Spring 2026 Schedule
11 a.m. Central Time, EIT Building Room 217
Classroom Zoom Guest Link
| Date | Department | Speaker | Title | Host | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-Jan | IFSC/CPSC | Dr. John R. Talburt | Introduction to Seminar and the CIS PhD Program | John Talburt | In-Person |
| 30-Jan | Bioinformatics | Dr. Brian Delavan | Beyond the Genome: Using RNA and Protein Data for Public Health Insights | Mary Yang | Online |
| 6-Feb | CSEC | Dr. Sandra Leiterman | Finding, Organizing, and Managing Research Articles | John Talburt | In-Person |
| 13-Feb | Graduate School | Dr. Karen Kuralt | Thesis and Dissertation Information | Elizabeth Pierce | In Person |
| 20-Feb | CSEC | Veysel Erdag, Chief Security Officer, UALR | Cyber Defense in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities | Ahmed Abu-Halimeh | In-Person |
| 27-Feb | IFSC | Dr. Dmytro Valiaiev | Introduction to DataOps | Ningning Wu | Online |
| 6-Mar | IFSC | Dr. Xingqiao Wang | NeuRoute: Logit-Guided Neural Routing for Billion-Scale Vector Searching | Xiaowei Xu | In-Person |
| 13-Mar | Engineering | Dr. Nalaka Amarasiri | Universal Omni-wheeled Mobile Robot Path Planning Using Reinfrocement Leaning Enhanced with Physics-based Modeling and Control | Srikanth Pidugu | In-Person |
| 20-Mar | CPSC | Mohammad Jahed Murad Sunny | Human Factors in Virtual Reality Research | Ahmed Abu-Halimeh | Online |
| 27-Mar | No Session | Spring Break | — | — | |
| 3-Apr | Mathematics | Dr. Sudan Xing | Higher-order Orlicz Projection Bodies for Lipschitz Start Bodies | Elizabeth Pierce | In-Person |
| 10-Apr | INFQ | Dr. Daniel Pullen | Reflections on Data Governance in Practice | John Talburt | Online |
| 17-Apr | Engineering | Dr. Yunxiang Zhang | Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design of Addernet Based Accelerators for Edge Intelligence | Srikanth Pidugu | In-Person |
| 24-Apr | CPSC | Dr. Arya Basu | Secure Mesh Synchronization: A Study in Distributed Environments | Elizabeth Pierce | In Person |
| 1-May | No Session | End of Semester | — | — | — |