Videos

View recordings of our seminars >

Events

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.

Past events

MAR
19
2024
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Symposium | The AI in Science and Engineering annual symposium
8:00am – 5:00pm in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
MAR
18
2024
MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Symposium | The AI in Science and Engineering annual symposium
8:00am – 5:00pm in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
JAN
16
2024
AI Seminar
Dejiao Zhang Seminar
Dejiao Zhang, Senior Applied Scientist, AWS AI Labs
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
DEC
06
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Rewriting Conventional Societal Narratives with Data and AI
1:30pm – 4:30pm in Weiser Hall
DEC
06
2023
CSE Seminar
Bridging the Socio-Technical Gap: Towards Explainable and Responsible AI
Q. Vera Liao, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
DEC
05
2023
AI Seminar
Realizing AI for Impact: Uncertainty and Human-Agent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems for Public Health and Conservation
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
DEC
05
2023
AI Seminar | Dissertation Defense
Data-driven Solutions for Blood Glucose Management
Harry Rubin-Falcone, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
10:00am – 12:00pm in 3941 Beyster Building
DEC
04
2023
CSE Seminar
Computing and AI: Traversing the Journey from Innovation to Convergence to Translation
Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
DEC
01
2023
William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture
Why do large AI models display new and complex skills?
Sanjeev Arora, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
3:30pm – 4:30pm in 1670 Beyster Building
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
NOV
28
2023
AI Seminar
Bridging AI, Data, and Epidemiological Models
Alexander Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
16
2023
AI Seminar
Automatically Capturing and Reflecting Latent Label Dependencies in Machine Learning Models
Jay-Yoon Lee, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
16
2023
Dissertation Defense
Human-Centered Natural Language Processing for Countering Misinformation
Ashkan Kazemi
11:00am – 1:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
14
2023
AI Seminar
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Howard University
Gloria Washington, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Howard University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
14
2023
Other Event | MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Annual Data Science & AI Summit 2023
8:30am – 5:30pm in Rackham Graduate School
NOV
13
2023
Other Event | MIDAS Seminar
MIDAS Annual Data Science & AI Summit 2023
8:30am – 5:30pm in Rackham Graduate School
NOV
07
2023
AI Seminar
Interaction Design Challenges for AI in Medicine
Maia Jacobs, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Northwestern University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
07
2023
Dissertation Defense
Aligning Objectives of Machine Learning with Clinical Care
Fahad Kamran
12:30pm – 2:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
06
2023
Division Event
20th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition
4:00pm – 6:00pm in 1620 Beyster Building (CAEN Lab)
OCT
27
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Generative AI Tutorials | Integrating Generative Image AI into Your Research Workflow
9:00am – 11:30am in Weiser Hall
OCT
25
2023
Other Seminar
Unifying the Cognitive Sciences
Karl Friston, Professor of Imaging Neuroscience
1:00pm – 2:00pm in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
OCT
24
2023
AI Seminar
Learning Syntactic Structures from Visually Grounded Text and Speech
Freda Shi, Incoming Assistant Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
OCT
20
2023
MIDAS Seminar | Symposium
MIDAS mini-symposium | AI-driven Research Workflows
8:30am – 5:00pm in Weiser Hall
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
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
OCT
17
2023
Symposium
Michigan AI Symposium | Responsible AI
9:00am – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building
OCT
10
2023
AI Seminar
Task Planning with Large Language Models
Lajanugen Logeswaran, Research Scientist, LG AI Research
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
MAY
16
2023
MIDAS Seminar
From Theory to Practice: Building Ethical and Trustworthy AI
9:00am – 5:00pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
MAY
12
2023
Other Seminar
Friday Night AI | ChatGPT: What is it and what are its abilities and limitations?
