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
Memorization-to-Generalization in Foundation Model Pretraining: Through the Lens of Pathway Optimization
Tianyi Zhou
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
July 29, 2025
10:00am
Virtual
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
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
“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)
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Trustworthy Decentralized AI
Mohammad Naseri
Research Scientist at Flower Labs
May 1, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI
Research Scientist at Flower Labs
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Enhancing Computational Precision Medicine with Electronic Health Records
Jun Wen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
March 20, 2025
3:00pm
Virtual
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
AI-Assisted Experimentation: Challenges, Advances, and Future Directions
Raul Astudillo
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech
March 20, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech
Moving GPU Systems from “Real-Fast” to “Real-Time”
Joshua Bakita
PhD Candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March 19, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
PhD Candidate at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Evaluating Long-Context Language Models
Marzena Karpinska
Senior researcher at Microsoft
March 17, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Senior researcher at Microsoft
Mechanism Design for Decentralized Systems
Hao Chung
Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
March 17, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University
Towards Strategic Alignment in AI: Foundations, Progress and Outlook
Jibang Wu
Final year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Chicago
March 13, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Final year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Chicago
Thermal Imaging For Amplifying Human Perception
Yomna Abdelrahman
Post-doctoral researcher at the Armed Forces University in Munich, Germany
March 12, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Post-doctoral researcher at the Armed Forces University in Munich, Germany
Algorithms in the AI Age: Fair and Learning-Augmented
Ali Valikian
Research Assistant Professor at TTIC
March 11, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 7
Research Assistant Professor at TTIC
AI Advance Pathway: From Targeted Evaluation to Holistic Intelligence
Haonan Li
Postdoctoral Researcher at MBZUAI with a PhD in NLP from the University of Melbourne
March 10, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Postdoctoral Researcher at MBZUAI with a PhD in NLP from the University of Melbourne
Fear of Small Data: AI’s Blind Spot in Ethics, Lifecycle Assessment, and Policy
Ishtiaque Ahmed
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and the founding director of the ‘Third Space'' research group
March 10, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and the founding director of the ‘Third Space'' research group
Advancing Medical AI: Robust, Interpretable, and Collaborative Solutions
Gustavo Carneiro
Professor of AI and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, UK
March 10, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
Professor of AI and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, UK
Next-Word Prediction in Language Models and Humans
Tatsuki Kuribayashi
Postdoctoral researcher in the NLP department at MBZUAI
March 4, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Postdoctoral researcher in the NLP department at MBZUAI
Speech Enhancement & Video Summarization - Technology Transfer of Academic Research
Shmuel Peleg
Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
March 4, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Causal Neuro-Symbolic AI: synergy between neuro-symbolic and causal AI
Utkarshani Jaimini
Ph.D. candidate at the AI Institute, University of South Carolina
March 3, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Ph.D. candidate at the AI Institute, University of South Carolina
Automated Program Repair for Security
Yannic Noller
Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
March 3, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
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
LLMs (for code) sometimes make mistakes. When should I trust them?
