STARTER-AI Workshop 2025, supported by NSF, NIH, and NVIDIA
January 29 - February 7, 2025
This workshop continues last year's successful STARTER-AI Workshop 2024 and will follow a similar format, taking place on both the Edinburg and Brownsville campuses with a virtual connection. However, this year's workshop will span two weeks occurring on Wednesdays and Fridays from January 29 to February 7. We hope these workshops continue to grow the community of AI practitioners here in South Texas.
Workshop will include:
- Invited Speakers and Panel Discussion
- Hands-on AI Programming with course material developed both in-house and by NVIDIA
- Discussion of AI Courses and Resources available at UTRGV
- Career paths and Opportunities in AI
- Topic workshops to explore AI in specific fields
- Panel session to discuss introducing AI into your work
- AI@UTRGV showcase of ongoing AI research and development
Locations
- Edinburg - (Jan. 29 & Feb. 5 ) EHAB East 1.122, (Jan. 31 & Feb. 7 ) EEDUC 2.502
- Brownsville - Location Pending
- Online
Schedule
| Day | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 29 | Edinburg - EHAB East 1.122, Brownsville - Pending | |
| 1:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Workshop - Part 1 of 6 | |
| 1:40 PM | Break | |
| 2:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Workshop - Part 2 of 6 | |
| 2:40 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Workshop - Part 3 of 6 | |
| 3:40 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Wrap-up and Q&A | |
| Jan. 31 | Edinburg - EEDUC 2.502, Brownsville - Pending | |
| 8:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 9:00 AM | External Speaker Dr. Allen from TACC | |
| 10:00 AM | Break | |
| 10:15 AM | AI@UTRGV Poster Session | |
| 10:45 AM | Research Focus - by invitation | |
| 1:00 PM | Posters and Break | |
| 2:30 - 5:00 PM | Research Focus - by invitation | |
| Feb. 5 | Edinburg - EHAB East 1.122, Brownsville - Pending | |
| 1:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Workshop - Part 4 of 6 | |
| 1:40 PM | Break | |
| 2:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Workshop - Part 5 of 6 | |
| 2:40 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Workshop - Part 6 of 6 | |
| 3:40 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | NVIDIA DLI Wrap-up and Q&A | |
| Feb. 7 | Edinburg - EEDUC 2.502, Brownsville - Pending | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 AM | Workshop (Cradle Access and Usage) | |
Section Chairs and Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers
Texas Advanced Computing Center: HPC and AI for Open Science
Dr. Joe Allen, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at UT Austin
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Abstract:
The Texas Advanced Computing Center’s (TACC) mission is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies. TACC is the world leader in academic supercomputing and has a long, successful history designing and operating some of the world's most powerful computing resources. In addition to its national research mission, TACC is a core resource that serves the advanced computing needs of all institutions across the University of Texas System. Resource highlights include: support for analytics and storage of protected data; interactive access to high performance nodes for visualization or analysis; the latest powerful GPU processors for machine learning; long term data archives; cloud computing and web-accessible services; APIs to support automation and reproducible computing; science gateways for supporting browser-based collaboration, dissemination, and communities; and trainings in best practices for research computing. This talk will highlight recent technological advances at TACC, including the deployment of new GPU-powered resources and ongoing efforts to equip researchers with the right tools for AI.