International Symposium on Trustworthy Foundation Models

Symposium Goals

As foundation models become increasingly integrated into critical applications, ensuring their trustworthiness is paramount. The International Symposium on Trustworthy Foundation Models brings together researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss key challenges and advancements in building safe, fair, and robust AI systems. This symposium will explore topics such as model safety, privacy, fairness, interpretability, causality, and robustness, with a particular emphasis on real-world deployment and governance. Through two days of invited talks, networking discussions, and contributed research, we aim to foster collaboration and drive innovation in the responsible development of foundation models.

Specifically, the objectives of the symposium are:

• Exchanging ideas, e.g., we will invite keynote speeches from world-leading researchers and contributed talks from active researchers;

• Building networks and promoting potential collaborations, e.g., promote internal collaborations within MBZUAI and internal collaborations with rising-star and world-leading researchers;

• Inspiring the juniors to do better research, e.g., mentor research students and postdocs at MBZUAI to do high-qulity research.

Organizers

Organizing committee:
General chair: Kun Zhang, MBZUAI; Tongliang Liu, MBZUAI/USYD
Program chair: Bo Han, HKBU/RIKEN; Bo Li, UIUC
Chair for the invited faculty talk program: Nils Lukas, MBZUAI
Chair for the rising-star presentation program: Salem Lahlou, MBZUAI
Chair for the PhD mentoring program: Mingming Gong, MBZUAI/UoM
Local arrangement chair: Runqi Lin, MBZUAI/USYD

Local hosts
Maria Pereira, MBZUAI
Analyen Mata, MBZUAI

Venue

Location: Executive Theatre
Day 1: Zoom link
Day 2: Zoom link