All seminars are held at the University Center Tower – 7000 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030. Student Research Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 1-2 PM in E614. The Wednesday Research Seminars are held from 12-1 PM in E614 & E618.
All seminars are archived on the Seminar Archive page.
View live and online at go.uth.edu/LiveSeminar.
| MCWILLIAMS SEMINAR SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Seminar Type | Speaker | Topic |
| 9/1/2026 | Student | Ming Hsiu Wu | Assay-Aware BindingDB: Curating Experimental Context for Binding Affinity Prediction |
| 9/2/2026 | Main | Jiajie Zhang | The Cognitive Revolution: How AI Is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions |
| 9/8/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 9/9/2026 | Main | Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs | TBD |
| 9/15/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 9/16/2026 | Main | Tin-Yun Tang | Integrating AI into a Secure Workflow Environment |
| 9/22/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 9/23/2026 | Main | Yao-Shun (Patrick) Chuang | Self-Prompting Small Language Models for Privacy-Sensitive Clinical Information Extraction |
| 9/29/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 9/30/2026 | Main | Martin Heitmann | Global AI Regulatory Landscape Dynamics |
| 10/6/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 10/7/2026 | Main | Kamil Khanipov | TBD |
| 10/13/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 10/14/2026 | Main | Pora Kim | FusionTarget: Computational framework for drug repurposing against modeled fusion protein structures from genomic breakpoints |
| 10/20/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 10/21/2026 | Main | TBD | |
| 10/27/2026 | Student | Keith Sanders | GWAS for Periodontitis Phenotypes Using Multi-Ancestry All of Us Research Platform |
| 10/28/2026 | Main | TBD | |
| 11/3/2026 | Student | Merlyn Joseph | Predicting Cancer Risk after Long-Term Immunosuppressant Exposure On Nationwide EHR Data |
| 11/4/2026 | Main | Ekin Soysal | LLM-Based Phenotype Extraction and Normalization for Inborn Errors of Immunity |
| 11/10/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 11/11/2026 | Main | AMIA | |
| 11/17/2026 | Student | Alaleh Hamid | A Custom Annotation Framework for Patient-Specific Question Answering over Electronic Health Records |
| 11/18/2026 | Main | TBD | |
| 11/24/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 11/25/2026 | Main | TBD | |
| 12/1/2026 | Student | TBD | |
| 12/2/2026 | Main | Farhan Varhedy | Neurorehabilitation Informatics Outcomes Research |
| 12/8/2026 | Student | Terrence White | Causal Inference Using Multi-Omics Observational Data: A Generative AI Computational Framework for Mechanistic Causal Modeling |
| 12/9/2026 | Main | Christina van Hal | Robust Assessment of Health Care Data Suitability for Estimating Causal Effects |
Updated: 09/03/2026