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Workshops, Hackathons & Masterclasses

Join our hands-on technical sessions, collaborative innovation sprints, and live build masterclasses with leading AI researchers and engineers.

AUG
28
2026

Beyond Dashboards: We're Building the Modern Data Stack Live with AI

You've seen plenty of demos where AI generates charts and SQL. The real challenge is connecting the entire data workflow. We bring the data stack to life live: AI-powered ingestion, transformation, governance, and analyticsβ€”built end-to-end in under an hour, with one data model flowing seamlessly from raw data to trusted insights.

Online – 11:00 PM (Malaysia Time) videocam ONLINE
DATA_STACK
SEP
15
2026

Prompt Engineering & Autonomous Multi-Agent Swarms

Learn how to design robust reasoning loops, configure function-calling schemas, establish vector memory buffers, and benchmark multi-agent LLM systems with LangGraph and local vLLM instances.

N009 – 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM location_on IN-PERSON
SWARM_AGENT
OCT
05
2026

UTAR Annual AI Innovation Challenge 2026

A 48-hour collaborative building sprint addressing sustainability, computer vision, and healthcare diagnostics. Pitch your prototypes to venture partners and industry judges for RM 1000 in prizes.

N010 & Online – 9:00 AM Start emoji_events HACKATHON
48H_SPRINT
OCT
19
2026

Fine-Tuning Open-Weights Models with LoRA & Unsloth

Step-by-step masterclass on parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT), quantization methods (4-bit/8-bit), and deploying custom instruction-tuned LLMs on consumer GPUs with minimal VRAM.

N010 + Zoom Broadcast – 3:00 PM laptop_mac HYBRID
LORA_TRAIN
NOV
04
2026

Multimodal AI: Building Real-Time Audio & Vision Interfaces

Develop low-latency bidirectional voice and video streaming agents using WebRTC, Whisper ASR, and Gemini Multimodal Live APIs for interactive campus kiosks.

N011 – 2:00 PM mic WORKSHOP
LIVE_AUDIO
NOV
16
2026

Scaling Autonomous Driving Models with World Simulators

Guest lecture by senior NVIDIA autonomous vehicle researchers on occupancy grids, diffusion-based world models, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.

Block M & YouTube Live – 10:30 AM record_voice_over GUEST TALK
NVIDIA_ISAAC
DEC
05
2026

Advanced Vector Search & Hybrid RAG Architectures

Deep dive into sparse-dense vector retrieval, Cross-Encoder reranking, metadata filtering at scale with Qdrant, and contextual compression pipelines.

Online Webinar – 8:00 PM videocam ONLINE
QDRANT_RAG
DEC
18
2026

GreenTech AI Challenge: Renewable Energy Forecasting

24-hour sprint focused on optimizing solar grid consumption and battery lifecycle predictions using spatio-temporal graph neural networks (GNNs).

Block M – 10:00 AM bolt HACKATHON
GREEN_SOLAR
DEC
25
2026

AI Red-Teaming & Adversarial Security Workshop

Hands-on lab simulating prompt extraction, indirect injection, gradient jailbreaks, and deploying guardrail wrappers (NeMo Guardrails & Llama Guard).

N010 – 2:00 PM security WORKSHOP
RED_TEAM
JUN
12
2026

Applied Computer Vision: Real-time Object Tracking with YOLOv10

Comprehensive workshop covering edge camera stream processing, multi-class bounding box regression, and TensorRT acceleration on NVIDIA Jetson modules.

Completed – N010 COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
YOLO_TRACK
MAY
20
2026

Autonomous Campus Rover 24h Build Sprint

Student teams constructed autonomous pathfinding robots using ROS 2, LiDAR navigation packages, and obstacle avoidance reinforcement learning algorithms.

Completed – Block A001 COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
ROVER_SLAM
APR
14
2026

Ethics in Large Language Models & Responsible Deployment

Invited research talk by AI safety practitioners on model red-teaming, prompt injection mitigations, and bias evaluation metrics across Southeast Asian multilingual corpora.

Completed – Block M COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
ETHICS_TALK
MAR
02
2026

Neural Networks & Deep Learning Mathematical Foundations

Backpropagation from scratch in pure NumPy, tensor autograd graphs, optimizer mechanics (AdamW vs SGD), and learning rate annealing schedules.

Completed – N009 COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
AUTOGRAD_MATH.py
FEB
18
2026

Reinforcement Learning with PPO in PyTorch Gym

Trained Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) agents for continuous control environments, state-action policy networks, and reward clipping.

Completed – N011 COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
PPO_POLICY
JAN
24
2026

Industry AI Pipelines: From Research Notebooks to Kubernetes

Guest seminar by senior ML Ops engineers explaining Docker packaging, Triton inference servers, and Prometheus model drift telemetry.

Completed – Block M COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
K8S_MLOPS
DEC
10
2025

Transformer Attention Mechanisms & Self-Attention Coding

Hand-coded Scaled Dot-Product Attention, Multi-Head Attention projections, and causal masking layers in PyTorch from the ground up.

Completed – Online COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
ATTENTION
NOV
15
2025

Campus AI Winter Hackathon 2025

36-hour sprint creating student life automation agents, course schedule optimizers, and automated syllabus indexing assistants.

Completed – Block M COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
WINTER_2025
OCT
28
2025

Introduction to Linux Shell, Git & GPU Computing for ML

Foundational workshop for incoming members covering CUDA driver verification, Conda environment isolation, and Slurm cluster job submission.

Completed – N011 COMPLETED
CONCLUDED
BASH_CUDA

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