
About us
MEETUPS ARE TO BE HELD ON THE LAST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH
Turbine's AI meetups are meant for all researchers, engineers, scientists and students working on hard machine learning problems. It is created to dissect and understand new developments in ML together, and share our experience from real-life projects.
Presenters cover the latest impactful AI models, aiming to dive much deeper into each topic than what standard science communication formats allow. Thus, they'll expect you to have a working knowledge of machine learning.
In some sessions, we are going deep to understand recently published models and architectures - with working code whenever possible & intro to math background whenever needed. In others, presenters share their learnings working on models of real-life applications. Our goal is to give thorough knowledge to the audience, that you will use in model design on a daily basis.
Turbine is a computational biology company focusing on cancer, so expect lots of topics infused with biology. Yet, we are also a curious community, inviting you to join even if your personal interest centers around other domains. We also host completely biology-free events about computer vision, NLP and generic AI topics to cover the latest scientific advancements.
Select past presentations can be found here:
https://www.turbine.ai/ai-meetup-presentations
Upcoming events
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Virtual Cells at ICLR'26 Conference
Turbine Kft., Szigony utca 26-32, Budapest, HUThis month's meetup discusses 3 papers from the ICLR 2026 conference held in April.
This won't be as much of a deep dive into one paper, but I'd like to give an overview / some intuition on latest modeling approaches in cell modeling & AI in biology.
1 - scDFM - a flow matching model predicting cell transitions in the transcriptomics space as a result of applying perturbations
2 - TxFM - a masked autoencoder style foundation model trained on a well-curated transcriptomics dataset. Authors demonstrate: how important data quality is in biological models, outweighing sheer scale.
3 - VCWorld - a world model approach for virtual cell simulation. A white-box, cell simulator approach that combines structured biological knowledge with LLMs
=== ENTRY DETAILS ===
- QR code with entry information will be available soon, in the "Photos" section of this event page.
- Gate closes at 18:15 - no late entries.9 attendees
Past events
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