized by the Computational Biology and Cancer Regulatory Genomics (CBCRG) Lab, Computational Biology Department at MBZUAI, in collaboration with the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB), NYU Abu Dhabi. This interactive hands-on workshop aims to build regional capacity in genomics and computational biology, empowering participants with foundational genomics data science skills and highlighting MBZUAI’s commitment to advancing precision medicine and digital public health in the UAE and beyond.
    Data Carpentry is part of the The Carpentries initiative whose mission is to develop and teach workshops on foundational computational and data science skills to researchers who have little to no prior computational experience.
  • It is interactive, hands-on, free, and beginner-friendly workshop, taught by Certified Carpentries Instructors.
  • Why attend?
    • Learn essential project organization and data science skills for genomic research
    • Hands-on training in command-line tools, genomic data wrangling, and cloud computing
    • Ideal for researchers, students, and professionals working with genomic data
    • No prior programming or genomic data analysis experience required

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MBZUAI Single Cell Summer Workshop

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Prof. Eduardo Beltrame
Date May 9 – 10, 2025
Location
Visitor Center, MBZUAI, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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The MBZUAI Single Cell Summer Workshop is a capacity building event focused on supporting the Abu Dhabi region bioinformatics community in getting to know each other and acquiring practical skills for working with single cell omics data. This is a hands on workshop aiming to introduce participants to tools from the scverse  ecosystem of Python single cell data analysis tools, and in particular the scvi-tools framework for probabilistic modelling of single cell omics data.

Participants should bring a laptop.

Friday activities will require familiarity with the command line.

The workshop is free to participate.

Note: If you would like to give a 20 minute participant talk, we still have a few slots available, please indicate when filling in the registration form and contact Eduardo at eduardo.beltrame@mbzuai.ac.ae.

 

 

 

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Prof. Eduardo Beltrame
Prof. Eduardo Beltrame eduardo.beltrame@mbzuai.ac.ae
Luiz Maniero
Luiz Maniero luiz.maniero@mbzuai.ac.ae

MBZUAI Silicon Valley AI Forum

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Tim Baldwin
Chair Tim Baldwin
Date May 19, 2025
Location
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, 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.

Opening Speaker

Timothy Baldwin
Timothy Baldwin Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI, UAE

Moderators

Xiaosong Ma
Xiaosong Ma Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science, MBZUAI, UAE
Mladen Kolar
Mladen Kolar Department Chair and Visiting Professor of Statistics and Data Science, MBZUAI, UAE
Chih-Jen Lin
Chih-Jen Lin Affiliated Professor of Machine Learning, MBZUAI, UAE

Speakers

Michael Mahoney
Michael Mahoney Professor & Vice President/Director Big Data Group, UC Berkeley
Abdulrahman Mahmoud
Abdulrahman Mahmoud Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MBZUAI, UAE
Elizabeth Churchill
Elizabeth Churchill Department Chair and Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, MBZUAI, UAE
Chrisos Kozyrakis
Chrisos Kozyrakis Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
Leon Song
Leon Song Vice President of Research, Together.AI
Yan Liu
Yan Liu Professor & Director of Machine Learning, USC
George Michailidis
George Michailidis Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, UCLA
Haiyan Huang
Haiyan Huang Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Kun Zhang
Kun Zhang Acting Department Chair, Director of Center for Integrative Artificial Intelligence (CIAI), and Visiting Professor of Machine Learning, MBZUAI, UAE
Jelena Bradic
Jelena Bradic Professor of Statistics, UCSD
Cho-Jui Hsieh
Cho-Jui Hsieh Associate Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
Misha Belkin
Misha Belkin Professor of Data Science, UCSD
Andrea Montanari
Andrea Montanari Professor in Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University
Nils Lukas
Nils Lukas Assistant Professor of Machine Learning, MBZUAI, UAE
Preslav Nakov
Preslav Nakov Department Chair and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI, UAE
James Landay
James Landay Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University
Ricardi Baeza-Yates
Ricardi Baeza-Yates Director of the AI Institute, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Launch of MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models (IFM)

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Richard Morton
Date May 22, 2025
Location
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA, USA Show on Map

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MBZUAI is proud to unveil the Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) — a bold, global initiative uniting top AI talent across Abu Dhabi, Silicon Valley, and Paris. The mission: to advance the next generation of foundation models and deliver their benefits to communities worldwide.

