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Day at a Glance

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Date: 24 July, 2026 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 AM to 3:30PM
Place: K 150 UNT Discovery Park		 Key Note Speech
Morning Presentations by Student 
Afternoon Presentations by Student 
UNT AI-Summer Research Program Presentations

 

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Dr. Sharad Sharma
Associate Dean of Research
Sinha Endowed Professor, Data Science
sharad.sharma@unt.edu

Celebrate the achievements of our summer researchers as they present their innovative projects and discoveries. Engage with students, faculty, and professionals across a variety of disciplines. Showcasing innovation, discovery, and student research excellence. Flyer: -  (image, PDF)

Research Sessions

Session 1: AI-Driven Digital Health: Digital Twins & Immersive Technologies
Session 2: Human-Centered AI: VR, AR, Health, Mobile, and Neural Interfaces
Session 3: AI, Human-Centered Computing, and Gaming
Session 4: Large Language Models and Cognitive Intelligence
Session 5: UNT AI-Summer Research Program

Prize & Awards (Students)

1st Place
2nd place
3rd Place

Agenda

Agenda - Day:24thJuly
Timeslot Agenda
9:00am-9:15am Introductions: Dr. Sharad Sharma, Associate Dean of Research COI, UNT
9:15am - 9:30am Welcome: Aaron Roberts, Associate Vice President of Research and Innovation, UNT
9:30am -10:10am Keynote Talk: Dr. Vikas Sinha, Vice President of Engineering and Architecture at Broadcom
10:15am-11:15am

Session 1: AI-Driven Digital Health: Digital Twins & Immersive Technologies

Session Chair: Dr. Sharad Sharma/ Dana Thomas
11:15am-12:15am

Session 2: Human-Centered AI: Immersive Health, Mobile, and Neural Interfaces

Session Chair: Dr. Fred McMahan 
12:15am-1:15pm

Session 3: AI, Human-Centered Computing, and Gaming

Session Chair: Dr. Pretom Ovi 
1:15pm-1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm-2:15pm

Session 4: Large Language Models and Cognitive Intelligence

Session Chair: Dr. Sharad Sharma
2:15pm-3:30pm

Session 5: UNT AI-Summer Research Program

Session Chair: Dr. Mark Albert 
3:30pm-3:45pm

Closing Remarks
Session 1: AI-Driven Digital Health: Digital Twins&Immersive Technologies  (10:15am-11:15am)
S. No Timeslot Title of the Talk
1. Maimuna Patwary MindYoga-XR Hospital: An AI-Driven Virtual University Hospital for Adaptive Mental Health, Yoga Therapy, and Immersive Behavioral Research
2. Gowtham Vuppaladhadiam Dataset Discovery and Knowledge Graph Expansion from Scientific Literature
3. Abhignya Jagathpally LLM-Based Multimodal Data Integration for Clinical Risk Prediction
4. Ananya Agarwal

Integrated Immersive XR Research Platform for Behavioral, Cognitive, and Human-Centered Studies
5. Kanishk Sharma

Physio Twin: AI-Driven Personal Health Digital Twin
6. Israt Afroz Mobile AR-Enabled Real-Time Diet Monitoring for Chronic Disease Management
Session 2: Human-Centered AI: VR,AR,Health, Mobile, and Neural Interfaces  (11:15am-12:15am)
S. No Timeslot Title of the Talk
1. Pranav Abishai Moses Immersive VR Health Adherence Simulator for Adult Medication Management
2. Tayiba Rahee StressLess: A Context-Engineered Dashboard for Reducing Cognitive Load in University Student Mental Health Services
3. Omar, Neil, Eric, Subha, & Harshith (TAMS) From Thought to Text: EEG-Based Brain–Computer Interface for Neural Decoding
4. Saiful Islam Badhon

Real-Time Workout Monitoring, Anomaly Detection, Emotion Detection, and time series analysis using Mobile Devices
5. Samiul Amin Rishat

