Vanderbilt Machine Learning

Our Fall Series is here! ✅ Open to the Public: No registration! ✅ Date & Time: Every Monday, starting 08/14/2023 at 12:10 PM Central Time ✅ How to Join: Visit our website (vu.edu/ML/) on Mondays or use the link in this flyer.

Congratulations to our own Assistant Professor @SKolouri for receiving the prestigious NSF Career Award. Well deserved!

Our first speaker for the Fall will be Dr. Taco Cohen from Qualcomm AI Research. In his upcoming talk on Mon 08/14, Dr. Cohen will introduce the Geometric Algebra Transformer (GATr), a novel and general-purpose architecture for geometric data. Tune in to join us. See you there!

We are back with the Summer Seminar! This coming Monday (06/05/23), we are thrilled to welcome Jason Wei from OpenAI. He will discuss the emergent abilities of LLMs. Tune in at 12:10 PM Central Time to join us! For more info, visit vu.edu/ML

We are thrilled to be hosting Dr. Diederik P. Kingma (Google Brain) today (04/17/2023). He will discuss recent breakthroughs in understanding state-of-the-art diffusion models as infinitely deep variational autoencoders. Please tune in to join us soon at 12:10PM(CT).

We are thrilled to be hosting Prof. Thomas Beckers (Vanderbilt CS) this upcoming Monday (03/06/2023). Prof. Beckers will discuss several topics and results related to safe-learning-based control of partially unknown mechanical systems. Please join us at 12:10PM(CT).

We are very excited to host our next guest speaker, incoming Assistant Professor Guanya Shi at CMU RI/SCS, this upcoming Monday (Feb 27th). He will discuss his exciting work at the intersection of learning and control. Please tune in at 12:10 PM Central Time to join us.

We are delighted to host our next guest speaker, Dr. Thomas Kipf from Google Research, this upcoming Monday (Feb 20th). Dr. Kipf will discuss his team's recent, exciting work on structured scene understanding. Please tune in at 12:10 PM CT to join.

We are very excited to be hosting Dr. Brandon Amos (Meta AI) as our next guest speaker this upcoming Monday (02/13/2023). He will talk about the integration of optimization and ML methods, with an emphasis on differentiable/amortized optimization. Please join us at 12:10PM(CT).

We are thrilled to be hosting our special guest speaker, Prof. Nhat Ho from UT-Austin, this coming Monday (Feb 6th). Join us by visiting vu.edu/ML at 12:10 CT. Prof Nhat Ho will focus on different perspectives of the Sliced Wasserstein Distances.

We are super excited to host our next special guest speaker, Prof. Animesh Garg from GATech/NVIDIA, this upcoming Monday (Jan 30th). Please tune in at 12:10 CT to join. Prof Garg will focus on the notions of structure in Embodied AI for perception and decision-making.

We are delighted to host our special guest speaker, Prof. Naghizadeh from OSU in our first seminar talk on Monday, Jan 23rd, at 12:10 CT. Prof. Naghizadeh will discuss fairness in AI. For more details, please visit vu.edu/ML

The Spring 2023 Machine Learning Seminar Series is here! We are now opening our doors to the public for the first time. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from and engage with leading scientists in the field. Request virtual access to our weekly talks at lnkd.in/eX3VDdKs