Events for week of November 10, 2025

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Jayant Lohakare TITLE: UTILIZATION OF MUSHROOM STEMS AS A FEED RESOURCE FOR SUSTAINABLE POULTRY PRODUCTION ABSTRACT: Soybean meal (SBM) is the primary protein source in poultry diets, but its escalating cost and the environmental impact of soybean cultivation highlight the need for sustainable alternatives. Mushroom stems are generated at large volumes as [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lin Li TITLE: INTEGRATING SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING AND ENSEMBLE DEEP LEARNING FOR LOW-RESOURCE DEEP KNOWLEDGE TRACING ABSTRACT: As learning platforms scale, two obstacles keep Deep Knowledge Tracing (DKT) from thriving in practice: scarce labeled interactions and opaque predictions. We introduce a semi-supervised, ensemble DKT pipeline that trains diverse architectures, including Knowledge Proficiency Tracing [...]

COMMITTEE CHAIR: Dr. Lin Li TITLE: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION ON MASS-SHOOTING EVENTS VIA LLMS FOR AI-DRIVEN JUSTICE ABSTRACT: Mass-shooting event poses a significant challenge to public safety which generates large volumes of unstructured textual data that makes it difficult to conduct effective investigations and formulation of public policy. The proposed knowledge acquisition system utilizes Large Language [...]