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Machine Learning and Friends Lunch

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Wei-Chiu Ma, Towards Physically-Grounded Digital Twins and Beyond

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch featuring Wei-Chiu Ma, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Event date Thursday, October 9, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Aaron Mueller, Time- and Context-Aware Interpretability

Aaron Mueller is an assistant professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Data Science at Boston University.
Event date Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Yuanqi Du, Scientific Knowledge Emerges in LLMs and You Can Extract It

Yuanqi Du is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Cornell University, where he studies the intersection of AI and scientific discovery.
Event date Thursday, November 20, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Dana Arad, Sparse Autoencoders for Content Control

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch featuring Dana Arad, a CS PhD candidate at the Technion.
Event date Thursday, February 5, 2026 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Michael Boratko, Representational Capacity of Vector Embeddings for Retrieval

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch featuring Michael Boratko, a research scientist at Google DeepMind.
Event date Thursday, October 16, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: David Burt, Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt is a postdoc in Professor Tamara Broderick’s group at the MIT Laboratory For Information and Decision Systems.
Event date Thursday, November 6, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: David Held, Relational Learning for Robot Manipulation

David Held is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Robotics Institute and is the director of the RPAD lab: Robots Perceiving And Doing.
Event date Thursday, December 4, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Karin de Langis, Artificial Cognition in LLMs

Karin de Langis, PhD candidate at University of Minnesota, studies artificial cognition in LLMs, explaining failures and comparing cognitive control vs humans.
Event date Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Sherry Yang, Learning World Models and Agents for High-Cost Environments

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch featuring Sherry Yang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NYU Courant and a scientist at Google DeepMind.
Event date Thursday, October 23, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Ryan Louie, Adapting LLMs to Upskill Novices for High-Stakes Domains

Ryan Louie is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
Event date Thursday, November 13, 2025 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Sherry Wu, Making AI Systems Work for Imperfect Humans

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch featuring Sherry Wu, assistant professor at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Event date Thursday, February 12, 2026 Event time 12:00 pm Go to all events list Event

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