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College of Information Science PhD Research Blitz

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When

Noon – 2 p.m., April 10, 2026

Where

Join College of Information Science PhD students for the annual PhD Research Blitz, a fast-paced series of presentations on the latest information-related research, apps, publications and more.

Registration is not required, and all faculty, staff, students and members of the public are welcome to join us!

Meet our PhD students.

Presentations include:

  • Sarah Stueve: Investigating downstream effects of natural language processing techniques on the results of science of science research
  • Ayesha Khatun: Analyzing Prompt Design Choices in Biomedical Information: Extraction for Low-Resource Languages
  • Jiacheng Zhang: Conditional Deontics over Terminals
  • Young Soo Ko: An LLM-Powered Framework for Hierarchical Topic Discovery in LLM Research
  • Salena Ashton: Structural Causal Models and University Campus Crimes
  • Jeremiah Gaiser: Simple stucture-based interaction prediction beats massive pretraining regimens for virtual screening