Dates & Sessions Info

Please find below the schedule and special scientific guest information.

Meetings List (Room 003, 15:00 - 16:30 EET):

Wednesday, 26.11.2025 – Focus: Neuro-symbolic AI for Computer Vision
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Radu Victor Balan, University of Maryland. The idea we are starting from is to connect our previous experience in neuro-symbolic models with the field of computer vision and interpretability.

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Wednesday, 29.10.2025 – Focus: Common AI research directions
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Calin Popa, Politehnica University of Timisoara. A hybrid approach to Open-Vocabulary and Application to Medicine.

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Wednesday, 17.09.2025 – Focus: Summer of AI and XAI
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Marius Leordeanu, Politehnica University of Bucharest (he did not arrived in time for this session). Various presentations of AI summer schools topics and results.

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Tuesday, 24.06.2025 – Focus: Explain Vision AI
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Nicu Sebe, University of Trento. Bias and trust in visual language models (VLMs).

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Monday, 26.05.2025 – Focus: XAI Reading Group within the Romanian AI Hub
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Adina Magda Florea, Politehnica University of Bucharest. Explainable Artificial Intelligence Models with Applications for Sensitive Data (Medicine, Legal, Cybersecurity).

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Thursday, 30.05.2024 – Focus: Self-supervised contrastive learning and knowledge distillation. Varying the temperature parameter.
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Calin Popa, Politehnica University of Timisoara. Prospective applications to CIL, Law, Cyber and Medicine.

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Monday, 11.03.2024 – Focus: SOTA of XAI Models for Thoracic Diagnosis.
Special Guest: Lect. Dr. Gabriel Cozma, Head of Thoracic Surgery Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara. We will discuss an upcoming review paper on XAI for Thoracic Diagnostics.

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