Prem Devanbu
Researcher in Software Engineering, UC Davis
February 21, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Researcher in Software Engineering, UC Davis
Applying Machine Learning and GenAI to the design and operation of climate-resilient residential infrastructure
James Ehrlich
Director of Compassionate Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Institute
February 21, 2025
1:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Director of Compassionate Sustainability at the Stanford University School of Medicine CCARE Institute
Sequential Quantile Estimation for Distributed and Streaming Data
Nan Lin
Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Washington University in St. Louis
February 20, 2025
12:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Washington University in St. Louis
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
Towards safe, factual, and empathetic human-AI interaction
Yuxia Wang
Postdoctoral researcher in the NLP department at MBZUAI
February 19, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Postdoctoral researcher in the NLP department at MBZUAI
Balancing Explore-exploit, or Purely Exploring
Junpei Komiyama
Assistant Professor of Technology, New York University Stern School of Business
February 18, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Assistant Professor of Technology, New York University Stern School of Business
PEaRCE: A Platform for Ethical and Responsible Computing Education in CS Courses
Peter Haas
Professor of Information and Computer Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
February 17, 2025
1:30pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Professor of Information and Computer Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Towards Usable and Useful Explainable AI
Lijie Hu
Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
February 11, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 7
Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Open Science: A New Paradigm for the Research Lifecycle and the Role of Computing
Yannis Ioannidis
President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
February 6, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Towards Responsible Visual Analytics: Fostering Inclusivity, Accessibility and Trustworthiness in the AI Era
Ali Sarvghad
Senior visualization researcher and co-director of the HCI-VIS Research Lab in the Manning College of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
February 5, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Senior visualization researcher and co-director of the HCI-VIS Research Lab in the Manning College of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Polygenic Score Modeling to Investigate Genotype-Phenotype Associations
Carlo Maj
Principal Investigator at the Center for Human Genetics at the University of Marburg, Germany
February 5, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
Principal Investigator at the Center for Human Genetics at the University of Marburg, Germany
Community-Centered Computing for Collective Action and Societal Impact
Narges Mahyar
Associate Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts
February 4, 2025
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 7
Associate Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts
Trustworthy Machine Learning: Transparency, Collaboration, and Evaluation
Umang Bhatt
Assistant Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University
February 4, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Assistant Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University
Deep generative modeling of sample-level heterogeneity in single-cell genomics
Justin Hong
Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University
February 3, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University
AI-enhanced Personalized Medicine and Therapeutic Development
Fatemeh Vafaee
Deputy Director of the UNSW AI Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales
January 29, 2025
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Deputy Director of the UNSW AI Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of New South Wales
The Econometrics of Unobservables: Identification, Estimation, and Empirical Applications
Yingyao Hu
Professor of economics and Vice Dean for Social Sciences at Johns Hopkins University
January 27, 2025
12:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Professor of economics and Vice Dean for Social Sciences at Johns Hopkins University
Cell Biology of Developmental Processes: Imaging Across Scales
Senthil Arumugam
EMBL Australia Group Leader at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
January 23, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
EMBL Australia Group Leader at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Optimizing 3D Flash-Based SSDs through Device-Aware Techniques
Jihong Kim
Professor in the department of Computer Science & Engineering
January 23, 2025
12:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
Professor in the department of Computer Science & Engineering
How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program
Seth Fraden
Professor of Physics & Co-Chair of Engineering
January 22, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Professor of Physics & Co-Chair of Engineering
Human-Computer Conversational Vision-and-Language Navigation
Qi Wu
Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide
January 21, 2025
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide
From Individual to Society: Social Simulation Driven by LLM-based Agent
Zhongyu Wei
Associate Professor at the School of Data Science, Fudan University
January 20, 2025
3:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Associate Professor at the School of Data Science, Fudan University
AI-based Whole-cycle Health Care Management: Problems, Challenges, and Opportunities
Jingshan Li
Head and Gavriel Salvendy Chair Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University
January 17, 2025
10:30am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Head and Gavriel Salvendy Chair Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University
Memory representation and retrieval in neuroscience and AI
Surya Narayanan Hari
3rd year graduate student in the Thomson Lab at the California Institute of Technology
January 15, 2025
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
3rd year graduate student in the Thomson Lab at the California Institute of Technology
Complex disease modeling and efficient drug discovery with large language models
Yu Li
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK
January 14, 2025
4:30pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK
