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CCSB Biweekly Seminar Series

CCSB Biweekly Seminar Series is to promote interdisciplinary research across PVAMU campus and beyond, hosted by CRI Center for Computational Systems Biology. We alternate between CCSB researchers and external speakers. We use a hybrid format, between in-person meet and virtual meet (Zoom) based on speaker's preference. When we meet in person, we will meet in CCSB Conference Room (ELEN 231). Dr. Seungchan Kim is the organizer for the seminar series. Please contact him if you have any suggestion, including speakers.

Day | Time: Wednesdays | 12pm - 1:00pm
Place:
Join Zoom Meeing for a virtual meet

CCSB Conference Room (#231 in New ELEN bldg) for in-person meet

Schedule for Fall 2025

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 10, 2025	Seungchan Kim, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Executive Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Center for Computational Systems Biology, Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University	Computational Methods for Molecular Cancer Classification: From Traditional Machine Learning to Prior-Fitted Networks in Multi-Omics Analysis
Sept. 24, 2025	Chengshuai Zhao, Graduate Research Associate, Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab, Arizona State University (hosted by Dr. Seungchan Kim)	Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
Oct. 08, 2025	Md Hossein Shuvo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Roy G. Perry College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University	Data-Driven AI Frameworks toward Computational Drug Discovery
Oct. 22, 2025	Rahmatullah Roche, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, TSYS School of Computer Science, Columbus State University (hosted by Dr. MD Hossain Shuvo)	Deep Learning for Intermolecular Interaction Prediction
Nov. 12, 2025 ~~[Nov. 05, 2025]~~	Tesfamichael Kebrom, Ph.D., Research Scientist, CARC, College of Agriculture and Human Sciences & CCSB, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Roy G. College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University	Optimizing the Seed Germination Bioassay for Reliable Toxicity Assessment
~~Nov. 19, 2025~~ Rescheduled to Spring 2026	Hamed I. Ali, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Texas A&M University (hosted by Dr. Seungchan Kim)	TBD (Computer Aided Drug Design)

Previous Seminars

2019 [ Fall ]; 2020 [ Spring | Fall ]; 2021 [ Spring | Fall ]; 2022 [ Spring | Fall ]; 2023 [ Spring | Fall ];

2024 [ Spring | Fall]; 2025 [ Spring | ]

Recent Talks

[CCSB Seminar Series] Optimizing the Seed Germination Bioassay for Reliable Toxicity Assessment

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

12 Nov 2025 by Tesfamichael Kebrom

[CCSB Seminar Series] Deep Learning for Intermolecular Interaction Prediction

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

22 Oct 2025 by Rahmatullah Roche

[CCSB Seminar Series] Data-Driven AI Frameworks toward Computational Drug Discovery

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

8 Oct 2025 by Md Hossain Shuvo

[CCSB Seminar Series] Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

24 Sep 2025 by Chengshuai Zhao

[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Methods for Molecular Cancer Classification: From Traditional Machine Learning to Prior-Fitted Networks in Multi-Omics Analysis

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

10 Sep 2025 by Seungchan Kim

[CCSB Seminar Series] Knowledge Acquisition on Mass-shooting Events via LLMs for AI-Driven Justice

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

30 Apr 2025 by Xishuang Dong

[CCSB Seminar Series] From pathology to MRI and ultrasound, a multimodal information extraction

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

16 Apr 2025 by Mirabela Rusu, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Functional Roles of DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer using Cell-based Modeling

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

2 Apr 2025 by Victoria Mgbemena, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Enhancing Microgrid Security in Diverse Environments: Integrating Zero Trust Architecture and Bayesian Optimization for Robust Anomaly Detection

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

19 Mar 2025 by Jovita Nsoh, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Vascular tissue-mediated molecular responses to low phosphorus

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

5 Mar 2025 by Cankui Zhang, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Toward reliability evaluation of computational models of protein molecules and their interactions

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

19 Feb 2025 by Md Hossain Shuvo, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Enhancing Controllable Image Generation with Efficient Consistency Feedback

