March 2024 - Sanghani-faculty - mailman.cs.vt.edu

Welcome to attend the invited talks at CS 6804: Trustworthy LLMs
by Wang, Xuan 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, I hope your semester is going well. I have launched a seminar course on "Trustworthiness of Large Language Models". If you are interested, please feel free to check out our course materials on this website<https://xuanwang91.github.io/2024-1-16-seminar>. We have arranged five invited talks from 4/10 - 4/24. You and your students are warmly welcome to attend these talks and engage with the speakers if you find them intriguing. The classes are on Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm. All the talks will take place on my Zoom: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/8682759193. Below is a brief overview of our invited speakers and topics: 1. Yu Meng (4/10, Wed): Assistant Professor, University of Virginia. Yu will talk about general training algorithms/applications of LLMs. 2. Jessica Newman (4/15, Mon): Founder and Director of the AI Security Initiative, UC Berkeley. Jessica is the author of the popular report "A Taxonomy of Trustworthiness for Artificial Intelligence<https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/a-taxonomy-of-trustworthiness-for-art…>”. Jessica will first introduce the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and then talk about AI Trustworthiness and Risk Management. 3. Haohan Wang (4/15, Wed): Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Haohan will talk about their recent work on jailbreaks in large language models. 4. Ziang Xiao (4/22, Mon): Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University. Ziang will talk about human-centered AI with LLMs and their recent work on AI chatbots for information seeking. 5. Boxin Wang (4/24, Wed): Research Scientist, Nvidia. Boxin will talk about their recent work, DecodingTrust, providing a comprehensive assessment of trustworthiness in GPT models (NeurIPS 2023 Outstanding Paper Award). I hope to see you and your students at these sessions. Best regards, Xuan -------- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics Virginia Tech

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IC ML Candidate Seminars and Surveys
by Brian Mayer 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Here are links to the seminars for the 3 faculty candidates from this week and last week. I have also provided the links to the surveys for the 3 candidates. Please provide feedback through those surveys for each of the candidates you interacted with or have thoughts on. Sriraam Natarajan Seminar: <https://drive.google.com/file/d/18UXt6tNo7gpunb2BfYSekRyLCi4nU6fj/view> https://drive.google.com/file/d/18UXt6tNo7gpunb2BfYSekRyLCi4nU6fj/view Survey: <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvirginiat ech.questionpro.com%2Ft%2FAaedGZ13lB&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7Cdb6597 5735024692d28408dc49c3c93b%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C6384 66352471557029%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=E90%2FO3W61npTQLxa6dBtwbv7w VVPEtXwHtYRhnSJr7s%3D&reserved=0> https://virginiatech.questionpro.com/t/AaedGZ13lB Sanmay Das Recorded seminar : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VbSLdJh3FiVqG21_PfUrsIfHCJFkDGJH/view?usp=s haring Survey : https://virginiatech.questionpro.com/t/AaedGZ14oL Shuiwang Ji Recorded seminar : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N2FvzLAN8Qzc88Xok2eaw9C6kPWYHUsE/view?usp=s haring Survey : https://virginiatech.questionpro.com/t/AaedGZ140f Thanks, Brian

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REMINDER: Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - TODAY at 12 - 1:30 pm
by Bradley, Nickolas 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Hi Everyone, Attached are the update slides for our Sanghani Center faculty meeting scheduled for TODAY at 12 pm. Those of you in Blacksburg will be meeting in D&DS 337, those of us in the D.C. area will be connecting via Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89321808953 Meeting ID: 893 2180 8953 --- One tap mobile +13052241968,,89321808953# US +13092053325,,89321808953# US --- Dial by your location • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Thank you, Nickolas Bradley

