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Previous seminars1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 On March 3, 2026 at 12:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the preliminary defense of the dissertation for the PhD degree (specialty 05.13.04) of Vardan Sahakyan on "GPS-independent positioning and navigation system". We are pleased to invite you to the Kick-Off Meeting and Networking Session of the IEEE Armenia Subsection, which will take place on 27 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00, at the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems, P. Sevak str. 1. This event marks an important step in building a strong and active local IEEE community connected to the global network of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). During the meeting, we will introduce the Subsection’s goals, leadership, and planned activities, and share information about IEEE’s structure, opportunities for creating technical subunits and conferences, and governance and election processes. The session will also include a networking segment designed to strengthen connections among members, encourage collaboration, and support future joint initiatives. Your participation is essential to shaping the future of the IEEE Armenia Subsection, and we warmly encourage you to join us for this important beginning. We look forward to welcoming you. On February 16, 2026 at 12:30 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the report of Dr. Constantine Dovrolis on "Toward Neuro-Inspired AI: Sparse Data, Modular Networks, and Stream-Based Continual Learning". Description How can we design learning systems that resemble the brain—able to adapt continually, learn from streams, and generalize without a flood of labeled data? This talk explores recent advances in sparse and modular neural networks that push machine learning in that direction. By selecting only the most informative experiences from a stream, enforcing sparsity to balance stability and plasticity, and leveraging modular structure to reduce interference and improve efficiency, we can move toward models that learn more like animals and humans. The focus is not on scaling up to larger black boxes, but on rethinking how learning itself happens under constraints. The result is a neuro-inspired agenda for machine learning that emphasizes adaptability, efficiency, and robustness in open-ended environments. Dr. Constantine Dovrolis is the Director of the center for Computational Science and Technology (CaSToRC) at The Cyprus Institute (CyI). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He is a graduate of the Technical University of Crete (Engr.Dipl. 1995), University of Rochester (M.S. 1996), and University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D. 2000). His research is highly inter-disciplinary, combining Network Theory, Data Mining and Machine Learning. Together with his collaborators and students, they have published in a wide range of scientific disciplines, including climate science, biology, and neuroscience. More recently, his group has been focusing on neuro-inspired architectures for machine learning based on what is currently known about the structure and function of brain networks. According to Google Scholar, his publications have received more than 15,000 citations with an h-index of 56. His research has been sponsored by US agencies such as NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, and by companies such as Google, Microsoft and Cisco. He has published at diverse peer-reviewed conference and journals such as the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), the ACM SIGKDD conference, PLOS Computational Biology, Network Neuroscience, Climate Dynamics, the Journal of Computational Social Networks, and others. On February 5, 2026 at 12:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the preliminary defense of the dissertation for the PhD degree (specialty 05.13.05) of Liana Andreasyan on "Development of Methods for Image Analysis, Quality Assessment and Optimization using Rice Distribution Modeling". On February 3, 2026 at 12:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the preliminary defense of the dissertation for the PhD degree (specialty 05.13.05) of Edvard Khalafyan on "Entropy‐Driven AI: Probabilistic Inference, Causal Representations, and Adaptive ModelFine‐Tuning". On December 26, 2025 at 12:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the preliminary defense of the dissertation for the PhD degree (specialty 05.13.05) of Liana Andreasyan on "Development of Methods for Image Analysis, Quality Assessment and Optimization Using Rice Distribution Modeling". On November 28, 2025 at 13:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the report of Edvard Khalafyan on " From Entropy to LLM Tokens: Information-Theoretic Foundations of Modern Machine Learning" (An overview of how information-theoretic ideas shape modern machine learning, from principles of entropy and uncertainty to practical methods for learning structure and making predictions.). On September 16, 2025 at 14:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the report of Artur Tumanyan on "Efficient resource management in agriculture using the Internet of Things through smart agriculture" (The report will focus on the necessity of efficient resource management in agriculture, particularly the targeted use of water, fertilizers, and pesticides. It will highlight the potential of IoT technologies in fruit orchards and present methods for data collection and analysis aimed at increasing yields, reducing resource waste, and minimizing negative environmental impacts.). On June 27, 2025 at 13:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). Agenda:
On June 26, 2025 at 14:00 the general seminar of IIAP will be held (the seminar's room, IV floor). On the agenda there is the report of Davit Galstyan on "Development of Automation Tools for Text Formation from Sign Language in Videos". 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 |
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