Research
MassAITC Webinar: Advancing Fair & Effective AI for Older Adults
Artificial intelligence holds promise to transform care for older adults, yet today’s AI systems routinely underperform for this population.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Mashrur Rashik, Human-Centered Design of Contextually Appropriate Conversational Agents for Enhancing Public Interaction, Engagement, and Multimodal Experiences
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Mashrur Rashik
Data Science for the Common Good (DS4CG) Poster Session
Join the 2025 cohort of DS4CG students for lunch and a poster session where you will get to learn about each project directly from students.
Research in the AI Era Seminar: Aditya Akella, Towards A Learning-Directed Operating System
This work suggests a focus on AI’s ability to generate code and replace traditionally human-designed components (heuristics) in research.
CSSI Seminar: Nathan Wycoff (UMass Mathematics & Statistics)
Please save the date for these CSSI events—updated event info will be posted on http://www.cssi.umass.edu/events.
Research in the AI Era Seminar: Aaron Roth
Roth will likely explore the fundamental changes and challenges that AI introduces to theoretical analysis and the establishment of scientific rigor.
Parul Gupta, Fairness in AI: Preventing AI Systems from Bias
Join us on Apr. 3 for a virtual presentation held by Parul Gupta, a senior engineer at Meta and CICS alum, as she explores ideas like equity and fairness.
CSSI Seminar: Graduate Student Spotlights
Please save the date for these CSSI events—updated event info will be posted on http://www.cssi.umass.edu/events.
AI x Democracy Symposium
In order to confront the questions surrounding the the use of AI in democratic systems, the RTC invites you to attend the AI x Democracy Symposium on April 23.
Introduction to the AI in Research Accelerator Program
Lecture-style, no technical background required: Learn about the evolution of the AI landscape and get a walk-through of the AI in Research Accelerator Program.
NLP Seminar
This talk demystifies what tokenizers do and argues that the field still lacks a clear formal account of what a tokenizer is.
MassAI Project Showcase
Join us for our end-of-semester MassAI Project Showcase and explore what our members have been working on!