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.
Seminar: Daniel Kröning, AI Accelerators 101–And Why You Should Build AI Accelerators with Us
Kröning will present a case for custom hardware for training the largest LLMs, and why compilers and deep program analysis are the key enabling technology...
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally, Beyond the Hopfield Memory Theory: Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Traveling Waves in RNNs
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally
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.
Data Management Seminar: Fuheng Zhao, Advancing Approximate Queries with Innovative Data Summaries and Generative Models
Data Management Seminar featuring Fuheng Zhao
Teaching Seminar: Kaki Ryan, Abstract Syntax Trees
In this Teaching Seminar, Kaki Ryan will dive into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), a fundamental concept in systems programming.
Undergraduate Research Night
Join us for our third annual CICS Research Night on October 18 from 4:30-7:00 p.m. in ELABII 119 and CS 150/151!
Data Management Seminar: Jin Wang, Towards Intelligent, Scalable and User-friendly Data Pipelines
Join Jin Wang for a Data Management Seminar on March 10, 2025 at 4:00pm in CS 150/151
MassAITC Webinar: Comprehending Human Behaviors using Wireless Sensing on Everyday Wearables
Cheng Zhang (Cornell University) will present research on the development of everyday wearables that are minimally obtrusive yet capable of capturing movement.
MassAITC Webinar: David E. Conroy (University of Michigan), Progress in Personalizing Content and Dosing of a Physical Activity Promotion Intervention
This talk will review our ongoing work to develop person-specific dosing algorithms to select the content and timing of text messages and to engineer prompts...
Theory Seminar: Yichi Zhang (Rutgers University), Eliciting Honest Information from Authors Using Sequential Review
Theory Seminar: Yichi Zhang (Rutgers University), Eliciting Honest Information from Authors Using Sequential Review
MassAI Paper Reading Group
We wil be reading the famous ML paper "Attention is All You Need..."