His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, visited MBZUAI today. During the visit, His Highness affirmed that the university contributes to advancing the UAE's vision by investing in artificial intelligence and advanced technology, preparing national

Excited to share what I have been working since a year! The introduction of a new BSc degree in AI at MBZUAI (ranked 10 worldwide in the main fields of AI on CSRankings) with two tracks, one in Engineering and one in Business. We are recruiting top students from all over the

Big news!📢 We've launched our first undergraduate program: Bachelor of Science in AI. This multi-disciplinary program combines core AI expertise with entrepreneurship and real-world industry experience—empowering our students to #BuildWhatsNext. Applications for Fall 2025 are

I’m pleased to invite you to visit our poster at #ICLR2025! My co-author Artem Agafonov will present our #OPTAMI paper on global superlinear convergence of second-order methods and a PyTorch library for high-order methods. 📌Hall 3 + Hall 2B #563 📅Thu 24 Apr 10:00

🚀 Great work by my students and collaborators! Pushing routing algorithms closer to real-world deployment with SVRPBench — worth a look for anyone in ML/OR/logistics. linkedin.com/posts/zangir-i… #mbzuai #AI #VehicleRouting

🚀 Postdoc @MBZUAI: drive #LLM reasoning for energy under my & S. Lahlou. PhD (NLP/LLM), strong publications & PyTorch/TensorFlow. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/169102. Please RT/share w/ top candidates! #MBZUAI #LLM #Postdoc #ML #NLP #AIResearch #IndustryCollaboration #EnergyAI

🚀 Join @MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi) to advance efficient & distributed ML! 🔹 Postdoctoral Associate — apply.interfolio.com/170202 🔹 Visiting Student — apply.interfolio.com/170203 Apply now and help shape the future of #MachineLearning. #AI #Postdoc #PhD #Careers

🔧 Comp-opt friends: show us your solver magic! #ICOMP2025 lands in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪. Abstracts due Aug 1, papers Aug 15 (AoE). Expect killer talks + sunny networking. Details/CFP ⬇️ lnkd.in/gEapDXwB #CallForPapers #Optimization #ML

We are #hiring for MBZUAI Postdoctoral Opening—Graph AI for Materials & Catalysis at MBZUAI. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. We are attending International Conference on Machine Learning 2025 if you would like to meet! - via #Whova event app

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The upcoming launch of the "K2 Think" model will mark a significant step in advancing artificial intelligence from the UAE to the world, reflecting our leadership's vision for technological progress. K2 Think will combine the efficiency of smaller models with world-class

New Quasi-Newton method CEQN offers a simple, explicit stepsize with guaranteed global convergence for convex optimization, matching accelerated methods’ rates even with inexact Hessians. #Optimization #MBZUAI arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19712

🚀 AI4OPT Challenge! Build an agentic AI that reads, experiments, and writes a mini-paper. Tweak the pipeline. Beat the baselines. Win an award. Check: ai4opt.fmin.xyz #AgenticAI #ML #Optimization #LLM #MBZUAI #ICOMP

🎉 Accepted to #NeurIPS2025 (Benchmark Track)! SVRPBench: a realistic benchmark for stochastic VRP—traffic peaks, log-normal delays, accidents, and real time windows—across 500+ urban-scale instances. Learn more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.21887 #MBZUAI #VRP #OR

🔬 The lab of the future is here. A place where robots run the experiments. AI makes sense of the data. Scientists steer the breakthroughs. A new Science Robotics article co-authored by #MBZUAI’s VP for Research Prof. Sami Haddadin shows how this could cut years of discovery

We have started the #icomp conference with prof. Daniel Kuhn talk about contextual stochastic bilevel optimization icomp.cc