McGill AI Learnathon
March 18th, 2023 • 9:45 AM - 4 PM
An Undergraduate AI Conference
Join some of the most curious students and acclaimed AI researchers in Montreal for a 6-hour virtual conference. The McGill AI Society has organized a series of talks and events open to interested, curious, and ambitious students ranging from high school to the graduate level, completely free of charge! Come learn about AI and meet other like-minded students! Registration includes the following:
AI for everyone
Our day-long program will have talks focused on a variety of AI concepts, from introductory to specialized topics.
Expert Speakers
We have invited a slate of industry and research leaders to host a range of technical talks and moderated panels.
Speakers
Bang Liu
Talk is Not Cheap, Hand Me the Tools: Augmenting Language Models with Tools for More Effective Problem-Solving
Speaker Description:
Bang Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the University of Montreal. He is a core me...read more
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Large language models have garnered significant attention in recent years for their remarkable capabilities. However, while language models have prove...read more
Ziang Xiao
Seeing Us through Machine: Designing and Building AI to Understand Humans
Speaker Description:
Ziang Xiao is a Post Doc at MSR and an Assistant Professor at the CS department of Johns Hopkins University. Broadly, his work lies in the intersectio...read more
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Many societal issues, such as health care, voting, etc., require decision-makers to study their stakeholders to design interventions or make a policy ...read more
Yue Li
Deep embedded topic model for single-cell genomic data
Speaker Description:
Yue Li is a Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University. He obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science and Computational Biology...read more
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Dr. Li's presentation will be an overview of his research, which is focused on developing interpretable probabilistic learning models and deep learnin...read more
Glen Berseth
Developing Robots that Autonomously Learn and Plan in the Real World
Speaker Description:
Glen Berseth is an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal, a core academic member of the Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Canada CIFAR AI chair,...read more
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While humans plan and solve tasks with ease, simulated and robotics agents struggle to reproduce the same fidelity, robustness and skill. For example,...read more
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