All Previous AI Speaker Series at MBZUAI
Multilinguality in LLMs with an Eye on Semitic Languages
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
June 12, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Associate Professor at Bar-llan University leading the Open Natural Language Processing research lab (The ONLP Lab), and a Visiting Professor at Google
Featured
Building Equitable Technology Futures: A Relational Access Approach
Vaishnav Kameswaran
Postdoctoral Researcher with the Values-Centered AI initiative at the University of Maryland
April 14, 2025
5:00pm
Virtual
Postdoctoral Researcher with the Values-Centered AI initiative at the University of Maryland
Featured
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)"
April 3, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
"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)"
Featured
Rethinking AI Agents: Human-Centered Reinforcement Learning
Stephanie Milani
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
July 10, 2025
4:00pm
Virtual
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
Causal Mediation Analysis Integrating Exposure, Genomic, and Phenotype Data via Tail Likelihood Ratio Method in Epigenome-Wide Studies
Haoyu Yang
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University
July 9, 2025
5:00pm
Virtual
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University
Causal Spatial Quantile Regression
Yan Gong
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
June 10, 2025
4:00pm
Virtual
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Enhanced localized conformal prediction with imperfect auxiliary information
Liuhua Peng
Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne
June 2, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne
From Argument Generation to Explainable AI: My Research in Natural Language Processing
Milad Alshomary
Postdoctoral research scientist at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University
May 26, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Postdoctoral research scientist at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University
Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: A User-Centered Approach to Shaping AI Systems in Practice
Tiffany Knearem
User Experience Researcher, formerly of Google and Meta, and holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University
May 20, 2025
4:00pm
Virtual
User Experience Researcher, formerly of Google and Meta, and holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University
Visual Discovery for Science
Utkarsh Mall
Postdoctoral research scientist in Computer Science at Columbia University
May 15, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Postdoctoral research scientist in Computer Science at Columbia University
“AI For Good” Isn’t Good Enough: A Call for Human-Centered AI
James Landay
Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Co-founder and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
May 15, 2025
12:00pm
MBZUAI
Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Co-founder and Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Teach AI What It Doesn't Know
Sean Xuefeng Du
Final year CS Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 14, 2025
5:00pm
MBZUAI
Final year CS Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neuro-symbolic AI: The Third Wave of AI
Houbing Herbert Song
Professor, Founding Director of the NSF Center for Aviation Big Data Analytics, Associate Director for Leadership of the DOT Transportation Cybersecurity Center for Advanced Research and Education, and Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory, University of Maryland
May 14, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Professor, Founding Director of the NSF Center for Aviation Big Data Analytics, Associate Director for Leadership of the DOT Transportation Cybersecurity Center for Advanced Research and Education, and Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory, University of Maryland
Multi-modal data analysis using Graph Deep Learning for applications in healthcare
Anees Kazi
Postdoctoral fellow at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
May 14, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Postdoctoral fellow at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
Connecting dots between different science fields towards better treatments – Breast Cancer Research - from HTA to performance assessment using real world data and genomics
Augusto Guerra
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)
May 13, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)
Explainable Speech and Sign Language Processing using Posterior Features
Mathew Magimai Doss
Senior Research Scientist at the Idiap Research Institute
May 13, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Senior Research Scientist at the Idiap Research Institute
The Future of Human-AI Interaction: Teaching, Talking & Teaming Up
Diyi Yang
Assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University
May 12, 2025
10:30am
MBZUAI
Assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University
Deep Learning in the Brazilian Network for Genomic Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Fabricio A. B. da Silva
Senior public health researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
May 8, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Senior public health researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Towards Uncertainty-Aware, Multimodal Data-Centric AI Pipelines
Laure Berti
Research Director (DR1) at IRD, the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development
May 5, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI
Research Director (DR1) at IRD, the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development
Towards Conscious Service Robots
Sven Behnke
Chair for Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the University of Bonn, Germany, and heads the Computer Science Institute VI – Intelligent Systems and Robotics.
May 5, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI
Chair for Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the University of Bonn, Germany, and heads the Computer Science Institute VI – Intelligent Systems and Robotics.
Harmonizing, Understanding, and Deploying Responsible AI
Junyuan Hong
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT Austin.
May 5, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT Austin.
