Research Seminar by Prof. Alessio Del Bue on Assistive and Embodied AI
We are delighted to invite you to an engaging research seminar presented by Prof. Alessio Del Bue from Università degli Studi di Genova. Details of the Event Speaker: Prof. Alessio Del Bue, Università degli Studi di Genova Topic: Assistive and Embodied AI Research at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024
A Dialogue with the 2024 VinFuture Prize Laureates

Event date: December 7th, 2024 The VinFuture Prize, an annual international Science and Technology award organized by the VinFuture Foundation, celebrates groundbreaking scientific research and technological innovations. Following the 2024 VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony, this year’s Laureates will participate in an inspirational public dialogue on December 7th, 2024, at VinUniversity. Under the theme “Resilient Rebound”,
Research Event: Prof. Seth Marder & Prof. Marina Freitag Innovative Pathways to Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Event Details Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, December 5, 2024 Place: Room A101, 24/7 Library, VinUniversity As part of the VinFuture 2024 Science and Technology Week, this seminar brings together two world-renowned scientists, Prof. Seth Marder and Prof. Marina Freitag, to discuss critical advancements in renewable and sustainable energy materials and applications. About the
Research Seminar: Learning, Representing, and Interpreting Multi-Faceted Preferences for Recommendations

Event Details Date: 4th December 2024 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Location: C203 Join us for an engaging seminar by Associate Professor Hady W. Lauw from Singapore Management University, exploring advancements in understanding and representing user preferences in recommender systems. Discover how integrating data modalities like texts, images, and related items enhances system performance
SECOM 2024: Advancing Electrochemical and Organic Materials

Dear Colleagues and Students, We are excited to invite you to the Symposium on Electrochemical and Organic Materials – SECOM 2024 on Materials and Devices for Green Energy and Electronics, taking place on November 23, 2024 at VinUniversity. Electrochemical and Organic Semiconducting devices are providing new and innovative solutions for various challenges facing society, such as increasing demand for low-cost sustainable
Research Seminar: Distribution of Scientific Project Funds Using Big-Data and Operations Research Methods

DETAILS: Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: I201 Peace Room, VinUniversity AGENDA: Research Seminar Discussion Opportunities for Further Studies at Tsinghua (Thanh Hoa) University * Pizzas will be provided for a short networking lunch session after the seminar. ABOUT THE SEMINAR: This talk explores the use of operations research and big-data methods
[Research Seminar] Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University
Join Us for a Research Seminar by Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University We are excited to invite our colleagues and students to an insightful research seminar by the esteemed Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University. Topic: Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Fault Tolerance and Implementation with Cheap Talk Date and Time: Wednesday, November 06,
[Research Seminar] Prof. Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Speaker: Prof. Nguyen Le Minh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Topic: ZeLa: Advancing Zero-Shot Multilingual Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models and Chain-of-Thought Strategies Time: 16:00 – 17:00 Tuesday, October 8th Location: I201 Zoom Online: link Detail can be found here
[Research Seminar] Foundation of Mixture of Experts in Complex and Massive AI Models

About the Talk: Since the release of the original Transformer model, extensive efforts have been devoted to scaling up the model complexities to take advantage of massive datasets and advanced computing resources. To go beyond simply increasing the network depth and width, Sparse Mixture-of-experts (SMoE) has risen as an appealing solution for scaling Large Language
[Research Seminar] Scalable Uncertainty: AI Needs to Know What it Doesn’t Know

About the Talk: Large models fuel impressive capabilities. However, they currently do not know what they do not know, which is critical to the important challenges of exploration and alignment. Knowing what is not known is essential, for example, to gathering informative data. In this talk, I will discuss the need for scalable uncertainty and