<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dear AI/CS/ECE student<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">/</span>scientist/engineer/enthusiast,</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">the
International AI Doctoral Academy (</span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">AIDA</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">)</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">is
excited to invite you to attend the upcoming short e-course by AIDA Lecturer
Lucian Gruia “<b>Context-Aware AI Conversational Agents with RAG Architecture</b>”.
This course will be held on May 13-14, 2024, conducted online via Microsoft
Teams.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Key concepts</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">: Conversational Agents
Architecture, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Architecture, Streamlining
unstructured data, Large Language Models, Knowledge Representation Techniques,
Data Embedding, Retrieval, Semantic Search, Reasoning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Details</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Host Institution: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Doctoral School of
Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology | National
University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Level: Postgraduate</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Schedule: Online via
Microsoft Teams (the invitation on Microsoft Teams will be sent on May 10 by
the lecturer), <b>May 13-14, 2024, 14:00-16:00 UTC</b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Join us and explore further: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/context-aware-ai-conversational-agents-with-rag-architecture/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://www.i-aida.org/course/context-aware-ai-conversational-agents-with-rag-architecture/</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Both</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> AIDA </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">and</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> non-AIDA students are encouraged to
participate in this course </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">for <b>free</b></span></p>
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<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">AIDA Students</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt"> (PhD students/candidates, Post-doc researchers belonging to any
AIDA </span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/about/members/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration-line:none">Member</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">) should enroll on this
course using the “ENROLL ON THIS COURSE” button on the </span><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/context-aware-ai-conversational-agents-with-rag-architecture/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">AIDA course page</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">, so that
this course is included on your AIDA Certificate of Course Attendance upon
successful completion of the course. Please also fill in the </span><a href="https://forms.gle/sJa6XEBLRMHf4cd76" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Registration
Form</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">.</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">Students/participants <b>not</b> associated with any AIDA member
can join the course by filling out the </span><a href="https://forms.gle/sJa6XEBLRMHf4cd76" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">Registration Form</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.1pt">. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">International AI Doctoral
Academy (AIDA), a joint initiative of the European R&D projects </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://ai4media.eu/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AI4Media</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">, </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.elise-ai.eu/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ELISE</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">, </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.humane-ai.eu/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Humane AI Net</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">, </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://tailor-network.eu/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">TAILOR</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">, </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.vision4ai.eu/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">VISION</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">supports a world-level AI education and
research program. AIDA has regular lecture series, short courses, semester
courses, and seasonal schools with the participation of hundreds of academics
and serving a growing community of AI PhD students and researchers.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">AIDA Secretariat</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p></div>