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AI Research Day 2026

Full Program

UCF Spring AI Research Day

Hosted by the UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI) + AI for All Initiative
February 6, 2026  | 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM
Location: Room 101 UCF SPRK (former UCF Global building), 4356 Scorpius St, Orlando, FL 32816.

Program at a Glance

 

Morning Session (09:00AM to 12:30PM – Room 101)

  • Welcome and AI Day Kickoff: Deans: Dr. Michael Georgiopoulos, Dr. Deborah German
  • IAI Introduction: Dr. Mubarak Shah, Director, IAI
  • Keynote Talk: “We are all Prompts: Simulating Reality with Video Generation and World Models” by Ruben Villegas, Google DeepMind
  • 18 Lightning Talks (8 minutes each)

Lunch and Poster Session (12:30PM to 02:00PM – 2nd Floor Atrium)

  • Poster Session: 55 posters from 28 UCF Departments/Units will be presented.
  • Lunch will be served for registered guests.

Afternoon Session (02:00PM – 05:00PM – Room 101)

  • Panels on:
    • AI Security, Privacy: Dr. Amrit Bedi, Dr. Chen Chen, Dr. Zhenyi Wang, Dr. Yu Tian
    • AI Education/Teaching:  Dr. Stephen King, Dr. Lotzi Boloni, Dr. Shashank Sonkar, Dr. Santu Karmaker
    • AI Ethics: Dr. Jonathan Beever, Dr. Stephen Kuebler, Dr. Stephen Fiore, Dr. Song Wang, Dr. Amrit Bedi

 

Detailed Program

 

08:30 AM Check-in begins outside Room 101.

09:00 AM Welcome from Dr. Winston Shoenfeld and IAI Deans.

09:10 AM IAI Introduction by Dr. Mubarak Shah, Director of IAI  

09:20 AM Keynote Talk by Ruben Villegas, Google DeepMind

10:00 AM Lightning Talks (updated 1/30)

  • (10:00 AM) “AI for H.O.P.E. (Healing Oasis for Peace and Empowerment) Huddle (AI4HH)” Speaker: Dr. L. Trenton S. Marsh, Ph.D., Co-authors: Rohan Jowallah, Ed.D., Brianna Laurenceau, Anamaria Acevedo Diaz, Rohan Talagadadeevi, Owen Burow, Hayden Garner, Melanie Dinh, Sean Heisey – College of Community Innovation and Education, Department of Learning Sciences & Educational Research (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (10:08 AM) “Hybrid Diffusion Model Data Augmentation for Breast Ultrasound Imaging” Speaker: Dr. Laura Brattain, Co-authors: Farhan Fuad Abir, Sanjeda Sara Jennifer, Niloofar Yousefi – College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (10:16 AM) “Leveraging AI to Enhance the Lives of Young Adults with Disabilities” Speaker: Dr. Matthew Marino, Co-authors: Dr. Olivia Coleman, Kelly David, Christine Parsons – College of Community Innovation and Education, Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (10:24 AM) “AI Use Within the Kerkenes Project and Cultural Heritage Management” Speaker: Dr. Scott Branting, Co-authors: Jessica Robkin, Atakan Atabaş – College of Sciences, Anthropology and Florida Space Institute (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (10:32 AM) “A Deep Set-Based Aggregation Approach for Multi-Day Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity Observations” Speaker: Dr. Jaeyoung Park, Co-authors: Suyeon Kang, Ramakanth Yakkanti, Ausberto Velasquez Garcia – College of Community Innovation and Education, School of Global Health Management and Informatics (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation) 
