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Research Seminars help to establish a culture of sharing and peer discussion of the research that scholars are engaged in. They help to inform the community of the type of research that is occurring at an institution, foster collaborations, and engagement with the larger scholarly and practitioner communities. The University Research Seminar series will feature topics in engineering and computer science, health, humanities, and business management and are open to all members of the VinUni community.
A Dialogue with the 2024 VinFuture Prize Laureates
8:00 - 11:30, December 07, 2024

A Dialogue with the 2024 VinFuture Prize Laureates

Event date: December 7th, 2024 The VinFuture Prize, an annual international Science and Technology award organized by the VinFuture Foundation, celebrates groundbreaking scientific research and technological innovations. Following the 2024 VinFuture Prize Award Ceremony, this year’s Laureates will participate in an inspirational public dialogue on December 7th, 2024, at VinUniversity. Under the theme “Resilient Rebound”, […]

Research Seminar: Distribution of Scientific Project Funds Using Big-Data and Operations Research Methods
11:00 - 12:00, November 22, 2024

Research Seminar: Distribution of Scientific Project Funds Using Big-Data and Operations Research Methods

DETAILS: Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Location: I201 Peace Room, VinUniversity AGENDA: Research Seminar Discussion Opportunities for Further Studies at Tsinghua (Thanh Hoa) University * Pizzas will be provided for a short networking lunch session after the seminar. ABOUT THE SEMINAR: This talk explores the use of operations research and big-data methods […]

SECOM 2024: Advancing Electrochemical and Organic Materials
08:30 - 17:30, November 23, 2024

SECOM 2024: Advancing Electrochemical and Organic Materials

Dear Colleagues and Students, We are excited to invite you to the Symposium on Electrochemical and Organic Materials – SECOM 2024 on Materials and Devices for Green Energy and Electronics, taking place on November 23, 2024 at VinUniversity. Electrochemical and Organic Semiconducting devices are providing new and innovative solutions for various challenges facing society, such as increasing demand for low-cost sustainable […]

[Research Seminar] Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University
15:30 - 17:00, November 06, 2024

[Research Seminar] Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University

Join Us for a Research Seminar by Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University We are excited to invite our colleagues and students to an insightful research seminar by the esteemed Prof. Joseph Halpern from Cornell University. Topic: Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Fault Tolerance and Implementation with Cheap Talk Date and Time: Wednesday, November 06, […]

[Research Seminar] Foundation of Mixture of Experts in Complex and Massive AI Models
10:00- 11:00 AM, July 26, 2024

[Research Seminar] Foundation of Mixture of Experts in Complex and Massive AI Models

About the Talk: Since the release of the original Transformer model, extensive efforts have been devoted to scaling up the model complexities to take advantage of massive datasets and advanced computing resources. To go beyond simply increasing the network depth and width, Sparse Mixture-of-experts (SMoE) has risen as an appealing solution for scaling Large Language […]

[Research Seminar] Scalable Uncertainty: AI Needs to Know What it Doesn’t Know
2:00 - 4:00 PM, July 15, 2024

[Research Seminar] Scalable Uncertainty: AI Needs to Know What it Doesn’t Know

About the Talk: Large models fuel impressive capabilities.  However, they currently do not know what they do not know, which is critical to the important challenges of exploration and alignment.  Knowing what is not known is essential, for example, to gathering informative data.  In this talk, I will discuss the need for scalable uncertainty and […]

[Research Seminar] Climate Change and Global Health: A Focus on Infectious Diseases
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, July 10, 2024

[Research Seminar] Climate Change and Global Health: A Focus on Infectious Diseases

About the Speaker: Dr. Sheri Weiser is a distinguished researcher and clinician with extensive expertise in global health, HIV, and infectious diseases. Her groundbreaking work has significantly contributed to our understanding of the social and environmental determinants of HIV and other infectious diseases. Key Achievements: – Published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals – […]

[Research Seminar]The Climate Crisis, Health and Justice: Solutions and Ways Forward
2:00 - 4:00 PM, July 10, 2024

[Research Seminar]The Climate Crisis, Health and Justice: Solutions and Ways Forward

About the Speaker: Dr. Arianne Teherani is a distinguished researcher and educator with extensive expertise in medical education, climate and health, and health professions education research. Her innovative work has significantly contributed to our understanding of the impacts of climate change on health and the role of health professions education in addressing these challenges. Key […]

[Research Seminar] Learning for Safety and Control in Dynamical Systems – Dr. Geir E. Dullerud, University of Illinois
4 PM – 5 PM, December 06, 2023

[Research Seminar] Learning for Safety and Control in Dynamical Systems – Dr. Geir E. Dullerud, University of Illinois

About the Seminar In this talk AI-based methods have tremendous potential for impacting the performance of autonomous aerospace and robotic systems. Such systems include drones, ground- and water-based vehicles, and limbed robots for instance. A barrier to the wide deployment of AI-powered methods in such applications is the risk or unpredictability of algorithm performance. In […]

Research Seminar: How Linear Algebra and Optimization Is Useful for Power Industry – Dr. Riadh Zorgati
10.30 AM – 11.30 AM, November 28, 2023

Research Seminar: How Linear Algebra and Optimization Is Useful for Power Industry – Dr. Riadh Zorgati

 About the Seminar In this talk, we illustrate how linear algebra and optimization, with continuous or binary variables, is useful for power industry, for example for improving maintenance of power plants or for energy management. Optimization under constraints is a key approach for energy management where we aim at minimizing costs of production while respecting […]