We invite researchers, technologists, and innovators to join us in Silicon Valley as we celebrate this milestone and foster connections within the broader AI community.

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International Symposium on Trustworthy Foundation Models

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Kun Zhang
Chair Kun Zhang
Date May 26 – 27, 2025
Location
MBZUAI, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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Symposium Goals

As foundation models become increasingly integrated into critical applications, ensuring their trustworthiness is paramount. The International Symposium on Trustworthy Foundation Models brings together researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss key challenges and advancements in building safe, fair, and robust AI systems. This symposium will explore topics such as model safety, privacy, fairness, interpretability, causality, and robustness, with a particular emphasis on real-world deployment and governance. Through two days of invited talks, networking discussions, and contributed research, we aim to foster collaboration and drive innovation in the responsible development of foundation models.

Specifically, the objectives of the symposium are:

• Exchanging ideas, e.g., we will invite keynote speeches from world-leading researchers and contributed talks from active researchers;

• Building networks and promoting potential collaborations, e.g., promote internal collaborations within MBZUAI and internal collaborations with rising-star and world-leading researchers;

• Inspiring the juniors to do better research, e.g., mentor research students and postdocs at MBZUAI to do high-qulity research.

Organizers

Organizing committee:
General chair: Kun Zhang, MBZUAI; Tongliang Liu, MBZUAI/USYD
Program chair: Bo Han, HKBU/RIKEN; Bo Li, UIUC
Invited faculty talk session chair: Nils Lukas, MBZUAI
Rising-star presentation session chair: Salem Lahlou, MBZUAI
PhD mentoring session chair: Mingming Gong, MBZUAI/UoM
Local arrangement chair: Runqi Lin, MBZUAI/USYD

Local hosts:
Maria Pereira, MBZUAI
Analyen Mata, MBZUAI

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MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum

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Tim Baldwin
Chair Tim Baldwin
Date June 4, 2025
Location
W Hotel, 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

Introduction: AI in Emerging Regions

Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin Provost and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI

Panel 1: Embodiment, Interaction and Intelligence: new frontiers in human-like intelligence?

Elizabeth Churchill
Elizabeth Churchill Department Chair and Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, MBZUAI
Daniella Rus
Daniella Rus Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT
John Leonard
John Leonard Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, MIT
Ian Reid
Ian Reid Department Chair and Professor of Computer Vision, MBZUAI
Judith Donath
Judith Donath Faculty Associate at Berkman Klein Center, Harvard
Jia Deng
Jia Deng Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton

Life in Abu Dhabi

Philip Purnell
Philip Purnell Head of AI Nexus, MBZUAI

Panel 2: From Molecules to Models: Bridging Human Insight and Biological Complexity with AI

Eran Segal
Eran Segal Department Chair and Professor of Computational Biology, MBZUAI
Le Song
Le Song Professor of Machine Learning, MBZUAI
Manolis Kellis
Manolis Kellis Professor, Computer Science, MIT
Tianxi Cai
Tianxi Cai Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Heng Ji
Heng Ji Professor of Computer Science, AICE Director, ASKS Director, UIUC
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Data Science, Stanford
Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard

Panel 3: Foundations for the Multi-Modal Future: Intelligence at Scale

Ian Reid
Ian Reid Department Chair and Professor of Computer Vision, MBZUAI
Elizabeth Mynatt
Elizabeth Mynatt Dean of Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Anshumali Srivastava
Anshumali Srivastava Professor of Computer Science and Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University
Preslav Nakov
Preslav Nakov Department Chair and Professor of Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI
Mohit Bansal
Mohit Bansal Parker Distinguished Professor, Computer Science, UNC
Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, NYU

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MBZUAI Booth at International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB)

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Eran Segal
Date July 20 – 24, 2025
Location
ACC Liverpool , United Kingdom Show on Map

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The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the flagship meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The 2025 meeting is the 33rd ISMB conference, which has grown to become the world’s largest bioinformatics and computational biology conference. Joining forces with the European Conference on Computational Biology (the 24th Annual Conference), ISMB/ECCB 2025 will be the year’s most important computational biology event!