  • (10:40 AM) “CLARITY: Medical World Model for Guiding Treatment Decisions by Modeling Context-Aware Disease Trajectories in Latent Space” Speaker: Dr. Yu Tian, Co-authors: Tianxingjian Ding, Yuanhao Zou, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah – College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (10:48 AM) “Generative Technologies: Investigating Technology-Enhanced Cross-Unit Support Structures for First-Year Writing at UCF” Speaker: Dr. Matthew Bryan, Co-authors: Amy Cicchino, Shane Wood, Sherry Rankins-Robertson – College of Arts and Humanities , Department of Writing and Rhetoric (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (10:54 AM) “SPACE PRISMs: Scalable Platforms for AI-Powered Education starting with Participant-Run Immersive Simulations for Management” Speaker: Dr. Rebecca McNulty, Co-authors: Zaheer Ali, College of Business, Department of Management (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:02 AM) “Large Language Models for South Asian Symbolic Music: Understanding, Generation, and Limitations” Speaker: Faria Binte Kader, Co-authors: Santu Karmaker- College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:10 AM) “Beyond LoRA: Is Sparsity-induced Adaptation Better?” Speaker: Dr. Aritra Dutta, Co-authors: Elijah Cadenhead, Cristian McGee, Xin Li, El Houcine Bergou, Aritra Dutta, College of Sciences, Department of Mathematics (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:18 AM) “A novel machine learning approach to predict oncologic drug resistance based on synergistic genetic alterations” Speaker: Dr. Anthony Magliocco, Co-authors: Rishi Nair, Nicholas Mistry, Roy Khalife – College of Medicine, Department of Pathology (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:26 AM) “When to Trust the Grader: Confidence Estimation Methods for LLM-Based Assessment” Speaker: Dr. Shashank Sonkar, Co-authors: Robinson Vasquez Ferrer, Zhongzhou Chen – College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:34 AM) “Generative AI for Health Information: Effects of Personas and Communication Styles on User Experience and Knowledge Retention” Speaker: Ms. Phuoc Thai, Co-authors: Joesph Schmidt, College of Sciences, Department of Psychology (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:42 AM) “Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving AI at Scale: Federated Learning for Real-World Applications” Speaker: Dr. Chen Chen, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:50 AM) “Workforce-Embedded Learning with Generative AI in Hospitality and Tourism: A Hybrid Analysis of Skills, Attitudes, and Curriculum Implications” Speaker: Dr. Arthur Huang, Co-authors: Paul Amoruso, Venkateswara Rao Addala, Efren de la Mora – Rosen College of Hospitality Management, Tourism, Events, and Attractions (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (11:58 AM) “Physics-informed AI for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Conformational Property Prediction and Distributional Robustness” Speaker: Dr. Shahana Ibrahim, Co-authors: Diego Linares Gonzalez, George Atia, Aniket Bhattacharya, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of ECE, Department of CS (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (12:06 PM) “Multi-scale clustering and source separation of InSight mission seismic data” Speaker: Dr. Ali Siahkoohi, Co-authors: Rudy Morel, Randall Balestriero, Erwan Allys, Grégory Sainton, Taichi Kawamura, Maarten V. de Hoop, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer Science (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)
  • (12:14 PM) “Quantum Algorithms for State Preparation and Data Classification: Connection to Machine Learning” Speaker: Dr. Eduardo Mucciolo, Co-authors: Pejman Jouzdani, H. Arslam Hashim – College of Sciences, Department of Physics (Slides | YouTube Live Presentation)

