This is an event that can help connect students during recruitment season by giving students the opportunity to ask their peers at UTD how they were able to break into big tech internship positions

- Yeshas Nath
- Aamir Mohammed
- Sreevasan Sivasubrama
- Prem Kishnani

AI Chats: How to Break into Tech

Welcome to the Fall 2025 Semester of AIS! Kickoff is the best place to get started - we’ll be announcing new programs, events, and officer positions.

Anveetha Suresh

Fall 2025 Kickoff

A fun day of hacking, learning about AI, and networking with industry professionals and fellow students!

HackAI

We’re excited to welcome Anmol Agarwal, M.S., Cybersecurity Analyst at Nokia and Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University, for an insightful event on AI/ML and Cyber Defense Info! Whether you’re new to cybersecurity or looking to deepen your expertise, this is a fantastic chance to learn from a true practitioner and educator.

Dr. Anmol Agarwal

AIS x ISSA Workshop

Asvataman and Varsha

ML Monday 3

Learning how to interpret 3-statement models and regression algorithms in python to predict financial success!

Vasudev Nair

Jacob Free (FLA)

Financial Modeling Workshop

Learn about the applications of biotechnology in artificial intelligence and alphafold.

Vardhan and BioTech People

Alphafold and Applications of Biotechnology - Bio Tech Collab

Sarvesh

Zain

ML Monday 2

Join us for an exciting collaboration between QFC and AIS as we explore the intersection of machine learning and quantitative finance. Learn how AI techniques are carefully applied to stock market analysis through stochastic processes, with a special focus on avoiding overfitting and managing financial risk. This workshop will demonstrate how advanced models like Geometric Brownian Motion can be calibrated using machine learning to create more accurate market predictions.

Dhanush Ramkumar (QFC)

AIS x QFC: Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance

Abhiram

Vardhan

ML Monday 1

Valentine’s day is coming up! 🥰 We got a speed-networking social just for you 😉 Bring a friend or partner to enjoy the loveeee

Operations

Valentine’s Social

Join us for an AI Chats session featuring Professor Xinya Du as he explores how DeepSeek is changing the way AI models are trained with simpler, more efficient methods. Professor Du, a distinguished faculty member and NSF CAREER Award recipient, will lead an engaging discussion on how DeepSeek is making AI more accessible while achieving impressive results.

Du Xinya

AI-Chats: DeepSeek

Join us for “Meet the Mentors” @ 7pm, January 27th! Here, you will have the opportunity to learn more about the projects that you could work on with our AIM Program (AI Mentors Program) and the bright student mentors that will be guiding you throughout the semester! 

Sruti Karthikeyan

Meet the Mentors! (AIM)

Come learn what AIS is all about and what events are coming up this semester!

AIS Kickoff S25

Social event. We will be serving hot chocolate, have karaoke, board games, and AI rap music activity.

Karaoke and Hot Choco-AI-late Game Night

Alex Lang, the AI Engineering Leader at Perplexity will come to speak

Alex Lang

Perplexity Workshop ML Monday

XAI is the study of unboxing models and understanding/explaining the results produced by these models. Doing this helps us understand the model better and trust its results as we would know what's going behind the scenes
We will breifly be going over what problem XAI solves (Why it is required), techniques/methods which can solve those problems and maybe example usecases

Angelo

Explainable AI ML Monday

Tech Tank is a student-run conference that connects students with industry professionals during an inspiring day of learning and networking.

Tech Tank F24

Communication, personal development and team bonding activities

Ops team

AIS Officer Personal Development and Communications Workshop

Lokesh Kumar Viswavarapu

Meet The Speaker - Toyota Connected

Resume workshop with industry speaker and interactive workshopping of resume. Students will also have the opportunity to get their resumes reviewed by AIS reviewers

Chuck Pelton

Operations Team

Resume Workshop

Join us as we dive into a basic history on the evolution of how people have used computers to process and extract meaning from text, and more recently to generate text with generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

Sowresh

Intro to Natural Language Processing & GPT

Join us for Wall-E, the story of a humble robot going about their simple life compacting trash on a barren earth long after humans left it, until one day...the humans send another robot to check how things are going there. Watch to find out what unexpected twists unfold as she meets Wall-E and is introduced to other interesting discoveries that make the plot much richer than the description above

AI Movie Night

Come learn about how AI is used to help cars see, leading to developments like automated driving

Zain Ali and Sowresh M

AI in Cars

Meet the Mentors

AIS Directors

AIS Kickoff F24

AIM Night

Dylan Kaneshiro

Phillip Lee

Rami Ismael

AIM x ACM Natural Language Processing Workshop

Dallas AI is a collective of industry leaders in the field of machine learning / AI:  
[https://dallas-ai.org/](https://dallas-ai.org/)

This event will give students an opportunity to learn about real-world data science and speak with industry leaders around Dallas.

Dallas AI

Dallas AI Panel

Tech Tank

External

Empowering the Future: AI Innovation at Cisco

A night of food and games for members of AIM and Open AIM

AIM Social

Learn about some of the ethical obligations of AI professionals as we dive into some of the ethical guidance material provided by Huggingface

Rami & Suvel

Ethics in AI

In this workshop, we’ll be explaining the basics of data visualization in Python, along with a brief survey of some of the most common methods for evaluating the performance of your AI models

Sowresh & Zain

Model Evaluation

We will be going over several common machine learning techniques in both supervised and unsupervised learning

Eamon & Mark

ML Monday - Classic Machine Learning

A dive into neural networks and deep learning, with a special focus on gradient descent optimization.

