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Reut Tsarfaty
Multilinguality in LLMs with an Eye on Semitic Languages
 June 12, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI - Classroom 3

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
Featured
Vaishnav Kameswaran
Building Equitable Technology Futures: A Relational Access Approach
 April 14, 2025
 5:00pm
 Virtual

Vaishnav Kameswaran
Postdoctoral Researcher with the Values-Centered AI initiative at the University of Maryland
Featured
Lena Maier-Hein
Failing Forward: Rethinking the Foundations of Medical Imaging AI
 April 3, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

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)"
Featured
Stephanie Milani
Rethinking AI Agents: Human-Centered Reinforcement Learning
 July 10, 2025
 4:00pm
 Virtual

Stephanie Milani
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University
Haoyu Yang
Causal Mediation Analysis Integrating Exposure, Genomic, and Phenotype Data via Tail Likelihood Ratio Method in Epigenome-Wide Studies
 July 9, 2025
 5:00pm
 Virtual

Haoyu Yang
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University
Yan Gong
Causal Spatial Quantile Regression
 June 10, 2025
 4:00pm
 Virtual

Yan Gong
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Liuhua Peng
Enhanced localized conformal prediction with imperfect auxiliary information
 June 2, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 1

Liuhua Peng
Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne
Milad Alshomary
From Argument Generation to Explainable AI: My Research in Natural Language Processing
 May 26, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 1

Milad Alshomary
Postdoctoral research scientist at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University
Tiffany Knearem
Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment: A User-Centered Approach to Shaping AI Systems in Practice
 May 20, 2025
 4:00pm
 Virtual

Tiffany Knearem
User Experience Researcher, formerly of Google and Meta, and holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University
Utkarsh Mall
Visual Discovery for Science
 May 15, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Utkarsh Mall
Postdoctoral research scientist in Computer Science at Columbia University
James Landay
“AI For Good” Isn’t Good Enough: A Call for Human-Centered AI
 May 15, 2025
 12:00pm
 MBZUAI

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)
Sean Xuefeng Du
Teach AI What It Doesn't Know
 May 14, 2025
 5:00pm
 MBZUAI

Sean Xuefeng Du
Final year CS Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Houbing Herbert Song
Neuro-symbolic AI: The Third Wave of AI
 May 14, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

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
Anees Kazi
Multi-modal data analysis using Graph Deep Learning for applications in healthcare
 May 14, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Anees Kazi
Postdoctoral fellow at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
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
 10:00am
 MBZUAI

Augusto Guerra
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (UFMG)
Mathew Magimai Doss
Explainable Speech and Sign Language Processing using Posterior Features
 May 13, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Mathew Magimai Doss
Senior Research Scientist at the Idiap Research Institute
Diyi Yang
The Future of Human-AI Interaction: Teaching, Talking & Teaming Up
 May 12, 2025
 10:30am
 MBZUAI

Diyi Yang
Assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University
Fabricio A. B. da Silva
Deep Learning in the Brazilian Network for Genomic Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
 May 8, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

Fabricio A. B. da Silva
Senior public health researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Laure Berti
Towards Uncertainty-Aware, Multimodal Data-Centric AI Pipelines
 May 5, 2025
 10:00am
 MBZUAI

Laure Berti
Research Director (DR1) at IRD, the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development
Sven Behnke
Towards Conscious Service Robots
 May 5, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI

Sven Behnke
Chair for Autonomous Intelligent Systems at the University of Bonn, Germany, and heads the Computer Science Institute VI – Intelligent Systems and Robotics.
Junyuan Hong
Harmonizing, Understanding, and Deploying Responsible AI
 May 5, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

Junyuan Hong
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT Austin.
Mohammad Naseri
Trustworthy Decentralized AI
 May 1, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI

Mohammad Naseri
Research Scientist at Flower Labs
Andrew P. Feinberg
New advances in the epigenetics of common disease
 May 1, 2025
 2:00pm
 MBZUAI

Andrew P. Feinberg
Director, Center for Epigenetics; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Shilong Liu
Object-centric Open-world Visual Understanding
 April 30, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI

Shilong Liu
Final-year Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University
Joyce Chai
Words Meet World: Grounded Language in Embodied AI
 April 30, 2025
 1:00pm
 MBZUAI

Joyce Chai
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan
Ken-ichiro Kamei
Reverse Bioengineering to recreate multicellular animals in vitro
 April 29, 2025
 1:30pm
 MBZUAI

Ken-ichiro Kamei
Stem cell engineer and an associate professor specializing in biology and bioengineering at New York University Abu Dhabi
João Paulo Papa
Pattern Recognition with Optimum-Path Forests
 April 28, 2025
 4:30pm
 MBZUAI

João Paulo Papa
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
Chong Li
An Introduction to Decentralized AI
 April 23, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI

Chong Li
Founder & CEO of OORT, Adjunct professor in the department of electrical engineering at Columbia University
Deva Ramanan
Cameras as rays: spatial representations for 2D and 3D understanding with foundation models
 April 22, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Deva Ramanan
Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University and the former director of the CMU Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research
Prakash Chandra + Rajkumar Saini
Towards Robust Self-supervised Representation Learning
 April 22, 2025
 1:30pm
 MBZUAI

