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Congrautations to Dr. Jamell Dacon on being selected in the inaugural Computing Research Association Trustworthy AI Fellowship 2026-2027 cohort backed by Microsoft.

Congratulations to MINDS Lab members — DeBoris Leonard (alumni), Ricky Gole and Dr. Dacon on their recent works being accepted to the Festival of Learning 2026, specifically at the EDM and L@S conferences as oral presentations! 

Paper(s):

• DeBoris Leonard*, Ricky Gole* and Jamell Dacon. “Prescriptive Persistence: Quantifying the Breakdown in Human-AI Pedagogical Co-Regulation in ELL Writing Feedback”. In the Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S) 2026. (acceptance rate 22.0%)

• Ricky Gole and Jamell Dacon. “The Semantic Gap in Behavioral Embeddings: Why Linear Methods Fail for Educational RAG in Mathematics”. In the Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2026. (acceptance rate 23.0%)

Congratulations to MINDS members — Dr. Dacon, Ricky Gole, Obaloluwa Wojuade and Mikayla Brown, and CEAMLS SAIRI Visiting Scholars — Anuva Nuzhat (North Carolina State University) and Holy Agyei (Grambling State University) on their recent work being accepted to BIBM 2025 in Wuhan, China as an oral presentation! 

Paper(s):

• Jamell Dacon, Ricky Gole, Anuva Nuzhat, Holy Agyei, Obaloluwa Wojuade, Mikayla Brown. “BIO-DQNA: Meta-Learning and Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Comorbidity Management in Type 1 Diabetes and Hypertension”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2025. (acceptance rate 19.0%)

Congratulations to MINDS Lab members—  Chukwuemeka (Jessi) Obasi, Nasif Ajilore, Dr. Dacon on being invited to Bloomberg's HBCU Academy of Excellence in NYC — a three day workshop consisting of panels, hands-on workshops, and conversations on the company’s intentional efforts to build real, enduring bridges with HBCUs, especially for computer science, finance, business, journalism and engineering students.

Congratulations to Dr. Jamell Dacon on being invited to deliver the keynote speech on Ethical AI Integration at Yale University’s “A CALL TO CREATE LINGUISTIC JUSTICE IN AN AI WORLD” annual Spring Teaching Forum event alongside Dr. April Baker-Bell from the University of Michigan, on Linguistic Justice.

Congratulations to MINDS members — Dr. Dacon and over 20 undergraduate researchers on their recent works being accepted to SER 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts as poster presentations! 

Posters(s):

• Mikayla Brown, et al. “Towards Data-Driven Diabetes Care: Identifying Key Biomarkers and Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes through AI Models”. Society of Epidemiologic Research 2025 Mid-Year Meeting (SER), 2025. (Non-archival) (acceptance rate unknown)

• Chelsea Minard, et al. “Exploring Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors in Coronary Artery Disease: Using AI and Knowledge Graphs to Identify Healthcare Inequities”. Society of Epidemiologic Research 2025 Mid-Year Meeting (SER), 2025. (Non-archival) (acceptance rate unknown)

• Chukwuemeka Obasi, et al. “Improving Hypertension Prediction and Management through AI: A Focus on Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Demographic Influences”. Society of Epidemiologic Research 2025 Mid-Year Meeting (SER), 2025. (Non-archival) (acceptance rate unknown)

Congratulations to Dr. Dacon on being invited to Bloomberg's HBCU Academy of Excellence in NYC — a three day workshop consisting of panels, hands-on workshops, and conversations on the company’s intentional efforts to build real, enduring bridges with HBCUs, especially for computer science, finance, business, journalism and engineering students.