Presentations and Talks
Curated list of talks and presentations I have recently participated in.
AI and Education
Asian Conference on Education (ACE), 2024
📃 Session Chair and Presenter, “How to Let Students Use AI? Transparent and Reflective AI Usage with Process Feedback,” Session
🗓️ November, 2024 | Tokyo, Japan
STAR Global Conference (STAR), 2024
📃 Keynote Speaker, “Integrating AI into Education as an Explanatory Tool,” Abstract
🗓️ December, 2024 | Kathmandu, Nepal
MIT RAISE AI + Education Summit (AIED), 2024
📃 Poster Presentation, “Experiences of Students Using Explanatory AI for Coding”
🗓️ July, 2024 | Cambridge, USA
International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), 2024
📃 Workshop, “Cultivating Originality and Self-reflection in the Age of AI with Process Feedback Tools”
🗓️ October, 2024 | Online
IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE), 2024
📃 Paper Presentation, “Maximizing Student Engagement in Coding Education with Explanatory AI”
🗓️ October, 2024 | Washington D.C., USA
Creative Writing Studies Conference (CWSC), 2024
📃 Workshop, “Tech-Assisted Self-Reflection in the Age of AI: A Hands-on Workshop on Process Feedback”
🗓️ November, 2024 | Virginia Tech, USA
World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (CSCE’24), 2024
📃 Paper Presentation, “Coding Process Visualizations for Improved Learning and Academic Integrity in CS1”
🗓️ July, 2024 | Las Vegas, USA (presented online)
Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), 2024
📃 Keynote Speaker, “An Easy Tool to Encourage Students to Self-reflect and Be Original in the Age of AI,” Abstract with DOI
🗓️ July, 2024 | Toronto, Canada
Times Higher Education’s Digital Universities (THE), 2024
📃 Panel Speaker, “Uncharted: Navigating the ethical and legal landscapes of AI in higher education,” Session
🗓️ May, 2024 | St. Louis, USA
Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference (FTTC), 2024
📃 Panel Speaker, “Start Here: Integrating AI and Cultivating Academic Integrity With ProcessFeedback”
🗓️ October, 2024 | St. Louis, USA (Online)
Innovation in Teaching and Learning Conference (ITLC), 2023
📃 Presenter, “Nurturing Higher-Order Thinking With Visualizations To Reflect On The Process Of Writing Or Coding”
🗓️ March, 2024 | Rolla, USA
Bioinformatics
NEXUS Informatics Conference (BioNexus), 2022
📃 Presenter, “Effective visualizations aid bioinformatics research: Examples from the domain of protein structure prediction”
🗓️ 2022 | Kansas, MO
Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI), 2022
📃 Presenter, “Visualizations of protein distance predictions using heatmaps and chord diagrams”
🗓️ 2022 | Virtual
CASP, 2020
📃 Presenter, “REALDIST: Real-valued protein distance prediction”
🗓️ 2020 | Virtual
ISMB, 2020
📃 Presenter, “Deep Learning Protein Contacts and Real-valued Distances Using PDNET”
🗓️ 2020 | Virtual
ISMB ECCB, 2019
📃 Presenter, “DEEPCON: Protein Contact Prediction using Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks with Dropout”
🗓️ 2019 | Basel, Switzerland
5th International Conference on Protein & RNA Structure Prediction, 2019
📃 Presenter, “ProteinDistNet: A dataset for deep learning protein inter-residue distances and contacts”
🗓️ 2019 | Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
RECOMB, 2019
📃 Presenter, “DEEPCON: Protein Contact Prediction using Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks with Dropout”
🗓️ 2019 | Washington, DC
MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS), 2018
📃 Presenter, “Two-level Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to Protein Contact Prediction”
🗓️ 2018 | Starkville, MS
MCBIOS, 2015
📃 Presenter, “CONFOLD: Residue-residue contact guided ab initio protein folding”
🗓️ 2015 | Little Rock, AK
AAAI Workshop, 2013
📃 Presenter, “A Contact-assisted Approach to Protein Structure Prediction and Its Assessment in CASP10”
🗓️ Seattle, WA
MCBIOS, 2013
📃 Presenter, “Contacts-assisted protein structure prediction”
🗓️ 2013 | Columbia, MO
Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing (PSB), 2012
📃 Poster, “Contacts-assisted protein structure prediction”
🗓️ 2012 | Hawaii