Events

CAIDA proudly hosts events to engage and connect the BC AI community and beyond.  CAIDA has three ongoing seminar series: AI & Fundamentals, AI & Applications, and AI & Ethics; attracting more than 2000 attendees since September 2019.  CAIDA also hosts larger events: our first AI showcase "Emerging Technologies: BC's AI Showcase" was in November 2020 and had over 700 registrants, and CAIDA’s 2021 Open House had almost 200 registrants.  We look forward to hosting more events to help connect the AI community.  If you would like to be notified about our upcoming events, please contact admin@caida.ubc.ca to be added to our email list.

Upcoming Events

EventAIM-SI Tutorial Series in AI: Distinguishing Distributions and Detecting (Conditional) Dependence Beyond Scalar Data - Danica Sutherland
August 27, 2025
EventAIM-SI Tutorial Series in AI: A Tutorial on AI-Guided Experimental Design and Bayesian Optimization - Geoff Pleiss
July 23, 2025
EventAIM-SI Tutorial Series in AI: Understanding Artificial Intelligence - Kevin Leyton-Brown
July 22, 2025
SeminarRandomized Asymmetric Chain of LoRA - Grigory Malinovsky, PhD student, King Abdullah University
July 21, 2025
SeminarBridge theory and practice: One-step full gradient could suffice for low-rank fine-tuning in LLMs, provably and efficiently - Fanghui Liu, Assistant Professor, Warwick University
July 21, 2025

Past Events

EventPoster Session - CAIDA/TrustML 2025 ICML Visits
July 15, 2025
SeminarTrustML in Power Grids: Security, Robustness, and Statistical Risks - Hao Zhu, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
July 15, 2025
SeminarReinforcement Learning With Constraints: From Theory to Reasoning in LLM - Lin Yang, Assistant Professor, UCLA
July 15, 2025
SeminarEfficient Inference of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based Large Models with Theoretical Guarantees - Meng Wang, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
July 15, 2025
SeminarBuilding Safe Embodied AI Systems - Qi Zhu, Professor, Northwestern University
July 15, 2025
SeminarProviding Explanations for Unsupervised Graph Learning Models - Hogun Park, Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
July 15, 2025
SeminarChallenges and Opportunities for Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models - Han Yu, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
July 15, 2025
SeminarLearning to Unlearn: Robust and Efficient Machine Unlearning for Large Foundation Models - Moontae Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
July 15, 2025
SeminarExploring Trustworthy Foundation Models: Benchmarking, Finetuning and Reasoning - Bo Han, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
July 15, 2025
EventCAIDA/TrustML 2025 ICML Visits
July 15, 2025
EventAIM-SI Tutorial Series in AI: Is Machine Learning Suitable for Your Projects?
June 24, 2025
SeminarExploring the Generative Utilities of Quantum Differential Equation Solvers - Pooya Ronagh, Research Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, Chief Technology Officer at 1QBit
June 24, 2025
EventCAIDA Faculty Lunch - April 2025
April 2, 2025
Seminar2025 Constance van Eeden Seminar: Dr. Arnaud Doucet
April 4, 2025
EventCAIDA Faculty Lunch - March 2025
March 5, 2025
SeminarCausal Inference with Unstructured Data - Yixin Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
March 4, 2025
SeminarThinking About Generating Education - Elisa Baniassad, Professor of Teaching Computer Science
February 25, 2025
EventCAIDA Faculty Lunch - February 2025
February 5, 2025
EventCAIDA Faculty Lunch - January 2025
January 15, 2025
SeminarEmbracing the Outlier Mindset: Suspicious Curiosity Implementing AI in Education Ecosystems - Patrick Parra Pennefather, Associate Professor, UBC
January 30, 2025
SeminarContrastive Learning for ML-guided MIP search - Bistra Dilkina, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
December 16, 2024
SeminarGenerative World Modeling for Embodied Agents - Sherry Yang, Assistant Professor, NYU
December 16, 2024
SeminarHighly Accurate Predictions on Small Data with the Tabular Foundation Model TabPFN - Frank Hutter, Professor, University of Freiburg
December 16, 2024
SeminarEfficient Fine-tuning via Model Reprogramming - Feng Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne
December 16, 2024
SeminarAdvancing Multimodal Vision-Language Learning - Aishwarya Agrawal, Assistant Professor, University of Montreal
December 16, 2024