2021 SPRING HIPERGATOR SYMPOSIUM Tuesday, March 30, 2021 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Location: Virtual Event via Zoom UF Information Technology (UFIT) will host the Spring 2021 HiPerGator Symposium on March 30. The Spring 2021 symposium will feature presentations from UF’s Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund awardees who are pursuing multidisciplinary applications of...
AI Advances and Applications Virtual Seminar Series “Modeling the neural control of movement: flexible control of movement speed and data-driven inference" by Dr. Shreya Saxena Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wednesday, March 31, 2021 ABSTRACT: How does the primate brain flexibly generate movements at different speeds? We analyze muscle and...
Nvidia Workshop Spring 2021: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++ Thursday, April 1, 2021 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Location: Virtual Event via Virtual Venue (tba) Fee: $10 Registration required This workshop teaches the fundamental tools and techniques for accelerating C/C++ applications to run on massively parallel GPUs with CUDA®. You’ll learn how to...
UFII Fellows Journal Club Virtual Seminar Series "Computer vision for assessing species color pattern variation from web-based community science images" by Dr. Maggie Hantak Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History Thursday, April 1, 2021 ABSTRACT: Color pattern is an easily observable biological trait, and with bold patterns, bright colors, and variability in...
AI for Signals with MATLAB - Hands-On Workshop MathWorks would like to invite you to the following complimentary workshop to help support UF’s AI initiative. Faculty, students, and researchers are welcome to attend. In this workshop, you will learn how to develop AI applications using MATLAB on signal data. You will find out about tools and fundamental approaches for...
We’ve (finally!) back and will be holding our first virtual meeting for Spring 2021. The meeting, Making a Website Using R, is on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at 7:00pm, and will feature Ben Kok Toh. He will tell us more about creating websites using R. To learn more details and to RSVP, go to: https://www.meetup.com/R-Users-Group-Gainesville-FL/events/276990888/....
AI Advances and Applications Virtual Seminar Series “A Dimension-Insensitive Stochastic First-Order Method for High-Dimensional Optimization in Training Deep Neural Networks" by Dr. Hongcheng Liu Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Wednesday, April 14, 2021 ABSTRACT: One of the most widely applied paradigms for training deep neural networks is the stochastic first-order...
UFII Fellows Journal Club Virtual Seminar Series "Machine learning-based probabilistic forecasting: a case study on urban water demand" by Yi Han Ph.D. student in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department Thursday, April 15, 2021 ABSTRACT: Quality forecasts of urban water demand are critical to effective water resource management. Machine learning techniques have been widely adopted...
UFII Fellows Journal Club Virtual Seminar Series "How machine learning can improve prediction of hospital deaths due to drug-resistant bacterial disease: an application focus on Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections" by Inyoung Jun Graduate student in the Department of Epidemiology Thursday, April 29, 2021 ABSTRACT: Drug-resistant bacterial infections are a global public health concern due to high...
UFII Fellows Journal Club Virtual Seminar Series "Brain-inspired AI for Understanding Emotion in the Brain" by Peng Liu Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering Thursday, May 6, 2021 ABSTRACT: AI techniques have been rapidly growing in addressing scientific questions. Recent studies have shown that AI techniques such as deep neural networks (DNNs) provide...
The next AI Town Hall, virtual via Zoom, will be Thursday, May 13, 2021, 9:00AM-12:00PM. The agenda includes updates in AI research, courses & programs, faculty and student training and the upcoming NVIDIA AI Technology Center. In addition, we will hear from speakers in short pre-recorded research videos, followed by 1-hr breakout sessions (by discipline) to discuss research and training.....
Nvidia Workshop Spring 2021: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA Python Thursday, May 20, 2021 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Location: Virtual Event via Virtual Venue (tba) Fee: $10 Registration required Description : This course explores how to use Numba—the just-in-time, type-specializing Python function compiler—to accelerate Python programs to run on massively parallel NVIDIA GPUs....
