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Faculty 
 
 
 Clayton T. Morrison (Associate Professor, School of Information ) 
 
 Adarsh Pyarelal (Assistant Professor, School of Information ) 
 
 Research Scientists 
 
 
 Enrique Noriega ( Computer Science ) 
 
 Liang Zhang 
 
 
 Postdocs 
 
 
 Justin Lieffers 
 
 
 Dharma Raj KC 
 
 
 Research Programmers 
 
 
 Tito Ferra 
 
 
 Joseph Astier 
 
 
 Vincent Raymond 
 
 Rick Champlin 
 
 
 Students 
 
 
 Loren Champlin (INFO PhD) 
 
 
 Salena Torres Ashton (INFO PhD) 
 
 
 Gaurav Sharma (INFO PhD) 
 
 
 Deepsana Shahi (INFO PhD) 
 
 
 Maria Alexeeva (Lingistics PhD) 
 
 
 Alice Kwak (Linguistics PhD) 
 
 
 
 Affiliated Researchers 
 
 
 Sean M. Hendryx 
 
 
 Alumni 
 
 
 Colin Dawson (PhD Statisics 2016, currently Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Oberlin College ) 
 
 Enrique Noriega (PhD School of Information 2020, now Research Scientist in UA Computer Science ) 
 
 Paul Hein (MS Computer Science 2019, now working for Rock Central ) 
 
 Sayeh Peterson (MS Statistics 2022) 
 
 Matsuura (Linguistics BA)

Reading Group
ML4AI Lab Reading Group Schedules. 

 These are weekly meetings held every Tuesday from 10:00 to 11:00 AM in Harvill 332b. 

 Spring 2025 

 

 

 

 Date 

 Speaker 

 Paper 

 Slides 

 

 

 

 

 2/4/2025 

 

 No lab meeting due to faculty job presentation 

 

 

 

 2/11/2025 

 Salena Ashton 

 Argument analysis for writing research papers + causal reasoning -- part 1 

 In progress. UA Library Catalog link for "Introduction to Logic" by Copi and Cohen. 

 

 

 2/18/2025 

 Loren 

 All You Need is a Good Functional Prior for Bayesian Deep Learning (There's also a video presentation!) 

 slides 

 

 

 2/25/2025 

   

   

   

 

 

 3/4/2025 

 No talk - coincides with Game Dev/Design Faculty candidate Zoom research talk 

 

 

 3/11/2025 

 

 No talk -- Spring Break 

 

   

   

 

 

 3/18/2025 

   

   

 

 

 

 3/25/2025 

   

   

   

 

 

 4/1/2025 

   

   

   

 

 

 4/8/2025 

   

   

 

 

 

 4/15/2025 

 Deepsana Shahi 

 Comps Oral Exam Practice:

 Interdisciplinary AI-based learning for high-energy physics 

 

   

 

 

 4/22/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 4/29/2025 

 Salena Ashton 

 Argument analysis for writing research papers + causal reasoning + bike Theft 

 

 

 

 5/6/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is weekly meeting on Fridays at 1pm in Harvill 332b. 

 Fall 2024 

 

 

 

 Date 

 Speaker 

 Paper 

 Slides 

 

 

 

 

 9/27/24 

 Justin Lieffers 

 data2vec 

 

 

 

 10/4/24 

 Liang Zhang 

 Goal Inference + Pragmatic Instruction 

 

 

 

 10/11/24 

 Loren 

 Preference Transformers 

 Slides 

 

 

 10/18/24 

 Minglai Yang 

 Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Models 

 Slides 

 

 

 10/25/24 

 None 

 InfoSci Colloquium from noon - 1:30 pm 

 

 

 

 11/1/24 

   

   

   

 

 

 11/8/24 

 Dharma 

 ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models 

 Slides 

 

 

 11/15/24 

   

   

   

 

 

 11/22/24 

 Alice Kwak 

 Information Extraction with Prompt Chaining 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1/21/25 (or first day of meeting) 

 Salena Ashton 

 Inquisitive Semantics and its Connection to Causal Reasoning 

 TBD