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Our events are organized with help from the following graduate students:

  • AI Tea Coordinators: Kaijain Zou & Frederick Zhang
  • AI Seminar Tsar: Ziqiao Ma
  • Friday Night AI Coordinators: Somayeh Molaei & Zilin Wang
  • Michigan Science Center Coordinators: Oana Ignat & Meera Kirshnamoorthy
  • NLP Day Coordinators: Sumit Asthana & Jed Yang
  • AI Blog Editors: Katsumi Ibaraki & Muhammad Khalifa

AI Seminars provide a forum for researchers in this important area to share their findings and thoughts.

OCT
02
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI Tutorials | Writing, Planning and Literature Review: Enhancing Professional Productivity with Generative AI
9:00am – 12:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
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OCT
02
2023
Other Seminar
Toward The Next-Generation Health and Well-being: The Synergy of Behavior Modeling and Intervention
Dr. Orson Xu, Postdoc, MIT EECS
11:45am – 12:50pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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OCT
05
2023
CSE Seminar
Sidestepping the Black-Box: A New Paradigm for Explainable AI
Amulya Yadav, PNC Technologies Career Development Assistant Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University
10:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building
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OCT
05
2023
Women in Computing
AGI is Coming… Is HCI Ready?
Meredith Ringel Morris, Director and Principal Scientist for Human-AI Interaction Research, Google DeepMind
3:00pm – 4:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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OCT
06
2023
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “Generative AI for Teaching and Learning: An Opportunity or a Threat?”
Moderator: Rada Mihalcea, Director,
Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Panelist: Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Director,
Masters in Applied Data Science Program
Panelist: Zara Burzo, Student,
Skyline High School
6:30pm – 7:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
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OCT
10
2023
AI Seminar
Lajanugen Logeswaran Seminar
Lajanugen Logeswaran, Research Scientist, LG AI Research
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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OCT
17
2023
Symposium
Michigan AI Symposium | Responsible AI
9:00am – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building
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OCT
18
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI Tutorials | Code Smarter, Not Harder: Harnessing Generative AI for Research Programming Efficiency
9:30am – 12:00pm in Weiser Hall
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OCT
18
2023
AI Seminar
Recent Advancements in Quantization, Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
Gaowen Liu, Research Scientist, Cisco Systems
11:00am – 12:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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OCT
20
2023
MIDAS Seminar | Symposium
MIDAS mini-symposium | AI-driven Research Workflows
8:30am – 5:00pm in Weiser Hall
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OCT
24
2023
AI Seminar
Freda Shi Seminar
Freda Shi, Incoming Assistant Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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OCT
27
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI Tutorials | Integrating Generative Image AI into Your Research Workflow
9:00am – 11:30am in Weiser Hall
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NOV
07
2023
AI Seminar
Maia Jacobs Seminar
Maia Jacobs, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Northwestern University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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NOV
13
2023
Other Event | MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Annual Data Science & AI Summit 2023
8:00am – 5:00pm in TBD
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NOV
14
2023
AI Seminar
Gloria Washington Seminar
Gloria Washington, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Howard University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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NOV
28
2023
AI Seminar
Alex Rodriguez Seminar
Alex Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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NOV
29
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI Tutorials | Making Generative AI Better for You: Fine-tuning and Experimentation for Custom Research Solutions
2:30pm – 4:30pm in Weiser Hall
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DEC
05
2023
AI Seminar
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly Seminar
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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JAN
16
2024
AI Seminar
Dejiao Zhang Seminar
Dejiao Zhang, Senior Applied Scientist, AWS AI Labs
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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Past events

