CyberAccelerate Speaker Series

Join the NSF CC* PA Science DMZ for a Research Collaboration Speaker Series every other week for Summer 2025 and Fall 2025! Each session will include a 10-15 minute presentation on a specific research area, followed by a 15-20 minute discussion on the research and opportunities for collaborative projects. 

Fall 2025 Session Recordings:

• View recording of Dr. Eric Ho's 9/4/2025 presentation ("A Phage Family Image Recognition Model using the Convolutional Neural Network") here.

• View recording of Dr. Sam Grieggs's 9/18/2025 presentation ("Applied Computer Vision & AI @ IUP")  here.

• View recording of Dr. Steven Nesbit's 10/2/2025 presentation ("All On Board: Fully On-Chip Neuromorphic Q-Learning with Embedded CartPole Simulation") here.

• View recording of Dr. Daniela Fera's 10/30/2025 presentation ("Connecting Microscopes to Computation:  How Shared Infrastructure Accelerates Structure Determination") here.

• View recording of Ken Miller's 11/13/25 presentation on Globus here.

• View recording of Dr. Vince Formica's 12/8/25 presentation (“From Animals to Data to Inference: A Bumpy and Noisy Road") here.

Summer 2025 Session Recordings:

• June 12th - Grace Modlin (master’s student of Dr. Soundararajan Ezekiel, Indiana University of Pennsylvania) on "AI and machine learning for classifying satellite imagery in Space Domain Awareness (SDA)" - View recording here.

• June 26th - Vinoth Nageshwaran (Senior Data Engineering Leader) on "An LLM-powered chatbot aimed at supporting students and educators in databases and information systems in higher education" - View recording here.

• July 10th - Dr. Heidi Hendrickson (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Lafayette College) on "Characterizing Chromophore Absorption in Turtle Melanopsin using Computational Chemistry" - View recording here.

• July 24th - Wayne Figurelle (Assistant Director of Innovation and Outreach at Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences) on "Research at Penn State and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences" - View recording here.

• August 7th - Dr. Joseph Cuiffi (Assistant Teaching Professor of Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology, Penn State) on "Smart Manufacturing" - View recording here.

• August 21st - Dr. James Dearworth (Associate Professor of Biology, Lafayette College) on "CyberAcceleration of Microscopy Data to Identify Melanopsin in the Iris of the Turtle" - View recording here.