{"id":564,"date":"2026-02-05T05:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/?p=564"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:08:14","slug":"iacr-lightning-talks-march-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/iacr-lightning-talks-march-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"IACR Lightning Talks &#8212; March 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LIGHTNING TALKS &amp; NETWORKING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AI &amp; ADVANCED COMPUTATIONALLY ENHANCED RESEARCH APPROACHES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MARCH 6. 2026. 11:15 am \u2013 12:45 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANCHOR ROOM, URI WELCOME CENTER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact: jpeckham@uri.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hosts:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The URI Office of Research Development\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research (IACR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intended Audience:<\/strong> Faculty and graduate researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hear from URI Researchers who have harnessed AI and Advanced Computation to enhance research in multiple disciplines. Included will be lightning talks from:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alina Barnett &#8211; Assistant Professor &#8211; alina.barnett@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Classifying ICU Seizures with the Betta Fish of Interpretability<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peter Liu &#8211; Assist. Prof, Mathematics -pengyu.liu@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Artificial intelligence advances infectious disease research<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nic Fisk &#8211; Assist. Prof., CELS &#8211; j.nicholas.fisk@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Who Knows? AI and the Voice of Science<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deborah Ferguson &#8211; Assistant Professor, Physics &#8211; deborah.ferguson@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Using neural networks to efficiently explore the binary black hole parameter space<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yalda Shahriari &#8211; Assoc. Prof., ECBE, Biomedical Engineering and Director of the NeuralPC Lab &#8211; yalda_shahriari@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Multi-view Convolutional Neural Network for Neuroimaging Data Fusion<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cecile Cres &#8211; Computational Scientist, IACR &#8211; cecile_cres@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Application of AI to metagenomics data analysis<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yana Hrytsenko &#8211; Postdoc, CELS &#8211; yana_hrytsenko@uri.edu &#8211; <strong>Genome analysis with AI: from evolution to precision medicine<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manshu Yang, Assoc. Prof, Psychology &#8211; myang@uri.eduy &#8211; <strong>Advanced Computational Techniques for Analyzing Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Data<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Talks will begin at 11:15 a.m., followed by networking and snacks.\u2028\u2028The goal is to provide inspiration and support for those who are just beginning to think about using AI and\/or advanced computational approaches in their research in any discipline. The talks will be 3 minutes each, with about 1-2 minutes of questions.\u00a0Space is limited and there are only a few seats left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScDcpO9T0J3z-31jzfDU-Z-e9Or4b5sU-Kiio6CsUIpcuU_vg\/viewform\">register<\/a> by Thursday February 26 to reserve a seat and help us order snacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI &amp; ADVANCED COMPUTATIONALLY ENHANCED RESEARCH APPROACHES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4052,"featured_media":93,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/iacr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}