Fall 2026

September 11, 2026 - Deep Learning for Real-World Patient Data

Date: September 11, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Remote, Deep Learning for Real-World Patient Data Zoom link
Speaker: Ping Zhang
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Host: Hong Yu

September 18, 2026 - Building Trustworthy AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery and Clinical Decision Support

Date: September 18, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Remote, Building Trustworthy AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery and Clinical Decision Support Zoom link
Speaker: Zhiyong Lu
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine
Host: Hong Yu

October 2, 2026 - The Search for Unforgeable Language Model Signatures

Date: October 2, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Remote, The Search for Unforgeable Language Model Signatures Zoom link
Speaker: Xiang Ren
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Host: Hadi Amiri

Date: October 9, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Remote, Voiceprints of Cognitive Impairment: Analyzing Digital Voice for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Zoom link
Speaker: Neguine Rezaii
Affiliation: Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Host: Hadi Amiri

October 16, 2026 - A Brief History of Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (How They Program More Than They do Science)

Date: October 16, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Dandeneau Hall (Room 321)
Speaker: Sunip Mukherjee
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology
Host: Paul Downen

October 21, 2026 - Adaptive Intelligence for a Changing World: Streaming Learning, Clinical AI in Radiotherapy, and Agentic Decision Making

Date: October 21, 2026
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Dandeneau Hall (Room 321)
Speaker: Zhong Chen
Affiliation: Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Host: Ming Shao

October 27, 2026 - Keeping Medical AI Healthy and Trustworthy: Development, Monitoring, and Adaptation

Date: October 27, 2026
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Dandeneau Hall (Room 321)
Speaker: Hao Guan
Affiliation: Harvard Medical School
Host: Ming Shao

November 5, 2026 - Developing Trustworthy Multimodal Health AI agents for Long-Horizon Reasoning and Action

Date: November 5, 2026
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Dandeneau Hall (Room 321)
Speaker: Zonghai Yao
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Host: Ming Shao

November 6, 2026 - Tracking How Dependently-Typed Functions Use Their Arguments

Date: November 6, 2026
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: Remote, November 6 - Stephanie Weirich Zoom link
Speaker: Stephanie Weirich
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Host: Paul Downen

November 10, 2026 - Toward Reliable Multimodal AI: From Spurious Correlations to Inference-Time Repair 

Date: November 10, 2026
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Dandeneau Hall (Room 321)
Speaker: Prashant Khanduri
Affiliation: Wayne State University
Host: Ming Shao

November 13, 2026 - Beyond Mathematics: How Do We (Auto)formalize Machine Learning and Science?

Date: November 13, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Remote, Beyond Mathematics: How Do We (Auto)formalize Machine Learning and Science? Zoom link
Speaker: Robert George
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
Host: Paul Downen

November 20, 2026 - Title to Be Announced

Date: November 20, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Remote, November 20 - Alan Ritter Zoom link
Speaker: Alan Ritter
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Hadi Amiri

December 4, 2026 - Title to Be Announced

Date: December 4, 2026
Time: 2:15 p.m.
Location: Dandeneau Hall (Room 321)
Speaker: Wei Zhang
Affiliation: Harvard University
Host: Hong Yu

Additional talks to be announced!