An NSF & IES AI Institute for Transforming Education for Children with Speech and Language Processing Challenges

2025 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.  

Faculty member poses at table with children and parents.

2/19/2025 - Srirangaraj Setlur and members of the Buffalo community at the AI4ExceptionalEd table during National Engineer's Week hosted by the Buffalo Museum of Science

February 2025

02/08/2025 - Albany, NY
SUNY Public Good U

02/19/2025 - Buffalo, NY 
National Engineer's Week

Faculty and Swedish royalty speak.

3/27/2025 - Julie Kientz meets with members of the Swedish Prince Couples' Foundation in an event hosted by the University of Washington

March 2025

03/04/25 - Philadelphia, PA
39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

03/15/2025 - Reno, NV
NAPA Car Care Day

03/19/2025 - Buffalo, NY
Science Exploration Day

03/27/2025 - Buffalo, NY
Women in Tech WNY 2025

03/27/2025 - Seattle, WA
Visit from Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and Prince Couple's Foundation

A group poses at a Conference.

4/26/2025 - Yun Huang leads a Special Interest Group (SIG) at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025

April 2025

A group of students and teachers watch a presentation.

5/12/2025 - Students and teachers from local middle and high schools tour AI4ExceptionalEd during the My Brother's Keeper Indigenous Education Grant College and Career Fair

May 2025

A student delivers a presentation to a room at Interaction Design and Children Conference.

6/24/2025 - Aayushi Dangol (student) delivers a presentation during the Interaction Design and Children 24th Conference

June 2025

Srirangaraj Setlur speaks to a group of students.

7/28/2025 - Srirangaraj Setlur and Sahana Rangasrinivasan (student) speak to a group of local high school students as part of the National Grid Leadership Grant hosted by National Grid and the University at Buffalo

July 2025

07/01/2025 - Buffalo, NY
AI Experience at UB

07/07/2025 - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2025

07/18/2025 - Bali, Indonesia
University at Buffalo Global Reunion Conference

07/22/2025 - Palermo, Italy
26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education

07/28/2025 - Buffalo, NY
National Grid Leadership Camp

Faculty and students pose for a picture during the AI Four Ed Graduate Fellows Summit.

8/19/2025 - Pamela Hadley, Qingxiao Zheng (postdoc), Sahana Rangasrinivasan (student), Tracy Preza (student), Utkarsh Kumar (student), Jinjun Xiong, and Srirangaraj Setlur at the AI4Ed Graduate Fellowship Summit in Chicago, IL

August 2025

Faculty speaking at the Inaugural International Workshop on Rethinking Children's Automatic Speech Recognition for Education.

9/10/2025 - Alison Hendricks and Mark Frank on a panel during the Inaugural International Workshop on Rethinking Children's Automatic Speech Recognition for Education hosted at AI4ExceptionalEd

September 2025

09/10/2025 - Buffalo, NY
Inaugural International Workshop on Rethinking Children's Automatic Speech Recognition for Education

09/11/2025 - Washington, DC
Identity Week 2025

09/12/2025 - Buffalo, NY
IBM Workshop: Responsible AI in Action

09/12/2025 - New York City, NY
New York Scientific Data Summit 2025

09/16/2025 - Wuhan, Hubei, China
The 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

09/18/2025 - Panama City, Panama
Pan-American Academy of Engineering Silver Jubilee

09/26/2025 - Corvallis, OR                                                                   Oregon State University AI Seminar

09/26/2025 - Buffalo, NY                                                                           AI and Data Science: Insights from South Korea

Faculty at the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership.

10/21/2025 - Brian Graham (External Advisory Board), Jinjun Xiong, Venu Govindaraju, and Srirangaraj Setlur at the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership hosted by the National Science Foundation and AI Institutes Virtual Organization

October 2025

Faculty and Postdocs at the American Speech-Hearing-Language Association Convention.

11/20/2025 - Jinjun Xiong, Hari Subramonyam, Abbie Olszewski, Vincent Cavez (postdoc), Srirangaraj Setlur, and Wenyao Xu at ASHA Convention 2025 in Washington, D.C.

November 2025

Faculty at the Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing.

12/11/2025 - Venu Govindaraju poses with University at Buffalo Provost A. Scott Weber and others at 10th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing

December 2025