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.

Past Events

SeminarAre we experiencing a technological singularity? - Pascal Poupart, Professor, University of Waterloo
October 22, 2020
SeminarMeta-Learning - A Roadmap for Few-Shot Transfer Learning - Hugo Larochelle, Research Scientist, Google Brain
August 24, 2020
SeminarPlaying with Visual AI - Helge Rhodin, Assistant Professor, UBC
August 20, 2020
SeminarInconsistency of a Recurrent Language Model: A Question I Forgot to Ask in 2014 - Kyunghyun Cho, Associate Professor, New York University
July 20, 2020
SeminarBeyond Linearization in Neural Networks - Jason Lee, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
June 22, 2020
SeminarRethinking the Objective for Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning - Martha White, Associate Professor, University of Alberta
June 15, 2020
SeminarHalting Time is Predictable for Large Models: A Universality Property and Average-case Analysis - Courtney Paquette, Research Scientist, Google Research
June 12, 2020
SeminarHuman-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Trusted, Reliable and Safe - Ben Shneiderman, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland; Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
March 2, 2020
SeminarMachine learning for genomic medicine: Uncovering hidden structure to derive meaningful relationships - Sara Mostafavi, Assistant Professor, UBC
January 24, 2020
SeminarLearning to Anticipate - Alex Schwing, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
December 16, 2019
SeminarLearning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principle - Emtiyaz Khan, Visiting Professor, TUAT, Team Leader at RIKEN Center for AIP
December 16, 2019
SeminarImagination Inspired Vision - Mohamed H. Elhoseiny, Assistant Professor, KAUST
December 16, 2019
SeminarRecent Advances in Neural Architecture Search - Frank Hutter, Professor, University of Freiburg
December 16, 2019
SeminarGraph Neural Networks and Graph Isomorphism - Will Hamilton, Assistant Professor, McGill University
December 16, 2019
SeminarRobust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift - Zachary Chase Lipton, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
December 16, 2019
SeminarDomes to Drones: Self-Supervised Active Triangulation for 3D Human Pose Reconstruction - Cristian Sminchisescu, Professor, Lund University / Google Zurich
December 9, 2019
SeminarOn Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks: Iterative Generation and Holistic Evaluation - Graham Taylor, Associate Professor, University of Guelph
December 6, 2019
SeminarPolynomial acceleration of Gibbs sampling (from probability distributions) - Colin Fox, Associate Professor, University of Otago
November 22, 2019
SeminarNeural Stochastic Differential Equations for Irregularly-Sampled Time Series - David Duvenaud, Assistant Professor, U of T
December 6, 2019
SeminarEmbodied Learning as a Path to Intelligent Machines - Sergey Levine, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
December 9, 2019
SeminarMachine Learning for Modelling and Decision Making in Complex Physical Domains - Mark Crowley, Assistant Professor, Waterloo
November 4, 2019
SeminarCAIDA AI-Technical Seminar - The Merits of Models in Continuous Reinforcement Learning, Benjamin Recht (University of California, Berkeley)
May 9, 2019
SeminarWhat is the value of an action in ice hockey? Deep Reinforcement Learning for Context-Aware Player Evaluation - Oliver Schulte and Guiliang Liu, Simon Fraser University
March 25, 2019
SeminarArtificial Intelligence: From Analog to Digital and Back - George Dyson
March 7, 2019
SeminarAlgorithmic Accountability: Designing for Safety - Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
March 4, 2019