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

5 Feb 2025 by Chen Chen, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Facts Are Wonderful, Until They Are Not

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

6 Nov 2024 by Chengkai Li

[CCSB Seminar Series] Deep Knowledge Tracing for Personalized Adaptive Learning at Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs)

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

23 Oct 2024 by Xishuang Dong

[CCSB Seminar Series] Building urban climate resilience using spatial data science

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom

9 Oct 2024 by Wei Zhai

[CCSB Seminar Series] Functional Roles of DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer using cell-based assays

CCSB-Seminar at Zoom (see below)

25 Sep 2024 by Victorial Mgbemena

[CCSB Seminar Series] How You Can Reduce Your Environmental Impact Through Food Choices – EPA Region 6

CCSB-Seminar at CCSB Conference Room ELEN 231

11 Sep 2024 by Stephen Sturdivant

[CCSB Seminar Series] Population-based discovery and validation of brain alterations in pulmonary hypertension

CCSB-Seminar at CCSB Conference Room ELEN 231

1 May 2024 by Satoshi Okawa

[CCSB Seminar Series] Mechanical Stimulation Increases Sorghum Stem Strength and Flexibility and is Associated with Altered Transcriptome Expression and Hormone Homeostasis

CCSB-Seminar at CCSB Conference Room ELEN 231

24 Apr 2024 by Qing Li

[CCSB Seminar Series] Single cell and spatial transcriptomics to study differential pathways and cell signaling

CCSB-Seminar at CCSB Conference Room ELEN 231

3 Apr 2024 by Seungchan Kim

[CCSB Seminar Series] Introduction to Autonomous Systems and Their Applications

CCSB-Seminar at ECE Conference Room ELEN 315D or Zoom

20 Mar 2024 by Yong Wang

[CCSB Seminar Series] Proformer-Based Ensemble Learning for Gene Expression Prediction

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

6 Mar 2024 by Xishuang Dong

[CCSB Seminar Series] A Neural Signaling Pathway of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

13 Dec 2023 by Makoto Fukuda, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Characterizing DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer using cell-based functional assays

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

29 Nov 2023 by Victoria Mgbemena, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Towards using AI/ML methods for exploring nutrition and obesity disparities

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

1 Nov 2023 by Salma Musaad, MD/Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Branches, Boundaries and Bracts: in Search of the Meristematic Homunculus

CCSB-Seminar

4 Oct 2023 by Clinton Whipple, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Arterial spin labeling (ASL) imaging in early diagnosis and treatment therapy

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

20 Sep 2023 by Weiying Dai, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Functionally repolarizing myeloid stroma with synthetic STING agonists drives immune clearance of Glioblastoma

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

10 May 2023 by Michael Curran

[CCSB Seminar Series] Topological Metabolic Analysis for the Reconstruction of Major Biosynthetic Pathways and Cycles in Methylococcus capsulatus

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

26 Apr 2023 by Lealon Martin

[CCSB Seminar Series] The Role of Algae Farming in Industrial and Agricultural Decarbonization

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

5 Apr 2023 by Ryan Davis

[CCSB Seminar Series] ChatGPT: Opportunity and Challenge to Research and Education

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

22 Mar 2023 by Xishuang Dong

[CCSB Seminar Series] exRNAs for examining injuries and diseases for the central nervous system

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

8 Mar 2023 by Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen

[CCSB Seminar Series] Characterizing DNA Repair Variants of Undetermined Significance in Prostate Cancer

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

22 Feb 2023 by Victoria Mgebemena

[CCSB Seminar Series] Several partially distinct molecular pathways control shoot branching in the grasses

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

8 Feb 2023 by Tesfamichael Kebrom

[CCSB Seminar Series] Decoding Sorghum genome using a mutant population

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar/Zoom

25 Jan 2023 by Yinping Jiao

[CCSB Seminar Series] Integrated multi-omic analyses identify genetic causes of endothelial inflammation in pulmonary hypertension

CCSB-Seminar at ECE Conference Room 315D & Webinar/Zoom

9 Nov 2022 by Stephen Y. Chan

[CCSB Seminar Series] Development of a Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis Model for Drug Discovery and Testing

