AIR Events

Open AIR is an industry open house hosted by AIR and the Hariri Institute for Computing that aims to bring together AI researchers at BU with industry groups interested in AI research. The main goals of Open AIR are to showcase AI research at Boston University, increase interaction between the AIR community and industry labs, and potentially lead to future collaborations and/or internship opportunities.

The distinguished speaker series appeal to a broad audience internal to BU and external to industry partners and affiliates. The researchers for this series are nationally re-known for their work and can be from the BU community, external academic institutions or external industry partners.

2024

Jan 24, 2024: Mihaela van der Scharr, Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine – University of Cambridge
Feb 28, 2024: Ravi Ramamoorthi, Professor of Computer Science – University of California, San Diego
Mar 6, 2024: Andrew Gordon Wilson, Associate Professor of Machine Learning, New York University
Mar 27, 2024: James Zhou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Apr 3, 2024: Svetlana Lazebnik, Professor of Computer Science – University of Illinois
Apr 10, 2024: Deva Ramanan, Professor of Robotics – Carnegie Mellon University

2023

Apr 25, 2023: David Jacobs, Professor of Computer Science and UMIACS, University of Maryland
Dec 13, 2023: Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Professor & Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies the College of Information Sciences & Technology – Penn State

2022

Feb 4, 2022: Claire Monteloni, Associate Professor of Computer Science – University of Colorado
Feb 7, 2022: Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Senior Technical Staff Member & Research Manager – IBM Research Africa
Feb 14, 2022: My Phan, PhD Student in Computer Science – Unviersity of Massachussets Amherst
Feb 28, 2022: Afra Feyza Akyürek, PhD Student in Computer Science – Boston University

2021

Feb 8, 2021: Yin Li, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Computer Science – University of Wisconsin
Feb 22, 2021: Timnit Gebru, Computer Scientist & Co-Founder of Black in AI
Mar 15, 2021: Ekin Akyürek, PhD Student in Computer Science – MIT
Mar 29, 2021: Tao Du, PhD Student in Computer Science – MIT
Apr 5, 2021: Ahmed Taha, PhD Student in Computer Science – University of Maryland
Apr 12, 2021: Kristen Grauman, Professor of Computer Science – University of Texas
Oct 21, 2021: Jimuyang Zhang, PhD Student – Boston University
Nov 2, 2021: Samory Kpotufe, Associate Professor of Statistics – Columbia University
Dec 3, 2021: Rogerio Feris, Principal Scientist at IBM
Dec 7, 2021: Csaba Szepesvari, Professor of Computer Science – University of Alberta

2020

Sept 9, 2020: David Bau, PhD Student at MIT, former Engineer at Google
Sept 21, 2020: Juergen Gall, Professor – University of Bonn
Oct 19, 2020: Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Science – Cornell University

2019

Feb 4, 2019:Samy Bengio, Research Scientist – Google Brain, Program Chair – Neural Information Processing System (NIPS)
Apr 8, 2019: Karrie Karahalios, Professor of Computer Science, Co-director of the Center for People and Infrastructures – University of Illinois, Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research
Apr 22, 2019:Yoram Singer, Professor of Computer Science – Princeton University, Head of Principles of Effective Machine Learning (POEM) for Google Brain
Dec 12, 2019: Maria-Florina Balcan, Professor of Computer Science – Carnegie Mellon University

The speaker series appeal to a focused audience of the internal BU community. Speakers are typically from BU or other local academic institutions.

The AIR weekly meetings are smaller by nature and appeal to the BU Community including faculty and students (Ph.D or Masters). Speakers for these meetings are usually hosted by members of the AIR leadership team in an open discussion format.