SEP
29
2023
AI Seminar
Answering Why Questions about Narrative Text
Raymond J. Mooney, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
26
2023
AI Seminar
Learning to Re-create Reality in 3D
Jeong Joon Park, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
26
2023
MIDAS Seminar
AI for Medical Imaging
9:00am – 4:00pm in Rackham 4th floor Amphitheater
SEP
19
2023
AI Seminar
Postcards from the Future
Kurt Skifstad, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship , University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
15
2023
MIDAS Seminar | Symposium
MIDAS mini-symposium | Generative AI: Diffusion Models for Scientific Machine Learning
8:30am – 5:00pm in Weiser Hall
SEP
12
2023
MIDAS Seminar
NSF Priorities and Opportunities for Data Science and AI
Dr. Pamela Davis-Kean, Program Director, Developmental Science Program of the NSF SBE Directorate
2:30pm – 4:30pm
SEP
05
2023
Natural Language Processing Seminar
From NLP to socially and personally contextualized understanding | Modeling empathy in NLP for Support-Oriented Interactions
Lucie Flek , Computer Science Professor ,
University of Bonn
Allison Lahnala, Visiting Scholar in SBU CS, HLAB,
University of Bonn
12:00pm – 1:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
01
2023
AI Seminar
Measuring and Improving the Internal Conceptual Representations of Deep Learning
Ramakrishna Vedantam, Independent Researcher, New York University
1:30pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
AUG
31
2023
MIDAS Seminar
An Under the Hood Look at Generative AI: Potentials and Pitfalls | Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Series
David Evan Harris, Senior Research Fellow,
International Computer Science Institute
Rada Mihalcea, Janice M Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director, Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; ,
University of Michigan
Sarah Stone: Moderator, Executive Director, eScience Institute,
University of Washington
3:00pm – 4:30pm
AUG
30
2023
Dissertation Defense
Analysis of Situated Interactive Non-Expert Instruction of A Hierarchical Task to a Learning Robot
Preeti Ramaraj
2:00pm – 4:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
AUG
28
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Conversations on Policy, Ethics, and Generative AI | Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Series
Marjory Blumenthal
Merve Hickok, President, Center for AI & Digital Policy,
School of Information – University of Michigan
Jing Liu : Moderator, Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science,
University of Michigan
1:00pm – 2:30pm
AUG
23
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI in the Lab | Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Series
Xia Ning, Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering,
The Ohio State University
Arlei Silva, Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Rice University
Angela Wilkins: Moderator, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute,
Rice University
1:00pm – 2:30pm
AUG
14
2023
Dissertation Defense
Multiagent Learning by Iterative Refinement of Game Models
Yongzhao Wang
10:30am – 12:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
AUG
07
2023
Dissertation Defense
Neural Language Generation for Content Adaptation: Explainable, Efficient Low-Resource Text Simplification and Evaluation
Cristina Garbacea
11:00am – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual
JUL
26
2023
Dissertation Defense
Efficient Game Solving through Transfer Learning
Max Smith
4:00pm – 6:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JUL
26
2023
Generative AI for Research – a Faculty Workshop (Part II)
8:00am – 1:00pm
JUL
25
2023
Generative AI for Research – a Faculty Workshop (Part I)
9:00am – 5:00pm
JUL
17
2023
AI Seminar
Effective and Efficient Knowledge-Intensive NLP
Meng Jiang, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
11:00am – 12:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JUL
07
2023
Dissertation Defense
Discovering Structured Representations for Reinforcement Learning
Wilka Carvalho
3:00pm – 5:00pm in 3941 Beyster Building
JUN
27
2023
Dissertation Defense
Understanding, Modeling and Leveraging Temporal Change in Mental Health
Laura Biester
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
JUN
21
2023
Dissertation Defense
Towards an Algorithmic Account of Phonological Rules and Representations
Caleb Belth
10:00am – 12:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JUN
19
2023
CSE Seminar | Division Event
Human-Centered AI Transparency: Lessons Learned and Open Questions in the Age of LLMs. Lecture to be followed by panel discussion.
Q. Vera Liao, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montréal
2:00pm – 3:20pm in 2300 Ford Robotics Building
JUN
07
2023
Dissertation Defense
Cognitive Modeling of Aggregate and Individual Performance on the Remote Associates Test
Jule Schatz
10:00am – 12:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JUN
01
2023
MIDAS Seminar
NSF Priorities and Opportunities for Data Science and AI
Dr. Alfred Hero, Program Director in the NSF CISE Directorate, and the John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
1:00pm – 2:30pm in 340 West Hall
MAY
30
2023
Dissertation Defense
Where are the Humans in Human-AI Interaction: The Missing Human-Centered Perspective on Interpretability Tools for Machine Learning
Harmanpreet Kaur
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Hybrid (In-person and Remote)
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