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

26 Oct 2022 by Anna Joy

[CCSB Seminar Series] Using Cold Plasma Treatment Technologies to Reduce Agricultural Waste

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

12 Oct 2022 by Janie Moore

[CCSB Seminar Series] Deciphering cell-cell communications with spatial transcriptomic data

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

5 Oct 2022 by Seungchan Kim

[CCSB Seminar Series] Topological Metabolic Analysis for the Reconstruction of Anammox-DAMO Pathways in Microbial Consortia

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

14 Sep 2022 by Lealon Martin

[CCSB Seminar Series] Calibrated Bagging Deep Learning for Image Semantic Segmentation: A Case Study on COVID-19 Chest X-ray Image

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

18 May 2022 by Lucy Nwosu

[CCSB Seminar Series] The False Premise of the Gene Biomarkers and the Personalized Cancer Genomic Medicine

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

4 May 2022 by Dumitru Iacobas

[CCSB Seminar Series] Improving Windows Customer Experiences via Data Science & ML

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

20 Apr 2022 by Archana Ramesh

[CCSB Seminar Series] Shade signaling and shoot elongation in sorghum

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

13 Apr 2022 by Tesfamichael Kebrom

[CCSB Seminar Series] Curating the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Rice World Collection and Genetic Stocks Oryza Collection

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

23 Mar 2022 by Trevis D. Huggins

[CCSB Seminar Series] Biomarker development for personalized immunotherapy

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

9 Mar 2022 by Anna Joy

[CCSB Seminar Series] Joint Inference Approaches for Event Coreference Resolution

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

23 Feb 2022 by Ruihong Huang

[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Network Biology Enabled by Large-Scale Transcriptomic Data

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

9 Feb 2022 by Seungchan Kim

[CCSB Seminar Series] Machine Learning for Computational Network Biology

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

26 Jan 2022 by Byoung-Jun Yoon

[CCSB Seminar Series] Epigenetics: Do we know what we know?

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

15 Dec 2021 by Mahua Choudhury

[CCSB Seminar Series] State Space Methods for the Global Optimization of Chemical and Biological Processes

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

10 Nov 2021 by Lealon Martin

[CCSB Seminar Series] Decentralized Machine Learning for Privacy-preserving Biomedical Application

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

27 Oct 2021 by Xishuang Dong

[CCSB Seminar Series] The Power of RNA-seq Gene Expression Profiling Illustrated by Shoot Branching Research in Plants

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

13 Oct 2021 by Tesfamichael Kebrom

[CCSB Seminar Series] Pathways controlling plant stem cells and impacts on crop yields

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

29 Sep 2021 by Dave Jackson

[CCSB Seminar Series] On the existence (or not) of Pauli Crystals

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

15 Sep 2021 by Orion Ciftja

[CCSB Seminar Series] Up/down and left/right by the heart transcriptome

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

1 Sep 2021 by Dumitru Iacobas

[CCSB Seminar Series] Structural Optimization and Preclinical Development of Selective Potent Kinase Inhibitors Targeting Aggressive HER2-Resistant Breast Cancer

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

19 May 2021 by Hamed I. Ali, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Understanding CNS immunity to reactivate the immune system in Glioblastoma brain tumor patients

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

5 May 2021 by Anna Joy, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Age against the machine: How aging disrupts the homeostasis of cancer

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

21 Apr 2021 by Ashani Weeraratna, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Multidimensional Uncertainty Quantification for Graph Neural Networks

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

7 Apr 2021 by Feng Chen, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Imaging Heavy Ion Particle Tracks at Micron Level for Radiation Biology Applications

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

24 Mar 2021 by Premkumar B. Saganti, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Efficient Privacy Preserving Edge Computing Framework for Image Classification in IoT

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

10 Mar 2021 by Lijun Qian, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Creating the Mindset for Translational Research

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

24 Feb 2021 by Bandula Wijay, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] QM/MM Simulation of Biological Systems

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

27 Jan 2021 by Yuemin Liu

[CCSB Seminar Series] Biomarker discovery using RNAseq data -- a computational perspective

