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30
Sep
2026
12:00 pm Machine Learning and Friends Lunch

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Shilong Liu, A Taxonomy of Self-evolving Agents

This talk explains self-evolving agents through three areas: artifact optimization, agent harness self-improvement, and model learning without gold answers too.
30
Sep
2026
12:00 pm PhD Thesis Defense

PhD Thesis Defense: Yu-Zhen (Janice) Chen, Toward Resource-Efficient Decision-Making for Networked Systems

This dissertation develops resource-efficient decision-making algorithms to optimize the performance of networked systems under such constraints.
07
Oct
2026
12:00 pm Machine Learning and Friends Lunch

Machine Learning and Friends Lunch: Amit Sharma, Building Self-Improving AI Systems

Amit Sharma explores self-improving AI through generated RL environments, training, and formal verification of agent reasoning.
14
Oct
2026
3:00 pm Distinguished Lecturer Series

404: Evidence Not Found—The Challenge of Disappearing Federal Data & Dark Archives

Jason R. Baron examines why government information is “going dark” and how law, archives, technology, and AI can help preserve public access.

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