Research
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Harsh Chaudhari, Propagation of Adversarial Bias to Distilled Language Models
This talk investigates the vulnerability of distilled language models to adversarial injection of biased content during training.
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally, Beyond the Hopfield Memory Theory: Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Traveling Waves in RNNs
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally
CSSI Seminar: Ina Ganguli (UMass Economics)
Please save the date for this CSSI event—updated event info will be posted on http://www.cssi.umass.edu/events.
Data Science Deep Dive: "Getting Started with Data Products: The People, Processes, & Tools"
In this webinar, we will break down the key steps to establish a strong foundation for data products.
Human Language Technologies Poster Session
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) invites the CICS community to attend a Human Language Technologies Poster Session, an event that...
SOLAR Lab Seminar: Evan Coleman, Braintrust: Social Knowledgebases as Scientific Fiduciaries
This talk will demonstrate how accelerated research enabled by AI can unlock tackling interdisciplinary and long-horizon problems like climate change.
Data Management Seminar: Kaisong Huang (Simon Fraser University), Systematic Latency Optimizations for Modern Database Systems
In this seminar, Kaisong Huang will present my research on optimizing latency for modern database systems built on multicore CPUs, large memory, and NVMe SSDs.
Mass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Om Thakkar, Privacy Leakage in Speech
In this talk, we first explore two primary types of privacy leakage: extraction attacks and memorization audits.
Seminar: P. Anandan, Translating AI Innovations into Solutions in the Global South
P. Anandan will share examples from India and other developing nations that demonstrate how AI-powered solutions are being designed, implemented, and scaled...
SOLAR Lab Seminar: Mark Sellke, On Learning-Curve Monotonicity for Maximum Likelihood Estimators
This talk is based on work where all the results were derived by AI models (variants of GPT-5.2 Pro) with humans only providing prompts and verification.
NLP Seminar: Sarah Wiegreffe, Demystifying the Inner Workings of Language Models
Join Sarah Wiegreffe for a NLP Seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 12:00 p.m. in LGRC A112.
MassAITC Webinar: Alex Glazebrook (OATS VP of Program Operations), Harnessing the Power of Technology to Change the Way We Age
Our society is aging alongside a rapid increase in the evolution and advancement of technology that mediates daily life. In this session, Alex Glazebrook will..