12:25 PM Break for Lunch 

12:30 PM Lunch and Poster Session:

  • “Human Digital Twin” — Presenter: Abdul Mannan Mohammed — Authors: Abdul Mannan Mohammed, Martin McCarthy, Carsten Neumann, Gerd Bruder, Dirk Reiners, Carolina Cruz‑Neira — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “The Bias is in the Details: An Assessment of Cognitive Bias in LLMs” — Presenter: Alex Knipper — Authors: R. Alexander Knipper, Charlie Knipper, Kaiqi Zhang, Valerie Sims, Clint Bowers, Santu Karmaker — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Multi-scale clustering and source separation of InSight mission seismic data” — Presenter: Ali Siahkoohi — Authors: Ali Siahkoohi, Rudy Morel, Randall Balestriero, Erwan Allys, Grégory Sainton, Taichi Kawamura, Maarten V. de Hoop — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Conditional neural control variates for variance reduction in Bayesian inverse problems” — Presenter: Ali Siahkoohi — Authors: Ali Siahkoohi, Hyunwoo Oh — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Stein variational gradient descent in the dual space via modified ADMM for uncertainty quantification” — Presenter: Ali Siahkoohi — Authors: Ali Siahkoohi, Kamal Aghazade, Ali Gholami — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Hypernetwork-based approach for grid-independent functional data clustering” — Presenter: Anirudh Thatipelli, Ali Siahkoohi — Authors: Anirudh Thatipelli, Ali Siahkoohi — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Customized GPT Research Assistants for Business and Engineering Research” — Presenter: Min Tong — Authors: Min Tong, Ven Basco — University Libraries — Research Engagement (Poster)
  • “Low-memory stochastic backpropagation with multi-channel randomized trace estimation” — Presenter: Anirudh Thatipelli, Ali Siahkoohi — Authors: Anirudh Thatipelli, Jeffrey J. Sam, Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, Rongrong Wang, Felix J. Herrmann — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “A novel machine learning approach to predict oncologic drug resistance based on synergistic genetic alterations” — Presenter: Anthony Magliocco — Authors: Rishi Nair, Nicholas Mistry, Roy Khalife, Anthony Magliocco — College of Medicine — Department of Pathology (Poster)
  • “Kolmogorov-Arnold Attention” — Presenter: Subhajit Maity, Aritra Dutta — Authors: Subhajit Maity, Killian Hitsman, Xin Li, Aritra Dutta — College of Sciences — Department of Mathematics (Poster)
  • “Beyond LoRA: Is Sparsity-induced Adaptation Better?”— Presenter: Aritra Dutta —  Authors: Aritra Dutta, Elijah Cadenhead, Cristian McGee, Xin Li, El Houcine Bergou, Aritra Dutta, College of Sciences, Department of Mathematics (Poster)
  • “Workforce-Embedded Learning with Generative AI in Hospitality and Tourism: A Hybrid Analysis of Skills, Attitudes, and Curriculum Implications”— Presenter: Arthur Huang — Authors: Dr. Arthur Huang, Paul Amoruso, Venkateswara Rao Addala, Efren de la Mora – Rosen College of Hospitality Management, Tourism, Events, and Attractions (Poster)
  • “Bridging the Gap: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Combinatorial Optimization in High-Mix Manufacturing” — Presenter: Bulent Soykan — Authors: Bulent Soykan, Sean Mondesire, Ghaith Rabadi — Institute for Simulation and Training — Institute for Simulation and Training (Poster)
  • “EGGS: Exchangable 2D/3D Gaussian Splatting for Geometry-Appearance Balanced Novel View Synthesis” — Presenter: Chen Chen — Authors: Yancheng Zhang, Guangyu Sun, Chen Chen — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Trustworthy and Privacy-Preserving AI at Scale: Federated Learning for Real-World Applications” — Presenter: Chen Chen — Authors: Chen Chen — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Q3R: Quadratic Reweighted Rank Regularizer for Effective Low-Rank Training” — Presenter: Christian Kuemmerle —  Authors: Ipsita Ghosh, Ethan Nguyen, Christian Kuemmerle — College of Sciences/College of Engineering and Computer Science — School of Data, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences/Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Cognitive Vulnerability and Ethical AI Use in Digital Learning: Applying the Zone of Proximal Knowledge (ZPK)” — Presenter: Daniel Eadens — Authors: Christopher Benedetti, Daniel Eadens — College of Community Innovation and Education — Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education (Poster)
  • “Smoothness imposing pseudo supervision for mitigating memorization in diffusion models” — Presenter: Davide Sabeddu, Ali Siahkoohi — Authors: Davide Sabeddu, Ali Siahkoohi, Lorenzo Luzi — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Electrical Engineering (Poster)
  • “Shared Human-Machine Autonomy in Urgent Decision Making through a Rapid Summarization Approach” — Presenter: Eftekhar Hossain — Authors: Kyoung-cheol Kim, Santu Karmaker — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Talking with Tito: Designing an AI Chatbot for Modern Languages” — Presenter: Emily Johnson — Authors: Sandra Sousa, Gergana Vitanova, Evelin Pegoraro, Linda Núñez — College of Arts and Humanities — Department of English (Poster)
