Upcoming Talks & Seminars

🏷 Topic	🎤 Speaker	📅 Date	📖 Details
Geospatial AI & Digital Twins in Infrastructure	Song Gao (Geospatial Data Science Lab at UW Madison, NSF AI Institute ICICLE)	February 12 at 15:00–16:00 EST	Song Gao leads the Geospatial Data Science Lab at UW Madison and on the NSF AI Institute ICICLE project. Dr. Gao has developed a Geospatial Knowledge Graph (GeoKG) and various Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based data analytics and resilience measures. The GeoKG is currently being used to represent food supply networks. You can find an earlier presentation by Dr. Gao on Geospatial AI and Digital Twins in Contemporary Infrastructure here.
NIEM Ontology	Bradley Bolliger (Ernst & Young)	March, Date/Time TBD	N/A
AI for Entity Resolution & Entity Resolved Knowledge Graphs	Jeff Jonas, Founder and CEO, Senzing, Inc., and Paco Nathan, Senzing Knowledge Graph Practice Leader and Principal Developer Relations Engineer	June 11, 2025, 15:00–16:00 EDT	Jeff Jonas, founder and CEO of Senzing, is a data scientist and creator of Entity Resolution systems. For more than three decades, he has been at the forefront of solving complex big data problems for companies and governments. National Geographic recognized him as the Wizard of Big Data. Jonas sold his last company to IBM in 2005. Prior to founding Senzing, Jonas served as an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing at IBM. He led a team focused on creating next-generation AI for Entity Resolution technology, code-named G2. At IBM G2 was deployed in many innovative ways, including modernizing U.S. voter registration through a joint effort with Pew Charitable Trust and helping the Singaporean government build a maritime domain awareness system to better protect the Malacca Strait. In 2016, Jonas founded Senzing, based on a one-of-a-kind IBM spinout of the G2 technology and team. Paco Nathan, Principal Developer Relations Engineer at Senzing, is a prominent data scientist and innovator, having decades of experience working with machine learning, natural language and graph technologies. Paco is known as a “player/coach” with 40+ years of experience from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. His former roles include Director, Learning Group at O’Reilly Media and Director, Community Evangelism for Apache Spark at Databricks.
NSF NAIRR and Cyber Infrastructure Programs	Dr. Alejandro Suarez, NSF Program Director	July 9, 2025, 15:00–16:00 EDT	Alejandro Suarez serves as a Program Director in the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC). He also serves as co-lead for the NAIRR Pilot Program Management Office. Dr. Suarez works on various OAC programs concerning high-performance computing acquisitions, major research instrumentation, software & data infrastructure, and large facilities. Dr. Suarez joined NSF as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in 2014 before transitioning to a federal staff role. Prior to joining NSF, Dr. Suarez completed his B.S. in applied physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earned a Ph.D. in computational Physics from Penn State University and served as a National Research Council postdoctoral associate at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. he National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) is envisioned as a widely accessible AI research cyberinfrastructure that brings together computational resources, data, testbeds, algorithms, software, services, networks, expertise, and more. The National Science Foundation – in partnership with dozens of federal agency and private sector contributors – has launched the NAIRR Pilot, which is demonstrating the value and impact of the NAIRR concept by providing various resources to U.S. based researchers and educators at no cost. In this webinar, NSF staff will give an overview of the NAIRR Pilot, resources available, as well as details on where to go to learn more and apply. Ample Q&A time will be offered.