2024 Activities and Events

The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education uses AI and cross-sector collaboration to improve support for students with speech and language disabilities, shaping educational practice, technology, and policy.

Venu Govindaraju speaking in front of a projector which reads "National AI Institute for Exceptional Education".

3/13/2024 - Venu Govindaraju speaks at the NSF National AI Institute for Exceptional Education Year 1 Site Visit

January 2024

01/05/2024 - New York City, NY
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting

01/20/2024 - Reno, NV
VEX IQ Tournament

01/23/2024 - Buffalo, NY
AI+Education Learning Community Series

01/27/2024 - Reno, NV
FIRST Northern Nevada State Tournament

February 2024

02/03/2024 - Omaha, NE
Advancing Research Impact in Society Summit 2024

02/16/2024 - El Paso, TX
UTEP Computer Science Department Seminar

02/18/2024 - Buffalo, NY
National Engineer's Week

02/21/2024 - Buffalo, NY
WNY STEM HUB Visit

02/27/2024 - Buffalo, NY
AI+Education Learning Community Series

02/27/2024 - Buffalo, NY
University at Buffalo Health AI Symposium

March 2024

03/01/2024 - Virtual
IEEE Signal Processing Society Program Committee

03/15/2024 - Princeton, NJ
58th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems

03/25/2024 - Seattle, WA
University of Washington Human-Centered Design and Engineering Community Conversations

03/25/2024 - New York City, NY
Open-Source Generative AI Workshop

Group of 5 people cutting a ribbon for a grand opening.

4/2/2024 - Preparing to cut the ribbon are (from left) PhD candidate Sahana Rangasrinivasan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan; U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer; President Satish K. Tripathi and Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Venu Govindaraju, principal investigator of AI4ExceptionalEd.

April 2024

04/02/2024 - Buffalo, NY
AI4ExceptionalEd Headquarters Ribbon Cutting

04/02/2024 - Buffalo, NY
AI+Education Learning Community Series

04/09/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Presentation to NSF EDI Scholars Program

04/14/2024 - Seoul, South Korea
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2024

04/16/2024 - Reno, NV
Hug High School MAKErs Club Presentation

04/17/2024 - Buffalo, NY
The AI and Data Science Symposium at UB

04/26/2024 - Buffalo, NY
WiSE STEM Outreach Day

04/30/2024 - Washington, DC
Robotics for a Better Tomorrow

May 2024

05/04/2024 - Seattle, WA
University of Washington Engineering Discovery Days

05/07/2024 - Washington, DC
AI Expo for National Competitveness 2024

05/10/2024 - Atlantic City, NJ
2024 New Jersey Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention

05/11/2024 - Honolulu, HI
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

05/14/2024 - Buffalo, NY
AI at UB Forum: Task Force on Generative AI in Teaching and Learning at UB

05/20/2024 - Torino, Italy
2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Languages, and Resources Evaluation

05/22/2024 - Albany, NY
2024 SUNY State of the University Address

05/24/2024 - Torino, Italy
Joint Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation 2024

05/24/2024 - Buffalo, NY
SUNY + Google Workshop

05/27/2024 - Istanbul, Turkey
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Festure Recognition 2024

05/31/2024 - Seattle, WA
Human Centered Design Engineering Capstone Open House

June 2024

06/03/2024 - Orlando, FL
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics

06/09/2024 - Buffalo, NY
International Society of Learning Sciences Annual Meeting

06/12/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Presentation to Sweet Home Central School District

06/13/2024 - Buffalo, NY
AI Survey with LSAMP and CBE REU Students

06/13/2024 - Washington, DC
White House AI Aspirations Conference

06/17/2024 - New York, NY
Asian American Women in Tech

06/27/2024 - Newcastle, UK
CHIWORK 2024

06/28/2024 - Urbana, IL
WYSE High School Summer Research Program

Jinjun Xiong delivers a presentation to an audience.

8/30/2024 - Jinjun Xiong delivers a presentation on the AI Screener Solution at the Inaugural Ceremony of the SUNY Brockport ACM SIGAI Student Chapter

July 2024

07/01/2024 - Leiden, the Netherlands
Speech Prosody 2024

07/04/2024 - Copenhagen, Denmark
ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024

07/17/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Leadership in AI Research and Scholarship Roundtable

07/29/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Empire AI Consortium Meeting

07/30/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Grand Island Central Schools Adminstrative Retreat Workshop

August 2024

08/05/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Visit from Amrita University

08/14/2024 - Dili, Timor-Leste
Sci-Tech Expo 2024

08/28/2024 - Pasadena, CA
IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

08/30/2024 - Brockport, NY
Inaugural Ceremony of the SUNY Brockport ACM SIGAI Student Chapter

September 2024

09/03/2024 - Kos Island, Greece
Interspeech 2024

09/13/2024 - Buffalo, NY
Sensory Night: BubbleFEST

09/22/2024 - Newport Beach, CA
CERES Fall Instensive

09/23/2024 - Virtual
Faster Inference of LLMs Seminar

Faculty pose at the National AI Institute for Exceptional Education table.

12/5/2026 - Abbie Olszewski, Hari Subramonyam, Jinjun Xiong, Pamela Hadley, Julie Kientz, Srirangaraj Setlur, and Qingxiao Zheng (postdoc) behind the AI4ExceptionalEd booth at the ASHA Convention 2024.