<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
Octavian Radu “<b>Graph Neural Networks</b>”. This course will be held on May
29-31, 2024, conducted online via Google Meet.</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">:  We will learn how to
build a GNN from scratch, walking through each part of the model and explain
it. In the second part of the course, we will bring convolution to graph
models, and we will explore Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN), Graph Attention
Networks (GAT), Graph Sample and Aggregate (GraphSAGE) and Graph Isomorphism
Network (GIN). The course will also cover the challenges of using graphs in
machine learning, how to overcome them and some empirical GNN design lessons.</span></p>

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<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>

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Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology | National
University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest</span></p>

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Google Meet (the video call invitation (Google Meet) will be provided on May 27
by the lecturer), <b>May 29-31, 2024, 12:00-14:00 GMT</b></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: <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/graph-neural-networks/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">https://www.i-aida.org/course/graph-neural-networks/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p>

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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/" 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 <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/course/graph-neural-networks/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">AIDA course
     page</a>, 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><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://forms.gle/KGABjuzMsCF6oEam7" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">Registration Form</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt">.</span></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 <a href="https://forms.gle/KGABjuzMsCF6oEam7" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">Registration Form</a>. </span></li>
</ul>

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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></p>

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