Faculty Presentations

IDEA in Action: Your Voices Best Practices – Empowering Students, Building Bridges
iSchool students Kara Price and Laura Dowell, along with Associate Professor Dr. Michele Villagran, will present IDEA in Action: Your Voices Best Practices – Empowering Students, Building Bridges, at the Library Marketing and Communications Conference 2024 on Nov. 14, 2024 at 10 a.m. 

Dr. Ghosh at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2024
iSchool Assistant Professor, Dr. Souvick Ghosh, will participate in the following panel discussions and workshops at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2024 in October. 

• October 26, 2024 - Annual Workshop on Social Media Research, Challenges and Opportunities
• October 27, 2024 - Social Media and Crisis Informatics Research in LIS (SIG-SM)
• October 28, 2024 - AI4LIS: Towards a Research Agenda

Simon Shim Presents at the AI Summit
Simon Shim, Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Data Science, presented a session on Building and Evaluation of AI Assistants with RAG and Finetuning at the AI Summit and participated in a panel discussion on AI in Education at the AI Summit on October 27, 2024. 

• Building and Evaluation of AI Assistants with RAG and Finetuning 
  Drawing from key insights from his research, Shim shared experiences from building and evaluating AI assistants. He discussed findings from various approaches and evaluation results of their impact on the relevance, similarity and accuracy of AI responses.
• Panel Presentation on AI in Education
  Shim participated on a panel with Peter Norvig with HAI and Sadid Hasan with Microsoft on AI in Education. The session was moderated by Walter Greenleaf, PhD. from Stanford.

Sandra Hirsh Presents on The Future of Libraries 
Gleaning off key themes from her book Library 2035: Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries, Sandra Hirsh [pdf], Associate Dean for Academics at the College of Information, Data and Society, will be speaking at the following events. 

• October 24, 2024 - Internet Librarian Connect
  Hirsh, along with various thought leaders/authors of Library 2035, continue the discussion about the future of libraries and spark ideas about creating exciting new library structures, services, programs and more.
• October 31, 2024 - Future Trends Forum
  A live video conversation with Dr. Hirsh discussing Library 2035 and the future of higher education.
• November 7, 2024 - Library Journal's Directors' Summit
  Hirsh will offer the keynote highlighting key themes from Library 2035.
• November 13, 2024 - 49th Assembly of the Croatian Library Association
  Hirsh will offer the keynote titled "The Next Generation of Libraries: Looking Ahead to Library 2035".
• January 24, 2024 - Greater Opportunities for Leadership Development
  Hirsh will speak to a leadership development cohort of 14 middle managers about the future of libraries.
• February 25, 2025 - North American Virtual Reference Online Conference
  Hirsh will offer the keynote titled "The Next Generation of Libraries: Looking Ahead to Library 2035".