Fall 2021 Schedule
3:00 pm Central Time, EIT Building Room 217
Blackboard Collaborate Guest Link https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/53fe97b20e1941848042ba07c1f93b13
| Date | Dept | Name of the Speaker | Title of the Talk | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/27 | IFSC | Dr. Liz Pierce | Our first session will provide a preview of this semester’s colloquium series as well as introducing some new online advising materials for graduate students. | Dr. John Talburt |
| 9/3 | IFSC | Dr. Nitin Agarwal | Student researchers under the direction of Dr. Nitin Agarwal from the Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) will be presenting their current projects. | Dr. Liz Pierce |
| 9/10 | CPSC | Dr. Miaoqing Huang | Dr. Miaoqing Huang is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas. Dr. Huang is the recipient of two recent NSF Awards involving Machine Learning on the Edge for Real-Time Microsecond State Estimation of High-Rate Dynamic Events as well as his work in engaging doctoral students in autonomic and self-organizing computing systems research. For his talk today, Dr. Huang will be presenting his research on “Programmable Hardware Accelerators for Neural Networks on FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays). | Dr. Al Baker |
| 9/17 | ||||
| 9/24 | IFSC | Dr. Suman Mitra | Dr. Suman Mitra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He will be talking about his NSF research project regarding Shared Microbility for Affordable-Accessible Housing (SMILIES): a community-engaged pilot project to improve the accessibility to jobs and essential activities for affordable housing communities in small- and mid-sized cities and rural areas by leveraging the explosive growth of shared micromobility (SMM) services. | Dr. Liz Pierce |
| 10/1 | IFSC | Dr. Liza Fazio | Dr. Lisa Fazio is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Fazio studies how people learn new information, both true and false, and how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. This includes how to mitigate the effects of reading false information and how to increase classroom learning. Her research informs basic theories about learning and memory, while also having clear applications for practitioners, such as journalists and teachers. | Dr. Liz Pierce |
| 10/8 | INFQ | Dr. Laura Sebastian Coleman | Data literacy has become something of a buzz word recently and there is a bit of urgency around the idea of helping organizations and individuals become “data literate”. But there are not yet reliable models of data literacy. Because of this there is some risk that the concept will get hijacked by vendors trying to sell tools that raise data literacy. Dr. Coleman would like to discuss the terminology around data literacy, how data literacy relates to general literacy, and what it would take to develop useful models through which to promote and measure data literacy. | Dr. John Talburt |
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| 11/5 | INFQ | Dr. Josh McGee | The Arkansas Department of Transformation and Shared Services recently named Josh McGee the state’s chief data officer. McGee, the associate director of the Office for Education Policy in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, will lead the state’s effort to bring disparate data together and put it to use to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of state government. Prior to joining the U of A, McGee was an executive vice president with the Arnold Foundation in Houston where he led a team that invested $50 million in data-driven efforts to improve public policy in six states and Washington, D.C. The strategy paired state governments with dedicated university partners who integrated administrative data and deployed research to help policymakers address persistent challenges. These “Policy Labs” redirected more than $150 million in taxpayer resources toward more effective uses. | Dr. Liz Pierce |
| 11/12 | IFSC | Mr. Chao Yan | Mr. Chao Yan is a CS PhD Candidate at Vanderbilt University. He has been involved in several interesting projects including the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and network analysis to study teamwork in intensive care units at Vanderbilt University Medical Center during the recent COVID crisis and using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate “electronic health records” of patients who do not exist. | Dr. Liz Pierce |
| 11/19 | CPSC | Dr. Philip Huff | Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity | Dr. Al Baker |
| 11/26 | None | None | No seminar this week. Enjoy the Thanksgiving Weekend! | None |
| 12/3 | CPSC | Dr. Jan Springer | Dr. Springer will be sharing with students the research opportunities, projects, and activities of the UA Little Rock’s Emerging Analytics Center. | Dr. Al Baker |
