UMBC Library 2025 AI Symposia

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:17:42 -0400
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UMBC’s Library will hold a weekly series of seven online AI seminars from 12-1 pm EST on Wednesdays starting on October 1, 2025, on the theme Exploring the Gadgets & Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit. The fall series will cover various topics ranging from Google Gemini and its integration into UMBC platforms to the broader legal implications of using generative AI, and much more.

10/1: Dr. Mariann Hawken (Director of Instructional Technology), Google Gemini: AI Tools for Research, Teaching, & Learning

10/8: Brianna Hughes (STEM Reference & Instruction Librarian), Assembling an AI Toolbox: Access-Oriented Approaches to Scholarship and Instruction

10/15: Nina-Simone Edwards, JD (Senior Institute Associate, Institute for Technology Law & Policy), Beyond the Hype: Embedding Ethics in AI Policy for Libraries and Higher Ed

10/22: Jennifer Posada (PhD student, Human-Centered Computing), Making Sense of Data with AI: Lowering Barriers, Expanding Who Participates

10/29: Manas Gaur (Asst. Professor, CSEE), and Yash Saxena (PhD student), Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia through Structured, Interpretable Knowledge Retrieval and Source Attribution

11/5: Roberto Yus (Asst. Professor, CSEE), The Privacy Paradox of GenAI: What It Knows, Why It Matters, and How We Fight Back
11/12: Eric Stokan (Assoc. Professor, Political Science & Director of CS3), Advanced Opportunities with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs): Examples from the Social Sciences

The seminar series is made possible by the following sponsors: Division of Information Technology, Center for Social Science Scholarship, CSEE Department, IS Department, and the Hackerman Foundation.