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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 2022

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
FEB
01
2022
AI Seminar
Algorithmic Gaussianization in Machine Learning
Michał Dereziński, Assistant Professor, U-M CSE
FEB
08
2022
AI Seminar
Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences
Vera Liao, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montréal
FEB
23
2022
Dissertation Defense
Incorporating Expert Interpretation and Reasoning to Guide Model Selection in Machine Learning
Jiaxuan Wang
MAR
17
2022
Dissertation Defense
Constructing Meaning, Piece by Piece: A Computational Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Comprehension
Peter Lindes
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
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
APR
11
2022
Dissertation Defense
Augmenting Structure with Text for Improved Graph Learning
Tara Safavi
APR
12
2022
Dissertation Defense
On Addressing the Problem of Discovery for Reinforcement Learning
Vivek Veeriah
APR
26
2022
Dissertation Defense
The Value Equivalence Principle for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Christopher Grimm
JUN
16
2022
Dissertation Defense
Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning: Intrinsic Rewards, Temporal Credit Assignment, State Representations, and Value-equivalent Models
Zeyu Zheng
JUN
27
2022
Dissertation Defense
Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Megan Shearer
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)
JUL
05
2022
Dissertation Defense
Learning General and Correct Procedural Knowledge in a Cognitive Architecture
Mazin Assanie
JUL
06
2022
Dissertation Defense
Sample-Efficient Algorithms for Hard-Exploration Problems in Reinforcement Learning
Yijie Guo
JUL
28
2022
Dissertation Defense
Towards Human Action Understanding in Social Media Videos using Multimodal Models
Oana Ignat
AUG
02
2022
Dissertation Defense
A Cognitive Architecture Realization of Event Cognition Capabilities
Steven Jones
SEP
23
2022
Other Seminar
Friday Night AI | “The school year has just started. Can AI help?”
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
OCT
04
2022
AI Seminar
AI Seminar: Benjamin Kuipers – AI, Ethics, Trust, Cooperation & Society
Benjamin Kuipers, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
OCT
06
2022
Other Seminar
How (Not) to Run a Forecasting Competition: Incentives and Efficiency
Rafael Frongillo, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
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
NOV
05
2022
Symposium
Michigan AI Symposium – AI & Accessibility
NOV
07
2022
Dissertation Defense
Towards Generalizable Neural Networks for Graph Applications
Yujun Yan
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
NOV
11
2022
Other Seminar
Friday Night AI | “Is AI Robust Enough to Withstand Attacks?”
NOV
28
2022
Dissertation Defense
Theory of Mind in Collaborative Tasks between Embodied Agents
Paul Bara
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
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
DEC
08
2022
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
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