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AI Seminar Tsar: Ziqiao Ma
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Events for 2025

Dissertation Defense

Learning Dense Visual Features for the Sun and Natural Scenes

Richard Higgins

AI Lab Events | Other Event

Humanoid robotics technology and product iterations

Sociolinguistic Competence Versus Artificial “Intelligence”: Variation in the Face of Ubiquitous Large Language Models

Personal Assistive Technology

Anhong Guo, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan

Harnessing collaborative intelligence in the Post-LLM world

Praneeth Vepakomma, Assistant Professor, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

Understanding LLMs: How They Function and How They Have Changed

Sebastian Raschka, LLM Research Engineer, Lightning AI

AI Lab Events | AI Workshop | e-HAIL Event

AI & Aging: Innovations & Challenges for Global Health: an e-HAIL in-person conversation (a joint event with the AI Lab)

Josh Ehrlich, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Robin Brewer, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Information

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Learning to Perceive the 4D World

Qianqian Wang, Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Understanding and Enhancing Deep Neural Networks with Automated Interpretability

Tamar Rott Shaham, Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Can AI Be Conscious, and Why Does It Matter?

AI Lab Events | NLP Day

NLP @ Michigan Day

AI Careers and Research Panel

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

Jiayuan Mao, Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dissertation Defense

Tool-Use Robot Manipulation Tasks for Cooperative and Explainable Operations in Safety-Critical Domains

AI Lab Events | Friday Night AI

Friday Night AI: Listening to the Wild: Can AI Help Us Understand Animal Communication?

AI Lab Events | AI Seminar

The Computational Gauntlet of Human-Like Learning

Pat Langley, Director, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise; Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Design Research, Stanford University

MIDAS AI in Science and Engineering Symposium

MIDAS AI in Science and Engineering Symposium

Optimizing for Long-Term Vision in a Fast-Paced Research World

Yulia Tsvetkov, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

Marshall M. Weinberg 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

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Neural Operator for Scientific Computing

Zongyi Li, Ph.D. Candidate, CalTech

Ruben Villegas Guest Lecture

Milind Tambe Guest Lecture

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