IIT Delhi - Abu Dhabi will host the Academy for Innovation and Management Studies (AIMS) International Conference in January 2025. The conference aims to foster global dialogue and collaboration on AI, sustainability, and related technologies. It seeks to gather researchers, academics, and industry experts to share insights and advancements in these fields. Why it matters: The event strengthens the UAE's position as a hub for AI research and sustainable technology innovation.
MBZUAI launched a report titled "AI for the Global South: 12 Critical Research Questions for the Next Decade" at the India AI Impact Summit. The report identifies 12 urgent research priorities related to AI's accessibility and benefits for developing countries. It grew out of MBZUAI’s AI for the Global South (AI4GS) workshop in December 2023, co-organized with IIT Delhi Abu Dhabi and sponsored by Microsoft. Why it matters: The report addresses the underrepresentation of local data, languages, and institutions from the Global South in modern AI systems, aiming to guide AI development towards inclusive and locally grounded systems.
Mausam, head of Yardi School of AI at IIT Delhi and affiliate professor at University of Washington, will discuss Neuro-Symbolic AI. The talk will cover recent research threads with applications in NLP, probabilistic decision-making, and constraint satisfaction. Mausam's research explores neuro-symbolic machine learning, computer vision for radiology, NLP for robotics, multilingual NLP, and intelligent information systems. Why it matters: Neuro-Symbolic AI is gaining importance as it combines the strengths of neural and symbolic approaches, potentially leading to more robust and explainable AI systems.