The Schedule

November 14, 2025
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Reception to Follow

Schedule:

8:30 - 9:00 -  Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:20  - Dean's Welcome and Opening Remarks (Wen Mao | David Anderson | Subodha Kumar)

9:20 - 11:00 - Research Presentations (moderator: David Peng, Lehigh University)

• John Silberholz, University of Maryland - Online Learning with Survival Data

• Hui Zhao, Pennsylvania State University - From waste to worth: Alleviating pharmaceutical surplus and shortage through alternative procurement channels  

• Temidayo Olaleye, Rutgers University - The Power of Two: The Impact of Dual Decision-Making on Patient Outcomes

• David Anderson, Villanova University - Paging Dr. GPT - Using LLMs to Predict Medical Outcomes From Discharge Summaries

11:00 - 11:15 - Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:00 - Ph.D. Flash Talks (moderator: David Anderson, Villanova University)

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch and Poster Session

1:00 - 2:15 - Research Presentations (moderator: Michael Rivera, Lehigh University)

• Jaehwuen Jung, Temple University - The Impact of Realism and AI Disclosure on Virtual Influencer Effectiveness: A Large Field Experiment

• Neha Sharma, University of Pennsylvania - What Remains after LLMs: Technical Knowledge Moves from Hubs to Niches

• Guangwen Kong, Temple University - Replacing What Could Be Repaired: A Structural Analysis of Two-Stage Diagnostic Decisions in Managing Shared-Bike Returns

2:15 - 3:00 - Ph.D. Flash Talks (moderator: David Anderson, Villanova University)

3:00 - 3:30 - Coffee and Poster Session

3:30 - 4:45 - Research Presentations (moderator: Abhishek Roy, Temple University)

• Oliver Schaer, Drexel University - Nuancing Majority Vote Recommendations with Large Language Models

• Amin Rahimian, University of Pittsburgh - Privacy Aware Sequential Learning

• Yu Zhu, University of Delaware - Boosting LLM-Based Credit Risk Prediction vsa Graph-Driven Multiview Representations: A Fine-Tuning Approach

4:45 - 5:00 - Closing Remarks (Subodha Kumar, Temple University)

Reception to Follow