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)

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