Welcome to the doctoral defense of Romuald Esdras Wandji Date and time: May 26, 13:00 Location: Hörsal UB.A.230, Lindellhallen 3, Umeå University Doctoral student: Romuald Esdras Wandji Title: Ontology-based Update in Virtual Knowledge Graphs Original location: Hörsal UB.A.230 Lindellhallen 3, Umeå

Humlab together with WARA Media & Language, part of the WASP research program, welcomes researchers, instructors, and graduate students to Umeå University to explore research opportunities around avatars and conversational AI. The workshop will include a demonstration of an experimental avatar framework, opportunities to test and interact with the avatar, and time to discuss potential […]

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Minal Patil Date and time: April 15, 9:00 Location: NAT.D.440, Umeå University Doctoral student: Minal Patil Title: Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: Adversarial Robustness, Explainability, and Formal Verification for Autonomous Systems Original location: NAT.D.440, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Arka Ghosh Date and time: April 8, 13:00 Location: MIT.A.121, Umeå University Doctoral student: Arka Ghosh Title: Semantic Integration and Query Answering of Multidimensional Data with Knowledge Graphs Original location: MIT.A.121 Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Hooman Maskan Date and time: Tuesday 24 February, 8:30 Location: BIO.E.203 Aulogica, Umeå University Doctoral student: Hooman Maskan Title: From Accelerated First-Order Methods to Structured Nonconvex Optimization: Analysis and Perspectives Original location: BIO.E.203 Aulogica, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Sabine Houy Date and time: Feburary 17, 13:00 Location: Hörsal UB.A.230 Lindellhallen 3, Umeå University Doctoral student: Sabine Houy Title: Control flow integrity in practice: retrospectives, realities, and automated enforcement Original location: Hörsal UB.A.230 Lindellhallen 3, Umeå

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Lena Strobl Date and time: October 7, 13:00 Location: Samhällsvetarhuset, SAM.A.280, Umeå University Doctoral student: Lena Strobl Title: Transformers as Recognizers and Transducers Original location: Samhällsvetarhuset, SAM.A.280, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Charles Meyers Date and time: June 11, 13:15 Location: UB.A.230 - Lindellhallen 3, Umeå University Doctoral student: Charles Meyers, PhD student at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University Title: Verification and Validation for Trustworthy Machine Learning Original location: UB.A.230 - Lindellhallen 3, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Sonakshi Garg Date and time: June 2, 09:00 Location: HUM.D.210, Umeå University Doctoral student: Sonakshi Garg, PhD student at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University Title: Bridging AI and Privacy: Solutions for High-Dimensional Data and Foundation Models Original location: HUM.D.210, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Lidia Kidane.  Date and time: May 30, 13:15 Location: MIT.A.121, Umeå University Doctoral student: Lidia Kidane, PhD student at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University Title: Accurate and Low-Overhead Workload Prediction for Cloud Management Original location: MIT.A.121, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Maarten Laurits Jensen Date and time: May 27, 13:00 Location: MIT.A.121, Umeå University Doctoral student: Maarten Laurits Jensen, PhD student at Department of Computing Science, Umeå University Title: Dynamic Content-Sensitive Deliberation for Social Simulations: Balancing Scalability and Realism Original location: MIT.A.121, Umeå University

Welcome to the doctoral defense of Mariam Taha Date and time: May 23, 09:00 Location: NAT.D.360, Umeå University Doctoral student: Mariam Taha, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University Title:Probabilistic Metric Space for Machine Learning: Data and Model Spaces Original location: NAT.D.360, Umeå University