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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.

Less downtime, less energy in predictive maintenance AI solution

Tuesday, 24 January, 2023

Less downtime, less energy in predictive maintenance AI solution

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) students used “out-of-the-box” thinking to create a unique energy saving and outage reduction business case to win the 25,000-dirham top prize at the inaugural Pioneers 4.0 Hackathon series recently.

Recent Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Monday, 23 January, 2023

Recent Advances in Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Reinforcement learning is about learning to make sequential decisions through interactions with an environment. Traditional tabular reinforcement learning suffered from the curse of dimensionality and therefore was rarely employed in […]

IBM and MBZUAI advance AI for climate and culture

Friday, 20 January, 2023

IBM and MBZUAI advance AI for climate and culture

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MBZUAI in collaboration with IBM formally launched an AI Center of Excellence on Tuesday, January 17, as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week’s World Future Energy Summit. The Center aims to advance collaboration to improve the adoption of AI technology and help drive sustainability. The Center will develop carbon neutral solutions to existing energy supplies, combat climate change, and further natural language processing (NLP) for Arabic dialects.

For the love of research

Friday, 20 January, 2023

For the love of research

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Self-confessed research addicts - Hanoona Bangalath (India) and Muhammad Maaz (Pakistan) - have both realized their dream of publishing at top conferences during their master’s degrees in computer vision at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). Among the most promising students in the Class of 2022 and with perfect 4.0/4.0 cumulative grade point averages (CGPA), the pair will remain at the university to complete their Ph.D.

Professor Xing named 2022 ACM Fellow

Wednesday, 18 January, 2023

Professor Xing named 2022 ACM Fellow

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MBZUAI President and University Professor Eric Xing is among the 57 ACM Fellows elevated this year for “contributions to algorithms, architectures, and applications in machine learning.”

MBZUAI and Quris-AI to launch world-class Bio-AI center in Abu Dhabi

Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

MBZUAI and Quris-AI to launch world-class Bio-AI center in Abu Dhabi

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Quris-AI and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) signed an agreement during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) to develop a world-class Bio-AI center in Abu Dhabi. The state-of-the-art facility will support the development of personalized medications, tailored specifically to the diverse populations of the MENA region.

MBZUAI showcases AI for health, education, and climate at ADSW

Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

MBZUAI showcases AI for health, education, and climate at ADSW

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As Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2023 takes place under the theme ‘United on Climate Action Toward COP28’, experts from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) hosted talks as part of its participation at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES). The talks highlight AI’s problem-solving capacity in addressing challenges in climate change as well as sectors including education and healthcare.

MBZUAI celebrates board chairman’s COP28 appointment

Thursday, 12 January, 2023

MBZUAI celebrates board chairman’s COP28 appointment

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The MBZUAI community celebrated the historic appointment of the university's Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, as UAE COP28 President-Designate.

Smart grids to optimize energy use

Thursday, 12 January, 2023

Smart grids to optimize energy use

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Smart grids optimize energy use and local energy sharing to reduce load on and disruption of energy services.

Scalable Community Detection in Massive Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data

Tuesday, 10 January, 2023

Scalable Community Detection in Massive Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data

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The mixed membership stochastic blockmodel (MMSB) is a popular Bayesian network model for community detection. Fitting such large Bayesian network models quickly becomes computationally infeasible when the number of nodes […]

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