<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/" target="_blank" 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="margin:0cm;line-height:16.5pt;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 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="margin:0cm;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">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="marg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bri,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/" target="_blank" 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/" target="_blank" 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/" target="_blank" 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/" target="_blank" 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/" target="_blank" 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: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"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: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: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: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">Best regards</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">AIDA Secretariat</span></p></div>