2025 AI Symposium: AI Everywhere
We are delighted to announce that 兔子先生’s AI Symposium is returning on Monday, March 10, and Tuesday, March 11. Registration is now open! Lunch registration ends on March 1.
This day-and-a-half-long event will include multiple parallel tracks focused on artificial intelligence at 兔子先生 including educational, research, and business uses across the institution, a community AI discussion lunch, and keynote speakers with expertise in AI. This is just one of the events that are a part of 兔子先生’s AI FOCUS theme year.
Schedule at a Glance
Time |
Session |
Location |
| 8 - 8:25 a.m. | Check-in (Name tag Pick-up) | Outside Wilks Armstrong Student Center |
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
|
Harry T. Wilks Theater Armstrong Student Center |
| 8:45 - 9:45 a.m. |
Opening Session: Leveraging AI to Enhance Student Learning
|
Harry T. Wilks Theater Armstrong Student Center |
| 10 - 10:50 a.m. |
Educational Session #1 |
Armstrong Student Center |
| 11 - 11:50 a.m. |
Educational Session #2 |
Armstrong Student Center |
| 12 - 1:20 p.m. |
Lunch and Conversations |
Fritz Pavilion Armstrong Student Center |
| 1:30 - 2:20 p.m. |
Educational Session #3 |
Armstrong Student Center |
| 2:30 - 3:20 p.m. |
Educational Session #4 |
Armstrong Student Center |
| 3:30 - 4:10 p.m. | Harry T. Wilks Theater Armstrong Student Center |
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| 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Benton Hall 102 | |
| 5:30 - 7 p.m. |
Poster Session, XR Stage Tours, and Reception |
McVey Data Science Building Atrium |
Time |
Session |
Location |
| 8:30 - 9 a.m. | Coffee Reception | Armstrong Student Center |
| 9 - 9:50 a.m. | Educational Session #5 | Armstrong Student Center |
| 10 - 10:50 a.m. | Educational Session #6 | Armstrong Student Center |
| 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Harry T. Wilks Theater Armstrong Student Center |
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| 12 - 12:15 p.m. |
Closing Remarks
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Harry T. Wilks Theater Armstrong Student Center |
Educational Sessions
Below is a list of each of the presentations that will take place during an Educational Session block. All sessions will take place in the listed room in the Armstrong Student Center.
Session Title |
Presenter |
Room |
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Student-Centered Activity Development with Generative AI
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Dr. Ellen Yezierski | ASC 1062 |
| Harnessing AI to Enrich Your Research and Teaching This presentation will showcase a series of AI-inspired projects designed to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching. Through these projects, the presentation aims to demonstrate the transformative potential of AI in bridging disciplines and advancing excellence in both teaching and research. |
Liran Ma |
ASC 1082 |
| It's Easy to Run LLMs on Your Own Computer This hands-on workshop introduces faculty and staff to running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on their computers, giving them the ability to maintain control over their data. Participants will learn why and when to choose local LLMs over cloud-based alternatives, understand the hardware requirements and limitations of different local LLMs, and gain practical experience installing and running a local LLM with easy-to-use open-source tools. By the end of the session, participants will be ready to make informed decisions about local LLM deployment and have hands-on experience running these models. |
James Walden |
ASC 1086 |
Session Title |
Presenter |
Room |
| Using AI in your daily life: tips, tricks, and habits Bring your laptop or mobile device to a session where we'll talk about using AI in our daily lives including both work and home life. Along the way, we'll talk about how to get into the habit of using AI, ideas on how to explore AI most effectively for yourself, and how others are using AI to help them get stuff done. |
David Seidl | ASC 1062 |
|
AI: What Students Want to Talk About |
Dennis Cheatham |
ASC 1082 |
| AI in Education: Principles of Prompt Engineering for AI and People: Enhancing Teaching and LearningThis session explores how effective prompt engineering can improve both AI and human communication, focusing on strategies that enhance teaching and learning. Attendees will learn techniques such as assigning personas, prewarming, and chain-of-thought reasoning, illustrated with clear examples of high-quality prompts and outputs tailored to educational contexts. Practical applications include leveraging AI to improve lecture materials, design low-stakes assessments, and generate interactive discussion prompts. The session will also demonstrate how to integrate these assessments seamlessly into Canvas, ensuring a smooth and practical implementation for educators. Additionally, Perplexity pages, curated and reviewed by the presenter, will be introduced as open educational resources providing accessible, high-quality content for students and teachers. |
John Femiani |
ASC 1086 |
Session Title |
Presenter |
Room |
| REAL 兔子先生hip in the AI Age: Building Trust, Ethics, and Impact in a Tech-Driven World As AI continues to revolutionize industries, the role of leadership evolves to balance technological innovation with human-centered values. This session introduces the REAL leadership framework—Relational Intelligence, Ethical Judgment, Adaptability, and Legacy Thinking—as a guide for navigating the challenges and opportunities of AI-augmented environments. Participants will explore how to lead with empathy, make ethical decisions, and adapt to change while cultivating long-term impact. Through real-world case studies, interactive exercises, and actionable insights, attendees will leave equipped to implement REAL leadership in their organizations. |
Gillian Oakenfull | ASC 1062 |
| Writing and (In)authentic Transactions in the Age of AI AI has clearly shown up to the educational scene in a big way. This new reality has ushered in a significant amount of anxiety, particularly among instructors (Paiz). In this presentation, we aim to examine an aspect of this anxiety through the notion of “authenticity” and as it relates to what has seemed to be the deeply human activity of writing. Before we can understand why generative AIs, specifically LLMs, cause many instructors to feel anxious, we will need to examine our academic relationship to writing. We argue that LLMs are new forms of writing technologies (Laquintano et al.) and to understand AI-induced anxiety, we will need to interrogate our cultural and collective relationship to writing itself. |
