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Events from Data Science and AI Week, March 2025
Check out a list of previous data science and AI-related activities that took place on or around Data Science and AI Week in March 2025.
Data Science and AI Academy Speaker Series
March 31, 2025: Prompt Engineering and LLM Playgrounds
Speaker: Jeanne McClure, Postdoctoral Fellow, NC State Data Science and AI Academy
Location: D.H. Hill Jr. Library, Room 2304.
Hands-on session introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs). Designed for both non-technical and technical participants, you’ll experiment with LLMs in web-based playgrounds and the art of prompting to get what you want. Gain initial experience in prompt engineering methods, and introduction to the capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
Speaker: Kelsey Dufresne, Postdoctoral Fellow, NC State Data Science and AI Academy
Location: D.H. Hill Jr. Library, East Learning Lab B, Room 2113
Dufresne’s session will play off her current research and showcase her passion for data visceralization and communication. The talk will focus on data science, humanities-informed work, and personal data.
Location: D.H. Hill Jr. Library, Multimedia Seminar Center East Wing, Room 2131
Students will use the SAS Viya platform to explore network science techniques and methodologies. They will learn about network analysis and network optimization algorithms and how to use them to solve real-world problems. This hands-on workshop focuses on step-by-step activities, including reading network data, running multiple algorithms and analyzing graphical outcomes.
April 3, 2025: Innovation for Everyone: The Role of Future Technologists
Speaker: Terri Mitchell, Successful Technology Executive Now Enabling College Women in STEM
Location: D.H. Hill Jr. Library, Multimedia Seminar Center East Wing, Room 2131
Do today’s processes, products, and systems serve the world effectively? The upcoming generation of technologists and innovators has the potential to use data science and AI to address past shortcomings, or risk allowing technology to reinforce and even amplify existing challenges. Participants will gain valuable insights into the current landscape and explore how their involvement today and in their future careers can contribute to meaningful, lasting change.
April 4, 2025: Wake Young Women and Data Science Club Presentations
Location: D.H. Hill Jr. Library, Room 2304
Join the Wake Young Women and Data Science Club for presentations on their recent data explorations. The mission of the Data Science Club is to inspire young women to become data literate and cultivate their skills in data science and analytics, fostering an interest in STEM fields. The club seeks to develop leadership qualities, build positive relationships, and promote a collaborative learning atmosphere. Additionally, it will focus on gaining experience and confidence among participants.
TriWiSTEM A Day in the Life of the Bio-Med/Tech Professional
Attention College Women and Early Career Professional Women:
Are you interested in or currently employed in the BioMed or the Information Technology industries?
Join us for the Day in the Life of the BioMed and IT Professional Connections Night on Thursday, March 20 from 6:30–8:30 PM at BTEC on NCSU’s Centennial Campus.
You’ll have the chance to network with other women in these industries over hors d’oeuvres and mocktails. We will then have an incredible panel for you to engage with and hear about the day in the life of women in BioMed and IT.
Join Poole College of Management for their beginner-friendly workshops series that kicks off on March 25, 2025. Gain hands-on experience using AI tools for business case analytics.
Come to one event or all three – attend what fits your schedule!
AI Forward: Leading Innovation, Research and Learning at NC State University
Join the William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, with support from the NC State College of Education, Office of Instructional Programs, and the NC State Data Science and AI Academy, for a campus-wide event dedicated to exploring the transformative power of artificial intelligence in innovation, research and learning at NC State University. This full-day experience is designed to ignite visionary thinking, foster strategic collaborations, and propel our university to the forefront of AI integration in higher education.
Data Fest offers undergraduates a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with real-world data. Teams collaborate with a secret “data donor,” analyze complex datasets, and present their insights in a fast-paced five-minute presentation.
Students will compete for awards in Data Communication, Interdisciplinary Work, Innovative Insights, and Outstanding Visualization.
Graduate students: share your expertise and register as a Mentor!
Webinar: Cisco Jabber: Your all-in-one Collaboration Tool!
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM
This Lunch & Learn event will provide an overview of how Cisco Jabber streamlines communications and enhances productivity by unifying presence, instant messaging, voice, video, voice messaging, screen sharing, and conferencing capabilities securely into one client on your desktop and mobile device.