  • “Large Language Models for South Asian Symbolic Music: Understanding, Generation, and Limitations” — Presenter: Faria Binte Kader — Authors: Faria Binte Kader, Santu Karmaker — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “The Effect of Phonotrauma Severity on the Discriminative Power of Ambulatory Voice Measures” — Presenter: Hamzeh Ghasemzadeh — Authors: Daryush D. Mehta, Jarrad H. Van Stan, Robert E. Hillman — College of Health Professions and Sciences — Communication Sciences and Disorders (Poster)
  • “Utilizing machine learning and bio-acoustics for non-invasive detection of medical conditions” — Presenter: Hansen A Mansy — Authors: Hansen A Mansy, Richard H Sandler — College of Engineering and Computer Science/College of Medicine — Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Poster)
  • “A Deep Set-Based Aggregation Approach for Multi-Day Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity Observations” — Presenter: Jaeyoung Park — Authors: Jaeyoung Park, Suyeon Kang, Ramakanth Yakkanti, Ausberto Velasquez Garcia — College of Community Innovation and Education — School of Global Health Management and Informatics (Poster)
  • “Expressive Power of Graph Neural Networks for (Mixed-Integer) Quadratic Programs” — Presenter: Jialin Liu — Authors: Ziang Chen, Xiaohan Chen, Jialin Liu, Xinshang Wang, Wotao Yin — College of Sciences — School of Data, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences (Poster)
  • “AI for H.O.P.E. (Healing Oasis for Peace and Empowerment) Huddle (AI4HH)” — Presenter: L. Trenton S. Marsh, Ph.D. — Authors: Rohan Jowallah, Brianna Laurenceau, Anamaria Acevedo Diaz, Rohan Talagadadeevi, Owen Burow, Hayden Garner, Melanie Dinh, Sean Heisey — College of Community Innovation and Education — Learning Sciences & Educational Research (Poster)
  • “Hybrid Diffusion Model Data Augmentation for Breast Ultrasound Imaging” — Presenter: Farhan Fuad Abir, Laura Brattain — Authors: Farhan Fuad Abir, Sanjeda Sara Jennifer, Niloofar Yousefi, Laura J. Brattain — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Poster)
  • “AI-Automated Abdominal Muscle Segmentation and Thickness Measurements for Point of Care Ultrasound Images” — Presenter: Brian Yuen, Laura Brattain — Authors: Brian Yuen, Colby Mangum, Laura Brattain — UCF College of Medicine — Department of Internal Medicine (Poster)
  • “Quantitative Evaluation of Saliency Alignment in Deep Learning Architectures for EUS Pancreatic Cancer Detection” — Presenter: Samen Yaser, Laura Brattain — Authors: Samin Yaser, Mahad Ali, Laura J Brattain — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Poster)
  • “AI technologies applied to robotic systems in strawberry field operations” — Presenter: Luis Tituana, Yunjun Xu — Authors: Luis Tituana, Yunjun Xu — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Poster)
  • “Generative Technologies: Investigating Technology-Enhanced Cross-Unit Support Structures for First-Year Writing at UCF” — Presenter: Matthew Bryan — Authors: Amy Cicchino, Shane Wood, Sherry Rankins‑Robertson — College of Arts and Humanities — Department of Writing and Rhetoric (Poster)
  • “Leveraging AI to Enhance the Lives of Young Adults with Disabilities” — Presenter: Matthew Marino — Authors: Dr. Matthew Marino, Dr. Olivia Coleman, Kelly David, Christine Parsons — College of Community Innovation and Education — Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute (Poster)
  • “Privacy Evaluation Protocol: Navigating Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in AI Benchmark Evaluation” — Presenter: Md Mahadi Hassan, Santu Karmaker — Authors: Md Mahadi Hassan, Santu Karmaker — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Using an AI Simulated Conversation Cycle to Improve Teacher Candidates’ Communication Skills with Parents” — Presenter: Michelle Kelley — Authors: Michelle Kelley, Taylar Wenzel — College of Community Innovation and Education — School of Teacher Education (Poster)
  • “STRIDE: Platform for Safer and Smarter Urban Mobility via Digital Twins & AI” — Presenter: Muhammad Shahbaz — Authors: Muhammad Shahbaz, Shaurya Agarwal — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering (Poster)
  • “Generative AI for Health Information” — Presenter: Phuoc Thai, Joseph Schmidt — Authors: Phuoc Thai, Joseph Schmidt — College of Sciences — Department of Psychology (Poster)
  • “How well do we remember AI-generated faces?” — Presenter: Rachel Greenspan — Authors: Rachel Greenspan, Amanda Bergold — College of Sciences — Department of Psychology (Poster)
  • “Co-Designing Hurricane Prevention and Recovery Education: A Community-Driven Graphic Novel Using AI” — Presenter: Rasha Mannaa — Authors: Rasha Mannaa, Maritza Concha — College of Community Innovation and Education — School of Public Administration (Poster)
  • “SPACE PRISMs: Scalable Platforms for AI‑Powered Education” — Presenter: Rebecca McNulty — Authors: Zaheer Ali, Rebecca McNulty — Business — Management (Poster)
  • “Using ChatGPT to Improve the Readability of Online Patient Education Materials on Spasmodic Dysphonia” — Presenter: Richard I. Zraick, Ph.D. — Authors: Kelly Clevenger, Bonnie Slavych — Health Professions and Sciences — School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Poster)
