Thursday, April 30, 2026
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
IT 328 and 350
The Luddy Ph.D. Research Symposium showcases the work of Ph.D. students for the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Indianapolis.
Students will present research across a diverse set of programs from:
- bioinformatics
- computer science
- health informatics
- human-computer interaction
You’re invited to come, meet, and interact with our students as they showcase their research.
Schedule
- 10:00 a.m. — Opening remarks
- 10:05 a.m. — Sydney Oghenetega Anuyah: Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs in RAG-Enhanced Healthcare LLMs
- 10:11 a.m. — Bofu Dong: Scievent: Benchmarking Multi-Domain Scientific Event Extraction
- 10:17 a.m. — Nan Zhao: Integrating ROI-Level and 3-Hinge-Level Connectivity for Multiscale Brain Disease Diagnosis
- 10:23 a.m. — Yamlak Asrat Bogale: A Microenvironment-Aware Deep Learning Framework Leveraging Gland-Stroma Morphological Signatures for Prostate Cancer Prognostic Risk Stratification
- 10:29 a.m. — Sumedh Ajit Sonawane: From Lesion Localization to Outcome Prediction: Deep Learning Analysis of Pre-Treatment MRI for Predicting HIFU Failure
- 10:35 a.m. — Ying Zhong: Your Emotion Is Too Much for Me: Emotion Regulation and Empathy in Perceiving Virtual Agents' Emotional Expression Intensity
- 10:41 a.m. — Yu Zhong: spaGFM: A Scalable Graph Foundation Model for Spatial Transcriptomics
- 10:47 a.m. — Erica Babb: More Than Chit-Chat: How Peer Communities Support Advocacy and Everyday Life with Dementia
- 10:53 a.m. — Mehedi Mahmud Kaushik: AI Control Through Causal Agents
- 10:59 a.m. — Neda Emami: Haplotype-Based Identification of Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Variants Using Multi-Cohort Genomic Analysis and Deep Learning Functional Annotation
- 11:05 a.m. — Hasaranga Dilshan Jayathilake: Leveraging Local-LLM for Sentiment Analysis to Enhance Text Data Quality Assessment in Information Science Research
- 11:11 a.m. — Break
- 11:35 a.m. — Sampada Bhatnagar: Rethinking Discourse Assessment: Clinician Perspectives on AI and VR as Support Tools
- 11:41 a.m. — Jonathan Wang Liu: Towards Understanding the Effect of Serious Games on Attention, Adherence, and Behavior for Children with ADHD
- 11:47 a.m. — Mingzhao Tong: Learning a Continuous Progression Trajectory of Amyloid in Alzheimer Disease
- 11:53 a.m. — Lei Qiu: Predicting Longitudinal Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Morphology From 3D MRI via Latent Space Transformers
- 11:59 a.m. — Kasra Vand: HeartBioPortal 3.0: A Cardiovascular Knowledge Portal for Integrated Genomics, Variation, and Clinical Interpretation
- 12:05 p.m. — Jinchen Gu: Domain-Expert-Guided Hybrid Mixture-of-Experts for Medical AI: Integrating Data-Driven Learning with Clinical Priors
- 12:11 p.m. — Mauminah Azam Raina: STORM Reveals Spatial Reorganization of Organelles in Mouse Liver
- 12:17 p.m. — Abdullah Al Fahad: Evaluation of Autoregressive and Deep Learning Models for Predicting Two-Dimensional Mandibular Landmark Displacement During Pubertal Growth
- 12:23 p.m. — Haoyuan Liu: Self-Supervised Longitudinal Neuroimaging Augmentation for Continuous Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease
- 12:29 p.m. — Kinshuk Sharma: TaMe: Text-Aware Visual Token Merging for Efficient Vision-Language Models