Are you still trying to understand the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it may benefit you at work? This one-hour workshop will provide insight into AI at NC State. Staff from the Office of Information Technology’s Security and Training departments will lead you through an introduction to AI, available tools, data security concerns, use cases, and more. The following items will be included along with time for Q&A at the end:
Leveraging Geospatial Tools for Effective Environmental Planning: A Hurricane Helene Case Study
This webinar, taking place April 2, 2025, 3:00-4:30 PM via Zoom will include topics that incorporate geospatial tools in their research to investigate distinct environmental aspects linked to extreme climate events such as Hurricane Helene. The speakers will demonstrate how these tools can be applied to achieve shared environmental stewardship.
Have you been keeping up with all of Google’s new features this year? Join us for this online event, where trainers from the Office of Information Technology will walk you through several exciting new features in Google Apps that you can start using!
WolfWebs: Social Network Analysis and UK Grime Music
Tom R. Leppard (postdoctoral fellow at the Data Science and AI Academy) will present his research on network reciprocity in UK Grime music collaboration.
Statistics Department Seminar: Design Thinking for Policy Evaluation: The Policy Trial Emulation Framework
Withers 232A, 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Nicholas J. Seewald, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
In-person talk: no Zoom option
Walk in; no registration is required!
Policy evaluation is complex, requiring deep knowledge regarding the policies themselves, the contexts in which they are enacted, the degree to which they are implemented, as well as appropriate data and statistical methods for making causal inferences about policy effects on outcomes. High-quality study design is critical in this research, both for investigators to improve validity of causal inference, and for readers and policymakers to understand, trust, and act on the results. Target trial emulation is an approach to designing rigorous non-experimental studies by “emulating” key features of a clinical trial. Most used outside policy contexts, this approach is also valuable for policy evaluation and can address challenges unique to that context. We discuss how using the policy trial emulation framework to conduct and report on research design and methods supports transparent assessment of threats to causal inference in non-experimental studies intended to assess the effect of a health policy on clinical or population health outcomes. We show how careful design thinking lays a foundation for cutting-edge statistical tools to enable rigorous, high-quality policy evaluation studies, with application to a study of the effects of state medical cannabis laws on opioid prescribing for chronic noncancer pain.
April 8, 2025
PSI Extension Agent Network AI in Agriculture Training
April 8-9, 2025
Objectives: A deeper dive into the topic of AI, understanding the fundamentals of AI, identifying current use of AI in agriculture, meeting and learning about PSI partners on the AI frontier.
Join the NC State Libraries for a virtual workshop with guest presenter Julia McDonnell, Director of Journals Product at Oxford University Press.
Attendees will learn about the benefits and challenges of using AI in journals publishing and gain insights into how we can adapt to new developments while preserving the principles of trust and integrity.
Register for the Global One Health Academy One Health Research Symposium
Join the Global One Health Academy for its second annual One Health Research Symposium on Tuesday, April 15, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM, Talley Student Union, Room 3285. This half-day event will spark excitement and spur conversation and new collaborations around One Health, a framework that recognizes the interconnected nature of plant, animal, human and environmental health. Faculty, staff, students and members of the public can attend this celebration of One Health research and leadership at NC State.
Data science and AI are integrated in subject matter and research programs across all 10 NC State colleges and are part of our think and do mindset. At NC State, we believe data science and AI are for everyone.
Chancellor Randy Woodson
North Carolina State University
Data science and AI are integral to numerous disciplines, including statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, writing, education, design, business, veterinary medicine, agriculture, the humanities, and more. Data Science and AI Week demonstrates the relevance and significance of these fields to our students, regardless of their area of study.
In classrooms, laboratories and workshops throughout our colleges, data science and AI are becoming cornerstones of learning, research and application.
Students participate in the DSA’s annual DataFest, a three-day celebration of data science in which teams of undergraduate students find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex dataset.Students use the Innovation Studio in D.H. Hill Library on main campus. The Innovation Studio is a new type of learning space for the Libraries that focuses on showcasing the innovative work of NC State’s students and faculty and teaching innovation methods to the campus community.
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