IEEE Lone Star Section EMBS Chapter and the Life Members Affinity Group will host the 2nd Annual Workshop on AI and Healthcare. Event will be held in conjunction with the Computer Sciences Department's Research Day and Poster Presentations. The website for the event is as follows:
Like last year, the purpose of the workshop is to assemble engineers and scientists with an interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) as applied to the field of healthcare. The workshop is expected to also expand interest in EMB activities across several technical chapters, affinity groups and Section members. Additionally, the event will focus on expanding interest in EMB for students and faculty at the many academic institutions within the Lone Star Section. In addition the event will include Texas State University in San Marcos (Central Texas Section), with emphasis on its very active IEEE faculty and student branch.
The workshop will featuring a Keynote, Panel Discussion, and Poster session at the (https://www.txst.edu/starpark/conference-center.html) Conference facility in San Marcos, Texas on December 5, 2025. (Room 173, 174 and 105)
Students: Please submit a title and abstracts (less than 500 words) to https://forms.gle/Lei91NxAaTA3ZVdu5 by 29 November 2025.
The best 5 posters abstracts will be published in IEEE Pulse Magazine.
Speaker(s): Dr. Brian Telfer,
Agenda:
8:30 AM: Registration and breakfast
9:00-9:15 AM: Introduction and Welcome by TXST
9:15-10:15 AM: Keynote Lecture: Brian Telfer, PhD, Senior Staff Member, Human Health and Performance Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
10:15-11:15 AM: Panel Discussion – Trust in AI
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Tom Yankeelov, PhD, Director, Center for Computational Oncology, University of Texas at Austin
– Mr. Brett Bowman, Research Physicist, Bioeffects Division, Air Force Research Laboratory
– Mr. Chad Andresen, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Pulse Magazine
– Ronald Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Henry B. & Edna S. Dielmann Memorial Professor of Urologic Science, University of Texas Health Science Center
11:15-11:45 AM: IEEE Lone Star Section Presentation – Dr. Walt Downing, Section Chairman
11:45-12:45 PM: Lunch (BBQ)
12:45-2:15 PM: Poster presentations
2:15 PM: Wrap up and closing remarks
2:30 PM: Workshop Adjourn
STAR One Conference Center, 3055 Hunter Road, San Marcos, Texas, United States, 78666
