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Research Seminars

All seminars are held at the University Center Tower 7000 Fannin Street, 6th floor (UCT E-612 & E-614), Houston, TX 77030 at 12 p.m. (noon) CT.

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
1/14/2025 Tuesday Student Elmer Bernstam, MD Introduction to the New Student Seminar Series
1/15/2025 Wednesday Main Thomas Taylor, MD Profiling EHR Phenotypes in a Learning Health System
1/21/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN TBD
1/22/2025 Wednesday Main Degui Zhi, PhD Genetic Discovery in the Age of AI
1/28/2025 Tuesday Student Evan Yu Explainable AI and domain adaptation for predicting HIV infection with graph neural networks
1/29/2025 Wednesday Main Cecelia Ganduglia Cabazan, MD TBD
2/04/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN TBD
2/05/2025 Wednesday Main Jorge Herskovic, PhD Academic Achievement Metrics at MD Anderson
2/11/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN TBD
2/12/2025 Wednesday Main Jeff Chang, PhD Heterogeneity of Multi-Site Metastatic Breast Cancer Tumors  at the End Stage
2/18/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN TBD
2/19/2025 Wednesday Main Zhangdong Liu, PhD Harnessing the power of AI for genetics diagnosis
2/25/2025 Tuesday Student Yao-Shun (Patrick) Chuang Not fully synthetic: LLM-based Hybrid Approaches Toward Privacy-Preserving Clinical Note Sharing
2/26/2025 Wednesday Main Hongfang Liu, PhD Learning Health System Sciences towards Evidence-based Medicine in the Digital Era
3/04/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN
3/05/2025 Wednesday Main Bingyu Mao Precision dosing and disease prediction: advanced deep learning AI approaches on structured EHR data
3/05/2025 Wednesday Main Sheikh Muhammad Saiful Islam     Self-Supervised Deep Learning for Voxel-Based Brain Representation Learning and Genetic Variation Identification from T1-Weighted MRI
Spring Break 2025 ~  No Research Seminars during the week of March 10-14, 2025
3/18/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN TBD
3/19/2025 Wednesday Main Alan Pan Optimizing 30-Day Post-Acute Care Pathways to Improve Health Trajectories for Stroke Survivors: Trial Emulation Analysis of a Pragmatic Patient Management Workflow
3/25/2025 Tuesday Student Xiaotian Ma A pioneering artificial intelligence tool to predict treatment outcomes in ovarian cancer via diagnostic laparoscopy
3/26/2025 Wednesday Main Anil Korkut, PhD TBD
4/1/2025 Tuesday Student Zehan Li Beyond Social Determinants: Unveiling Psychological Stressors in Psychiatric Notes through Advanced Language Modeling
4/2/2025 Wednesday Main Yaobin Ling Risk of Alzheimer’s disease following High-dose versus Standard-dose Influenza vaccination
4/8/2025 Tuesday Student Maryamsadat Mohtashamian Depression Detection via Sleep EEG: A Deep Learning Approach
4/9/2025 Wednesday Main Sunyang Fu Advancing Aging Research with Natural Language Processing and Electronic Health Records: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
4/15/2025 Tuesday Student Ran Hu An Automated Approach for Identifying Erroneous IS-A Relations in SNOMED CT
4/16/2025 Wednesday Main Yifang Dang The Extension of Social Determinants of Health Ontology on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
4/22/2025 Tuesday Student Christina Van Hal A Target Trial Emulation Ontology
4/23/2025 Wednesday Main Ken Mandl, MD TBD
4/29/2025 Tuesday Student OPEN TBD
4/30/2025 Wednesday Main Stojsin Rastko Quantification of O-GlcNAcylation Dysregulation and Downstream Network Effects on Cancer Progression using TCGA Data


Updated: 01/16/2025