Knowledge-Graph-Aware Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving LLM Adaptation
6. Tareni Moorty, Soham Sharma, Raj Seth, Rohan Seth (TAMS, High School Team) NeuroWheel - Real-Time Brain-Controlled Assistive Vehicle Using Consumer EEG, Motor Imagery and Multi-Paradigm BCI 
Session 3: AI, Human-Centered Computing, and Neuro Gaming  (12:15am-1:15am)
S. No Timeslot Title of the Talk
1. Khawja Imran Masud LLM-based Causal Discovery from Scientific Literature
2. Tanzina Hossain  Beyond Boilerplate: Contextual Embeddings for Measuring Economic Change in MD&A Disclosures 
3. Arshiya Bajaj, Om Panemangalore, Soham Sharma, Bhav Point Cloud-Based Immersive Annotation and Visualization System  (High School Team)
4. Kathleen Dang

Gamification in Higher Education: The Impact of Bonus Point Incentives on Student Motivation
5. Aayush Pal, Aryan Shah (TAMS) 

Comparing Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Real vs. Virtual Opponents in the Split-or-Steal Game
6. Advay Kotla (TAMS)  Storm Graph Transformer 
Session 4: Large Language Models and Cognitive Intelligence  (1:45am-2:15am)
S. No Timeslot Title of the Talk
1. Farhan Sharukh Hasan, Eric Liu Large Language Models for Automated Fact-Checking Article Generation
2. Sreeja Kanuganti, Sawyer Alston, Yashaswini Sreenivasa Shetty Assessing and Improving LLM Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Synthesizing Crisis Situational Awareness Posts
3. Saba Yousefian Jazi The Computational Role of Spontaneous Neural Activity in Preparing Animals to Perceive Depth
 
Session 5:UNT AI-Summer Research Program Presentations (2:30PM-3:45PM)
  Title of the Talk
  1. AI based amorphous structure generation using diffusion model and GNN
    *Ayush Kumar, Cuicui Zhang, Dr. Jincheng Du
  2. Automated AI-Based Scoring for Upper Limb Function in Children with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
    Zuhair Siddiqui, Ishani Tamma,  *Archishman Sai Vemula, Dr. Yongni Zhang, Sindhu Siripurapu, Dr. Noemi Dahan-Oliel, Dr. Mark V. Albert
  3. Automated Software Engineering with Large Language Models
    *    Abhiram Makkapati, Dr. Junhua Ding
  4. DyGraphTrans: A temporal graph representation learning framework for modeling disease progression from Electronic Health Records
    *     Pooja Lamsal, Tahmina Rahman, Dr. Serdar Bozdag
  5. Telegram as an Early-Warning Signal for Conflicts Forecasting
    Minhaj Masuma, *Tara Pai, Medha Engala, Dr. Poli Nemkova
  6. Integrating Real-Time Context into Language Models for Dynamic Response Generation
    Yashaswini Sreenivasa Shetty, *Sawyer Alston, Dr. Lingzi Hong
  7. Counterfactual Dermatology Image Generation Across Skin Tones for Equitable Medical Education
    * Tevin Billingsley, Dr. Yunhe Feng
  8. GaitVision: Smartphone-Based Gait Quality Assessment Using Motion Capture and Machine Learning
    Audrey Asu , *Jemin Sung, Zuhair Siddiqui, Dr. Rita Patterson, Dr. Mark V. Albert, Sindhu Siripuraru
  9. Protocol-Aware Integration of Cardiac Organoid Data with LLM Agents
    *    Sriprajnav Koduri, Dr. Yunhe Feng, Dr. Adam Yang
  10. Benchmarking Explainable AI Methods for PHQ-8 Depression Prediction Using Transformer-Based Models
    Hiyab Wasyhun, *Nuzhat Tabassum, Dr. Yunhe Feng
  11. When LLMs Don't Know They're Wrong: Metacognitive Detectability of Reasoning Failures
    *    Koushik Reddy Sudireddy, Rishik Bogala, Dr. Poli Nemkova
  12. PupilConv: Convolutional analysis of pupillometric waveforms
    *     Shriyans Chavan, Dr. Bruce Gaynes, Dr.Ting Xiao
  13. Scientific reasoning: Exploring the Abstention Ability of LLM’s using Scientific Reasoning in Critical Fields
    Landen Summers, *Haeseon Yoon, Dr. Yunhe Feng
  14. Improving the Security of ROS2 In Autonomous Systems
    Omieibi Pollyn, *Samantha Gallardo, Dr. Cliff Whitworth, Dr. Kewei Sha
  15. TULSA: Tongue Ultrasound Learning through Self-Supervised Adaptation for Generalizable Speech Sound Classification
    Rohitha Aradhyula, *Ansh Kapadia, Manasa Pochamaina, Dr. Hedieh Hashemi H
  16. FedLeak: Unveiling Privacy Risks in Federated learning
    *    Sai Raman, Dr. Jing Yuan
  17. Training an AI Model to Identify Cancer Based on Provided Multi-Omics Data and Epigenetic Data
    *Saathvik Syamsunder, Dr. Rajiv Azad

