Research
Haitian Arts Digital Crossroads: Reframing Haitian Art Narratives Through Digital Humanities
This lecture will explore how digital technologies can be used to revitalize archives and to make Haitian art and art history publicly accessible.
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Harsh Chaudhari, Propagation of Adversarial Bias to Distilled Language Models
This talk investigates the vulnerability of distilled language models to adversarial injection of biased content during training.
Seminar: Daniel Kröning, AI Accelerators 101–And Why You Should Build AI Accelerators with Us
Kröning will present a case for custom hardware for training the largest LLMs, and why compilers and deep program analysis are the key enabling technology...
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally, Beyond the Hopfield Memory Theory: Dynamic Energy Landscapes and Traveling Waves in RNNs
PhD Thesis Defense: Arjun Karuvally
Data Science Deep Dive: "Getting Started with Data Products: The People, Processes, & Tools"
In this webinar, we will break down the key steps to establish a strong foundation for data products.
Data Management Seminar: Fuheng Zhao, Advancing Approximate Queries with Innovative Data Summaries and Generative Models
Data Management Seminar featuring Fuheng Zhao
Mass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Om Thakkar, Privacy Leakage in Speech
In this talk, we first explore two primary types of privacy leakage: extraction attacks and memorization audits.
Teaching Seminar: Kaki Ryan, Abstract Syntax Trees
In this Teaching Seminar, Kaki Ryan will dive into Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), a fundamental concept in systems programming.