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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 12-1 PM in E614 & E618 and Student seminars are at 1-2 PM in E614.

All seminars are archived on the Seminar Archive page.

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MCWILLIAMS SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Date Seminar Type Speaker Topic
08/26/2025 Student TBD TBD
08/27/2025 Main Peter Elkin Reversing Alzheimer’s Disease with a New Gene Therapy
09/2/2025 Student Yuheng Shi Building Patient-Facing Technology: A REDCap-Based Approach
09/03/2025 Main Laila Rasmy Bekhet Cosmos projects at UTHealth
09/9/2025 Student Enshuo (David) Hsu Development of Low-knowledge and Computationally Efficient Natural Language Processing Frameworks for Information Extraction
09/10/2025 Main Yun Hang From Satellites to Insights: Using AI and Remote Sensing to Understand Environmental
09/16/2025 Student TBD TBD
09/17/2025 Main Elmer Bernstam Industry, Academia, and AI
09/23/2025 Student Ekin Soysal Leveraging Language Models for Concept Normalization of Clinical Terms in Electronic Health Records
09/24/2025 Main Jijie Zhang Landscape of AI
09/30/2025 Student TBD TBD
10/1/2025 Main Venkat Keshav Chivukula Leveraging personalized computational modeling for assessing challenges of cardiovascular disease therapy
10/7/2025 Student TBD TBD
10/8/2025 Main Funda Meric-Bernstam Genomics 101 for the informatician
10/14/2025 Student Alaleh Hamidi Large Language Models for Radiology QA: Benchmarking and Error Taxonomy on RadQA
10/15/2025  Main Greg Holste PanEcho: Toward Complete AI-Enabled Echocardiography Interpretation
10/21/2025 Student Evan Yu Understanding Barriers and Sentiments Around Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis via Transformer-Based Twitter Analysis.
10/22/2025 Main Khashayar Hematpour Tapping into the holy grail of modern medicine. Detection & prediction of cardiac arrest & heart attacks with wearable smartwatches
10/28/2025 Student TBD TBD
10/29/2025 Main Shawn Murphy Instrumenting the Health Care Enterprise for Discovery in the Course of Clinical Care
11/4/2025 Student Ran Hu Seizure frequency extraction from EMU reports using ontology-assisted large language models
11/5/2025 Main Suzanne Bakken TBD
11/11/2025 Student TBD TBD
11/12/2025 Main TBD TBD
11/18/2025 Student TBD TBD
11/19/2025 Main Andrew Zmolzak TBD
11/25/2025 Student TBD TBD
11/26/2025 Main TBD TBD
12/2/2025 Student Shikha Tripathi Application of Self-Supervised Learning to Medical Imaging
12/3/2025 Main TBD TBD


Updated: 09/11/2025