Conference Program

NSEA 2026 - Two Days of Innovation

July 25-26, 2026 | Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

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Symposium Schedule

Two full days of keynotes, research tracks, hands-on workshops, live demos, and poster sessions at the University Student Center, Morgan State University. Schedule is subject to change.

Featured Keynotes

Keynote 1 · Day 1

Juan E. Gilbert

University of Florida

Talk title & bio → Keynote 2 · Day 1

Jeffrey Bardzell

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Talk title & bio → Keynote 3 · Day 2

Reva Schwartz

Civitaas

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Day 1

Saturday, July 25, 2026

8:309:15 AM
Ballroom A & B
Registration & Breakfast
Welcome
Ballroom C
Poster Setup
Poster
Demo Space · 204
Demo Setup
Demo
9:159:30 AM
Ballroom A & B
Opening Remarks
Natasha M. Dartigue · Maryland State Public Defender
9:3010:15 AM
Ballroom A & B
“Equitable AI in the post SFFA SCOTUS decision in Admissions”
Juan Gilbert · University of Florida
Keynote 1
10:1510:30 AM
Ballroom A & B
Break
Workshop · 208
K12 Learning Lab
K-12
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo
Demo
10:3012:00 PM
Ballroom A & B
CEAMLS Featured
  • “The Augmented Scientist: Human-AI Collaboration in Scientific Discovery”Jere Boudell (Clayton State U.)
  • “Mediated Recognition: Perceived AI Appreciation and Evaluative Preference”Chuncheng Liu (Northeastern)
  • Title TBAGabriella Waters (VSU)
  • “Building AI Innovation Across the Disciplines”Talitha Washington (Howard)
Research
Auditorium
Business & Organization
  • “AI Governance for Human-AI Collaboration in Higher Education”Muddassir Siddiqi (College of DuPage)
  • “Human-AI Collaboration in Federal Performance Management: Integrating Relational Competencies into AI-Supported Appraisal Systems”Omololu Adeyemi (U. Baltimore)
  • Title TBAShirin Hasavari (Morgan State)
  • “Measuring the Local and Global Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Using Artificial Intelligence”Dina El-Mahdy (Morgan State)
  • “Human–AI Collaboration and Employee Perceptions of Productivity and Pay Equity in Financial Services”Mayowa Onare (CITI Bank)

Session ends 12:20 pm

Research
Workshop · 208
K12 Learning Lab
K-12
Demo Space · 204
Robot Osuagwu
Demo
12:001:15 PM
Ballroom A & B
Lunch
Meal
Demo Space · 204
High Traffic Demo
Demo
1:152:15 PM
Ballroom A & B
K-12 Teachers
K-12
Auditorium
K-12 Teachers
K-12
Room 210A
Mixed Methods Research
Krishna Bista
Research
Room 210B
Open Code
Idris Somoye
Research
Workshop · 208
Aligned, Not Automated
Bree Nachelle
Workshop
Ballroom C
Posters Displayed
Poster
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo
Demo
2:153:15 PM
Ballroom A & B
K-12 Teachers Presentations
K-12
Auditorium
K-12 Teachers Presentations
K-12
Room 210A
Democratizing Machine Learning with VeltConnect
Derrick Cook & David Nyarko
Workshop
Workshop · 208
EdgeAI4LEGO
Yuhan Jiang
Workshop
Ballroom C
Posters Displayed
Poster
3:153:30 PM
Ballroom A & B
Break
Demo Space · 204
Live Demos
Demo
3:304:45 PM
Ballroom A & B
K-12 Teachers Presentations
K-12
Auditorium
K-12 Teachers Presentations
K-12
Ballroom C
Poster Session
Poster
4:455:30 PM
Ballroom A & B
“Must AI Mean What We Say?”
Jeffrey Bardzell · Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Keynote 2
5:306:30 PM
Ballroom A & B
Reception
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo / Activities
Demo

Vendors will have a space in the atrium all day.

Day 2

Sunday, July 26, 2026

8:309:15 AM
Ballroom A & B
Breakfast
Meal
Demo Space · 204
Demo Setup
Demo
9:159:30 AM
Ballroom A & B
Opening Remarks
9:3010:15 AM
Ballroom A & B
“Stepping Outside the Stack”
Reva Schwartz · Civitaas
Keynote 3
10:1510:25 AM
Ballroom A & B
Break
Workshop · 208
Learning Lab
K-12
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo
Demo
10:2512:00 PM
Auditorium
Engineering & Computer Science
  • “Latent Structures in Human Motor Control and Perception: Implications for Robotic Coaches”A. Michael West, Jr. (JHU)
  • “BERTRAG: A BERT-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Preserving Awori and Ogu Indigenous Knowledge”Olusola Olabanjo (Howard)
  • “Dialect Caste: The Multilingual Community’s Discontent with Voice Assistant Technology”Gloria Washington (Howard)
  • “Intersectionality in AI - Examining Trust and Safety Systems in Social Media”Dhanaraj Thakur (GWU)
  • “Causal Constrained Decision Dilemma”Adrienne Raglin (DEVCOM)