6:30pm – 7:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
MAY
11
2023
AI Seminar
Preparing for Your Industrial Job Search
Lei Li, Director of Digital Innovation in P&G’s Feminine Care Business
Pete Ellingson, R&D Director and Open Innovation Manager in P&G’s Corporate R&D function
Hua Hu, Director, Principal Scientist in P&G’s Fabric and Home Care R&D focusing on M&S and DI to design devices, equipment, and processes across FHC
2:00pm – 4:00pm in GM Conference Room (4231 LEC)
MAY
10
2023
Dissertation Defense
Implicit Design Choices and Their Impact on Emotion Recognition Model Development and Evaluation
Mimansa Jaiswal
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
APR
21
2023
Other Event
“The Future of Fintech” Conference
8:30am – 4:00pm in Tauber Colloquium, Ross School of Business
APR
19
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Data and AI in Society Forum Series: Generative AI, Composition, and Creativity
3:30pm – 4:30pm in Watkins Lecture Hall, Earl V. Moore Building, School of Music
APR
19
2023
Division Event
NLP @ Michigan Day
10:00am – 2:00pm in Tishman Hall, Beyster Building
APR
17
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Implementing AI in Health
8:30am – 4:00pm in Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons
APR
13
2023
MIDAS Seminar
Responsible Data Science and AI mini-symposium
1:30pm – 5:30pm in Rackham 4th floor Amphitheater
APR
04
2023
AI Seminar
Exploiting Domain Knowledge and Modular Semantics in Deep Learning for Natural Language Comprehension and Grounding
Parisa Kordjamshidi, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
APR
03
2023
MIDAS Seminar
AI in Science & Engineering Day
9:00am – 5:00pm in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
MAR
23
2023
AI Seminar
A Defense of (Empirical) Neural Tangent Kernels
Danica Sutherland, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
4:00pm – 5:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
MAR
16
2023
Natural Language Processing Seminar | Women in Computing
Systematic Study of 75K Models on Hugging Face
Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Research Lead, Hugging Face
9:00am – 10:30am in Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center
JAN
31
2023
AI Seminar | Women in Computing
Confounding-Robust Policy Learning under Sequentially Exogenous Unobserved Confounders
Angela Zhou, Assistant Professor, Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
24
2023
AI Seminar
AI Seminar: Cynthia Rudin – Understanding How Dimension Reduction Tools Work
Cynthia Rudin, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Duke University
4:00pm – 5:00pm
DEC
13
2022
AI Seminar
CANCELLED – AI Seminar: Bryan Pardo – VoiceBlock: Privacy through Real-Time Adversarial Attacks with Audio-to-Audio Models
Bryan Pardo, Professor, Computer Science and Radio, Television, and Film, Northwestern University
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
DEC
08
2022
Women in Computing | CSE Seminar
DNA Punch-Cards: Implementations and Coding-Theoretic Questions
Olgica Milenkovic, Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual
DEC
06
2022
AI Seminar
AI Seminar: Stella Yu – Unsupervised Data-Driven Learning of Visual Hierarchy
Stella Yu, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
29
2022
AI Seminar
AI Seminar: Iryna Gurevych – 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
NOV
28
2022
Dissertation Defense
Theory of Mind in Collaborative Tasks between Embodied Agents
Paul Bara
11:00am – 1:00pm in 3901 Beyster Building
NOV
11
2022
Other Seminar
Friday Night AI | “Is AI Robust Enough to Withstand Attacks?”
6:30pm – 7:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
NOV
08
2022
AI Seminar
AI Seminar: David Jurgens – Does chocolate really cure cancer? Modeling Information Change in Science Communication
David Jurgens, Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
07
2022
Dissertation Defense
Towards Generalizable Neural Networks for Graph Applications
Yujun Yan
12:00pm – 2:00pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
05
2022
Symposium
Michigan AI Symposium – AI & Accessibility
9:00am – 5:00pm in 1670 Beyster Building
OCT
11
2022
AI Seminar
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
OCT
06
2022
Other Seminar
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
OCT
04
2022
AI Seminar
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
SEP
27
2022
AI Seminar
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
SEP
23
2022
Other Seminar
Friday Night AI | “The school year has just started. Can AI help?”