Visit our booth at ISMB 2025 to explore how MBZUAI is advancing AI-driven research. Meet our team, learn about our work, and discover opportunities to collaborate or join us.

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MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium 2

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Eran Segal
Chair Eran Segal
Date October 15 – 17, 2025
Location
TBD, Abu Dhabi, UAE Show on Map

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MBZUAI Statistics and Data Science Symposium

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

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MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum
June 4, 2025
Boston, USABoston, USA
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MBZUAI Booth at International Society for Computational Biology (ISMB)
July 20 – 24, 2025
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium 2
October 15 – 17, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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MBZUAI Statistics and Data Science Symposium
November 24 – 27, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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International Symposium on Trustworthy Foundation Models
May 26 – 27, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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Launch of MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models (IFM)
May 22, 2025
Mountain View, CA, USAMountain View, CA, USA
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MBZUAI Silicon Valley AI Forum
May 19, 2025
Mountain View, CA, USAMountain View, CA, USA
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MBZUAI Single Cell Summer Workshop
May 9 – 10, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
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CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 26 – May 1, 2025
Yokohama, JapanYokohama, Japan
Closed
Genomics Data Carpentry Workshop
April 28 – 29, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed
Abu Dhabi Conference on AI-Robotics (AD-AIRoC 2025) Dialogue on Healthcare
April 23 – 25, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed
MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium
April 21 – 22, 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed
AI4Bio
October 9 – 10, 2024
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed
The Future of HCI in the Era of AI
February 22 – 23, 2024
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed
2nd MBZUAI Workshop on Collaborative Learning
December 9 – 11, 2023
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed
Natural Language Processing
December 9, 2023
Abu Dhabi, UAEAbu Dhabi, UAE
Closed

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Multilinguality in LLMs with an Eye on Semitic Languages
 June 12, 2025
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Reut Tsarfaty
Associate Professor at Bar-llan University leading the Open Natural Language Processing research lab (The ONLP Lab), and a Visiting Professor at Google
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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
Toward General and Purposeful Reasoning in Real World Beyond Lingual Intelligence Columbia Engineering Lecture Series in AI April 29, 2025 More Details
Toward General and Purposeful Reasoning in Real World Beyond Lingual Intelligence Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) May 14, 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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Uncertainty, Asymmetry of Information, and Statistical Contract Theory Bruno De Finetti, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Venice, Italy July 4 – July 4, 2025
Prediction-Powered Inference Joint ISBA-Fusion 2024 Workshop, Venice July 8, 2024
Contracts, Uncertainty, and Incentives in Statistical Decision-Making North American Economics and AI+ML Meeting of the Econometric Society, Ithaca, NY August 14, 2024
A Collectivist View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Statistical Incentives, and Social Welfare AI-ML Systems Conference, Baton Rouge, LA October 8, 2024
Contracts, Uncertainty, and Incentives in Decentralized Machine Learning NETGCOOP 2024 Conference, Lille, France October 10, 2024
A Collectivist Vision of AI: Collaborative Learning, Statistical Incentives, and Social Welfare RECSYS Conference, Bari, Italy October 16, 2024
Keynote Speaker CCNC Conference, Shanghai, China October 28, 2024
Invited Speaker Harvard Statistics Colloquium, Cambridge, MA
Invited Speaker Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Summit June 11, 2024
Keynote Speaker AI, Science, and Society, Paris, France February 6, 2025
An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare Next Generation AI and Economic Applications, Morocco February 24, 2025
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COLLOQUIUM: Preslav Nakov, “ Towards Truly Open, Language-Specific, Safe, Factual, and Specialized Large Language Models” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign May 5, 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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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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At the core of MBZUAI lies a commitment to transform knowledge into a force for positive change. Together we are shaping a future where education uplifts individuals and benefits communities worldwide.

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