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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
APR
21
2025
CSE Seminar
We love being a professor. So would YOU!
APR
14
2025
Dissertation Defense
Towards Having Personalized, Situated, and Grounded Conversations with Human Like Human
Emily Bao
APR
12
2025
Symposium
Beyond Human | AI, Opera, and the Art of Machine Expression
APR
11
2025
AI Seminar
AI for Social Impact: Deployed Resource Optimization and Future Acceleration with Foundation Models
Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard U. and Google “AI for Social Good”
APR
10
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
CANCELLED: Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Akari Asai, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
APR
08
2025
AI Lab Events | Other Event
AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Siyang Liu, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan AI Lab
APR
07
2025
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Priors of Generative Models
Daniel Geng
APR
07
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Developing Responsible AI Monitoring Technologies for Chronic Care
Daniel Adler, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
APR
04
2025
AI Seminar
Generative Models of Video
Ruben Villegas, Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
APR
02
2025
Dissertation Defense
Situated Language Grounding for Multimodal AI Assistant Modeling
Yichi Zhang
APR
01
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Self-Learning Principles of Large-Scale Foundation Models
Yifei Wang, Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
27
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Neural Operator for Scientific Computing
Zongyi Li, Ph.D. Candidate, CalTech
MAR
21
2025
Symposium
What Do Large Language Models Tell Us About Human Language?
Richard Futrell, Associate Professor in Language Science,
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
Jordan Kodner, Assistant Professor of Linguistics,
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University
Ellie Pavlick, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics,
Brown University
Brown University
MAR
21
2025
AI Seminar
Optimizing for Long-Term Vision in a Fast-Paced Research World
Yulia Tsvetkov, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
MAR
19
2025
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS AI in Science and Engineering Symposium
MAR
18
2025
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS AI in Science and Engineering Symposium
MAR
17
2025
AI Lab Events | AI Seminar
The Computational Gauntlet of Human-Like Learning
Pat Langley, Director, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise; Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Design Research, Stanford University
MAR
14
2025
AI Lab Events | Friday Night AI
Friday Night AI: Listening to the Wild: Can AI Help Us Understand Animal Communication?
MAR
13
2025
Dissertation Defense
Tool-Use Robot Manipulation Tasks for Cooperative and Explainable Operations in Safety-Critical Domains
Emily Sheetz
MAR
13
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts
Jiayuan Mao, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MAR
12
2025
AI Lab Events
AI Careers and Research Panel
MAR
11
2025
AI Lab Events
NLP @ Michigan Day
FEB
27
2025
MIDAS Seminar
Can AI Be Conscious, and Why Does It Matter?
FEB
27
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Understanding and Enhancing Deep Neural Networks with Automated Interpretability
Tamar Rott Shaham, Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
FEB
20
2025
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Learning to Perceive the 4D World
Qianqian Wang, Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley