{"id":749,"date":"2026-07-23T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/?page_id=749"},"modified":"2026-08-05T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:35:09","slug":"ai-solutions-consortium-2026-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/ai-solutions-consortium-2026-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 AI Solutions Consortium Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWorkshop Agenda - August 7, 2026, 10:15 AM - 1:30 PM. Location: Library 307.\n<\/h2>
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\nRegistration Link:\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nUAA\/APU Consortium Library Room 307. Park in the Library Main Lot, East Campus Parking Lot, or Central Parking Garage:  \n<\/div>\n Google Maps\n\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\n10:15 - 10:40 AM\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nArrival, Check-In, Coffee
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\n10:40 - 10:45 AM\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nProvost Denise Runge: Welcome
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\n10:45 - 10:57 AM\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nAdvisory Board Member Introductions and AI Activities at their organizations
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\n10:57 - 11:30 AM\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nParticipant 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\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\n11:30 - 12:00 noon\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nLunch\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>
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\n12:00 - 12:35 pm\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nAISC Mini Grants Showcase from 2025-2026 Recipients
\u25cf\tJoey Yang, Predicting Thermal Conductivity of Warming Permafrost for Hazards Estimation using Machine Learning
\u25cf\tKristin Riall, North Star Parents: AI-assisted behavioral parent training for Alaskan families
\u25cf\tJoy Mapaye, Strategic Artificial Intelligence: Pilot Testing the Effectiveness of AI SEO, GEO and AI Media Assets
\u25cf\tMarie Lowe, ARCTIC: AI for Rural Community Transformation and Infrastructure Coordination
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\n12:35 - 1:00 pm\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nCurrent\/former student projects:
\u25cf\tCat Warden, Advancing Research Administration through Generative AI: Evaluating Structured Prompting for Compliance Workflows
\u25cf\tLars Goozen, CARE: Counterfactual Attention for Fatality Risk Estimation in Drivers with Non-Substance Impairments
\u25cf\tVadim Egorov, Evaluating Supervised Transfer Learning with S-JEPA for Motor Imagery EEG Classification
\u25cf\tAmine Benarroudj, Preprocessing of the CDC BRFSS dataset to study connections between diabetes and depression
\u25cf\tAbhinav Bhargava, Development of an eye tracking and thermal imaging framework for conducting studies with human subjects
\u25cf\tAlec Blake, Integrating Automated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Into University of Alaska Anchorage's Applied Environmental Research Center
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\n1:00 - 1:15 pm\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nAndrew Harnish - UAA AI Community of Practice, AI Symposium, UA Statewide AI Committee
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\n1:15 - 1:25 pm\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nConsortium Discussion and Workshopping
How can we better align community needs with university capabilities?
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\n1:25 - 1:30 pm\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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\nClosing
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Workshop Agenda – August 7, 2026, 10:15 AM – 1:30 PM. Location: Library 307. Registration Link: Register Here UAA\/APU Consortium Library Room 307. Park in the Library Main Lot, East Campus Parking Lot, or Central Parking Garage:   Google Maps Zoom Link Time Activity 10:15 – 10:40 AM Arrival, Check-In, Coffee 10:40 – 10:45 AM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coeng.uaa.alaska.edu\/AI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}