  • “Personalized and Adaptive Feature Selection Framework for Fall Risk Factor Identification and Prevention in Older Adults” — Presenter: Rui Xie — Authors: Chang Liu, Ladda Thiamwong, Yanjie Fu, Rui Xie — College of Sciences & College of Nursing — School of Data, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences (Poster)
  • “AI-Driven Segmentation and Reconstruction of Fragmentary Fossils from CT Data” — Presenter: Sarah Freidline — Authors: Sarah Freidline, Tannistha Chakraborty, Catherine Shipman — College of Science — Department of Anthropology (Poster)
  • “When to Trust the Grader: Confidence Estimation Methods for LLM-Based Assessment” — Presenter: Shashank Sonkar — Authors: Robinson Vasquez Ferrer, Zhongzhou Chen, Shashank Sonkar — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Urban Digital Twin Lab: Multimodal AI and Geo-AI Applications” — Presenter: Soheil Sabri — Authors: Soheil Sabri, Kyle Shervington, Maryam Fayyaz, Mahdi Aghaabbasi, Hemant Kanoujia, Kalp Thakkar, Benjamin Lee — College of Engineering and Computer Science — School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (Poster)
  • “Rhetoric, Writing and AI Pedagogy” — Presenter: Vee Kennedy — Authors: Emily Proulx, Erica Macalintal — CAH — Writing and Rhetoric (Poster)
  • “Investigating the Inverse Relationship Between AI Scaffolding and Conceptual Learning” — Presenter: Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu — Authors: Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, Bulent Soykan, Cindy Prins, Hany Takla, Nidhi Rohatgi, Varun Ramamohan, Robert Morgan — College of Engineering and Computer Science — School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (Poster)
  • “Preventing Surgical Site Infections Using a Surgical Digital Twin and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” Presenter: Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu — Authors: Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, Bulent Soykan, Cindy Prins, Hany Takla, Nidhi Rohatgi, Varun Ramamohan, Robert Morgan — College of Engineering and Computer Science — School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (Poster)
  • “Effort Over Effectiveness: Consumer Responses to AI in Sustainability” — Presenter: Xin He — Authors: Yu‑Shan Huang, Xin He, Ganga Urumutta Hewage — College of Business Administration — Department of Marketing (Poster)
  • “Predictive Yet Not Preferred: How Intent Inference Shapes Consumer Choices of AI Service Providers” — Presenter: Xin He — Authors: Xin Xin, Xin He — College of Business Administration — Department of Marketing (Poster)
  • “TELeR: A General Taxonomy of LLM Prompts for Benchmarking Complex Tasks” — Presenter: Yash Mahajan — Authors: Shubhra Kanti Karmaker (Santu), Dongji Feng, Yash Mahajan — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “CLARITY: Medical World Model for Guiding Treatment Decisions by Modeling Context-Aware Disease Trajectories in Latent Space” — Presenter: Yu Tian — Authors: Tianxingjian Ding, Yuanhao Zou, Chen Chen, Mubarak Shah, Yu Tian — College of Engineering and Computer Science — Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Artificial Social Intelligence: Supporting Teamwork in Simulated Disaster Response” — Presenter: Dr. Jessica Williams — Authors: Rhyse Bendell, Jessica Williams, Stephen M. Fiore — College of Arts and Humanities; Institute for Simulation & Training — Department of Philosophy (Poster)
  • “AI, Art, and Attributions: Human labels boost, AI labels diminish” — Presenter: Dr. Rhyse Bendell — Authors: Rhyse Bendell, Jessica Williams, Stephen M. Fiore — College of Arts and Humanities; Institute for Simulation & Training — Department of Philosophy (Poster)
  • “Statistically Motivated Numerical Methods for NN Optimization” — Presenter: Dr. Wu Lin — Authors: Wu Lin, Scott C. Lowe, Felix Dangel, Runa Eschenhagen, Zikun Xu, Roger B. Grosse —  College of Engineering and Computer Science —  Department of Computer Science (Poster)
  • “Physics-informed AI for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Conformational Property Prediction and Distributional Robustness” — Presenter: Dr. Shahana Ibrahim — Authors: Shahana, Ibrahim, Diego Linares Gonzalez, George Atia, Aniket Bhattacharya, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of ECE, Department of CS (Poster)

02:00 PM Panel 1: AI in Education – Panelists: Dr. Stephen King (Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences), Dr. Lotzi Boloni (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Shashank Sonkar (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Santu Karmaker (Department of Computer Science)

02:50 PM Break 

03:00 PM Panel 2: AI in Security, Privacy, Bias – Panelists: Dr. Amrit Bedi (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Chen Chen (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Zhenyi Wang (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Yu Tian (Department of Computer Science)

03:50 PM Break 

04:00 PM Panel 3: AI Ethics: “Expertise, Responsibility, and the Right to Refusal” – Panelists: Dr. Jonathan Beever (Department of Philosophy), Dr. Stephen Kuebler (Department of Chemistry), Dr. Stephen Fiore (Department of Philosophy), Dr. Song Wang (Department of Computer Science), Dr. Amrit Bedi (Department of Computer Science)

04:50 PM Closing Remarks  

05:00 PM End