6:30pm – 7:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
AUG
02
2022
Dissertation Defense
A Cognitive Architecture Realization of Event Cognition Capabilities
Steven Jones
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
JUL
28
2022
Dissertation Defense
Towards Human Action Understanding in Social Media Videos using Multimodal Models
Oana Ignat
2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual
JUL
06
2022
Dissertation Defense
Sample-Efficient Algorithms for Hard-Exploration Problems in Reinforcement Learning
Yijie Guo
4:00pm – 6:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JUL
05
2022
Dissertation Defense
Learning General and Correct Procedural Knowledge in a Cognitive Architecture
Mazin Assanie
1:00pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JUL
01
2022
Other Event
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
JUN
27
2022
Dissertation Defense
Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Megan Shearer
9:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building
JUN
16
2022
Dissertation Defense
Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning: Intrinsic Rewards, Temporal Credit Assignment, State Representations, and Value-equivalent Models
Zeyu Zheng
9:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building
APR
26
2022
Dissertation Defense
The Value Equivalence Principle for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Christopher Grimm
1:00pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
APR
12
2022
Dissertation Defense
On Addressing the Problem of Discovery for Reinforcement Learning
Vivek Veeriah
2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual
APR
11
2022
Dissertation Defense
Augmenting Structure with Text for Improved Graph Learning
Tara Safavi
10:30am – 12:30pm in Remote/Virtual
APR
08
2022
Other Event
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
MAR
22
2022
AI Seminar
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
MAR
17
2022
Dissertation Defense
Constructing Meaning, Piece by Piece: A Computational Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Comprehension
Peter Lindes
9:00am – 11:00am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
23
2022
Dissertation Defense
Incorporating Expert Interpretation and Reasoning to Guide Model Selection in Machine Learning
Jiaxuan Wang
3:00pm – 5:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
08
2022
AI Seminar
Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences
Vera Liao, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montréal
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
FEB
01
2022
AI Seminar
Algorithmic Gaussianization in Machine Learning
Michał Dereziński, Assistant Professor, U-M CSE
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
JAN
25
2022
AI Seminar
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
DEC
09
2021
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
DEC
07
2021
AI Seminar
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
NOV
19
2021
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)
NOV
12
2021
Other Event
Friday Night AI – “AI in Advanced Air Mobility: Drones and More“
Prof. Ella Atkins
6:30pm – 8:00pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
10
2021
Student Event | Division Event
18th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition
4:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
09
2021
AI Seminar
Neural Architecture
Matias del Campo, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
02
2021
AI Seminar
Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction
Cynthia Matuszek, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
4:00pm – 5:30pm
OCT
26
2021
AI Seminar
Inference and the “Racial Drama” of AI
Dr. Ramon Amaro, Lecturer (Assistant Professor equiv.) in Art & Visual Cultures of the Global South, University College London (UCL)
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
19
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation: The Curious Case of Figurative Language and Argumentation
Smaranda Muresan , Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Univ.
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
12
2021
AI Seminar
The facebook files at training time: incentivizing discrimination in machine learning
Benjamin Fish, Assistant Professor, U-M CSE
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Hybrid (In-person and Remote)
OCT
05
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Continual Language Learning through Collaborative Interaction with Users
Yoav Artzi , Associate Professor, Cornell Tech and Computer Science Department at Cornell University
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
01
2021
Distinguished Lecture
Natural Language Processing with People, for People, by People
Rada Mihalcea, Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 6:00pm in 1050 Ford Robotics Building
SEP
28
2021
AI Seminar
Machine Learning and Causality: Building Efficient, Reliable Models for Decision-Making
Maggie Makar, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M CSE
4:00pm – 5:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
17
2021
Other Event
Racial Disparities in Legal Enforcement: The promises (and perils) of AI?
