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Monday, 10 July, 2023
MBZUAI at ACL2023
At last count, MBZUAI scientists have 26 papers accepted at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023). In total, 11 MBZUAI faculty, researchers, postdocs, and students have academic research accepted at ACL 2023 alongside their national and international co-authors. This year’s ACL meeting is slated to take place in Toronto, Canada from July 9 to July 14, 2023.
Monday, 10 July, 2023
Overcoming the curse of dimensionality
Data is quite literally all around us – from the global positioning systems that we use to navigate to the ultra-high definition cameras we use to capture our world. How we grapple with collecting and using this data is central to how we understand our world. And it is how we reduce the data we collect, down into its essential components, that has become a foundational challenge in machine learning known as dimensionality reduction.
Monday, 10 July, 2023
MBZUAI and Etihad Airways sign MoU to unlock the potential of AI and drive transformation in UAE’s aviation industry
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop initiatives and conduct research into how AI could transform key aspects of the nation’s integral aviation sector. This is inline with the university’s commitment to enhancing AI competitiveness across vital sectors, including aviation and logistics in the UAE, while paving the way for sustainable growth and innovation.
Monday, 26 June, 2023
The power of propaganda and AI’s ability to fight it
Muhammad Umar's research represents a significant contribution to the field of natural language processing (NLP) and detecting propaganda on social media platforms, particularly in cases where there is a mixture of low and high-resource languages.
Monday, 26 June, 2023
Nurturing passion and versatility
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) gifted Gokul Karthik Kumar the freedom to explore several areas of artificial intelligence (AI) during his two-year master’s journey. Kumar acknowledges the profound impact of this interdisciplinary approach to AI for discovering his true path and for earning him several accolades early in his career.
Saturday, 24 June, 2023
From student to clean tech startup
No one was more surprised than Yahia Dalbah when he pivoted away from electrical engineering towards an environmental science startup which is on a mission to cool cities and keep them livable into the future.
Friday, 23 June, 2023
Making biometric recognition a reality
Professor Anil K. Jain, founding member of the MBZUAI Board of Trustees and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, has been honored for his achievements in technology transfer.
Friday, 23 June, 2023
10 in 10: Q&A with Emirati engineers, Fatima and Rzan
These two Emirati master’s students are from a long line of engineers; their difference, they are young, ambitious, and talented women signing up to – employ and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) – to expediate solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues.
Thursday, 22 June, 2023
Vicuna, Altman, and the importance of green AI
To scale up the types of AI that we need, we must have great compute power, but we must also be able to network many different forms of compute power seamlessly and efficiently to accomplish our goals. Not only that, we must scale up capacity, while scaling down the environmental and financial costs of AI computing.
Thursday, 22 June, 2023
A Rising Star In The East Lights A Path To Responsible Artificial Intelligence: The Mohammed Bin Zayed University Of AI
As we hurtle into the 21st century, the pivotal role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays in reshaping our world cannot be ignored. True to the age-old wisdom of Heraclitus, who said, "Change is the only constant in life," we recognize that AI is not merely catalyzing transformations across industries — it is igniting a global engine of innovation that is rapidly changing our realities.
