Seminars

All in the UH campus community are invited and encouraged to attend the presentations listed below.
Ph.D. students should plan to attend Computer Science Seminars, Computer Science Distinguished Seminars, and Computer Science Focus on Research.
2026-2027 Seminars
| Date & Time | Description |
|---|---|
| Friday January 22, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Distinguished Seminar Title TBD Jian Pei, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University |
| Friday December 4, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Seminar Title TBD Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan |
| Monday November 20, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Seminar Enforcing 3D Inductive Bias via Network Design and Regularization Losses Qixing Huang, The University of Texas at Austin |
| Monday November 6, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Seminar The D+\sqrt{n} Lower Bound Story of Distributed Algorithms Gopal Pandurangan, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston |
| Friday October 30, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Seminar Title TBD Changqing Luo, Department of Information Science Technology, University of Houston |
| Monday October 19, 2026 12 PM PGH 563 |
Computer Science Seminar - Health Informatics From Model to Bedside: Deploying AI in Healthcare Systems Ioannis Kakadiaris, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston |
| Friday October 16, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Seminar Human-Centered AI and Robotics for Health and Behavior Change: From Community Needs to System Development Chorong Park, Hines College of Architecture & Design, University of Houston |
| Monday October 12, 2026 12 PM PGH 563 |
Computer Science Seminar - Health Informatics AI-Guided Prediction of Antigen-Binding Properties, Biotherapeutics for Cancer Treatment Shaun Zhang, Department of Biology, University of Houston |
| Monday October 5, 2026 12 PM PGH 563 |
Computer Science Seminar - Health Informatics Molecular Advances in Breast Pathology: From Genomic Discovery to Clinical Diagnostics Di (Andy) Ai, Department of Anatomical Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Monday September 28, 2026 12 PM PGH 563 |
Computer Science Seminar - Health Informatics AI in Clinical Research: From Data to Discovery Jacob McPherson, Houston Methodist Academic Institute |
| Monday September 21, 2026 12 PM PGH 563 |
Computer Science Seminar - Health Informatics From EHR to Insight: Using NLP and Structured Data in Clinical Research Heather Lyu, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Monday September 14, 2026 12 PM PGH 563 |
Computer Science Seminar - Health Informatics Factors Associated with Telehealth Buprenorphine Initiation: Clinical Findings and a Machine Learning Pipeline Walkthrough Sahar Yazdanfard, Humana Integrated Health Systems Sciences Institute, University of Houston |
| Friday August 28, 2026 11 AM PGH 232 |
Computer Science Seminar Data Fabric: All Encompassing Data Management Ecosystem Kamal Karlapalem, International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad (India) |