May 1 schedule
Research Presentations & AI Workshops
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registrations and Networking
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Opening Remarks
9:15 am - 10:15 am Panel Discussion (Moderated by Dr. Michael Zhang):
- Government policy and AI initiatives
- The impact of AI in Atlantic Canada
- Bridging AI research and industry needs
10:30 am - 3:00 pm AI Research Presentations (more to come):
- Generative AI in Business Decision-making: Do LLMs Show Biases Similar to Human?
Xichen Zhang (SMU), Hasan Cavusoglu (UBC) - Operationalizing AI Ethics
Stephanie Kelly (SMU) - Harnessing Agentic AI for Secure and Efficient Confidential Data Analytics
Yigit Aydede (SMU), Chukwuemeka Nwankwo (novastorms.ai) - Human vs. AI: The Creative Battle Transforming Marketing
Hadi Eslami (SMU) - From Algorithms to Transparency: Ethics, Politics, and the Public Understanding of AI
Robert Thacker (SMU) - Are LLMs a Good Model of Human Thought? The Challenge of Compositional Learning
Hassan Sajjad (Dal) - AI Applications in Intra-Logistics and Logistics

Uday Venkatadri (Dal) - Connecting the Dots: Clinical Genomics, AI, and the Future of Precision Medicine

Victor Martinez (Dal) - Advancing Machine Intelligence Through Reinforcement Learning

Janarthanan Rajendran (Dal) - AI for Sustainable Livestock Farming ~ Advancing Welfare, Efficiency, and Climate Resilience
Suresh Neethirajan (Dal) - AI in Ocean Technology

Christopher Whidden (Dal) - Real-time REM Sleep Stage Detection using Deep Learning
Danny Silver (Acadia) - Cybersecurity Gets Smart: How AI is Changing the Game

Amir Eaman (Acadia) - Investigating Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Enhance AI Model Performance in High-Level Computer Science Courses
Shadi Aljendi (UNB) - From Paperwork to Patient Care: How can we better leverage LLMs to support occupational therapy documentation?
Kristina Kupferschmidt, Gus Skorburg, Brendan Wylie-Toal, Kieran O’Dohert (UPEI)
Networking Lunch: 12:00 pm– 1:00 pm
Afternoon Workshops:
- Google AI Research and Applications