Co-sponsored by: Suxia Cui, Ph.D.

IEEE AI Workshop

(Co-Hosted by Prairie View A&M University and University of Houston IEEE Student Branch)

This day-long conference will feature industry representatives and PVAMU faculty who will speak on the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry.  The tentative conference program is provided below. 

Tentative time: March 22, 2019 (Friday) Location: PVAMU MSC ballroom

Agenda

8:30—9:00am Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00—9:15am Welcome (Dr. Kirby, PVAMU ECE Interim Department Head)

9:15—10:00am “Data Science is a Team Sport – How to Apply AI at Scale” Michael C. Hollinger, Master Inventor and Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM  

10:00—10:15am “Leveraging your IEEE Member Benefits as an Up-and-Coming Young Professional” Moriah Hargrove Anders, Young Professionals Chair, IEEE Houston Section

10:15—10:30am Morning Break and Social (IEEE students highlights)

10:30—11:15am “AI: A digital Frontier for All” Jeffry Handal, Consulting Systems Engineer, Cisco

11:15—12:00pm “Deep Learning on Big Data” Dr. Xishuang Dong, Assistant Professor from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, PVAMU

12:00—1:00pm Lunch & Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ali Fares, Interim Vice President for Research, PVAMU  

1:00—1:15pm Break and relocate to ECE room 125

1:15pm—3:00pm Hands-on workshop on Deep Learning conducted by Dr. Xishuang Dong

(with 10 minutes afternoon break around 2:00pm)

3:00pm Adjourn

Location:
Willie A. Tempton Memorial Student Center, 155 L.W. Minor Street
Prairie View, Texas
77446