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
Mattia Soldan
Scalable and Efficient Semantic Search in Videos
 April 21, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

Mattia Soldan
Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Lizhen Qu
Harnessing Causal Discovery for Robust and Adaptive Natural Language Processing
 April 18, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Lizhen Qu
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University and a founding member of the AIM Lab
Zhang Jie
Building Trustworthy Text-to-Image Models: Risks, Defenses, and Forensics
 April 16, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Zhang Jie
Research scientist and innovation lead at the Center for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)
Jian Kang
Operationalizing Fairness in an Interconnected World
 April 16, 2025
 2:00pm
 MBZUAI

Jian Kang
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester
Homanga Bharadwaj
Watch, Predict, Act: Robot Learning Meets Web Videos
 April 16, 2025
 5:00pm
 MBZUAI

Homanga Bharadwaj
Final-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University
Deming Chen
A3C3 – AI Algorithm & Accelerator Co-design, Co-search, and Co-generation
 April 15, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

Deming Chen
Abel Bliss Professor in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Amin Beheshti
From Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence: Exploring the Future of Humanity
 April 15, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI

Amin Beheshti
Professor of Data Science at Macquarie University, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UNSW
Bashar Alhafni
Controlled Natural Language Generation for Morphologically Rich Languages: The Case of Arabic
 April 14, 2025
 1:00pm
 MBZUAI

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
Lingqi Yan
Next-generation Photorealistic Rendering
 April 14, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI

Lingqi Yan
Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California
Dilip K. Prasad
Digital Twin of a living Cell using Physics based Artificial Intelligence
 April 11, 2025
 10:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 5

Dilip K. Prasad
Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Tanmoy Chakraborty
Don't underestimate the power of small language models
 April 10, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 3

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
Guosheng Hu
Reduce AI’s Carbon Footprint
 April 9, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI - Classroom 4

Guosheng Hu
Senior lecturer of AI at University of Bristol
Haritz Puerto
Unpacking Reasoning in LLMs: Input Formats, Generating CoTs, and Fair Evaluation
 April 8, 2025
 2:00pm
 MBZUAI - Classroom 3

Haritz Puerto
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing at UKP Lab in TU Darmstadt
Andreas Bender
Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery and Computational Biology: Current Status, Successes, and Pitfalls
 April 8, 2025
 10:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 3

Andreas Bender
Professor for Machine Learning in Medicine at the Department of Medicine at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
Shaobo Cui
Navigating Uncertainty in Commonsense Causal Reasoning 
 April 8, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 2

Shaobo Cui
Final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
 Johannes Schoning
The Role of Human-Computer Interaction Perspectives in Advancing AI-Driven Next-Generation Spatial User Interfaces
 April 7, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 1

Johannes Schoning
Professor of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen
Eduard Gorbunov
Stochastic First-Order Optimization with Gradient Clipping
 April 7, 2025
 10:00am
 MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2

Eduard Gorbunov
Research scientist in the Machine Learning Department at MBZUAI
Klaus Maier-Hein
Towards Generalist Medical AI
 April 3, 2025
 3:00pm
 MBZUAI - Classroom 2

Klaus Maier-Hein
Director of the Division of Medical Image Computing at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Anthony Lin
Automated Reasoning over Strings and Sequences
 March 24, 2025
 1:00pm
 MBZUAI - Classroom 6

Anthony Lin
Professor at TU Kaiserslautern (Germany) and a Fellow of Max-Planck Society
Yotam Margalit
The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
 March 24, 2025
 2:00pm
 MBZUAI - Classroom 1

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
Dongxia Wu
Uncertainty Quantification for Scientific Machine Learning
 March 24, 2025
 11:00am
 MBZUAI - Classroom 5

Dongxia Wu
Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego
Bhat Suma Pallathadka
Towards Enhanced Linguistic Reasoning in Language Models
 March 20, 2025
 1:30pm
 MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1

Bhat Suma Pallathadka
Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Basin
Formal Methods for Modern Payment Protocols
 February 24, 2025
 3:30pm
 MBZUAI

David Basin
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Gülşen Eryiğit
Multimodal Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents
 February 19, 2025
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

Gülşen Eryiğit
Professor at the Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University
Dinesh Manocha
Robot Navigation in the Wild
 October 14, 2024
 10:30am
 MBZUAI

Dinesh Manocha
Paul Chrisman-Iribe Chair in Computer Science & ECE and Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland College Park
Pedro Moreno
Past, Present and Future of Speech Technologies
 May 28, 2024
 4:00pm
 MBZUAI

Pedro Moreno
Formerly led the ASR R&D Team at Google
Babak Falsafi
Computing in the Post-Moore Era
 April 2, 2024
 1:00pm
 MBZUAI

Babak Falsafi
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and Founder of EcoCloud
Yann LeCun
Objective-Driven AI: Towards Machines that can Learn, Reason, and Plan
 February 16, 2024
 MBZUAI

Yann LeCun
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta
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