Join us for a two-day workshop celebrating the launch of the new CENTER FOR GENERATIVE AI and featuring research experts from academia and industry. Our keynote speakers this year are Sébastien Bubeck (VP of GenAI at Microsoft Research) and Luke Zettlemoyer (Professor at the University of Washington and Research Scientist at Meta).
WCP STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ROOM (WCP 2.302)
2201 SPEEDWAY, AUSTIN, TX 78712
CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST
LOCATION: WCP South Ballroom (2.412)
10:00 AM
WELCOME REMARKS
ADAM KLIVANS
Professor, The University of Texas
Director, Machine Learning Lab
Director, NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
ALEX DIMAKIS
Professor, The University of Texas
Director, Center for Generative AI
Co-Director, NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
10:15 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SÉBASTIEN BUBECK
Vice President, Microsoft GenAI
Title: Small Language Models
11:00 PM
LOCATION: WCP South Ballroom (2.412)
11:30 AM
DAN ROTH
VP/Distinguished Scientist, AWS AI and The Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor, CIS, The University of Pennsylvania
12:15 PM
LOCATION: WCP South Ballroom (2.412)
1:30 PM
SUJAY SANGHAVI (Moderator)
Associate Professor, The University of Texas
SCOTT AARONSON
Professor, The University of Texas
GREG DURRETT
Associate Professor, The University of Texas
AMIR HUSAIN
Founder, SparkCognition
2:30 PM
DARYAN DEHGHANPISHEH
President and Co-Founder, Protect AI
Title: Securing LLMs
3:30 PM
Professor, The University of Texas
Title: On Solving Inverse Problems Using Latent Diffusion Based Generative Models
4:00 PM
POSTER SESSION
LOCATION: GDC Atrium
DAY 2: APRIL 19
GATES-DELL COMPLEX
AMIR & ZAIB HUSAIN AUDITORIUM (GDC 2.216)
2317 SPEEDWAY, AUSTIN, TX 78712
9:00 AM
CHECK-IN & BREAKFAST
LOCATION: GDC Atrium
9:30 AM
TACC Visualization Lab Tour
LOCATION: Follow Signs from the GDC Atrium
10:00 AM
PANEL DISCUSSION: Navigating Intersection: AI’s Role in Shaping the Secure Open Source Software Ecosystem
ADAM KLIVANS (Moderator)
Professor, The University of Texas
HARRY TOOR
Chief of Staff, The Linux Foundation
ZAIB HUSAIN
Partner, Global Venture Bridge
ALEX DIMAKIS
Professor, The University of Texas
11:00 AM
LUKE ZETTLEMOYER
Professor, The University of Washington
Research Scientist, Meta
Title: Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models
11:45 PM
LOCATION: GDC Atrium
12:00 PM
IFML Post-Doctoral Researcher
Title: Learning How Evolution Engineers Proteins
12:45 PM
LOCATION: GDC Atrium
2:00 PM
2:15 PM
STELLA OFFNER
Associate Professor, The University of Texas
Title: AI & Astronomy
3:00 PM
CLOSING REMARKS
ADAM KLIVANS
Professor, The University of Texas
Director, Machine Learning Lab
Director, NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
ALEX DIMAKIS
Professor, The University of Texas
Director, Center for Generative AI
Co-Director, NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning
"It is an incredible time to be an AI researcher. Problems that we could only dream about solving a few years back are getting cracked as AI models fold proteins, accelerate medical imaging, help us write code, or solve Math Olympiad problems.
Universities have long played a key role in educating AI researchers, inventing the algorithms used in modern AI models and supporting the peer-review ecosystem that disseminates and evaluates this research. However, as compute and data are becoming bottleneck resources, it is not clear how universities can remain on the forefront of the generative AI revolution. At UT Austin, we are leading the way with creating open models, the largest public datasets, and a massive GPU cluster to drive innovation in our four focus areas: biosciences, health care, computer vision and NLP.
We are grateful to the UT Austin Cockrell School of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences for supporting the new Texas Center for Generative AI, and to Dell Medical School, the School of Information and McCombs School of Business for supporting our research. We are excited to invite researchers from Academia and Industry to work with us to uncover what possibilities the future holds."
– Alex Dimakis, Director
The Center for Generative AI is powered by a new GPU computing cluster hosted by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) called Vista. The cluster is among the largest in academia and is comprised of 600 NVIDIA H100s GPUs, which enable rapid mathematical computations and are ideal for training AI models. This new partnership enables the creation of new algorithms that are open, faster, and available to the public.
The TACC Visualization Lab will be available throughout Day 2 of the symposium displaying information about the Center for Generative AI for self-guided tours. We hope you'll check it out!
The closest parking garage is the San Jacinto Garage located at 2400 San Jacinto Blvd. Hourly rates apply with an option to purchase a day pass for $18.
Please scroll to the top of this page and click the "REGISTER NOW" button.
This event is free for all registrants. Breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.
Please email Rebekah Rice (rrice@utexas.edu) with additional questions.
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