Efficiently Approximating Equivariance in Unconstrained Models
Ahmed Elhag
PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford
January 13, 2025
4:30pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 5
PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford
Bring an order to the chaos: Order-Preserving IO stack for Modern Flash storage
Youjip Won
ICT Endowed Chair Professor at School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
January 13, 2025
2:30pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 7
ICT Endowed Chair Professor at School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
Communication in the Age of AI: AI for Communication and Communication for AI
Joonhyuk Kang
Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
December 9, 2024
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Reliability Exploration of Neural Network Accelerator
Masanori Hashimomo
Professor in the Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Kyoto University
December 5, 2024
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Professor in the Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Kyoto University
Chip Design and Manufacturing with AI
Youngsoo Shin
Professor with the School of EE
December 5, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Professor with the School of EE
Golden Noise and Ziazag Sampling of Diffusion Models
Zeke Xie
Assistant Professor at Information Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
December 4, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Assistant Professor at Information Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Many-cell sequencing: machine learning principles and methods for moving beyond single cells to population-scale analysis
David Brown
Co-founder ImYoo
November 26, 2024
3:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Co-founder ImYoo
Security-Enhanced Radio Access Networks for 5G OpenRAN
Zhiqiang Lin
Distinguished Professor of Engineering and the Director of the Institute for Cybersecurity and Digital Trust (ICDT) at The Ohio State University
November 21, 2024
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Distinguished Professor of Engineering and the Director of the Institute for Cybersecurity and Digital Trust (ICDT) at The Ohio State University
Energy-Efficient and Secure EdgeAI Systems: From Architectures to Applications
Muhammad Shafique
Professor, ECE, New York University
November 20, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Professor, ECE, New York University
Generative Artificial Intelligence in RNA Biology
Alexandre Paschoal
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Technology – Parana (UTFPR)
November 19, 2024
12:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Associate Professor at the Federal University of Technology – Parana (UTFPR)
Multimodality for story-level understanding and generation of visual data
Vicky Kalogeiton
Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique
November 13, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique
Image- and AI-guided robotics for minimally invasive surgery
Momen Abayazid
Associate Professor in the Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM) Group at the University of Twente and a visiting Associate professor at Radboud University Medical Centre
November 12, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Associate Professor in the Robotics and Mechatronics (RaM) Group at the University of Twente and a visiting Associate professor at Radboud University Medical Centre
From cloud computing to cloudless computing
Ang Chen
Associate professor in the Computer Science & Engineering department, at the University of Michigan
November 11, 2024
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Associate professor in the Computer Science & Engineering department, at the University of Michigan
Physics-Based Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
Pascal Fua
Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Science and head of the Computer Vision Lab
November 4, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Science and head of the Computer Vision Lab
To Make Just-Noticeable Difference (JND) Computable toward Visual Intelligence
Weisi Lin
President’s Chair Professor in College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
October 31, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
President’s Chair Professor in College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
The chameleon effect in education with social AI: can children learn by subconsciously mimicking a social robot?
Maha Elgarf
Postdoctoral Associate at the Social Machines and Robotics (SMART) Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi
October 31, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Postdoctoral Associate at the Social Machines and Robotics (SMART) Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi
AI for Engineering Design
Nobuyuki Umetani
Associate professor at the University of Tokyo
October 25, 2024
12:30pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Associate professor at the University of Tokyo
Integrating Micro-Emotion Recognition with Mental Health Estimation for Improved Well-being
Santosh Kumar Vipparthi
Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar)
October 25, 2024
11:30am
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Associate Professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar)
Amplifying the Invisible: The Impact of Video Motion Magnification in Healthcare, Engineering, and Beyond
Subrahmanyam Murala
Associate Professor at School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
October 25, 2024
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Associate Professor at School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Social Media Influencers, Misinformation, and the threat to elections
Joyojeet Pal
Associate Professor of Information at the School of Information at the University of Michigan
October 23, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Associate Professor of Information at the School of Information at the University of Michigan
Unlocking the Potential of Large Models for Vision Related Tasks
Yanwei Fu
Professor at the School of Data Science of Fudan University
October 16, 2024
2:30pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Professor at the School of Data Science of Fudan University
Spatial AI to help humans and enable robots
Marc Pollefeys
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and the Director of the Microsoft Spatial AI Lab in Zurich
October 15, 2024
10:30am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and the Director of the Microsoft Spatial AI Lab in Zurich
