Calendar
View the calendar below to explore all upcoming events sponsored by the Institute and its affiliate centers and initiatives. Browse events by date, or select an event topic to narrow your search.
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All Topics (October 20 through December 5)
Monday, October 21
- 12:00 PM
AI and Education Initiative Human and Machine Learning Lunch Series with John Gabrieli
Speaker: John Gabrieli, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Talk Title: “Predicting Risk and Resilience in Mental Well-Being”
Abstract: Mental
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Wednesday, October 23
- 7:00 AM
Rising Stars Workshop Day 1
The 2024 New England Computing & Data Science Rising Stars program at Boston University is aimed at supporting doctoral students and postdocs from particularly underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds who […]
- 1:00 PM
AIR Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Sung Ju Hwang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Talk Title: Efficient and Long-Context GenAI Models
Abstract: Generative AI models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks in recent years. However, their deployment in real-world
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- 2:00 PM
Meet the Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) is dedicated to “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” The foundation funds social science research that extends the methods, data,
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Thursday, October 24
- 7:00 AM
Rising Stars Workshop Day 2
The 2024 New England Computing & Data Science Rising Stars program at Boston University is aimed at supporting doctoral students and postdocs from particularly underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds who […]
Friday, October 25
- 12:00 PM
BME Distinguished Seminar Series: Eduardo Reategui, Ohio State University
Title: " Decoding Vesicular Protein and RNA Signatures from Complex Biofluids for Cancer and Infectious Disease Detection”
Associate Professor and Innovation Scholar Department
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- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Prashast Srivastava, Columbia University
FOX: Coverage-guided Fuzzing as Online Stochastic Control
Fuzzing is an effective technique for discovering software vulnerabilities by generating random test inputs and executing them against the
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Monday, October 28
- 2:30 PM
Find Funding in Biomedical Innovation: Working with ARPA-H
Founded in 2022, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a federal funding agency that supports high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished
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Tuesday, October 29
- 4:00 PM
Research on Tap: Health Inequity Meets Health Economics
Addressing Health Disparities with a Health Economics Lens
Host: Assistant Professor Sarah Gordon, Health Law, Policy, & Management (SPH)
From where we live and work to the education and income […]
Wednesday, October 30
- 8:00 AM
AI for Drug Discovery Open Innovation Forum
Overview: Safe and responsible AI needs to be developed in the open. The objective of this forum is to establish a world-class open research community to drive the development, evaluation,
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Friday, November 1
- 3:00 PM
CISE/Hariri Institute Distinguished Seminar: Naomi Leonard, Princeton University
Excitable Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (E-NOD) for Agile Decision-Making and Control
Leonard will introduce Excitable Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics (E-NOD), which enable decision-making and control with
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Monday, November 4
- 4:30 PM
Mohammad Zaman - Social Justice for Data Science
The Social Justice for Data Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in law, computer science, humanities, and social science to […]
Wednesday, November 6
- 4:00 PM
Research on Tap: Women’s Health and Cultivating a Research Community at BU
Hosts: Professor Catherine Klapperich, Biomedical Engineering (ENG); Professor Joyce Wong, Biomedical Engineering (ENG); Professor Emelia Benjamin, Medicine and Epidemiology (Chobanian & Avedisian School of
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Friday, November 8
- 11:00 AM
Fall 2024 Machine Learning Symposium
The CDS Machine Learning Symposium, developed by Assistant Professors Aldo Pacchiano and Xuezhou Zhang, and hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in machine […]
- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Chao Tian, Texas A&M University
Chao Tian obtained his B.E degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca NY. He worked at AT&T Labs-Research (previously known as
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Thursday, November 14
- 6:00 PM
Low-stake Networking Event
The Low-stake Networking Event aims to offer students a more casual and comfortable setting to begin their networking paths. Students will engage in ice-braking lite programming and ease their ways […]
Friday, November 15
- 12:00 PM
Fall 2024 Machine Learning Symposium
The CDS Machine Learning Symposium, developed by Assistant Professors Aldo Pacchiano and Xuezhou Zhang, and hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in machine […]
- 3:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Vladimir Dvorkin, University of Michigan
Data center coordination with power grids under engineering and privacy constraints
Recent AI breakthroughs have led to significant investments in data center infrastructure, which puts a strain on
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Monday, November 18
- 12:00 PM
CISE Seminar: Robert Kazschmann, ETH Zurich
Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations
Nature’s musculoskeletal design can inspire both artificial and living robots to create systems that can
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Wednesday, November 20
- 1:00 PM
AIR Seminar Series: Qixing Huang, Associate Professor
Speaker: Qixing Huang, Associate Professor
Talk Title: “Geometric Regularizations for 3D Shape Generation”
Abstract: Generative models, which map a latent parameter
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CISE Seminar: Tuvi Etzion, Israel Institute of Technology
The de Bruijn Graph and Its Sequences – the Graph Who Always Reinvent Itself
The de Bruijn graph was defined in 1946 by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn to count the
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Thursday, November 21
- 12:30 PM
Rafael Irizarry - Quantitative Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Rafael Irizarry, Professor and Chair of the Department of Data Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. The Faculty of […]
Friday, November 22
- 8:30 AM
"Learning to Trust Autonomy" Robotics Workshop
Overview:This upcoming workshop, sponsored by the BU Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), will explore recent advances in learning-based and data-driven autonomous systems, such as those
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- 2:00 PM
Fall 2024 Machine Learning Symposium
The CDS Machine Learning Symposium, developed by Assistant Professors Aldo Pacchiano and Xuezhou Zhang, and hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in machine […]
Thursday, December 5
- 12:30 PM
Pulin Li - Quantitative Biology Seminar Series
Speaker: Pulin Li, Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering; Core Member, Whitehead Institute. The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and the BU Bioinformatics Program are excited […]