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

AI Seminars Tsar: Winston Wu
AI Teas Coordinators: Frederick Zhang and Madelyn Gatchel
AI Symposium Poster Chairs: Ziqiao “Martin” Ma and Chen Liang

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

AI Seminars Sponsor:

How (Not) to Run a Forecasting Competition: Incentives and Efficiency

Rafael Frongillo, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

9:00am – 10:30am in 3725 Beyster Building

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AI Seminar: Con Slobodchikoff – Decoding Animal Languages: Possibilities and Challenges

Con Slobodchikoff, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

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Michigan AI Symposium – AI & Accessibility

10:00am – 4:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building

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AI Seminar: David Jurgens

David Jurgens, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

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AI Seminar: Iryna Gurevich – Comment – Link – Revise: Towards a General Framework for Modelling Interconnected Texts

Iryna Gurevich, Professor, Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual

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AI Seminar: Stella Yu

Stella Yu, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

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AI Seminar: Bryan Pardo

Bryan Pardo, Professor, Computer Science and Radio, Television, and Film, Northwestern University

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

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AI Seminar: Angela Zhou

Angela Zhou, Assistant Professor, Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

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AI Seminar: Cynthia Rudin

Cynthia Rudin, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Duke University

4:00pm – 5:00pm

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Past events

AI Seminar: Benjamin Kuipers – AI, Ethics, Trust, Cooperation & Society

Benjamin Kuipers, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

AI Seminar: Rada Mihalcea – The Ups and Downs of Word Embeddings

Rada Mihacea, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building

Friday Night AI | “The school year has just started. Can AI help?”

6:30pm – 7:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown

Dissertation Defense

A Cognitive Architecture Realization of Event Cognition Capabilities

3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Towards Human Action Understanding in Social Media Videos using Multimodal Models

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Sample-Efficient Algorithms for Hard-Exploration Problems in Reinforcement Learning

4:00pm – 6:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

Dissertation Defense

Learning General and Correct Procedural Knowledge in a Cognitive Architecture

1:00pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

Friday Night AI | “Language is everywhere — and AI models of language are not far behind“

Steve Abney, Associate Professor of Linguistics,
U-M Computer Science and Engineering and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)

Ian Stewart, Postdoctoral researcher,
U-M Computer Science and Engineering and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)

7:00pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning

9:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building

Dissertation Defense

Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning: Intrinsic Rewards, Temporal Credit Assignment, State Representations, and Value-equivalent Models

9:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building

Dissertation Defense

The Value Equivalence Principle for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Christopher Grimm

1:00pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

Dissertation Defense

On Addressing the Problem of Discovery for Reinforcement Learning

2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Augmenting Structure with Text for Improved Graph Learning

10:30am – 12:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Friday Night AI | Faster than COVID: Can AI Predict a Disease’s Next Move?

Jenna Wiens, Associate Professor ,
U-M CSE, Michigan AI

Karandeep Singh, Assistant Professor ,
Michigan Medicine

7:00pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Bringing Ethics and Justice into CS Courses: The Social and Political Factors at Play in Entry-Level CS Concepts

Johanna Okerlund, Postdoctoral Fellow , University of Michigan

4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Dissertation Defense

Constructing Meaning, Piece by Piece: A Computational Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Comprehension

9:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building

Dissertation Defense

Incorporating Expert Interpretation and Reasoning to Guide Model Selection in Machine Learning

3:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building

Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences

Vera Liao, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montréal

4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Algorithmic Gaussianization in Machine Learning

Michał Dereziński, Assistant Professor, U-M CSE

4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Defining cellular identity from single-cell genomic data with machine learning

Joshua Welch, Assistant Professor, Umich Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics

4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Precision Health Seminar

Webinar: What Clinicians Need To Know when Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning–Driven Technologies in Medical Decision Making

11:30am – 12:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Expanding the frontiers of AI – Applications in Environmental Conservation and Health

Ciira wa Maina , Senior Lecturer , Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (Kenya)

1:00pm – 2:30pm in Remote/Virtual

Interactive Systems Seminar

Improving Argumentation Skill Learning Through Artificial Intelligence

Thiemo Wambsganss, Research Associate, Institute of Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)

10:00am – 11:30am in Hybrid (In-person and Remote)

Friday Night AI – “AI in Advanced Air Mobility: Drones and More“

Prof. Ella Atkins

6:30pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual

Student Event | Division Event

18th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition

4:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual

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