IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series

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EMPOWERING INNOVATION

Connecting Ideas, Sparking Collaborations
in AI and Data Science

The seminar series is designed to encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue, and we hope it will inspire new connections and collaborative opportunities within the university.

Upcoming Speakers

December Speakers

 December 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | ZOOM 

Raja Abburi, High Touch Expert Care - Cx Organization

Talk Title: Emergent AI, Not AGI: The Quiet Revolution Already Underway

Read more about Raja Abburi

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Past Speakers

Miss the latest Tech Exchange Seminar Speakers? Check out the videos below to hear what they had to say. 

Interested in presenting at the weekly Tech Exchange Seminar Series?

To sign-up, email Srirangaraj 'Ranga' Setlur today: setlur@buffalo.edu

November Speakers

 November 18 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Maria Rodriguez.

Assistant Professor, Department of AI and Society

REAL CARE: Designing AI for Human Services

Sumi Suresh.

Postdoctoral Associate

Technology for Social Good: Building Inclusive AI for Education, Health, and Safety

IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series Speakers: November 18, 2025

 November 11 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Jason Krebs, High Touch Expert Care - Cx Organization

Talk Title: Cisco History and AI

Watch Kreb's Talk

Portrait of Jason Krebs.
IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series: November 11, 2025

October Speakers

 October 21 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Varun Chandola.

Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

About the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR)

Portrait of Mark Janko.

Assistant Professor,
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Overview of problems I'm working on: Networks, Spatial Statistics, and Climate Change and Health

Watch the October 21, 2025 Tech Exchange Seminar Series Talk

 October 7 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Barry Smith.

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Julian Park Chair, Department of Philosophy

AGI has nothing to do with human intelligence

Portrait of John Beverley.

Associate Director of AI and Ontological Science
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy

Forging Meaning in Cyberspace: The Cyber Ontology Foundry

IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series: October 7, 2025

 October 2 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Billy Schoenberg, Software Developer, isee systems, inc.

Talk Title: Modeling with AI: Exploring the Future of Simulation Modeling

Read Schoenberg's Bio and Abstract

Watch Schoenberg's Talk

Portrait of Billy Schoenberg.
IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series: October 2, 2025

September Speakers

 September 30 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Rachael Hageman Blair.

Associate Director of Education, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics 

Network Optimization in Biological Models

Portrait of Xudong Fan.

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil,
Structural and Environmental Engineering

Multimodal Graph Representation Learning for Spatially Embedded Networks

IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series: September 30, 2025

 September 16 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Saptarshi Chakraborty.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics

Bayesian topic models for mutational signature analysis

Portrait of Yusuf Akemoglu.

Research Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

"I feel like I have a personal coach at home”: Developing PaiCoach for Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities.

 September 9 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Barry Smith.

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Julian Park Chair, Department of Philosophy

Teach yourself history (and geography) using ChatGPT

Portrait of Cynthia Tysick.

Innovative Pedagogy and Creative Spaces Librarian

Prompt Engineering, Search Strategies, Chatbots, and the Reference Interview: Tools of a Librarian's Trade

 September 2 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus 

Portrait of Prashant Sankaren.

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering 

Human Interpretable Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Spatial Robustness in Computer Vision

Portrait of Jaiyu Peng.

Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Design and Innovation

Bridging Physics-Informed and Data-Driven Materials Designs with High-Throughput Simulations and Machine Learning