Human Centered Data Science

This is the web page for the Human Centered Data Science group at the University of Florida.

Events

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Fall 2026

Oct 16

Speaker: Chibuzor Okocha
Title: Beyond Fixed Vocabularies: Flexible Tokenization from Text Bytes to Audio Codecs

Oct 02

Speaker: Yuning Han
Title: Scaling LLM Agent Intelligence under Resource Budgets: From Agent Test-Time Scaling to Edge LLM Decoding

Sep 18

Introductions: each attendee shared one slide about themselves

Sep 09

Guest Lecture
Speaker: Dr. H. Chad Lane
Title: Learner Modeling, Small AI, and the Effortless Bypass Dilemma

Spring 2026

Apr 24

Speaker: Dr. Adrian E. Roitberg
Title: Machine Learning for Quantum Chemistry

Apr 10

Speaker: Michael Perez
Title: Temporal Granularity as a Design Variable in Zero-Shot Video Moment Retrieval

Apr 02

Speaker: Dr. Dongyan Xu
Title: Towards a Cross-Plane Methodology for Cyber-Physical Security

Mar 27

Speaker: Aashish Dhawan
Title: Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing

Mar 13

Speaker: Eddie Massey III
Title: Robust and Scalable AI for Systemic Disorder Phenotyping: Multimodal Biomarker Validation and Foundation Models for Wearable Autonomic Signals

Mar 03

Speaker: Dr. Alexander R. Webber
Title: Teaching Demo

Feb 27

Speaker: Leslie Smith
Title: Equitable Machine Learning Counteracts Ancestral Bias in Disease Genomics

Feb 19

Speaker: Dr. Haiying Shen
Title: Resource Optimization for ML Inference Serving

Feb 12

Speaker: Dr. Guoyu Lu
Title: 3D Robot Vision with Multi-Modal AI Models and Systems

Jan 30

Ice Breaker and Activity

Jan 27

Speaker: Dr. Chuxu Zhang
Title: AI for Societal Impacts: Foundation, Model, Resource Efficiency, and Safety

Fall 2025

Nov 21

Speaker: Dzmitry Kasinets
Title: FICHAD: Fusion of Image Context and Human-Annotated Descriptions for Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Completion

Nov 07

Speaker: Alexander Webber
Title: Distributed Agent-Based Simulations Utilizing the Actor Model

Oct 24

Speaker: Nguyen Do
Title: Hephaestus: Mixture Generative Modeling with Energy Guidance for Large-scale QoS Degradation

Oct 10

Speaker: Abraham Owos
Title: FLEXITOKENS: Flexible Tokenization for Evolving Language Models
Speaker: Tinghui Zhang
Title: A Generative Approach for LLM Prompt Compression

Sep 26

Speaker: Ray Chen
Title: An Interactive Visualization for Post-Hoc Inspection of Multi-Metric Fairness-Aware Classifiers

Sep 12

Speaker: Rahul Varki
Title: Efficient Grammar Compression via RLZ-based RePair

Aug 29

Ice Breaker

Spring 2025

May 02

Speaker: Roshan Venkatakrishnan
Title: Avatarization Improves Interaction in Augmented and Mixed Reality

Apr 25

Speaker: Rodrigo Calvo
Title: Building Appropriate, Trustworthy, and Engaging Virtual Agents: Understanding Social Interaction Dynamics Through a Human-Centered Lens

Apr 18

Speaker: Chibuzor Okocha Joseph
Title: Afrispeech-Dialog: A Benchmark Dataset for Spontaneous English Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond

Apr 11

Speaker: Bria Smith and Geesa Daluwatumulle
Title: The Paipu pipeline for pan-mammalian cancer genomics

Apr 04

Speaker: Leslie Smith
Title: Equitable machine learning counteracts ancestral bias in precision medicine

Mar 28

Online seminar over Zoom
Speaker: Case Lorance
Title: Interpreting Dynamic Neuronal Network Connectivity Metrics Across Specific Brain Regions Using In Vitro Electrophysiology Platform

Mar 14

Speaker: Reza Shahriari
Title: Designing Multimodal Interaction Features in Vision-Language Model User Interfaces to Enhance Human-AI Interaction

Feb 28

Speaker: Ray Chen
Title: Interactive ML Visualization: Empowering Users to Improve Model performance across different metrics in TensorBoard
Speaker: Sam Maley
Title: Video Generation for Digital Content and Marketing

Feb 07

Speaker: Michael Pérez
Title: Optimizing Action Recognition and Segmentation Models for Untrimmed Video Analysis in Intelligent Systems

Jan 31

Speaker: Haodi Ma
Title: Large Language Model in Multimodal QA with Structural Data

Jan 24

Speaker: Dr. Grant
Title: Welcome back!

