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Stay up-to-date with the latest news from MBZUAI and the wider industry, featuring insights into ongoing University research, innovations, and developments shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The Node gathers expert commentary, press announcements, and initiatives from the University and its partners, keeping you informed on the most relevant trends and breakthroughs.

Neural Models with Symbolic Representations for Perceptuo-Reasoning Tasks

Wednesday, 19 July, 2023

Neural Models with Symbolic Representations for Perceptuo-Reasoning Tasks

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The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen several proposals for representing a task. Two prominent ones are (1) neural AI which represents it in a brain-like computation network and […]

MBZUAI at ACL2023

Monday, 10 July, 2023

MBZUAI at ACL2023

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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.

Overcoming the curse of dimensionality

Monday, 10 July, 2023

Overcoming the curse of dimensionality

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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.

MBZUAI and Etihad Airways sign MoU to unlock the potential of AI and drive transformation in UAE’s aviation industry

Monday, 10 July, 2023

MBZUAI and Etihad Airways sign MoU to unlock the potential of AI and drive transformation in UAE’s aviation industry

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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.

The power of propaganda and AI’s ability to fight it

Monday, 26 June, 2023

The power of propaganda and AI’s ability to fight it

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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.

Nurturing passion and versatility

Monday, 26 June, 2023

Nurturing passion and versatility

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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.

From student to clean tech startup

Saturday, 24 June, 2023

From student to clean tech startup

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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.

Making biometric recognition a reality

Friday, 23 June, 2023

Making biometric recognition a reality

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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.

10 in 10: Q&A with Emirati engineers, Fatima and Rzan

Friday, 23 June, 2023

10 in 10: Q&A with Emirati engineers, Fatima and Rzan

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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.

Vicuna, Altman, and the importance of green AI

Thursday, 22 June, 2023

Vicuna, Altman, and the importance of green AI

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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.

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