MENU Events
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- AI Tea Coordinators: Kaijain Zou & Angana Borah
- AI Seminar Tsar: Ziqiao Ma
- Friday Night AI Coordinators: Yara El-Tawil (FA & WN) & Snehal Prabhudesai (WN)
- Michigan Science Center Coordinators: Meera Kirshnamoorthy & Snehal Prabhudesai (FA)
- NLP Day Coordinators: Siyang Liu & Muhammad Khalifa
- AI Blog Editors: Trenton Chang & Vaibhav Balloli
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Past Events
FEB
20
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning to Perceive the 4D World
Qianqian Wang, Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
FEB
13
2025
AI Lab Events | AI Workshop | e-HAIL Event
AI & Aging: Innovations & Challenges for Global Health: an e-HAIL in-person conversation (a joint event with the AI Lab)
Josh Ehrlich, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Robin Brewer, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information
JAN
31
2025
AI Seminar
Understanding LLMs: How They Function and How They Have Changed
Sebastian Raschka, LLM Research Engineer, Lightning AI
JAN
28
2025
AI Seminar
Harnessing collaborative intelligence in the Post-LLM world
Praneeth Vepakomma, Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
JAN
21
2025
AI Seminar
Personal Assistive Technology
Anhong Guo, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan
JAN
17
2025
Other Seminar
Sociolinguistic Competence Versus Artificial “Intelligence”: Variation in the Face of Ubiquitous Large Language Models
JAN
16
2025
AI Lab Events | Other Event
Humanoid robotics technology and product iterations
JAN
16
2025
Dissertation Defense
Learning Dense Visual Features for the Sun and Natural Scenes
Richard Higgins
DEC
17
2024
Dissertation Defense
Enhancing Video Understanding Through Deep Generative Models and Task Comprehension
Yunseok Jang
DEC
16
2024
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Compositional Structure for Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making Problems
Anthony Liu
DEC
13
2024
AI Lab Events | Friday Night AI
Friday Night AI: AI vs. The Flu: Can Technology Predict and Prevent Epidemics?
DEC
10
2024
AI Seminar
Benchmarking LLMs’ Judgments with No Gold Standard
Grant Schoenebeck, Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
DEC
03
2024
Dissertation Defense
Towards Enhanced Human-AI Interaction: A Holistic Approach to Personalization in Natural Language Processing
Christopher Clarke
DEC
03
2024
Other Event | Student Event
Power Hungry: A Discussion about AI’s Energy Usage and the Environment
NOV
25
2024
AI Seminar
Small Hybrid Language Model
Shizhe Diao, Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
NOV
22
2024
HCC Lab Seminar
Personalized Ubiquitous Computing through Predictive Behavior Modeling
Afsaneh Doryab, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Virginia
NOV
21
2024
AI Workshop
Leveraging AI to Address Poverty-related Issues
NOV
21
2024
Women in Computing
Interpretability and Adaptation of Language Models
Ndapa Nakashole, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, San Diego
NOV
19
2024
Other Event
AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
NOV
19
2024
Faculty Candidate Seminar
kNNs and Hyperparameter Optimization
Henry Chai, Assistant Teaching Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
NOV
07
2024
Dissertation Defense
Improving Graph Representation Learning with Augmentations, Uncertainty Quantification and Large Language Model Guidance
Puja Trivedi
NOV
06
2024
Other Event
Real Ethics for Artificial Agents
OCT
30
2024
AI Seminar
Web Agents: A New Frontier for Embodied Agents
Yu Su, Assistant Professor of Engineering Inclusive Excellence at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
OCT
29
2024
AI Seminar
The Next Big Thing in A.I.
OCT
25
2024
AI Seminar
Building a Unicorn Startup and Accelerating Innovation with AI Physics
Joris Poort, CEO & Founder, Rescale