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

13 Jan 2021 by Seungchan Kim

[CCSB Seminar Series] Genome assembly process, challenges and application in research

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

16 Dec 2020 by Noushin Ghaffari

[CCSB Seminar Series] Semi-supervised Learning for COVID-19 Image Classification via ResNet

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

2 Dec 2020 by Xishuang Dong

[CCSB Seminar Series] Characterizing the pathobiology of a complex disease using genome-scale data and interpretable models: application to COPD

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

18 Nov 2020 by Peter Castaldi, MD, MSc

[CCSB Seminar Series] Dissecting the shade avoidance syndrome of plants using RNA-seq

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

4 Nov 2020 by Tesfamichael Kebrom, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Determinants of plant architecture in grasses

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

21 Oct 2020 by Andrew Doust, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Targeting Glioblastoma-microenvironment interactions for anti-tumor activity

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

7 Oct 2020 by Anna Joy, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] DNA and RNA are fun! An exploration of current tools for genomic analysis

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

23 Sep 2020 by Andrew Hillhouse, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Genomic Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2

CCSB-Seminar at webinar/Zoom

9 Sep 2020 by David Engelthaler, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Genomic fabric remodeling in neurological diseases

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar

6 May 2020 by Dumtru Iacobas, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Cell Type Identification from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data via Deep Learning

CCSB-Seminar at Webinar

8 Apr 2020 by Xishuang Dong, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Modulation of Gut Microbiome by Nutritional Strategies to Protect against Obesity and Related Metabolic Dysfunctions

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

4 Mar 2020 by Javad Barouei, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Analysis of Single-Cell RNAseq Data

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

19 Feb 2020 by Seungchan Kim, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Emerging Internet-Based Technologies

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

5 Feb 2020 by Mathew Sadiku, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Biomarker for Space Radiation Risk: Cytogenetic study of heavy ion-induced chromosomal damage in human cells

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

22 Jan 2020 by Megumi Hada, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Discovery of Glioblastoma immune subtypes to improve immunotherapy

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

11 Dec 2019 by Anna Joy, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Shielding studies for aerospace radiation applications

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

4 Dec 2019 by Richard Wilkins, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Cybersecurity present and future: is there a need for a Science of Cybersecurity?

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

13 Nov 2019 by Mohamed F. Chouikha, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Mechanistic Protein Modeling for Rational Drug Discovery

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

7 Nov 2019 by Yang Shen, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Molecular Subtypes in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

23 Oct 2019 by

[CCSB Seminar Series] Brain, Sex, Synapses and Neurological Diseases – A Transcriptomic Story

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

9 Oct 2019 by Dumitru A. Iacobas, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Molecular Insights into Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) Aggressiveness and Metastasis

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

25 Sep 2019 by Bisrat Debeb, DVM, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Feeding the Ten Billion: from Green Revolution to Gene Revolution

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

11 Sep 2019 by Tesfamichael Kebrom, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Single Cell Genomics at the Center for Computational Systems Biology

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

8 May 2019 by Anna Joy, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Gene Expression in Developing Goat Testes: Identification of a Caprine Spermatogenesis Transcriptome

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

24 Apr 2019 by Shay Lewis, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Radiation Dosimetry Measurements Onboard Air and Space Craft for Human Safety Programs and Cancer Epidemiology Studies

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

10 Apr 2019 by Brad "Buddy" Gersey, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Neural Networks Based Feature Selection for Genetic Data Analysis

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

10 Apr 2019 by Xishuang Dong, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Cancer Research - A Physicist's View

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

27 Mar 2019 by A. Anil Kumar

[CCSB Seminar Series] Differential, tissue-specific effects of germline mutations on epithelial stem cell development

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

27 Feb 2019 by Victoria Mgbemena, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Validation of the Gene Master Regulators Theory for Cancer Gene Therapy

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

13 Feb 2019 by Dumitru Iacobas, Ph.D.

[CCSB Seminar Series] Computational Repurposing of Cancer Drugs: Big Data, Computational Analysis and Knowledge Fusion

CCSB-Seminar at ELEN231

30 Jan 2019 by Seungchan Kim, Ph.D.