UFII Fellows Journal Club Seminar Series "Guiding Neural Networks with Bio-physical Models for Remotely-sensed Crop Progress Estimation" by George Worrall Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Remote Sensing, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering Thursday, February 17, 2022 HYBRID: In-person with lunch at 11:30AM; live and zoom talk at noon ABSTRACT: With global crop synchrony increasing, accurate,...
Nvidia DLI Workshop: Applications of AI for Anomaly Detection This 8-hour workshop is split into two 4-hour sessions. Session 1: Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 12:00 PM - 4:00PM Session 2: Friday, February 25, 2022, 12:00 PM - 4:00PM Location: Virtual Event via Zoom Fee: Free for both sessions Registration required: https://informatics.research.ufl.edu/registration-nvidia-dli-workshop-applications-of-ai-for-anomaly-detection/ Data integrity is critical...
AI Research Catalyst Fund Awardees Virtual Seminar Series "Almost Dimension-Free Algorithms for Black-Box Optimization with Applications in Training Traffic Monitoring AIs" by Dr. Hongcheng Liu Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Thursday, February 24, 2022 ABSTRACT: This talk concerns a stochastic zeroth-order optimization (S-ZOO) problem. The objective is to minimize the...
UFII Fellows Journal Club Seminar Series "Effects of Wildfires on Annual Streamflow Response in Southeastern Amazon Basin Watersheds" by Sharmin Siddiqui Ph.D. Candidate, Watershed Ecology Lab & Dept. of Environmental Engineering Sciences Monday, February 28, 2022, 12:00PM - 1:00PM via Zoom ABSTRACT: Amazon rainforests are directly tied to the regulation of atmospheric, hydrologic, biotic, and...
AI Research Catalyst Fund Awardees Virtual Seminar Series "Using AI to Uncover Decades of Global Ecological Change" by Dr. Robert Guralnick, Curator, and Dr. Raphael LaFrance, Information Technology Expert, Florida Museum of Natural History Wednesday, March 2, 2022 ABSTRACT: Plant phenology -- the seasonal timing of when plants develop leaves, flowers and fruit -- is highly sensitive...
Birds-of-a-Feather: High Performance Computing Applications on GPU Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: Virtual Event via Zoom With the overwhelming interest from the UF community in using HiPerGator AI to conduct Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, Research Computing (RC) is continuing its series: Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions. In this session,...
AI Research Catalyst Fund Awardees Virtual Seminar Series "Parasitic Nematode Identification with Deep Learning" by Dr. Alina Zare, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Wednesday, March 16, 2022 ABSTRACT: Nematodes are the most abundant and ubiquitous animals on Earth. Of crucial import are nematodes that infect animals/humans and plants. Worldwide, nematode infections affect over 50%...
Nvidia DLI Workshop: Building Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing Applications This 8-hour workshop is split into two 4-hour sessions. Thursday-Friday, March 17-18, 2022, 9:00 AM - 1:00PM Location: Virtual Event via Zoom Fee: $10 Registration required: https://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/SSP/1400084758 Applications for natural language processing (NLP) have exploded in the past decade. With the proliferation of AI assistants and...
AI Advances & Applications Seminar Series “Minimax Practical Approaches to Label Shift and Posterior Drift” by Dr. Yuekai Sun Assistant Professor in Statistics Department, University of Michigan Friday, March 18, 2022, at noon ABSTRACT: In transfer learning, a learner leverages auxiliary data from a data-rich source domain to improve prediction on a data-poor target domain....
UFII Fellows Journal Club Seminar Series "Polyhedral Spline Modeling" by Kyle Lo Ph.D. Candidate, SurfLab and Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering Monday, March 21, 2022 HYBRID: In-person with lunch at 11:30AM; live and zoom talk at noon ABSTRACT: Point clouds or triangle meshes are not efficient for 3D modeling or physical simulation...
AI Research Catalyst Fund Awardees Virtual Seminar Series "Research and Development for Fair AI in Education through Supercomputing" by Dr. Wanli Xing, Assistant Professor, School of Teaching & Learning Wednesday, March 23, 2022 ABSTRACT: Educational researchers have extensively investigated artificial intelligence (AI) in learning environments to provide teachers and students with actionable intelligence, ranging from...
SPRING 2022 HIPERGATOR SYMPOSIUM Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: Virtual Event via Zoom Registration is now open for the Spring 2022 HiPerGator Symposium. The symposium will be held virtually (hosted on Zoom) and showcase the research in artificial intelligence being conducted by faculty and students from the University of Florida and...
