Workshop Agenda - August 7, 2026, 10:15 AM - 1:30 PM. Location: Library 307.
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UAA/APU Consortium Library Room 307. Park in the Library Main Lot, East Campus Parking Lot, or Central Parking Garage:
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Time
Activity
10:15 - 10:40 AM
Arrival, Check-In, Coffee
10:40 - 10:45 AM
Provost Denise Runge: Welcome
10:45 - 10:57 AM
Advisory Board Member Introductions and AI Activities at their organizations
10:57 - 11:30 AM
Participant Introductions & Rapid Fire Networking
Round-robin introduction with up to 2 minutes each to share an AI-related project that you or your organization is working on, or a community challenge of interest
Round-robin introduction with up to 2 minutes each to share an AI-related project that you or your organization is working on, or a community challenge of interest
11:30 - 12:00 noon
Lunch
12:00 - 12:35 pm
AISC Mini Grants Showcase from 2025-2026 Recipients
● Joey Yang, Predicting Thermal Conductivity of Warming Permafrost for Hazards Estimation using Machine Learning
● Kristin Riall, North Star Parents: AI-assisted behavioral parent training for Alaskan families
● Joy Mapaye, Strategic Artificial Intelligence: Pilot Testing the Effectiveness of AI SEO, GEO and AI Media Assets
● Marie Lowe, ARCTIC: AI for Rural Community Transformation and Infrastructure Coordination
● Joey Yang, Predicting Thermal Conductivity of Warming Permafrost for Hazards Estimation using Machine Learning
● Kristin Riall, North Star Parents: AI-assisted behavioral parent training for Alaskan families
● Joy Mapaye, Strategic Artificial Intelligence: Pilot Testing the Effectiveness of AI SEO, GEO and AI Media Assets
● Marie Lowe, ARCTIC: AI for Rural Community Transformation and Infrastructure Coordination
12:35 - 1:00 pm
Current/former student projects:
● Cat Warden, Advancing Research Administration through Generative AI: Evaluating Structured Prompting for Compliance Workflows
● Lars Goozen, CARE: Counterfactual Attention for Fatality Risk Estimation in Drivers with Non-Substance Impairments
● Vadim Egorov, Evaluating Supervised Transfer Learning with S-JEPA for Motor Imagery EEG Classification
● Amine Benarroudj, Preprocessing of the CDC BRFSS dataset to study connections between diabetes and depression
● Abhinav Bhargava, Development of an eye tracking and thermal imaging framework for conducting studies with human subjects
● Alec Blake, Integrating Automated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Into University of Alaska Anchorage's Applied Environmental Research Center
● Cat Warden, Advancing Research Administration through Generative AI: Evaluating Structured Prompting for Compliance Workflows
● Lars Goozen, CARE: Counterfactual Attention for Fatality Risk Estimation in Drivers with Non-Substance Impairments
● Vadim Egorov, Evaluating Supervised Transfer Learning with S-JEPA for Motor Imagery EEG Classification
● Amine Benarroudj, Preprocessing of the CDC BRFSS dataset to study connections between diabetes and depression
● Abhinav Bhargava, Development of an eye tracking and thermal imaging framework for conducting studies with human subjects
● Alec Blake, Integrating Automated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Into University of Alaska Anchorage's Applied Environmental Research Center
1:00 - 1:15 pm
Andrew Harnish - UAA AI Community of Practice, AI Symposium, UA Statewide AI Committee
1:15 - 1:25 pm
Consortium Discussion and Workshopping
How can we better align community needs with university capabilities?
How can we better align community needs with university capabilities?
1:25 - 1:30 pm
Closing