Fwd: Please share -- MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum – June 4–5 in Boston

[Hongyang R. Zhang]

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a good day.

I am forwarding an AI Forum event for the organizers, June 4-5, in Boston. Please take a look at the program information, including the registration link below.

Thanks,

Hongyang

 

Subject: MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum – June 4–5 in Boston

 

We are pleased to share details of the upcoming MBZUAI East Coast AI Forum, which will feature a series of lightning talks and panel discussions on the future of artificial intelligence. The event will bring together leading researchers and academics to explore emerging frontiers in AI and its role in addressing global challenges.

 

Venue: W Boston, 100 Stuart St, Boston, MA 02116 Map & Directions

June 4: AI Forum (tentative program below)

June 5: Meetings (by prior appointment) with MBZUAI department chairs

 

Travel reimbursement and accommodation support will be available for selected participants. Space is limited and early responses are encouraged. You can register your interest at: https://ai-nexus.mbzuai.ac.ae/?event=east-coast-roadshow

 

June 4 Program

9:30am	Arrival
10:00am	Introduction	AI in Emerging Regions
	Opening Speaker	Tim Baldwin	MBZUAI	Provost and Professor of NLP
10:30am	Morning panel	Embodiment, Interaction and Intelligence: new frontiers in human-like intelligence?
	Moderator	Ian Reid	MBZUAI	Professor & Department Chair
	Lightning Talk	Daniela Rus	MIT	Professor & Director CSAIL
	Panelist	Daniela Rus	MIT	Professor & Director CSAIL
	Panelist	John Leonard	MIT and Toyota Research Institute	Professor of Mechanical Engineering
	Panelist	Jia Deng	Princeton	Professor
	Panelist	Song Han	MIT	Assdociate Professor
	Panelist	Yiran Chen	Duke	Professor
11.50am	Short talk	Life in Abu Dhabi
		Philip Purnell	MBZUAI	AI Nexus
12:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Afternoon panel 1	From Molecules to Models: Bridging Human Insight and Biological Complexity with AI
	Moderator	Eran Segal	MBZUAI	Professor & Department Chair
	Lightning Talk	Eran Segal	MBZUAI	Professor & Department Chair
	Panelist	Le Song	MBZUAI	Professor
	Panelist	Manolis Kellis	MIT	Professor
	Panelist	Tianxi Cai	Harvard	Professor
	Panelist	Heng Ji	Illinois	Professor & Department Chair
	Panelist	Carlos Bustamante	Stanford	Professor
3:15pm	Coffee Break
3:30pm	Afternoon panel 2	Foundations for the Multi-Modal Future: Intelligence at Scale
	Moderator	Elizabeth Churchill	MBZUAI	Professor & Department Chair
	Lightning Talk	Elizabeth Mynatt	NorthEastern	Dean
	Panelist	Anshumali Srivastava	Rice	Professor
	Panelist	Preslav Nakov	MBZUAI	Professor & Department Chair
	Panelist	Mohit Bansal	UNC	Professor
	Panelist	Elizabeth Mynatt	NorthEastern	Dean
	Panelist	Andrew Wilson	NYU	Professor
4.45pm	Academic Program Ends
6.00pm	Reception dinner	Pier 4 Wood's Hole

 

As AI driven solutions are increasingly addressing global grand challenges, the world’s first Artificial Intelligence university, MBZUAI has been taking a leading role in developing research and education programs in a range of AI-related areas. Founded just five years ago MBZUAI is home to an international faculty comprising more than 80 renowned scientists and nearly 400 graduate students and is already ranked in the world’s top 10 for our AI fields (CSRankings). 

 

A hub of AI focused research and teaching at MBZUAI is focused on developing the next generation of AI scientists. Our School of Computing hosts departments of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Robotics, and Statistics & Data Science. With new schools such as Digital Public Health are being rolled out and an undergraduate AI program launching this summer, MBZUAI is growing fast. Faculty are actively building research teams of professors, postdocs and PhD students.