Talks and Panels

• 2025
  Diffusion Models

  Tutorial (1 hour) · MenaML — Middle East and North Africa Machine Learning Winter School · Doha, Qatar

  A one-hour tutorial on diffusion models — covering score-based generative modeling, denoising diffusion probabilistic models, and applications in vision and beyond.

• 2024
  Panelist — Women Leading Transformation Qatar

  Executive Panel (1 hour) · Executive Panel by PwC and Microsoft — Women Leading Transformation Qatar · Doha, Qatar

  Panel discussion on women in leadership and digital transformation in Qatar.

• 2023
  Exploring ChatGPT and Beyond for Enhanced Workspace Productivity

  Invited Talk (45 min) · Dahua Technology Workshop on AI and IoT Technology · Doha, Qatar
• 2023
  Generative AI

  Lecture (2 hours) · AI Summer School at Texas A&M University, Qatar · Doha, Qatar

  A two-hour lecture on generative models, covering likelihood-based and energy-based approaches and their applications.

• 2021
  Score Matching

  Research Talk (30 min) · Vision Lunch, UIUC · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
• 2020
  Can We Learn Heuristics for Graphical Model Inference Using Reinforcement Learning?

  Oral Presentation · IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) · Virtual

  Oral presentation of our CVPR 2020 paper — a reinforcement-learning engine for solving inference in energy-based models with traditionally intractable higher-order potentials, applied to semantic segmentation.

• 2017
  Meta-Algorithms

  Guest Lecture · CS 598 LAZ: Cutting-Edge Trends in Deep Learning and Recognition, UIUC · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
• 2015
  Polychronous Formal Languages for Model-Based Design

  Invited Talk · Arab Women in Computing Conference · Middle East and North Africa
• 2014
  Methods for Designing Optimized Architectures for Aircraft Electrical Power Systems

  Invited Seminar · Weekly Research Seminar, ECE Department, Virginia Tech · Virginia, USA