Events

Politics, Sense-making and Persuasion: NLP Case studies from Edinburgh’s SMASH research group

19 February 2026 10:30am

in Data Science Seminar

Speakers: Sandrine Chausson and Tom Bidewell, University of Edinburgh, UK

Structured Representation Learning for Latent Thinking in LLMs

11 February 2026 1:00pm

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Prof Hanqi Yan (King’s College London, KCL)

Towards Adaptive, Efficient and Scalable Text-to-Video Retrieval System

11 February 2026 11:00am

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Zecheng Zhao

Fully Transparent German LLM and Encoder Families Trained from Scratch

10 February 2026 9:00am

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Professor Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg, Germany

Political Bias in Large Language Models for Content Moderation: a Persona-based Perspective

28 January 2026 10:00am

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Stefano Civelli

Reliable Multimodal Recommender Systems

9 January 2026 10:00am

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Lijian Chen

From Human-Like Reasoning to Memorization Biases: When Should We Align AI Models?

18 December 2025 11:00am

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Afra Mashhadi (University of Washington Bothell, USA)

Towards Robust End-to-end Autonomous Driving Neural Networks

12 December 2025 11:30am

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Huitong Yang

Enhancing Plant Phenotyping Accuracy in Sorghum through Analysing Aerial Data

8 December 2025 2:00pm

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Rukshan Karannagoda

Illuminate: A Combined Faculty Showcase

26 November 2025 5:00pm–9:00pm

in Illuminate: A Combined Faculty Showcase

Join us for Illuminate, a vibrant celebration of student innovation and creativity across engineering, computing, architecture, and design.

Towards Unified Online 3D World Modeling with Vision Foundation Models

25 November 2025 2:00pm

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Fengyi Zhang

Two-Day Face-to-Face Sustainability of Transformers Across their Lifecycle CPD Course

6 November 2025 8:30am–7 November 2025 5:00am

in Australasian Transformer Innovation Centre webinar and CPD courses

The University of Queensland’s Australasian Transformer Innovation Centre (TIC) is pleased to announce a two-day face-to-face CPD course in Brisbane focusing on the sustainability of transformers across their lifecycle.

What Generators Want from Search: Aligning Retrieval with the Needs of Generative AI

27 October 2025 12:30pm

in Data Science Seminar

Speaker: Jonathan Ross

Reliable and Specialised LLMs (ReLLMS) Workshop

22 October 2025 9:00am–24 October 2025 5:30pm

in Reliable and Specialised LLMs (ReLLMS) Workshop

UQ AI Conference Dry Run Seminar Series

13 October 2025 1:00pm

in Data Science Seminar

We are delighted to announce the inaugural UQ AI Conference Dry Run Seminar Series, proudly hosted by the UQ Data Science Discipline (School of EECS).