Programmes teaching
Expert Colloquium
An invited speaker series featuring practising AI researchers, engineers, and ethicists.
- Cadence
- Quarterly
- Location
- Virtual
- Status
- active
What it is
An invited talk series. Each colloquium features a single speaker, usually a working researcher or senior engineer, presenting current work, followed by an extended Q&A. Past speakers and topics are listed below, and upcoming sessions are announced through the newsletter. Recordings are posted publicly when permitted.
Why it matters
Colloquia close the loop between TRI AI’s learners and the people producing the field’s frontier work. They give cohort graduates a direct window into how research actually happens, and they give visiting speakers a thoughtful audience that has read the paper.
Who attends
Open to TRI AI cohort graduates, partner institution students, and invited members of the wider community. Capacity is limited at in-person events. The livestream is unrestricted.
Past colloquia
A selection of past sessions, with full recordings on the AI Saturdays Lagos YouTube channel.
- Luis Serrano (30 January 2021). Machine learning educator and author of Grokking Machine Learning. Watch on YouTube
- Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún (20 March 2021). Linguist and writer working on Yorùbá language preservation and digital language tools. Watch on YouTube
- Julius Adebayo (24 April 2021). Interpretability. Then a PhD candidate at MIT working on interpretability and algorithmic fairness; now at Guide Labs. Watch on YouTube
- Irene Lo (22 May 2021). Market design for social good: using math, algorithms, and economics to address social problems. Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, with ongoing work on resource allocation in public housing and school assignment. Watch on YouTube