Session ends 12:15 pm

Research
Room 3 · 210A-B
Summer AI Research Institute Final Presentations
  • Post-Disaster Building Damage Assessment AI
  • Cross-View Multi-Graph Contrastive Learning with LLM-Guided Knowledge Initialization for Predicting Antidepressant Treatment Response in Major Depressive Disorder
  • Artificial Intelligence for Early Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Using ECG Signal

Project details, mentors & presenters →

SAIRI
Ballroom C
Posters Displayed
Poster
Workshop · 208
Learning Lab
K-12
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo
Demo
12:001:00 PM
Ballroom A & B
Lunch
Meal
Ballroom C
Poster Session
Poster
Demo Space · 204
High Traffic Demo
Demo
1:001:55 PM
Ballroom A & B
Ethics, Art & Education
  • “A Trust Map for AI: Conceptualizing Trustworthy AI as a Socio-Technical Research Practice”Laura Fichtner (UMD)
  • “Misaligned but Morally Attuned: When AI Act Morally Against Our Best Judgement”Sherri Conklin (Washington State U.)
  • “Empowering Health Equity: Training HBCU Students in Data Literacy and Community-Engaged Research”Robin Butler (Morgan State)
  • “Self-Exile and Synthetic Voice: The Ethics of AI in Black Documentary Film”Tyechia Thompson (Virginia Tech)

Session runs to 2:30 pm

Research
Auditorium
AI Startups
  • “Who Can Stop the Machine? Building Institutions That Can Govern AI”Arthur Sidney (Sidney Group)
  • “From Sycophancy to Socratic Dialogue: Using Interactional Architecture as an Agency-shield in AI-assisted Inquiry”Jiang Pu (NextGen Founder)
  • “Autonomous AI Accountability: Building Predictive Governance Before Harm Materializes”Erica Miller (Emethia.ai)
  • “Belonging as a Database: Building a Public Interest Technology Framework for HBCU Research Collectives Through Dr. Monroe Work’s Bibliography”Anita Jarman (Ji Li Project)

Session runs to 2:30 pm

Research
Workshop · 208
FARS (FIFA-Automated Reporting System)
Anjolie Anthony
Workshop
Room 3 · 210A-B
Summer AI Research Institute Final Presentations
  • Developing Edge AI Applications for Human-Robot Collaboration in LEGO Assembling Operations
  • DermaBridge: A Trustworthy Multimodal AI App for Skin Lesion Screening, Explainable Risk Assessment, and Smart Clinical Referral
  • Optimization Driven Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Respiratory Health Risks Using Urban Environmental Data: Baltimore as a Case Study
  • Predictive Stability vs. Fairness Instability in Clinical ECG Classification: A Multi-Run Analysis of Deep Learning Models

Session runs until 2:45 PM · Project details, mentors & presenters →

SAIRI
Ballroom C
Posters Displayed
Poster
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo
Demo
1:552:45 PM
Workshop · 208
Building Sustainable Software with a Product Lens
Adalbert De La Cruz
Workshop
Room 204
Open Code
Idris Somoye
Research
Ballroom C
Posters Displayed
Poster
2:503:00 PM
Ballroom A & B
Break
Demo Space · 204
Live Demo & SAIRI Demo
Demo
3:003:45 PM
Ballroom A & B
Special Discussion Groups (SDGs)
Room 3 · 210A-B
Summer AI Research Institute Final Presentations
  • AI-Driven PM2.5 Prediction Using Satellite and Meteorological Data
  • AI-Driven Discovery of Drug Candidate Compounds to Slow Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease

Project details, mentors & presenters →

SAIRI
Ballroom C
Judges Meet
Poster Sessions, K12
Poster
3:454:00 PM
Ballroom A & B
Break
4:004:45 PM
Ballroom A & B
Poster / SAIRI Awards / K-12 Awards
Awards
4:455:00 PM
Ballroom A & B
Closing Remarks
5:006:00 PM
Ballroom A & B
Networking / Reception
Demo Space · 204
Final Demo Access
Demo

Vendors will have a space in the atrium all day.

For questions about the program, contact: nsea@morgan.edu

Location & Parking

Everything you need to find us on the day of the symposium, from the venue building to parking and on-campus signage.

The Venue

NSEA is at the University Student Center Building.

University Student Center Building, Morgan State University

Event Floor Maps

Find your way around the sessions, demos, and poster areas inside the Student Center.

Second Floor: Symposium: ballrooms, auditorium, workshops, and demos.

NSEA 2026 second floor map, University Student Center, Morgan State University

First Floor: Hackathon.

NSEA 2026 first floor hackathon map, University Student Center, Morgan State University

Parking

Parking is in the Morgan Commons Garage. Campus Map: map.morgan.edu

Morgan Commons Garage location on the Morgan State University campus map

Finding Your Way

Look for the Yellow Directional Signs. A version of this sign with arrows is being made that will be directing you to the event.

Yellow directional signs guiding attendees to NSEA 2026