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

EventConnecting Minds: Exploring the Intersection of AI and the Social Sciences
September 19, 2024

Past Events

SeminarEfficient and Long-Context GenAI Models - Sung Ju Hwang, KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Kim Jaechul School of Artificial Intelligence and School of Computing at KAIST
June 26, 2024
SeminarChallenges and Opportunities with Multimodal LLMs - Vicente Ordóñez-Román, Associate Professor, Rice University
April 15, 2024
SeminarFrontiers in Embodied AI for Autonomous Driving - Jamie Shotton, Chief Scientist, Wayve
April 19, 2024
Seminar2024 Constance van Eeden Seminar: Dr. Sherri Rose
April 4, 2024
SeminarA Physical perspective on Graph Neural Networks - Michael Bronstein, Professor, University of Oxford
February 23, 2024
SeminarTowards Interpretable Deep Learning - Lily Weng, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
February 26, 2024
EventTrustML Workshop @ UBC
February 28, 2024
SeminarSelf-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models - Quanquan Gu, Associate Professor, UCLA
February 27, 2024
SeminarMemory-augmented Optimizers for Deep Learning and Lifelong Learning - Sarath Chandar, Assistant Professor, Polytechnique Montreal
February 26, 2024
EventAAAI 2024 Visits
February 29, 2024
SeminarNew Advances in Safe and Efficient Large Language Models - Hongyang Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo
February 21, 2024
SeminarInverse constraint learning and risk averse reinforcement learning for safe AI - Pascal Poupart, Professor, University of Waterloo
February 29, 2024
EventTrustML for Society - December
December 1, 2023
SeminarVancouver Institute Talk - Understanding Artificial Intelligence - Kevin Leyton-Brown, Professor, UBC
November 25, 2023
SeminarOperationalizing Counterfactual Metrics: Incentives, Ranking, and Information Asymmetry - Serena Wang, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
November 30, 2023
EventQuerying AI: Social Science and Humanities Perspectives on AI in Research and Politics
October 27, 2023
EventImaging the Future
October 18, 2023
SeminarAchieving Codec Telepresence - Michael Zollhoefer, Director, Reality Labs Research (RL-R), Meta
November 20, 2023
SeminarGore Robots: From Blood and Guts to Bits and Bytes - Juan Wachs, Professor, Purdue University
October 11, 2023
SeminarDiffusion Models: From Foundations to Image, Video and 3D Content Creation - Karsten Kreis, Senior Research Scientists, NVIDIA’s Toronto AI Lab
July 18, 2023
SeminarReconstructing Training Data from Model Gradient, Provably - Qi Lei, Assistant Professor, NYU
July 11, 2023
SeminarPLAI Talk: Generative AI, Stable Diffusion, and the Revolution in Visual Synthesis - Björn Ommer, Professor, LMU
June 23, 2023
SeminarCVL Talk: Towards Reducing Human Efforts in Visual Perception and Beyond - Kaicheng Yu, Alibaba Group
June 16, 2023
SeminarCVL Talk: Multi-Object Tracking and Pose Estimation for Animals - Urs Waldmann, University of Konstanz
June 26, 2023
SeminarCVL Talk: From Video to Unsupervised Semantic 4D Reconstruction - James Tompkin, Browns
June 26, 2023