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We invite VALIANT Labs to join VALIANT Attempt for a lab Trick-or-Treat on Thursday, October 31 at 12:00 PM!  Trick-or-treat to collect candy and stamps from participating labs! Visit all stations to win a VALIANT beanie (while supplies last)! Enjoy pizza in the AI Lounge (next to FGH 385) and learn about… Read More

Friends,  Val, our AI cat, has fully moved into the new VALIANT space in Featheringill / Jacobs Hall and triggered vibrant discussions ranging from impressionism to cubism with a bit of masked auto-encoders and latent diffusion models sprinkled in. Read More

Join us on September 26,2024 for a special seminar presented by Chongyu Qu! Title: AbdomenAtlas: A large-scale, detailed-annotated, & multi-center dataset for efficient transfer… Read More

Friends,  What an amazing launch from summer into autumn! Thank you to the volunteers, faculty, lecturers, sponsors, staff, and attendees who made our first AI Summer School a success. We started off the week with charges from Dean Krish Roy for “VALIANT to be the… Read More

Join us in welcoming Antoine Théberge on September 5th, 2024 for a special seminar!  Title: Tractography Algorithms with Global Information via Transformers Who: Antoine Théberge, 4th year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Sherbrooke Québec, Canada.  Where: Featheringill Hall (FGH)… Read More

VALIANT Attempt, the student group for undergraduate and graduate affiliates, is holding an open interest meeting to discuss how to best serve the community. Food will be provided. We hope to see you there! When: Wednesday, 9/4 at 5pm Where: AI Lounge (FGH/Jacobs adjacent to FGH 385) Contact: Please email… Read More

Title: The National Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence at University Leipzig in Germany – An Opportunity for International Collaboration Who: Jens Meiler, Director for Applied AI and Big Data in Biomedical Research and Member of the Board, Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), University Leipzig… Read More

Friends,  While we may be experiencing the heat of Nashville’s famous summers, VALIANT is not wilting. Our first alumna defended her dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Xin Yu on her Computer Science thesis, “3D-2D Representation Learning for Longitudinal Analysis using Single-Single CT Scans.” Xin… Read More

VALIANT, ADVANCE, ACCRE, CS, DSI, ECE, LIVE, VKC, VINSE, VISE & Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are co-hosting the AI Summer School / 2024 Release. Join us for an immersive week-long summer school focused on the cutting-edge advancements and practical applications of deep learning and AI. This program… Read More

Friends,  On behalf of the VALIANT Steering Committee, it is my pleasure to introduce the first issue of a VALIANT Effort, our monthly newsletter. Since our May launch, I have had the immense pleasure of meeting with many passionate members of our… Read More