Spring 2020 Schedule

Spring 2020 Speakers

 Date Dept Name of the Speaker Title of the Talk Host
1/24 IS Dr. Rajesh Jugulum, Director, Global Data Strategies, Cigna Robust Quality Approach for Analytics Execution Talburt
1/31 IS Dr. Elizabeth Pierce, Information Science, UA Little Rock Job Hunting Strategies Talburt
2/7 IS Dr. Mary Lacity, Director, Blockchain Center of Excellence, UA Fayetteville Addressing Key Challenges to Making Enterprise Blockchain Applications a Reality Pierce
2/14 IS Dr. Richard Wang, Director, UA Little Rock Institute for Chief Data Officers The Landscape of Chief Data Officers and Preliminary Research on Data Washing Machine Talburt
2/21 IS Dr. Jeff Jonas, CEO Senzing Corporation Macro Tends in Data and Sensemaking (Keynote at the 14th International Conference on Information Quality in 2009) Pierce
2/28 IS Dr. Veysel Erdag, Chief Information Security Officer, UA Little Rock The Importance of Data Analysis in Cyber Security, and Current Threats and Common Attacks on UA Little Rock’s Cyber Infrastructure Dagtas
3/6 IS Glediana Rexha, UA Little Rock Intellectual Property Manager & Rebecca Todd, Innovation Consultant Ark Small Business and Technology Center Technology Transfer and the Commercialization of Research Talburt
3/13 IS Dr. Robert Belford, Dept of Chemistry, UA Little Rock TBA Talburt
3/20 IS Mustafa Alassad, PhD Candidate, CIFS Information Science Program Computational Social Science Techniques to Identify Malicious Groups of Users in Online Social Platforms Talburt
3/27 SPRING BREAK NO COLLOQUIUM
4/3 SYEN Zaid Siddiqi, PhD Candidate, Systems Engineering Program Computational Fluid Dynamics and Its Application in Subsonic, Unmaned Aerial Vehicle Aerodynamics Nisanci
4/10 IS Tuja Khaund, PhD Candidate, CIFS Information Science Program Social Media Bots Talburt
4/17 IS Dr. Xiaowei Xu, UA Little Rock, Information Science Can Artificial Intelligence Become a Pantomath? Talburt
4/24 IS Tammie Cash, Director, UA Little Rock, ORSP Office of Research and Sponsored Program Services and the Research Grant Proposal Process Talburt
5/1 IS Dr. Halvor Halvorson, Assistant Professor of Biology, UCA Opportunities to harness the environmental data revolution Pierce