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.

Events for 2020

JAN
07
2020
AI Seminar
Applications of AI for Accessibility
Robin Brewer, Assistant Professor – School of Information and Computer Science and Engineering , University of Michigan
JAN
14
2020
AI Seminar
Software Engineering Intelligence
Marouane Kessentini, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science , University of Michigan – Dearborn
JAN
21
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Foundations of Intelligent Systems with (Deep) Function Approximators
Simon Du, Postdoc, Institute for Advanced Study
JAN
21
2020
AI Seminar
Language Grounding in Situated Communication
Joyce Chai, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
JAN
22
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Distributive Justice for Machine Learning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Defining, Measuring, and Remedying Algorithmic Unfairness
Hoda Heidari, Postdoc, Cornell University
JAN
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Agent-based Models for Analyzing Strategic Adaptations to Government Regulation
Frank Cheng
JAN
28
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Improving Team Performance and Dynamics within Human-Robot Teams
Sarah Sebo, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
JAN
30
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
David Abel, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
JAN
30
2020
AI Seminar
NumPy: A look at the past, present, and future of array computation
Ross Barnowski, Postdoctoral Scholar
FEB
17
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Efficient Machine Learning via Data Summarization
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Postdoc, Stanford University
FEB
20
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
New Approaches to Real-Time Robotic Mapping and Information Gathering
Maani Ghaffari Jadidi, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
FEB
25
2020
AI Seminar
Distortion-based Analysis of Voting: Limited Communication, and an Analysis Framework based on LP Duality and Flows
David Kempe , Professor, Computer Science, University of Southern California
FEB
26
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Machine Learning for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Aditya Grover, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
FEB
27
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
The Value Alignment Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
MAR
09
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scalability and Methods of Deep Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint
Kenji Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
MAR
19
2020
Dissertation Defense
Robust Scene Estimation for Goal-directed Robotic Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
Zhiqiang Sui
MAR
25
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Designing Collective Behavior in Robotic Swarms
Justin Werfel, Sr. Research Scientist, Harvard University
APR
06
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Language Grounding with Robots
Jesse Thomason, Postdoc, University of Washington
APR
15
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Structured-Infused and Disentangled Representation Learning
Xuezhe Ma, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
APR
16
2020
CSE Seminar
Understanding and Generating Natural Language of Complex Discourse
Lu Wang, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
APR
21
2020
Dissertation Defense
Making and Keeping Probabilistic Commitments for Trustworthy Multiagent Coordination
Qi Zhang
APR
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Efficiently Finding Approximately-Optimal Queries for Improving Policies and Guaranteeing Safety
Shun Zhang
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar | Dissertation Defense
Efficient Belief Propagation for Perception and Manipulation in Clutter
Karthik Desingh
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar
Learning sight from sound
Andrew Owens, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
MAY
29
2020
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “AI & COVID-19”
JUN
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Automatic Designs in Deep Neural Networks
Lanlan Liu
JUN
12
2020
Dissertation Defense
Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments
Chaowei Xiao
JUN
23
2020
Dissertation Defense
Learning Single-Image 3D from the Internet
Weifeng Chen
JUN
29
2020
Dissertation Defense
Robust Deep Learning in the Open World with Lifelong Learning and Representation Learning
Kibok Lee
JUN
30
2020
Dissertation Defense
Learning to Generate 3D Training Data
Dawei Yang
JUL
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Unsupervised Structural Embedding Methods for Efficient Collective Network Mining
Mark Heimann
JUL
15
2020
Dissertation Defense
Understanding Word Embedding Stability Across Languages and Applications
Laura Burdick
JUL
24
2020
Dissertation Defense
Machine Learning for Physiological Time Series: Representing and Controlling Blood Glucose for Diabetes Management
Ian Fox
AUG
14
2020
Dissertation Defense
Models and Algorithms for Human Action Understanding
Jonathan Stroud
SEP
22
2020
AI Seminar
Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19
Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer at Allen Institute for AI
OCT
02
2020
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “AI to Address Misinformation and Fake News”
OCT
06
2020
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar | Women in Computing
Pascale Fung | Deeper Conversational AI
Pascale Fung, Professor of Electronic & Computer Engineering, and Computer Science & Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
OCT
20
2020
AI Seminar | CSE Seminar | Women in Computing
Danielle Belgrave | ML for Personalized Mental Healthcare
Danielle Belgrave, Machine Learning Researcher, Health Intelligence Group, Microsoft Research
OCT
30
2020
Other Event
Michigan AI Symposium – AI & Health
NOV
03
2020
AI Seminar | Computer Vision Seminar
Jitendra Malik | Where Do We Come From, What Are We Doing, Where Are We Going
Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engg & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
NOV
11
2020
Student Event
17th Annual CSE GRADUATE HONORS COMPETITION
DEC
09
2020
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Longitudinal Data for Personalized Prediction and Word Representations
Charles Welch
DEC
21
2020
Dissertation Defense
Computational Modeling and Design of Financial Markets: Towards Manipulation-Resistant and Expressive Markets
Xintong Wang