University at Buffalo (UB)
2025 Spring IAD Tech Exchange Seminar Series
EMPOWERING INNOVATION
Connecting Ideas, Sparking Collaborations
in AI and Data Science
in AI and Data Science
April Speakers
April 29 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Presentacion Rivera Reyes
Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Engineering Education
TOPIC: Improving Troubleshooting Problem-Solving Skills Assisted with AI
Bárbara Ávila-Shah
Language Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Spanish
TOPIC: AI as a Romance Ally
April 22 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Chris Proctor
Assistant Professor, Department of
Learning and Instruction
TOPIC: Designing Interfaces for Critical AI Literacies:
Case Studies in Writing and Qualitative Research
Matt Knepley
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
TOPIC: Scientific Computing in the RELACS Laboratory
April 15 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Ryan St. Pierre
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
TOPIC: Designing Affective Small-Scale Robots for Social Engagement
Kelin Luo
Assistant Professor of Teaching,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
TOPIC: LLM-Enhanced Proof Assistant for a Graduate Algorithms Course
April 1 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Nathalia Andrade
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics and Endodontics
TOPIC: Transforming Dental Medicine Powered by Artificial Intelligence
Bibhu Datta Sahoo
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
TOPIC: Mixed-Signal Hardware Accelerators for Machine Learning
March Speakers
March 11 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Xiaoyu Chen
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
TOPIC: Distribution-in-distribution-out Regression
Barry Smith
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Director, National Center for Ontological Research
TOPIC: Are We Living in a Simulation?
March 4 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Vishnu Lokhande
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
TOPIC: Creating Robust Deep Learning Models Involves Effectively Managing Nuisance Variables
Margarete Jadamec
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences
TOPIC: How Computational Modeling Sheds Light on the Tectonics of the Pacific Ring of Fire
February Speakers
February 18 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Roshan Ayyalasomayajula
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
TOPIC: ML/AI Considerations for Mobile and
Robotic System Deployments
John Beverley
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
TOPIC: Being Honest about
(the Ontology of) Secrets
February 11 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | 205 Lockwood, North Campus
Our research center at Kanazawa University is specialized for the research of child mental development spanning from the molecular mechanism to the clinical and educational practicing. In particular, our research focuses on developmental disorders from the aspects of molecular genetics, functional brain imaging, and social behaviors.
In this talk, we would like to explore the possibilities of analyzing large-scale data obtained from animal and human behavioral studies.
Shigeru Yokoyama
Professor and Director, Research Center for Child Mental Development
Kanazawa University
Yuko Yoshimura
Professor, Institute of Human and Social Science
Kanazawa University
Naoya Miyashita
Undergraduate Student, School of Teacher Education
Kanazawa University
TOPIC: Large-scale Analysis of Child Mental Development