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
NLP for Long, Structured Documents
Jan Buchmann
Fourth year PhD student in the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at TU Darmstadt
October 8, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Fourth year PhD student in the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at TU Darmstadt
Embodied Robot Skills and Good Old Fashioned Engineering
Michael Yu Wang
Chair Professor and the Founding Dean of the School of Engineering of the Great Bay University
September 30, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Chair Professor and the Founding Dean of the School of Engineering of the Great Bay University
Confidence sets for Causal Discovery
Mladen Kolar
Department Chair and Visiting Professor of Statistics and Data Science, MBZUAI
September 25, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Department Chair and Visiting Professor of Statistics and Data Science, MBZUAI
AI, Robotics, and the Living: A Research Journey and Future Perspectives
Cesare Stefanini
Director of the Biorobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) in Pontedera, Italy
September 17, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Director of the Biorobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) in Pontedera, Italy
Human-Centric Approaches for Multimodal Deepfakes Analysis
Abhinav Dhall
Associate Professor (Reader) of Computer Science at Flinders University, Australia
September 13, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Associate Professor (Reader) of Computer Science at Flinders University, Australia
Towards Controllable Swarms: Integrating Artificial Intelligence at Microscopic and Macroscopic Scales
Eliseo Ferrante
Researcher at the interface with statistical physics and evolutionary biology
September 11, 2024
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Researcher at the interface with statistical physics and evolutionary biology
Humanizing Technology with Assistive Augmentations
Suranga Nanayakkara
Associate Professor at the School of Computing and the Director of the Centre for Holistic Inquiry into Lifelong Learning (CHILL) at National University of Singapore
September 3, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Associate Professor at the School of Computing and the Director of the Centre for Holistic Inquiry into Lifelong Learning (CHILL) at National University of Singapore
Bring Your Own Kernel! Constructing High-Performance Data Management Systems from Components
Holger Pirk
Associate Professor in the Large-Scale Data and Systems group at Imperial College London
September 2, 2024
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Associate Professor in the Large-Scale Data and Systems group at Imperial College London
Unlocking Decentralized AI and Vision: Overcoming Incentive Barriers, Orchestration Challenges, and Data Silos
Ramesh Raskar
Associate Director and Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab
August 26, 2024
10:30am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 2
Associate Director and Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab
Integrating Virtual Reality and Robotics: Enhancing Human and Robot Experiences in Assistive Technologies
Tetsunari Inamura
Professor at the Advanced Intelligence & Robotics Research Center, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Japan
August 22, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Professor at the Advanced Intelligence & Robotics Research Center, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Japan
Latent Space Exploration for Safe and Trustworthy AI Models
Hassan Sajjad
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Canada, and the director of the HyperMatrix lab
August 21, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 1
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Canada, and the director of the HyperMatrix lab
Super-aligned Machine Intelligence via a Soft Touch
Chaoyang Song
Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen
August 21, 2024
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 6
Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen
Key Research in Embodied AI
Hao Dong
Assistant professor, Peking University
August 19, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Assistant professor, Peking University
Automated Decision Making for Safety Critical Applications
Mykel Kochenderfer
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University
July 22, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University
Structured World Models for Robots
Krishnan Murthy Jatavallabhula
Postdoc at MIT
June 7, 2024
3:00pm
Virtual
Postdoc at MIT
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
Past, Present and Future of Speech Technologies
Pedro Moreno
Team lead of the ASR R&D Team at Google
May 28, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Team lead of the ASR R&D Team at Google
Enabling precision medicine with single cell omics and decentralized clinical studies
Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, MBZUAI
May 23, 2024
10:00am
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, MBZUAI
Martingale-based Verification of Probabilistic Programs
Amir Goharshady
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
May 21, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 3
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Recent Advance of Two-sample Testing and Its Application in AI Security
Feng Liu
Lecturer in Machine Learning at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN-AIP, Japan
May 16, 2024
4:00pm
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Lecturer in Machine Learning at The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN-AIP, Japan
Understanding Machine Learning on Graphs: From Node Classification to Algorithmic Reasoning
Kimon Fountoulakis
Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
May 14, 2024
11:00am
MBZUAI - Classroom 7
Assistant Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Hardware Security through the Lens of Dr ML
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Visiting Professor in the school of Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
May 10, 2024
10:30am
MBZUAI - Classroom 4
Visiting Professor in the school of Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Safety of Deploying NLP Models: Uncertainty Quantification of Generative LLMs
Artem Shelmanov
Senior Research Scientist at MBZUAI, in the Natural Language Processing Department
May 6, 2024
2:00pm
MBZUAI - Lecture Hall 1
Senior Research Scientist at MBZUAI, in the Natural Language Processing Department
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