Seminar Series: Dr. Scott Powers
Scott Powers is an assistant professor of sport analytics and statistics at Rice University, where he has served since 2023. He earned his PhD in statistics in 2017 before working […]
Scott Powers is an assistant professor of sport analytics and statistics at Rice University, where he has served since 2023. He earned his PhD in statistics in 2017 before working […]
Organized By the Center for Teaching Excellence. This hands-on workshop guides instructors through the principles of personalized learning, emphasizing intentional design and learner agency. Participants will explore strategies for engaging […]
Wei Peng (Ph.D. in Communication, University of Southern California, 2006) is a Professor in the Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University. Her recent projects focus on using conversational […]
This talk will delve into the use case of synthetic data for a developing need in the defense sector: detection of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
Participants will understand what text mining is and why it’s valuable for social science research. They’ll learn how to prepare text data for analysis and perform basic text cleaning, learning […]
Organized by the Center for Teaching Excellence. This conversation-focused session invites participants to explore their experiences and questions about using AI in teaching and learning. After a brief overview of […]
Participants will learn techniques for exploring and describing textual datasets, identifying patterns, and communicating findings through visualization. It will be one hour of theory and explanation of the concepts, and […]
Texas NLP Symposium is a one-day workshop featuring invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. Our goal is to bring together NLP researchers across Texas to share and discuss ongoing […]
Participants will learn how to train models to categorize texts based on labeled examples and understand evaluation metrics. It will be one hour of theory and explanation of the concepts, […]
Participants will learn how to identify latent themes in large text collections using unsupervised machine learning and how to interpret and validate these findings. It will be one hour of […]