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REMINDER: Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - TODAY at 12 - 1:30 pm
by Bradley, Nickolas 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Hi Everyone, Attached are the update slides for our Sanghani Center faculty meeting scheduled for TODAY at 12 pm. Those of you in Blacksburg will be meeting in D&DS 337, those of us in the D.C. area will be connecting via Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89321808953 Meeting ID: 893 2180 8953 --- One tap mobile +13052241968,,89321808953# US +13092053325,,89321808953# US --- Dial by your location • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Thank you, Nickolas Bradley

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Reminder - Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - Friday, March 29 at 12 pm
by Bradley, Nickolas 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hi Everyone, Friendly reminder about our Sanghani Center faculty meeting scheduled for Friday, March 29 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. Please be sure to send over any updates you may have to be added to the meeting slides by COB TODAY. Those in Blacksburg will be meeting in D&DS 337 and those of us in the D.C. area will be connecting via Zoom. Below is the Zoom information, please note that it's the same link for all our Sanghani Faculty meetings this semester. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89321808953 Meeting ID: 893 2180 8953 --- One tap mobile +13052241968,,89321808953# US +13092053325,,89321808953# US --- Dial by your location • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Thank you, Nickolas Bradley

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Amazon- VT Initiative Information Session April 2nd CANCELLED
by Bradley, Nickolas 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Hi Everyone, Thank you for your interest in the Amazon-VT Initiative. Due to difficulties in scheduling we are canceling the April 2 Info Session. For faculty who submitted abstracts, we will be reaching out to you individually to schedule a feedback session with Amazon researchers. For PhD students who are interested in the fellowship, please work with your advisor to submit your nomination. The deadline for full proposals and fellowship nominations is April 26, 2024 (5pm EDT). Details and FAQ are available at this link: Amazon-VT Initiative <https://www.vt.edu/link/partners/amazon-partnership.html> (Current Solicitations Tab). For more info or if you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Nickolas Bradley at nickolasb24(a)vt.edu<mailto:nickolasb24@vt.edu> or email amazon-vt(a)cs.vt.edu<mailto:amazon-vt@cs.vt.edu>. Thank you, Nickolas Bradley

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Participation Form for SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24)
by blmicale＠vt.edu 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

I've invited you to fill out the following form: Participation Form for SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24) To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScM8vlnROfoZxk5wswBcC2VzNiBw_cc74H… Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys.

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Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - Friday, March 29 at 12 pm
by Bradley, Nickolas 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hi All, Our next Sanghani Center faculty meeting is scheduled for Friday, March 29 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. As usual, if you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them to me and Brian so that I may add them to our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events, etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 27. I have sent out a recurring calendar invite for this upcoming meeting and next month. Those of you in Blacksburg will be meeting in D&DS 337, while those of us in the D.C. area will be connecting via Zoom. Below is the Zoom information, please note that it's the same link for all our Sanghani Faculty meetings this semester. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89321808953 Meeting ID: 893 2180 8953 --- One tap mobile +13052241968,,89321808953# US +13092053325,,89321808953# US --- Dial by your location • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Thank you, Nickolas Bradley

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learning about computational epidmiology
by Lenwood S. Heath 13 Mar '24

13 Mar '24

Admit it --- you would like to learn more about computational epidemiology! Well, here is your chance. In a week, there is an event affiliated with SIGCSE 2024 on just that topic. You can register for the event through the link on this page: https://computational-epidemiology.org/ Thanks for attending and for spreading the word! Lenny -- Lenwood S. Heath Professor 1160 Torgersen Hall Office phone: (540) 231-4352 Department of Computer Science Cell phone: (540) 392-6672 Virginia Tech FAX: (540) 231-6075 Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106 Email: heath(a)vt.edu WEB: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~heath/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message and signature (c)2024 Lenwood S. Heath All rights reserved --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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"Big data problems require big data solutions"
by Naren Ramakrishnan 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Hi All, A nice video of work by Chris North and group featuring Jesse Harden is featured in today's VT news: https://news.vt.edu/videos/k/2024/03/1_iktv36zv.html Enjoy - thanks to Barbara Micale for proposing this concept to VT Communications and getting this to the finish line! Best, Naren

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