Colloquia Schedule

Fall 2025

Time: Fridays, 11 a.m. – Noon

DateLocationSpeakerAffiliationHostTitle
September 12Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomHua XuYale School of MedicineHong YuLarge Language Models (LLMs) for Biomedical Applications
September 19Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomMarcos ZampieriGeorge Mason UniversityHadi AmiriLLMs in Education: Integrating Code and Text Generation Models in Educational Applications
September 22
Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomWeishen PanWeill Cornell MedicineHong YuIdentification of Predictive Subphenotypes for Clinical Outcomes Using Real-World Data and Machine Learning
September 26Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomDiane LitmanUniversity of PittsburghHadi AmirieRevise+RF: A Writing Evaluation System for Assessing Student Essay Revisions and Providing Formative Feedback
October 3Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomNanyun PengUniversity of California, Los AngelesHadi AmiriTowards Self-Improving Multimodal Models
October 10Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomEduardo BlancoUniversity of ArizonaHadi AmiriMaking Computers Robust to Natural Language Negation
October 17Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomChirag AgarwalUniversity of VirginiaHadi AmiriTrustworthyML in the Era of Frontier Models
October 31Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomXuan WangVirginia TechHadi AmiriTowards Small, Open-Source, Multi-Modal Language Model Agents for Science and Society
November 7Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomKiante BrantleyHarvard UniversityHadi AmiriTrain, Reason, and Act Under Value Function Guidance
November 19ZoomArman CohanYale UniversityHadi AmiriEvaluating and Understanding LLMs: From Scientific Reasoning to Alignment as Judges
Dec 5ZoomNathalie BaracaldoIBM Almaden Research CenterHadi AmiriSafeguarding Large Language Models in Practice

Spring 2025

Time: Fridays, 11 a.m. –Noon

DateLocationSpeakerAffiliationHostTitle
February 7ZoomDiyi YangStanford UniversityHadi AmiriEnabling and Evaluating Human-Agent Collaboration
February 14ZoomRada MihalceaUniversity of MichiganHadi AmiriWhy AI Is W.E.I.R.D. And Shouldn't Be This Way
February 28ZoomWei XuGeorgia Institute of TechnologyHadi AmiriHuman-AI Collaboration in Evaluating Large Language Models
March 7Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Emily Prud'hommeauxBoston CollegeHadi AmiriOvercoming Obstacles in NLP for Endangered Languages
March 14Spring Break
March 21Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Byron WallaceNortheastern UniversityHadi AmiriLLMs for Healthcare: Risks and Interpretability Methods to (Possibly) Mitigate Them
March 28Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Tom McCoyYale UniversityHadi AmiriUnderstanding the Abilities of AI Systems: Memorization, Generalization, and Points in Between
April 4Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Jiawei HanUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignJie WangA Retrieval and Structuring Approach for LLM-Enhanced, Theme-Focused Science Discovery
April 11ZoomGreg DurrettUniversity of Texas at AustinHadi AmiriSpecializing LLMs for Reliability
April 18Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Jessy LiUniversity of Texas at AustinHadi AmiriDiscourse Models with Language Models
April 25ZoomMihai SurdeanuUniversity of ArizonaHadi AmiriNeuro-Symbolic Approaches for Explainable Natural Language Processing

Fall 2024

Time: Fridays, 11 a.m. – Noon


DateLocationSpeakerAffiliationHostTitle
October 25ZoomWeiyan ShiNortheastern UniversityHong YuPersuasion for Social Good: How to Build and Break Persuasive Chatbots
November 1Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Ankush DasBoston UniversityPaul DownenProgramming Language Principles for Distributed Systems
November 8ZoomTianyi ZhouUniversity of Maryland, College ParkHadi AmiriSynthetic Data for Self-Evolving AI
November 15Dandeneau Hall, Room 321Marco GaboardiBoston UniversityPaul DownenReasoning about Programs’ Adaptivity, with applications to Adaptive Data Analysis
November 20ZoomLiang ZhaoEmory UniversityHong YuGraph Representation Learning for Network Generation, Optimization, and Verbalization
November 22ZoomDanielle S. BittermanHarvard Medical SchoolHadi AmiriBridging the AI Translational Gap in Oncology
December 6Dandeneau Hall, Room 321, ZoomSijia LiuMichigan State UniversityHadi AmiriMachine Unlearning for Generative AI: A Model-Based Perspective