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SUMMARY:Aug 25 - Advances in AI at NYU
DESCRIPTION:Join our virtual meetup to hear talks from researchers at NYU on cutting-edge topics across AI\, ML\, and computer vision. **Date\, Time and Location** Aug 25\, 2026 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST Online. **[Reg…\n\nJoin our virtual meetup to hear talks from researchers at NYU on cutting-edge topics across AI\, ML\, and computer vision.\n\n**Date\, Time and Location**\n\nAug 25\, 2026\n9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST\nOnline. **[Register for the Zoom!](https://voxel51.com/events/advances-in-ai-at-nyu-august-25-2026)**\n\n**Using Computer Vision to Advance the Sciences**\n\nI'll present some of our ongoing work on using computer vision to create impact in the sciences. These target a two areas\, solar physics and evolutionary biology\, that deal with objects of radically different sizes but are unified by a need for high quality\, trustworthy data.\n\nI'll show off our efforts\, done in collaboration with domain experts\, that aim to produce the best possible maps of the Sun's powerful magnetic field and have created some of the world's largest repositories of data about bird morphology.\n\n*About the Speaker*\n\n[David Fouhey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-fouhey-642120379/) is an Associate Professor at New York University and a research scientist at Polymathic AI. Before joining NYU\, he received a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon\, was a postdoc at UC Berkeley\, and was a professor at University of Michigan.\n\n**Solaris: Building a Multiplayer Video World Model in Minecraft**\n\nThis talk will introduce Solaris: a multiplayer video world model in Minecraft. I will first present SolarisEngine\, the software platform we built to simulate realistic multiplayer gameplay between bots at scale\, enabling us to collect a large training dataset of aligned multiplayer actions and frames.\n\nI will then discuss our staged training pipeline\, starting with single-player pre-training before converting the model into a long-horizon multiplayer generator through bidirectional training\, followed by causal training\, and concluding with Self Forcing. I will also cover our memory-efficient implementation of Self Forcing\, called Checkpointed Self Forcing.\n\nFinally\, I will showcase generated videos illustrating how Solaris maintains coherent long-horizon multiplayer interactions.\n\n*About the Speaker*\n\n[Oscar Michel ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscar-michel-82a162145/)is a PhD student at NYU advised by Prof. Saining Xie. His research studies world models: generative models of agents interacting in an environment.\n\n**Closing the human to robot gap for dexterous hands**\n\nCollecting task-specific robot data for multi-fingered hands is challenging due to the many difficulties that arise in teleoperation. That is why recently there has been a major focus on learning robot policies directly from human demonstrations. However\, human demonstrations are difficult to work with\; there is a major morphological and visual gap between human and robot hands\, as well as between the environments they operate in.\n\nIn this talk\, I'd like to discuss my efforts on closing this gap.\n\n*About the Speaker*\n\n[Irmak Guzey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irmak-guzey-6a9010175) I'm Irmak (she/her)\, a rising 3rd year PhD student at New York University\, currently advised by Lerrel Pinto. My research focuses on robot learning for dexterous manipulation. I have been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and NYU's Best Master's Thesis Award in the past.\n\nMer info: https://www.meetup.com/stockholm-ai-machine-learning-and-computer-vision-meetup/events/315685011/
LOCATION:Online event\, Stockholm
URL:https://www.meetup.com/stockholm-ai-machine-learning-and-computer-vision-meetup/events/315685011/
SOURCE:https://eveny.nu/event/aug-25-advances-in-ai-at-nyu-stockholm-20260825
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