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    • Spring 2025
      • Dr. Sidi Lu
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      • Dr. Dajiang Zhu
      • Dr. Song Liao
      • Ms. Bingbing Wen
      • Dr. Weishi Shi
      • Dr. Xiaozhong Liu
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      • Dr. Oluwatosin Oluwadare
      • Dr. Wayne Taylor
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    • Spring 2026
      • Dr. Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli
      • Dr. Kai Zhang
      • Dr. Bo Fang
      • Dr. Dong Li
      • Dr. Lan Wang
      • Dr. Changqing Luo
      • Dr. Md Rizwan Parvez
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      • Dr. Chengkai Li
UNT DS & AI Talk Series
  • Home
  • Fall 2026
    • Speaker 1
  • Previous Semester Talk
    • Fall 2024
      • Dr. Yu Wang
      • Dr. Diya Li
      • Dr. Liangkai Liu
      • Dr. Yi Wu
      • Dr. Sagnik Ray Choudhury
      • Dr. Xinya Du
      • Dr. Dongfang Liu
      • Dr. Heng Fan
    • Spring 2025
      • Dr. Sidi Lu
      • Dr. Jim Jansen
      • Dr. Peipei Zhou
      • Dr. Hanchen Jiang
      • Dr. Xuan Lu
      • Dr. Qinglei Cao
      • Dr. Jiayi Meng
      • Dr. Zhuqing Liu
      • Dr. Dajiang Zhu
      • Dr. Song Liao
      • Ms. Bingbing Wen
      • Dr. Weishi Shi
      • Dr. Xiaozhong Liu
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      • Dr. Oluwatosin Oluwadare
      • Dr. Wayne Taylor
      • Dr. Joel Niklaus
      • Dr. Kaiqun Fu
      • Dr. Jianzhe Lin
      • Dr. Jiqun Liu
      • Dr. Orhan Erdem
      • Dr. Zhengzhong Tu
      • Dr. Xi Yang
      • Dr. Debvrat Varshney
      • Wes Jackson
      • Dr. Xiaoling Hu
      • Dr. Mahmudur Rahman
      • Dr. Lei Fan
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      • Dr. Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli
      • Dr. Kai Zhang
      • Dr. Bo Fang
      • Dr. Dong Li
      • Dr. Lan Wang
      • Dr. Changqing Luo
      • Dr. Md Rizwan Parvez
      • Dr. Abdullah Al Arafat
      • Dr. Lingyao Li
      • Dr. Yue Ning
      • Dr. Chengkai Li
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    • Home
    • Fall 2026
      • Speaker 1
    • Previous Semester Talk
      • Fall 2024
        • Dr. Yu Wang
        • Dr. Diya Li
        • Dr. Liangkai Liu
        • Dr. Yi Wu
        • Dr. Sagnik Ray Choudhury
        • Dr. Xinya Du
        • Dr. Dongfang Liu
        • Dr. Heng Fan
      • Spring 2025
        • Dr. Sidi Lu
        • Dr. Jim Jansen
        • Dr. Peipei Zhou
        • Dr. Hanchen Jiang
        • Dr. Xuan Lu
        • Dr. Qinglei Cao
        • Dr. Jiayi Meng
        • Dr. Zhuqing Liu
        • Dr. Dajiang Zhu
        • Dr. Song Liao
        • Ms. Bingbing Wen
        • Dr. Weishi Shi
        • Dr. Xiaozhong Liu
      • Fall 2025
        • Dr. Oluwatosin Oluwadare
        • Dr. Wayne Taylor
        • Dr. Joel Niklaus
        • Dr. Kaiqun Fu
        • Dr. Jianzhe Lin
        • Dr. Jiqun Liu
        • Dr. Orhan Erdem
        • Dr. Zhengzhong Tu
        • Dr. Xi Yang
        • Dr. Debvrat Varshney
        • Wes Jackson
        • Dr. Xiaoling Hu
        • Dr. Mahmudur Rahman
        • Dr. Lei Fan
      • Spring 2026
        • Dr. Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli
        • Dr. Kai Zhang
        • Dr. Bo Fang
        • Dr. Dong Li
        • Dr. Lan Wang
        • Dr. Changqing Luo
        • Dr. Md Rizwan Parvez
        • Dr. Abdullah Al Arafat
        • Dr. Lingyao Li
        • Dr. Yue Ning
        • Dr. Chengkai Li