Prof. Nicholas Camp and Prof. David Jurgens
7:00pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
JUN
03
2021
Dissertation Defense
A Comprehensive Computational Model of PRIMs Theory for Task-Independent Procedural Learning
Bryan Stearns
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
MAY
28
2021
e-HAIL Event
Virtual e-HAIL Launch Event
2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual
APR
27
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Empathy in peer-to-peer mental health support
Tim Althoff , Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
11:30am – 12:30pm
APR
26
2021
Dissertation Defense
Sample efficient learning and generalization with text representations
Lajanugen Logeswaran
1:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual
APR
13
2021
Dissertation Defense
On Learning Neural End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog Systems
Janarthanan Rajendran
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
MAR
30
2021
AI Seminar
Toward Broad and Deep Language Processing for Intelligent Systems
Marjorie McShane, Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Department Co-Director LEIA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4:00pm – 5:00pm
FEB
24
2021
Dissertation Defense
Improving the Generalization Performance of Deep Learning Models Applied to Clinical Time Series by Addressing Task Specific Structure
Jeeheh Oh
10:00am – 12:00pm in Remote/Virtual
FEB
18
2021
Cultural/Diversity
That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives
Chad Jenkins, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
12:00pm – 1:00pm in Remote/Virtual
FEB
17
2021
Other Event
AI’s Impact on Research
Chad Jenkins, Oren Etzioni, Dan Huttenlocher, Maria Klawe
2:00pm – 3:00pm in Remote/Virtual
JAN
13
2021
Dissertation Defense
Expanding Task Diversity in Explanation-Based Interactive Task Learning
Aaron Mininger
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
DEC
21
2020
Dissertation Defense
Computational Modeling and Design of Financial Markets: Towards Manipulation-Resistant and Expressive Markets
Xintong Wang
2:00pm – 4:00pm in Remote/Virtual
DEC
09
2020
Dissertation Defense
Leveraging Longitudinal Data for Personalized Prediction and Word Representations
Charles Welch
3:00pm – 5:00pm in Remote/Virtual
NOV
11
2020
Student Event
17th Annual CSE GRADUATE HONORS COMPETITION
4:00pm – 6:00pm in Remote/Virtual
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
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
30
2020
Other Event
Michigan AI Symposium – AI & Health
10:00am – 4:00pm
OCT
20
2020
AI Seminar | Women in Computing | CSE Seminar
Danielle Belgrave | ML for Personalized Mental Healthcare
Danielle Belgrave, Machine Learning Researcher, Health Intelligence Group, Microsoft Research
4:00pm – 5:30pm in Remote/Virtual
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
12:00pm – 1:30pm in Remote/Virtual
OCT
02
2020
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “AI to Address Misinformation and Fake News”
7:00pm – 8:30pm
SEP
22
2020
AI Seminar
Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19
Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer at Allen Institute for AI
4:00pm – 5:30pm
AUG
14
2020
Dissertation Defense
Models and Algorithms for Human Action Understanding
Jonathan Stroud
1:00pm – 3:00pm
JUL
24
2020
Dissertation Defense
Machine Learning for Physiological Time Series: Representing and Controlling Blood Glucose for Diabetes Management
Ian Fox
3:00pm – 5:00pm
JUL
15
2020
Dissertation Defense
Understanding Word Embedding Stability Across Languages and Applications
Laura Burdick
2:00pm – 4:00pm
JUL
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Unsupervised Structural Embedding Methods for Efficient Collective Network Mining
Mark Heimann
12:00pm – 2:00pm
JUN
30
2020
Dissertation Defense
Learning to Generate 3D Training Data
Dawei Yang
10:00am – 12:00pm
JUN
29
2020
Dissertation Defense
Robust Deep Learning in the Open World with Lifelong Learning and Representation Learning
Kibok Lee
10:00am – 12:00pm
JUN
23
2020
Dissertation Defense
Learning Single-Image 3D from the Internet
Weifeng Chen
10:00am – 12:00pm
JUN
12
2020
Dissertation Defense
Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments
Chaowei Xiao
11:00am – 1:00pm
JUN
10
2020
Dissertation Defense
Automatic Designs in Deep Neural Networks
Lanlan Liu
2:00pm – 4:00pm
MAY
29
2020
Other Event
Friday Night AI: “AI & COVID-19”
7:00pm – 8:30pm
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar
Learning sight from sound
Andrew Owens, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:15pm in Remote/Virtual
MAY
05
2020
AI Seminar | Dissertation Defense
Efficient Belief Propagation for Perception and Manipulation in Clutter
Karthik Desingh
3:00pm – 5:00pm
APR
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Efficiently Finding Approximately-Optimal Queries for Improving Policies and Guaranteeing Safety
Shun Zhang
3:30pm – 5:30pm
APR
21
2020
Dissertation Defense
Making and Keeping Probabilistic Commitments for Trustworthy Multiagent Coordination
Qi Zhang
8:00am – 10:00am
APR
16
2020
CSE Seminar
Understanding and Generating Natural Language of Complex Discourse
Lu Wang, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
APR
15
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Towards Structured-Infused and Disentangled Representation Learning
Xuezhe Ma, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
APR
06
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Language Grounding with Robots
