The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) has opened the application period for the 2026–2027 Internship Challenge, supporting internships taking place May 1, 2026, through April 30, 2027. The Internship Challenge strengthens the talent pipeline for Massachusetts life sciences companies by providing college students with paid, hands-on work experience. The program enables small companies to hire […]
BabyVFM: Data-Efficient Pretraining of Vision LLMs Inspired by Infant Learning Guest Speaker: Dr. Boqing Gong Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science Friday, 10th October, 2025 Abstract: Pretraining vision (large) foundation models (VFMs) is prohibitively expensive, making it a privilege for institutions with abundant resources and leaving independent researchers to downstream tasks, […]
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ming Tang Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science Monday, 15th September, 2025 Abstract: Dr. Ming will share his journey of learning bioinformatics from scratch, detailing how he transitioned from a wet-lab biologist to a computational biologist. He’ll offer practical tips, learning strategies, and career insights to help you […]