Title: When AI Meets the Genome: Deep Learning for 3D Genome Organization Analysis (In-person)

Speaker: Dr. Oluwatosin Oluwadare, Associate Professor at UNT

Time: September 10, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm 

Room: E265, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Yunhe Feng

Title: Rag, GraphRag, LazyGraphRag

Speaker: Dr. Jianzhe Lin, EAG (engineering and architecture group) team, Microsoft

Time: September 17, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: E265, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Yang Zhang

Title: Bounded-Rationality-Aware Vulnerability Evaluation (BRAVE) in Interactive and Generative Information Retrieval (In-person)

Speaker: Dr. Jiqun Liu,  Associate Professor at  the University of Oklahoma

Time: September 19, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Room: G150 (Agora), Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Haihua Chen

Title: Agentic V2X Systems: Towards Smarter, Safer, and More Trustworthy Connected Mobility 

Speaker: Zhengzhong Tu, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University

Time: September 24, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: E265, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Kewei Sha

Title: From Cities to Innovation Ecosystems: Graph-Based Learning for Spatiotemporal Forecasting and Societal Impact 

Speaker: Dr. Kaiqun Fu, Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University

Time: October 1, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Room: E265, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Yunhe Feng

Title: LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams

Speaker: Dr. Joel Niklaus, Hugging Face

Time: October 8, 2025, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Haihua Chen

Title: Geospatial Diffusion for Land Cover Imperviousness Change Forecasting

Speaker: Dr. Debvrat Varshney, GeoAI Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Time: October 15, 2025, 1:00 pm-2:30 pm

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Sahara Ali 

Title: The Effects of Sports Betting Legalization on Consumer Behavior, State Finances, and Public Health

Speaker: Dr. Wayne Taylor, Professor at Southern Methodist University

Time: October 22, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Junhua Ding

Title: Industry Trends and Applications for AI in Practice Today

Speaker: Wes Jackson, Red Hat

Time: October 29, 2025,  1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Clifford Whitworth

Title: Principled Learning for Medical AI: Structure, Reliability, and Interpretability

Speaker: Dr. Xiaoling Hu, Harvard Medical School

Time: November 7, 2025,  2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

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Coordinator: Dr. Heng Fan 

Title: Trustworthy AI from Hospital Beds to Global Marketplaces 

Speaker: Dr. Mahmudur Rahman, Applied Scientist, Central Seller Fulfillment, Amazon

Time: November 12, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Sahara Ali

Title: Hybrid Quantum Optimization for Energy Systems: From Quantum Dynamics to Practical Applications (In-person)

Speaker: Dr. Lei Fan, Associate Professor at the University of Houston

Time: November 19, 2025,  1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

Recording link

Coordinator: Dr. Kewei Sha

Title: Artificial Intelligence and Economic Research: Applications in Labor and Housing Economics (In-person)

Speaker: Dr. Xi Yang, Associate Professor at UNT

Time: December 3, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

ZOOM link

Coordinator: Dr. Haihua Chen

Title: Balancing Health, Economics, and Technology: Lessons from COVID-19 Policies and Advances in AI-Driven Cardiac Imaging (In person)

Speaker: Dr. Orhan Erdem, Clinical Associate Professor at UNT

Time: December 10, 2025, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Room: E297L, Discovery Park, UNT

ZOOM link

Coordinator: Dr. Ana Cleveland

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