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 |
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