Events

Sign up for our mailing list if you would like to be notified about our public events. Our events are organized with help from the following graduate students:

  • 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

AI Seminars provide a forum for researchers in this important area to share their findings and thoughts. If you are interested in supporting Michigan AI events, please consider donating by clicking here.

Past Events

JUN
26
2025
Dissertation Defense
‘Hacking’ Assistive Technology: Creating Personal AI Tools for Access
Jaylin Herskovitz
JUN
09
2025
Dissertation Defense
Minimal 3D Priors for Sparse View Reconstruction
Chris Rockwell
JUN
06
2025
AI Lab Events | Friday Night AI
Friday Night AI: Rethinking Privacy in the Age of AI: Who’s Watching, Who’s Protecting
JUN
03
2025
Dissertation Defense
Conversational Modeling for Healthcare Communication
Do June Min
MAY
27
2025
Dissertation Defense
Modeling Affect in Speech and Language in the Presence of Natural Inconsistency
Minxue Niu
MAY
15
2025
Dissertation Defense
Towards Scalable and Stable Machine Learning in Clinical Contexts: Addressing Computational Efficiency and Dataset Shift
Meera Krishnamoorthy
MAY
13
2025
Dissertation Defense
Towards Generalist Vision-Language Models for Videos in Embodied AI
Peter Yu
MAY
13
2025
Other Seminar
Integrating AI and Digital Health in Medical and Dental Practices: From Evidence-Based Clinical Implementation to Research Innovation
MAY
12
2025
Dissertation Defense
Towards Controllability, Efficiency, and Trustworthiness of Text Generation Systems
Shuyang Cao
MAY
08
2025
AI Lab Events | AI Seminar
NLP is Dead, Long Live NLP
Pascale Fung, Chair Professor, HKUST
MAY
05
2025
AI Seminar
Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics
Haifeng Xu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Chicago
MAY
02
2025
AI Seminar | Alumni
Data Attribution: A Principled Approach for Data-Centric AI
Jiaqi Ma, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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
Jordan Kodner, Assistant Professor of Linguistics,
Stony Brook University
Ellie Pavlick, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics,
Brown University