People with a "*" will be the presenters.
StudentPresentations on 24thJuly (Accepted) 
S. No Timeslot Title of the Talk
1. Maimuna Patwary MindYoga-XR Hospital: An AI-Driven Virtual University Hospital for Adaptive Mental Health, Yoga Therapy, and Immersive Behavioral Research
2. Gowtham Vuppaladhadiam Dataset Discovery and Knowledge Graph Expansion from Scientific Literature
3. Abhignya Jagathpally LLM-Based Multimodal Data Integration for Clinical Risk Prediction
4. Ananya Agarwal

Integrated Immersive XR Research Platform for Behavioral, Cognitive, and Human-Centered Studies
5. Kanishk Sharma

Physio Twin: AI-Driven Personal Health Digital Twin
6. Israt Afroz Mobile AR-Enabled Real-Time Diet Monitoring for Chronic Disease Management
7. Tareni Moorty, Raj Seth, Rohan Seth (TAMS, High School Team) NeuroWheel - Real-Time Brain-Controlled Assistive Vehicle Using Consumer EEG, Motor Imagery and Multi-Paradigm BCI 
8. Arshiya Bajaj, Om Panemangalore, Soham Sharma, Bhav (Mentor: Pranav Moses)  Point Cloud-Based Immersive Annotation and Visualization System  (High School Team)
9. Ashrafe Alam Explainable Deep Survival Learning and VR-enhanced Visualization for Longitudinal Dementia Risk Prediction in Older Adults Using NHATS Data
10. Samiul Amin Rishat

Knowledge-Graph-Aware Federated Learning for Privacy-Preserving LLM Adaptation
11. Saiful Islam Badhon

Real-Time Workout Monitoring, Anomaly Detection, Emotion Detection, and time series analysis using Mobile Devices
12. Pranav Abishai Moses

Immersive VR Health Adherence Simulator for Adult Medication Management
13 Omar, Neil, Eric, Subha, & Harshith (TAMS)

From Thought to Text: EEG-Based Brain–Computer Interface for Neural Decoding
14 Khawja Imran Masud

LLM-based Causal Discovery from Scientific Literature
15 Kathleen Dang

Gamification in Higher Education: The Impact of Bonus Point Incentives on Student Motivation
16 Sai Neha Penmetsa and Seth Osborn (SMU)

Sensory Flexible Workspace Environments
17. Aayush Pal, Aryan Shah (TAMS) 

Comparing Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Real vs. Virtual Opponents in the Split-or-Steal Game
18. Advay Kotla (TAMS) 

Storm Graph Transformer 
19. Tanzina Hossain 

Beyond Boilerplate: Contextual Embeddings for Measuring Economic Change in MD&A Disclosures 
20. Tayiba Rahee

StressLess: A Context-Engineered Dashboard for Reducing Cognitive Load in University Student Mental Health Services
21 Sreeja Kanuganti, Sawyer Alston, Yashaswini Sreenivasa Shetty

Assessing and Improving LLM Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Synthesizing Crisis Situational Awareness Posts
22 Farhan Sharukh Hasan, Eric Liu

Large Language Models for Automated Fact-Checking Article Generation
23 Saba Yousefian Jazi

The Computational Role of Spontaneous Neural Activity in Preparing Animals to Perceive Depth