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  • [RCAC Workshop]AI Ecosystem 2026: What’s New and What Matters

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: September 25th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 1PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Ashish Description: The AI landscape is evolving at an extraordinary pace, with new models, tools, frameworks, and deployment strategies emerging across both research and...

  • [RCAC Workshop]ML Fundamentals I: Supervised Learning

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: October 2nd, 2026 ⏰ Time: 2PM-3PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Haniye Kashgarani Who Should Attend Researchers, analysts, engineers, and students with basic programming or data science experience who want to build a solid foundation...

  • [RCAC Workshop]ML Fundamentals II: Unsupervised Learning

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: October 9th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 2PM-3PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Haniye Kashgarani Who Should Attend Researchers, engineers, and students with basic programming or data science experience who want to expand their understanding of machi...

  • [RCAC Workshop]How Do We Know an LLM Is Good? Practical Evaluation of Large Language Models

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: October 16th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mihir Ahlawat Large language models can produce responses that appear useful, but evaluating their quality in a consistent and repeatable way can be challenging. This...

  • [RCAC Workshop]Finetuning & Compression of LLMs (LoRA, QLoRA, GGUF)

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: October 30th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mansi Sharma As large language models grow in size and capability, deploying and customizing them efficiently has become a critical skill for AI practitioners. This wo...

  • [RCAC Workshop]Introduction to MCP: Connecting AI Agents to Tools and Data

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: November 13th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mihir Ahlawat Description: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a standardized way for AI applications and agents to connect with external tools, data sources, a...

  • [RCAC Workshop]Advanced RAG & Vector Databases

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: November 20th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 11AM-12PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Mansi Sharma Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the standard approach for grounding LLMs in external, up-to-date, or proprietary knowledge β€” but building...

  • [RCAC Workshop]AI in Scientific Research & Education

    • Virtual

    πŸ“… Date: December 4th, 2026 ⏰ Time: 1PM-2PM πŸ’» Location: Virtual 🏫 Instructor: Ashish Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded in how researchers conduct scientific work and how educators design, deliver, and support learning. Rese...