Jesse Thomason, Postdoc, University of Washington
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
MAR
25
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Designing Collective Behavior in Robotic Swarms
Justin Werfel, Sr. Research Scientist, Harvard University
10:30am – 11:30am in Remote/Virtual
MAR
19
2020
Dissertation Defense
Robust Scene Estimation for Goal-directed Robotic Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
Zhiqiang Sui
10:30am – 12:30pm
MAR
09
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Scalability and Methods of Deep Learning from an Optimization Viewpoint
Kenji Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
27
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
The Value Alignment Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
26
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Machine Learning for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Aditya Grover, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
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
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
FEB
17
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Efficient Machine Learning via Data Summarization
Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Postdoc, Stanford University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
30
2020
AI Seminar
NumPy: A look at the past, present, and future of array computation
Ross Barnowski, Postdoctoral Scholar
1:30pm – 3:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
30
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
David Abel, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
28
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Improving Team Performance and Dynamics within Human-Robot Teams
Sarah Sebo, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
22
2020
Dissertation Defense
Agent-based Models for Analyzing Strategic Adaptations to Government Regulation
Frank Cheng
1:30pm – 3:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
21
2020
AI Seminar
Language Grounding in Situated Communication
Joyce Chai, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
21
2020
Faculty Candidate Seminar
Foundations of Intelligent Systems with (Deep) Function Approximators
Simon Du, Postdoc, Institute for Advanced Study
10:30am – 11:30am in 3725 Beyster Building
JAN
14
2020
AI Seminar
Software Engineering Intelligence
Marouane Kessentini, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science , University of Michigan – Dearborn
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
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
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
22
2019
Other Event
Friday Night AI – Teaching Robots through Natural Interactions
Prof. John Laird and Prof. Joyce Chai
7:00pm – 8:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
NOV
19
2019
AI Seminar
From Recognition to Reasoning
Justin Johnson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
12
2019
AI Seminar
Joint Models for Social, Behavioral and Textual Information
Dan Goldwasser, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Purdue University
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
05
2019
AI Seminar
Toward Human-Like AI: Cognitive Architecture, Common Model of Cognition & Interactive Task Learning
John E. Laird, John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
OCT
19
2019
Other Event | Symposium
Michigan AI Symposium – “AI for Society”
Prof. Doina Precup
8:30am – 5:30pm in Tishman Hall, Beyster Building
OCT
08
2019
AI Seminar
Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning for HealthCare
Rich Caruana, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
OCT
01
2019
AI Seminar
Computational exercises of creative language
Carlo Strapparava, Senior Researcher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Istituto per la ricerca scientifica e Tecnologica
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
27
2019
Other Event
Friday Night AI – AI, Personalized Technology, and Mental Health When
Prof. Emily Mower Provost and Prof. Melvin Mcinnis
7:00pm – 8:30pm in Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown
SEP
24
2019
AI Seminar
Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play
Michael P. Wellman, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
4:00pm – 5:15pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
12
2019
Dissertation Defense
Multimodal Character Representation for Visual Story Understanding
Mahmoud Azab
10:30am – 12:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
10
2019
Dissertation Defense
Learning Hierarchical Compositional Task Definitions through Online Situated Interactive Language Instruction
James Kirk
10:30am – 12:30pm in 3725 Beyster Building
SEP
10
2019
Dissertation Defense
Demographic-Aware Natural Language Processing
Aparna Garimella
9:00am – 11:00am in 3316 EECS Building
AUG
29
2019
Dissertation Defense
Addressing Variability in Speech when Recognizing Emotion and Mood In-the-Wild
John Gideon
12:00pm – 2:00pm in 3725 Beyster Building
NOV
13
2018
Distinguished Lecture
From Reinforcement Learning to Artificial Intelligence
Satinder Singh Baveja, Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence
4:00pm – 6:00pm in Gerald R. Ford Library
MAY
05
2016
Distinguished Lecture
Professorship Lecture and Ceremony:
Autonomous Agents: Threat or Menace?
Michael P. Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
3:30pm – 4:30pm in Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd floor)
2023202220212020201920182017