Trustworthy Decentralized AI
Mohammad Naseri
Research Scientist at Flower Labs
May 1, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI
Research Scientist at Flower Labs
New advances in the epigenetics of common disease
Andrew P. Feinberg
Director, Center for Epigenetics; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
May 1, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI
Director, Center for Epigenetics; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Object-centric Open-world Visual Understanding
Shilong Liu
Final-year Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University
April 30, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI
Final-year Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University
Words Meet World: Grounded Language in Embodied AI
Joyce Chai
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
April 30, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
Reverse Bioengineering to recreate multicellular animals in vitro
Ken-ichiro Kamei
Stem cell engineer and an associate professor specializing in biology and bioengineering at New York University Abu Dhabi
April 29, 2025
1:30pm
MBZUAI
Stem cell engineer and an associate professor specializing in biology and bioengineering at New York University Abu Dhabi
Pattern Recognition with Optimum-Path Forests
João Paulo Papa
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
April 28, 2025
4:30pm
MBZUAI
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
An Introduction to Decentralized AI
Chong Li
Founder & CEO of OORT, Adjunct professor in the department of electrical engineering at Columbia University
April 23, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI
Founder & CEO of OORT, Adjunct professor in the department of electrical engineering at Columbia University
Cameras as rays: spatial representations for 2D and 3D understanding with foundation models
Deva Ramanan
Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University and the former director of the CMU Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research
April 22, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University and the former director of the CMU Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research
Towards Robust Self-supervised Representation Learning
Prakash Chandra + Rajkumar Saini
Prakash Chandra Chhipa is an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Machine Learning Group, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Rajkumar Saini is an Assistant Professor at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
April 22, 2025
1:30pm
MBZUAI
Prakash Chandra Chhipa is an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Machine Learning Group, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Rajkumar Saini is an Assistant Professor at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden
Scalable and Efficient Semantic Search in Videos
Mattia Soldan
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
April 21, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Harnessing Causal Discovery for Robust and Adaptive Natural Language Processing
Lizhen Qu
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University and a founding member of the AIM Lab
April 18, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University and a founding member of the AIM Lab
Building Trustworthy Text-to-Image Models: Risks, Defenses, and Forensics
Zhang Jie
Research scientist and innovation lead at the Center for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)
April 16, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Research scientist and innovation lead at the Center for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)
Operationalizing Fairness in an Interconnected World
Jian Kang
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester
April 16, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester
Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning Meets Web Videos
Homanga Bharadwaj
Final-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University
April 16, 2025
5:00pm
MBZUAI
Final-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University
A3C3 – AI Algorithm & Accelerator Co-design, Co-search, and Co-generation
Deming Chen
Abel Bliss Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
April 15, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Abel Bliss Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
From Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Future of Humanity
Amin Beheshti
Professor of Data Science at Macquarie University, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UNSW
April 15, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI
Professor of Data Science at Macquarie University, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UNSW
Controlled Natural Language Generation for Morphologically Rich Languages: The Case of Arabic
Bashar Alhafni
Final-year computer science PhD candidate at New York University (NYU) and a graduate research assistant at the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) lab at NYU Abu Dhabi
April 14, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI
Final-year computer science PhD candidate at New York University (NYU) and a graduate research assistant at the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) lab at NYU Abu Dhabi
Next-generation Photorealistic Rendering
Lingqi Yan
Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California
April 14, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI
Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California
Digital Twin of a living Cell using Physics based Artificial Intelligence
Dilip K. Prasad
Professor at the Department of Computer Science
April 11, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Don't underestimate the power of small language models
Tanmoy Chakraborty
Faculty Chair Professor in AI and an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and the School of AI at IIT Delhi
April 10, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Faculty Chair Professor in AI and an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and the School of AI at IIT Delhi
Reduce AI’s Carbon Footprint
Guosheng Hu
Senior lecturer of AI at University of Bristol
April 9, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Senior lecturer of AI at University of Bristol
Unpacking Reasoning in LLMs: Input Formats, Generating CoTs, and Fair Evaluation
Haritz Puerto
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing at UKP Lab in TU Darmstadt
April 8, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing at UKP Lab in TU Darmstadt
Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Computational Biology: Current Status, Successes, and Pitfalls
Andreas Bender
Professor for Machine Learning in Medicine at the Department of Medicine at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
April 8, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Professor for Machine Learning in Medicine at the Department of Medicine at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
Navigating Uncertainty in Commonsense Causal Reasoning
Shaobo Cui
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
April 8, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 2
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
The Role of Human-Computer Interaction Perspectives in Advancing AI-Driven Next-Generation Spatial User Interfaces
Johannes Schoning
Professor of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen
April 7, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Professor of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen
Stochastic First-Order Optimization with Gradient Clipping
Eduard Gorbunov
Research scientist in the Machine Learning Department at MBZUAI
April 7, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Research scientist in the Machine Learning Department at MBZUAI
Towards Generalist Medical AI
Klaus Maier-Hein
Director of the Division of Medical Image Computing at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
April 3, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 2
Director of the Division of Medical Image Computing at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Automated Reasoning over Strings and Sequences
Anthony Lin
Professor at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and a Fellow of Max-Planck Society
March 24, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Professor at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and a Fellow of Max-Planck Society
The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Yotam Margalit
Brian Mulroney Chair in Government at the School of Political Science and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University and a Professor in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London
March 24, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Brian Mulroney Chair in Government at the School of Political Science and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University and a Professor in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London
Uncertainty Quantification for Scientific Machine Learning
Dongxia Wu
Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego
March 24, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego
Towards Enhanced Linguistic Reasoning in Language Models
Bhat Suma Pallathadka
Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 20, 2025
1:30pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Formal Methods for Modern Payment Protocols
David Basin
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
February 24, 2025
3:30pm
MBZUAI
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Multimodal Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents
Gülşen Eryiğit
Professor at the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
February 19, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Professor at the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
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
October 14, 2024
10:30am
MBZUAI
Paul Chrisman-Iribe Chair in Computer Science & ECE and Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland College Park
Past, Present and Future of Speech Technologies
Pedro Moreno
Formerly led the ASR R&D Team at Google
May 28, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI
Formerly led the ASR R&D Team at Google
Computing in the Post-Moore Era
Babak Falsafi
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and Founder of EcoCloud
April 2, 2024
1:00pm
MBZUAI
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and Founder of EcoCloud
Objective-Driven AI: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan
Yann LeCun
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta
February 16, 2024
MBZUAI
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta