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Mini Symposium on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to the EDSCS Symposium on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. We are honored to bring together a diverse group of presenters—professors, researchers, and students—who are actively shaping the future of intelligent systems, data-driven innovation, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

This symposium celebrates the breadth and depth of work taking place within our department, showcasing original research, applied projects, and exploratory ideas at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, computational theory, and domain-specific problem solving. From theoretical advancements to practical applications in fields such as healthcare, cybersecurity, airspace, sustainability, and education, today's presentations reflect both academic rigor and real-world relevance.

Our goal is to foster dialogue, spark collaboration, and highlight the exceptional talent emerging from our academic community. Whether you are here to share your work, support your peers, or discover new directions in the evolving landscape of Data Science and AI, we thank you for your participation and look forward to a day of meaningful exchange and inspiration.

  

Location:

Zoom Webinar Linkhttps://nu.zoom.us/s/91835063659

Date:

Saturday, June 21st

Time:

10:00 – 3:30 PM PST

Facilitators:

Irene Tsapara / Daniel Johnston

            Program: https://resources.nu.edu/ld.php?content_id=81265416

 


Presentations - Schedule


Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:00 AM: Opening Remarks and Welcome

Presentations

10:05 AM: Educating with AI: New Frontiers in Learning

Mark Otis, MS.

10:30 AM: Open-Source LLMOps and MLOps Platform on Kubernetes

Nate Lebel, MS. (Ph.D. Candidate)

11:05 AM: Digital Twin Representation of Foliage

Dr. Hashim Shaik (Alumni)

11:40 AM: Multimodal LLM and Smartphones for BP Monitoring

Dr. Mohammad Yavarimanesh (Faculty)

12:05 PM: Bayesian Network Model for Predicting Gout Attacks

 Dr. Seyedmohsen Hosseini (Faculty)

12:30 PM: URLAgent: Reasoning and Acting in LLMs

 Dr. Mohammed Nabeel (Faculty)

12:55 PM: Kernel Landmarks: An Empirical Statistical Approach to Detect Covariate Shift

Dr. Yuksel Karahan (Faculty)

1:20 PM: Accelerating Legacy Code Migration with Artificial Intelligence

 Dr. Amir Schur (Faculty)

1:45 PM: Quantum Computing: A New Computational Paradigm

Dr. Alexander Watt (Faculty)

Student Presentations

2:10 PM: Integrating QAOA with Deep Learning to Detect Protein Folding Disruptions in Liver Cancer Patients  

Dr. Mousumi Chakrabarty (Ph.D. Candidate)

2:25 PM: Transformer-Based Prediction of Emerging Research Themes

Viktoria Popova, MS. (Ph.D. Candidate)

2:40 PM: Entity Resolution Approaches for Aircraft Type Matching

Karna Bryan, MS. (Ph.D. Candidate)

Tutorials

2:55 PM: GitHub Tutorial

Dr. Amir Schur (Faculty)

3:20 PM: Smart Insights with Tableau

 Dr. Jenny Du (Faculty)

** All times are in Pacific Time Zone


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