WVAR-CRESH: 2026 WVU Summer Workshop on AI, Digital Health, BioML, and NSF BridgesDH NRT Mini-Workshop Series

Monday July 20 – Wednesday July 22, 2026

Evansdale Campus, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, USA (and Online via Zoom)
AER Building, Room 135
Registration is required
Register here for the workshops
(Limited slots available)
Day 1: Monday, July 20 (All times in EST)
(NRT-only: ASU NRT, Duke NRT, and WVU NRT)

9:00-9:15 am | Welcome & Introductions

- Xingbo Liu; PhD, Associate Dean of Research, WVU Statler College of Engineering
- Michael Ruppert; MD, PhD, WVU NRT Co-PI, Jo and Ben Statler Chair of Breast Cancer Research, WVU School of Medicine

10:00-12:00 pm | Day 1: Special Presentation: On Dissertation Writing

- Nathalie Singh-Corcoran; PhD, Director, Communication Across the Curriculum Eberly College of Arts & Sciences West Virginia University

12:00-1:30 pm | Lunch

1:30-5:00 pm | Lab Tours

2:30-3:15 pm | WVU Innovation Hub

- Transfer Bus to WVU Health Sciences (HSC)

3:15-5:00 pm | WVU Health Sciences (HSC) Tour

- Simulation Lab — Patient Safety Simulation Center | WV STEPS (Dorian Williams, MD, FAAFP, CHSE
Associate Dean for Simulation and Technology in Medical Education
Medical Director, Simulation Training & Education for Patient Safety (WV-STEPS))
- Neuromechanics & Engineering Lab (Sergiy Yakovenko, PhD)
Day 2: Tuesday, July 21 (All times in EST)
(Open to all)

9:00-9:30 am | Welcome & Introductions

- David Satterfield; Interim Associate Vice President, WVU Research Office
- Matthew Valenti; PhD, IEEE Fellow, Professor, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (LCSEE); Coordinator for National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and Research; Site Director - WVU Center for Identification Technology Research
- Don Adjeroh; PhD, Professor and Associate Chair; Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (LCSEE), WVU NRT Project Lead PI, West Virginia University

9:30-10:30 am | Session 1: Keynote Speaker 1

- Brian Mann; PhD, Professor, Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University

10:30-11:15 am | Session 2: Plenary Presentation 1: AI in Cardiovascular Health

- Partho Sengupta; MD (Chief of Cardiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
- Naveena Yanamala; PhD (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)

11:15 am-12:00 pm | Session 3: NRT Presentations – 1

- NRT-1: Zadid Habib & Md Younus Ahmed; LCSEE, WVU (Multimodal Learning for Tabular Data)
- NRT-2: TBD

12:00-1:30 pm | Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm | Session 3: Keynote Presentation 2

- Leila Ladani; PhD, Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University

2:30-3:20 pm | Session 4: Plenary Presentation 2: AI for Neuro

- Bramish Chandio; Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, WVU (Mapping the Brain's Neural Pathways In Vivo Using Diffusion MRI and Machine Learning: Applications in Alzheimer's Disease)

3:20-3:50 pm | Session 5: ChatGPT and LLMs

- Michael Hu; WVU School of Medicine (AI Sycophancy)
- Xinyu Pan; Frostburg State University (ChatGPT in Healthcare)
- Ravi B. Dressler; PennWest University
- Ryan Hayden; WVU Tech
- Gabriel S. Dugarte; Frostburg State University
- Jackson P. Hordubay; Frostburg State University (Hallucinations in LLMs: Case of Citations)

3:50-4:00 pm | Break

4:00-5:00 pm | Session 6: NRT Presentations – 2

- NRT-3: TBD
- NRT-4: Zaigham Randhawa; West Virginia University (Neuro-Inspired AI)
- NRT-5: Kaitlyn Heintzelman & Jacob Thrasher; WVU School of Medicine and LCSEE (AI Trustworthiness in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis)

5:00-5:30 pm | Board the Bus to Downtown Campus

- NRT Team Members Only

5:30-7:30 pm | Dinner

- ASU NRT, Duke NRT, and WVU NRT Team Members Only

7:30-9:00 pm | WVU Planetarium

- ASU NRT, Duke NRT, and WVU NRT Team Members Only
Day 3: Wednesday, July 22 (All times in EST)
(Open to all)

9:00-9:20 am | Introductions

- Cerasela Zoica Dinu; PhD, Professor, Associate Dean for Student, Faculty and Staff Engagement, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, WVU
- Michael Ruppert; MD, PhD, WVU NRT Co-PI, Jo and Ben Statler Chair of Breast Cancer Research, WVU School of Medicine

9:20 am-12:00 pm | Session 1: NRT Mini-Workshop 1: AI & Technology Ethics via Science Fiction

- Professor Judy Goldsmith; Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky

12:00-1:30 pm | Lunch

3:00-3:10 pm | Break

3:10-4:50 pm | Session 3: AI/Data Science and LLM Literacy

- Prashnna Gyawali; PhD, Assistant Professor, LCSEE, WVU

4:50-5:00 pm | Break

5:00-6:00 pm | General Meeting – NRT Project

- WVU BridgesDH NRT Project Team Members Only

Targets and expected background / preparation

Summer school attendees are expected to be undergraduate seniors, graduate students, faculty, and others with appropriate background or interests.

Level of treatment will be appropriate for a senior undergraduate/first year graduate student, with a general background in science, engineering, or in the biomedical field. Others with background in business or quantitative social science, such as economics should also be able to follow most of the material.

Registration is required
Register here for the workshops
(Limited slots available)

For more information, please contact Don Adjeroh, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair of LCSEE, Project Lead PI.