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AI Research Day 2025

Update: Student poster prize winners announced!

Please join us for AI Research Day 2025!
The event will take place on April 29 at Memorial Hall, Ballroom, from 3:00 to 6:00 PM.


Event Agenda:

3:00 – 3:05 PM: 

Opening Remarks by Khaled Rasheed, Interim Executive Director, IAI


Keynote Speakers

Introduction by Prashant Doshi, Interim Associate Director for Research, IAI

3:10 – 3:40 PM:
                   Aaron DeFazio, Senior Staff AI Research Scientist at Meta
Title: Theory to Practice at FAIR: AI training algorithms

3:45 – 4:15 PM:
                   Bo Lane, CTO at lockchain.ai
Title: Lockchain.ai: Operationalizing AI for Crypto Risk Management

4:20 – 4:50 PM:
                   David Millard, CEO at Azalea Robotics
Title: Capable, Reliable Robots: What’s Next?


5:00 – 5:30 PM: Panel Discussion

Sustainability, Human and Environmental Costs in the Quest for AGI
Panelists: 

  • Aaron DeFazio (Meta)
  • Bo Lane (lockchain.ai)
  • David Millard (Azalea Robotics)
  • John Gibbs (UGA)


Moderator: Fred Maier, Assoc. Dir. for Academic Programs, IAI


5:30 PM onwards: Poster Session, Dinner, and Fellowship


Showcasing outstanding work from our talented lab groups and current seed grant awardees across disciplines.


Student Poster Prize Winners

Gold: Poster #17
“Who!? Did What!? Towards Agent and Task Openness in Multi-Agent Systems”
First author: Daniel Redder

Silver: Poster #13
“Optimizing 3D Gaussian Splattering for Mobile GPUs”
First author: Md. Musfique Rahman Sanim

Bronze: Poster #19
“Automating Forest Stand Delineation with AI Techniques using Aerial Imagery and Airborne Lidar”
First author: Advait Sankhe

Honorable Mention: Poster #8
“A Scalable Preconditioned Gradient Descent using Nystrom Approximation”
First author: Hyunseok Seung

We thank our four judges for their tireless work in going through more than 20 posters.

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