8:00a: Registration

8:30a: Welcome - Marouane Kessentini, Dean of the College of Computing at GVSU

8:40a: Distinguished Speaker, Raj Polanki, CIO at Wacker Chemical Corporation

• Digital Enterprise – Accelerating Digital Transformation

9:40a: Women in Computing Panel

• Lisa Jilek, CEO of Vervint
• Stacy Paul, CEO of Array of Engineers
• Vivian TerMaat, CEO of Girl Scouts of America
• Cindy Warner, Founder & CEO of 360ofMe

10:40a - 12p: Industry Executives Panel

• Tim Bates, CTO of Lenovo
• Anthony Chang, Founder & CEO at BAMF Health
• Sanjeev Katariya, Head of Relevance & Personalization of AirBnB
• Tim Merkle, Senior Global Director at Steelcase
• John Thompson, Global AI Leader at EY
• Jennifer Tisdale, CEO of GRIMM
• Imed Zitouni, Director of Engineering at Google

12p – 1p: Lunch & Fireside Chat with Jim Hackett and Philomena Mantella

1p - 1:30p: 40 years of Computing Celebration

1:30 - 2:30p: Distinguished Alumni Panel 

• Shawn Crowley, Co-CEO at Atomic Object
• Josh Hulst, Co-Founder at Michigan Software Labs
• Jim Kuiphof, Deputy CISO at Corewell Health
• Brian McKeiver, Co-Founder of BizStream
• Holli Reyes, Affiliate Professor & International Student Engagement Coordinator with the College of Computing at GVSU

2:30 - 3:00p: Cutting-Edge Faculty Research Presentations

• Research Experience for Undergraduates Intersecting Computing and Evolution
  • Main PI: Dr. Erik Fredericks
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Byron DeVries, Dr. Austin Ferguson, & Dr. Alex Lalejini
• I Am More Than My Scores: Introducing AdmitFair for a More Equitable Admission Process   
  • Main PI: Dr. Rahat Rafiq
  • Co-PIs: Romena Yasmin
• AI-driven data fusion
  • Main PI: Dr. Jiaxin Du
• Lightweight Zero-Knowledge Authentication for IoHT Wearables Using Hardware-Based Security   
  • Main PI: Dr. Samah Mansour
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Mostafa El-Said & Dr. Andrew Kalafut
• Building Predictive Models for Electronic Health Records
  • Main PI: Dr. Yong Zhuang
• Bridging the Skills Gap in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics through VR-Enhanced Education 
  • Main PI: Dr. Suhila Sawesi
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Samah Mansour
• Higher Resolution Soil Moisture Prediction using Satellite Data and Sparse Local Sensor Networks   
  • Main PI: Dr. Kamrul Hasan
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Delton Bobeldyk, Dr. Jonathan Leidig & Dr. Ali Raza
• Harnessing collaboration networks, field data, and student-driven ML models for coral reef monitoring and modeling  
  • Main PI: Dr. Jonathan Leidig
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Delton Bobeldyk, Dr. Kamrul Hasan
• Explaining Spatiotemporal Prediction Model via Visual Analytics 
  • Main PI: Dr. Haoyu Li
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Yong Zhuang
• Research Seed Grant Program: Real-Time Network Packet Detection for Enhanced Security in Fog Computing   
  • Main PI: Dr. Dimitri Melissourgos
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Sara Suttton
• Using Equity Analytics in Higher Education to Support Instructors with Actionable Feedback for Improving Instruction   
  • Main PI: Dr. Ali Raza
• Reducing Cognitive load and burnout of PCPs using LLM based Assistants 
  • Main PI: Dr. Rajvardhan Patil
  • Co-PIs: Dr. Jiaxin Du, Dr. Kruttika Sutrave

3:00 - 4:00p: Capstone and Graduate Project Showcase

4:00 - 4:30p: Project Awards