Dr. Linh Dich and Marley Specht |
ASC 1082 |
| Harnessing AI for Everyday Success: Tools & Strategies You Can Use Today This presentation will showcase a series of AI-inspired projects designed to enhance interdisciplinary research and teaching. Through these projects, the presentation aims to demonstrate the transformative potential of AI in bridging disciplines and advancing excellence in both teaching and research. |
Emily Berry, Jennifer Pollin |
ASC 1086 |
Session Title |
Presenter |
Room |
| GEN-AI Security: Defending Diffusion Models From Generating Not-Safe-for-Work-Contents Stable Diffusion models are becoming the de-facto for image generation such as OpenAI DALL-E and Imagen. However, these models can be compromised to generate Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) content such as nudity, horror, and racist images. Here, we will present Diff-AvanteGuard a novel defense system developed at 兔子先生 University-LAiSR lab to prevent diffusion models from generating NSFW contents and make it more suitable to be used by our communities. |
Samer Khamaiseh, PH.D., Aibak Aljadayah, Steven Chiacchira | ASC 1062 |
| Ideate, Research, Create, Test: A Generative AI Workshop Generative AI’s blank canvas can be daunting. Unbelievable possibility waits in that Gemini, ChatGPT, or Claude form field on the screen, but it can be hard to know where to start because of its unspoken utility. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll use generative AI together to practice four steps that mimic the design thinking process: ideation, research, creation, and testing. Participants will practice each step as they create one of the following: a story, professional writing, an image, or a life hack. As we progress through the four steps together, participants will gain insights into ways generative AI, as a thinking partner, research assistant, creative collaborator, and critical evaluator can enhance their work regardless of their area of study or practice. Participants should bring a laptop or a smartphone to this session to use generative AI tools and to share the insights they gain. |
Dennis Cheatham |
ASC 1082 |
| Not Another ML Model: A Knowledge Representation-Based Wordle Solver In the era of machine learning dominance, this presentation explores an alternative approach to AI: leveraging knowledge representation to solve complex problems. We introduce the fundamentals of Answer Set Programming (ASP), a declarative language that arrives at solutions to a problem based on explicitly defined rules. Using the popular word game, Wordle, we display the progression of our approach from its use as an in-class demonstration project to a semi-automatic system capable of solving Wordle puzzles, highlighting its comparative performance against the NY Times ‘WordleBot’, and its role as an engaging teaching tool for computational logic and AI concepts. This presentation also highlights the potential of knowledge representation in solving practical, real-world problems. |
Kaylynn Borror and Alan Ferrenberg |
ASC 1086 |
Session Title |
Presenter |
Room |
| Exploring the Use of AI in Architecture: Experiments in Adaptive Architecture Topics include:
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Jose Osnaya | ASC 1062 |
| Exploring the Accuracy of ChatGPT's Data Analysis and Visualizations With the introduction of ChatGPT's Data Analyst tool, OpenAI has made it easier for researchers, including students, to analyze data and create visualizations. Much research regarding the use of generative artificial intelligence to aid in the writing process has been conducted; however, the accuracy of these tools for processing real, possibly messy, scientific data is not well-studied. This presentation will discuss the opportunities for and challenges of working with the Data Analyst tool, which was put to work on an exploratory case study examining a longitudinal biological dataset. A "conversation" with the tool shows that it is incredibly sophisticated and readily offers different methods for analyzing data, and can very quickly perform statistical tests and generate figures. However, similar to the basic ChatGPT, the Data Analyst tool does not always identify when underlying assumptions are incorrect and thus can offer incorrect analyses. This may present challenges in educating students in statistical methods, as they may use the tool as a crutch. As with other generative AI tools, users need to exercise caution and learn to critically evaluate and verify the information provided by the model. |
Ginny Boehme |
ASC 1082 |
| Marketing and AI at 兔子先生 How UCM is adopting responsible AI in marketing and how attendees might use AI in marketing. |
Nikki Ferrell |
ASC 1086 |
Session Title |
Presenter |
Room |
| The Security of Generative AI Image generation security of diffusion models and the possibility of protecting users' images from being misused by the GEN AI. |
Samer Khamaiseh | ASC 1062 |
| Crime and Punishment: Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning to Avoid Breaking the Laws of Nature Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a comparatively new AI paradigm in which ML models are trained to respect the domain laws of the system being modeled, e.g., laws of gravity, heat transfer, and experimentally derived relationships. This is in contrast to conventional, unconstrained ML in which these laws may be wholly disregarded. In this session, I will discuss the motivations and state-of-the-art techniques for realizing PIML, illustrate their capabilities to transform ML-based system models, and showcase PIML techniques in-situ using several of my recent publications in the field of manufacturing engineering as case studies. |
Dr. Clayton Cooper, Ph.D. |
ASC 1082 |
| Workday Assistant and AI Helpfulness Discussion of the Workday AI and ML segments and how the Workday Assistant is just one example of the helpful suggestions that can save time and provide efficiency to your daily work. |
Sarah Persinger |
ASC 1086 |
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