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.
View live and online at go.uth.edu/LiveSeminar.
| MCWILLIAMS SEMINAR SCHEDULE | |||
| Date | Seminar Type | Speaker | Topic |
| 1/13/26 | Student | ||
| 1/14/26 | Main | Kirk Roberts | The Impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on Natural Language Processing (NLP) |
| 1/20/26 | Student | Enshuo Hsu | Explore best practices for real-world biomedical information extraction with LLMs |
| 1/21/26 | Main | Hardeep Singh | Advancing Data and Implementation Science for Reducing Diagnostic Error |
| 1/27/26 | Student | ||
| 1/28/26 | Main | Apollo McOwit | Machine Learning Algorithm for Detecting Unwarranted Clinical Variation in the Treatment of Acute Viral Pharyngitis in Children |
| 2/3/26 | Student | ||
| 2/4/26 | Main | Vicky Yao | Integrative computational approaches for modeling complex disease biology across scales and systems |
| 2/10/26 | Student | ||
| 2/11/26 | Main | Amy Franklin | TBA |
| 2/17/26 | Student | Si Mi | Polygenic Scores for Deep-Learning-Derived Brain Imaging Phenotypes (UIDPs) |
| 2/18/26 | Main | Sahiti Myneni | TBA |
| 2/24/26 | Student | Keith Sanders | Genome-Wide Association Study for Periodontitis Phenotypes Using Multi-Ancestry All of Us Research Platform |
| 2/25/26 | Main | Evan Yu | Modeling Biomedical Networks and Language for Data-Driven Reasoning |
| 3/3/26 | Student | Shuyu Lu | The Landscape View of Postoperative Organ Injury: A 10-Year Analysis of 223,000 Procedures |
| 3/4/26 | Main | Trevor Cohen | Foundations and Applications of Mathematical Models of Meaning in Medicine |
| 3/10/26 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 3/11/26 | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 3/17/26 | Student | Ekin Soysal | Leveraging Large Language Models for Concept Normalization of Clinical Terms in Electronic Health Records |
| 3/18/26 | Main | Rachel Richesson | Advancing the Relevance and Scalability of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Alerts Using a Taxonomy of Override Reasons |
| 3/24/26 | Student | ||
| 3/25/26 | Main | Eric Thomas | TBA |
| 3/31/26 | Student | ||
| 4/1/26 | Main | Amy Moreno | Informatics applications in Radiation Oncology |
| 4/7/26 | Student | Alaleh Hamidi | A Custom Annotation Framework for Patient-Specific Question Answering over Electronic Health Records |
| 4/8/26 | Main | Yumeng (Summer) Yang | A Multi-Agent Framework for Conversational Pre-Screening in Cancer Clinical Trials |
| 4/14/26 | Student | Maryamsadat Mohtashamian | A Multimodal Approach for Sleep EEG-based Depression Detection |
| 4/15/26 | Main | Muhammad Walji | Informatics Approaches for Measuring and Improving the Quality of Dental Care |
| 4/21/26 | Student | Terrence White | AI-Driven Causal Inference for Advancing Gut Microbiome Interventions in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| 4/22/26 | Main | Andrzej Kudlicki | Distributional Signatures in Biomedical Data: From Causal Inference to Data Sanitation |
| 4/28/26 | Student | Christina van Hal | A Pipeline for Target Trial Emulation |
| 4/29/26 | Main | Shikha Tripathi, and Ran Hu | Application of Deep Learning to neuroimaging tasks |
Updated: 01/16/2026