Fall 2024

Dec 06

Speaker: Tre’ R. Jeter
Title: Active Gradient Manipulation for Privacy Breaching in Vertical Federated Learning

Nov 22

Speaker: Yupu Zhang
Title: Enhancing Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction with Graph Contrastive Learning

Nov 08

Speaker: Michael Pérez
Title: Temporal Action Detection Based on Vision-Language and Action Segmentation Models with UI
Speaker: Haodi Ma
Title: VQA Faithfulness of Vision Language Model

Oct 25

Speaker: Kyle Ulmer
Title: Hyperion Bulk Inventory Measuring System

Oct 04

Speaker: Yang Bai
Title: Machine Learning-based Information Retrieval for Large-Scale Natural Language Processing

Sept 20

Speaker: Zachary F. Greenberg
Title: Expanding pMHC’s functional space with generative modeling to improve cancer immunotherapy

Sept 06

Speaker: Jean Louis
Title: Unfair Size Advantage: Exploring Machine Learning Model Compression’s Impact on Fairness

Spring 2024

May 09

Speaker: Dr. Zoey Liu
Title: Addressing the “gut feelings” in cross-linguistic model generalizations

Apr 25

Speaker: Wenchong He
Title: Interdisciplinary Geospatial Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Applications

Apr 11

Speaker: Michael Perez
Title: Exploring Human and Animal Action Recognition with Practical Applications

Apr 4

Speaker: Yang Bai
Title: Machine Learning-based Information Retrieval for Large-Scale Natural Language Processing

Feb 29

Speaker: Thiago de Paulo Faleiros
Title: DODFMiner: An automated tool for Named Entity Recognition from Brazilian Official Gazettes

Feb 15

Speaker: Jean Louis
Title: (Tiny) Solutions to Big Problems: Introduction to applications and challenges in TinyML

Feb 01

Speaker: Yifan Wang
Title: Learning-Based High-Dimensional Query Processing

Jan 18

Speaker: Wenchong He
Title: Interdisciplinary GeoAI for Scientific Applications

Fall 2023

Nov 9

Talk 1

Speaker: Sangpil Youm
Title: First Come First Assign (FCFA): Explainable, Divergence-Aware SRL Projection

Talk 2

Speaker: Yifan Wang
Title: AI4DB and DB4AI in the Era of Deep Learning and LLM

Oct 26

Talk 1

Speaker: Gloria Katuka
Title: Investigating Automatic Dialogue Act Classification in Collaborative Learning through Federated Transfer Learning and Cross-Corpora Domain Adaptation

Talk 2

Speaker: Alexander Webber
Title: An algorithm to induce the grammar of Mixtec Codices - a work in progress

Oct 5

Talk 1

Speaker: Richa Dutt
Title: A Machine Learning Approach for Chlorophyll -a Estimation in Coastal Waters from Top-of-Atmosphere VIIRS Satellite Data

Talk 2

Speaker: Yifan Wang
Title: LIDER: An Efficient High-dimensional Learned Index for Large-scale Dense Passage Retrieval

Sept 21

Talk 1

Speaker: Jayetri Bardhan
Title: DrugEHRQA: A Question Answering Dataset on Structured and Unstructured Electronic Health Records For Medicine Related Queries

Talk 2

Speaker: Haodi Ma
Title: KGSimple: Can Knowledge Graphs Simplify Text?

Sept 7

Talk 1

Speaker: Zelin Xu
Title: Spatial Knowledge-Infused Hierarchical Learning: An Application in Flood

Talk 2

Speaker: Wenchong He
Title: Physics-guided AI for Spatiotemporal Data in Scientific Applications

Aug 24

Talk 1

Speaker: Alexander R. Webber
Title: Figure Identification in Mixtec Codices

Talk 2

Speaker: Tony Bai
Title: MythQA: Qery-Based Large-Scale Check-Worthy Claim Detection through Multi-Answer Open-Domain Question Answering