Zain & Mark

ML Monday - Exploring Neural Networks

Introduction to Python using Google Colab and Jupyter, along with an overview of basic libraries such as NumPy and Pandas.

Suvel & Zain

ML Monday - Google Colab & Jupyter

Valentine’s Day Social

Meet our Spring 2024 AIM mentors and hear project ideas

AIM Directors & Mentors

A little bit about us and a showcase of what’s going on in the club this semester

AIS Kickoff Spring 2024

Come join us for a workshop on FastAI, a deep learning library, and get some hands-on experience with deep learning!

Ibad Momin

Ahad Jawaid

FastAI

Student-run hackathon organized by the Artificial Intelligence Society at UTD, aiming to connect today's students with the knowledge and resources needed to build Artificial Intelligence related projects in the span of 24 hours.

Artificial Intelligence Society

Join AIS UTD for a day of learning more about artificial intelligence at our 2022 AI conference! We have a day full of speakers, workshops, and networking opportunities planned for you all to learn more about AI and its applications in different industry fields, along with research currently being done in the field. Whether you are new or experienced in this field, we invite you to this awesome experience!

3-4 industry speakers

AIS content team (doing a workshop)

a professor

AI Conference

Come join us to learn more about ML and its applications in game development 

SGDA

Machine Learning in Video Games

We will be holding a night to present the projects of our AIM (AI mentorship) program participants took part in.

AIM People

Vignesh (AIM Director)

We are holding an interactive seminar discussion to talk about Natural Language Processing and sub-topics related to it with Dr. Mithun Balakrishna, a professor at UTD that has expertise in NLP. Students will be encouraged to come to the discussion with questions or comments to encourage a seminar type of discussion.

Dr. Mithun Balakrishna

NLP Talk

We plan on holding an interactive seminar discussion with Vamsi Nellutla to come to speak about the AI Ethics talk, specifically about using ML models for patient data at a Fortune 5 healthcare insurance company in an ethical way and other sub-topics. We will have our speaker guide the conversation and encourage our audience to speak up and bring questions or comments like an interactive seminar. We plan on using tables and chairs to allow people to sit somewhat close for it to be interactive.

Vamsi Nellutla

AI Ethics Talk

This project will teach new users how to use technologies such as OpenCV, Tensorflow, and MediaPipe Hands to process and classify real-time Hand Signs for translating American Sign Language into readable english

Aaron Chang

Real-Time Hand Sign Recognition

This event will include James (a representative from the Harvard-MIT MTS program and a previous employee at PathAI) and a representative from UTD’s Starling Lab. They will be discussing using AI to advance medicine and the ethical dilemmas that come with progress. 

Stephanie Li

Ethics of AI in Medicine

We will be holding a collaboration with Dr. Gopal Gupta's research lab to hold a workshop over the tools that they have been building such as FOLD-R++, which work on concepts of Explainable AI, over various Kaggle Datasets. Dr. Gopal Gupta's Applied Logic Programming-Languages and Systems (ALPS) Lab are researching a concept called Explainable AI. Explainable AI is about providing patterns from data, which can inform people about why the model performed the way it did. The lab is making algorithms such as FOLD-R++ in Python, which generates Prolog rulesets that show patterns (Explaining AI decisions) it detects from datasets.

Dr. Gopal Gupta’s research team

Explainable AI with Dr. Gopal Gupta

As of now, this will be a panel type of event. We will have a moderator first ask the panelists variety of type of questions such as what made you start a start-up, how did you go about acquiring customers and making a profit, what factors did you consider in choosing your partners, and how does the Dallas startup scene differ from other locations. We will then hold a brief Q&A to allow our audience members to ask questions and then hold networking/advertising contact information at the end. 

Test: [Google](https://www.google.com/)

Rees Blatt

Sr. Applied Scientists (NLP) Hong Kang from Pieces

CEO Vaidyanatha Siva from FelixHealthCare.AI.

Local AI Startup Panel

In this workshop, we will learn many of the most fundamental techniques used in adversarial AI, which pits one AI against another, through checkers. Topics will include minimax search, alpha-beta pruning, evaluation functions, and many other ways to improve the speed and performance of a checkers AI. The workshop will also be supplemented by an interactive Google Colab illustrating the concepts we learned and what kind of impact they make on the adversarial agents.

Ryan Aspenleiter

Learning Adversarial AI with Checkers

This event will kickoff the start of the Spring 2022 semester. We will give an introduction of the organization and what our plans are for the semester. It can also be used as a networking event to meet officers in the organization.

AIS Kickoff

Speaker Shirin Khan will share her story about how she transitioned from a business background to a customer-focused career in technology in AI/ML at Cisco. There will be a discussion about innovative Cisco products using AI/ML that are changing the way people work. Recruiter Melanie-Lark Benning will offer insights into the recruiting process at Cisco and how you can build your career in technology with the company. Password: fYSeMJJ4

Shirin Khan

Melanie-Lark Benning

Cisco x UTD AIS: Guiding Your Career in AI/ML

UTD AIM will be presenting their semester long projects to professors and public audience. Professors will give feedback on their projects and professors and audience are free to start short conversations with each group about their research/semester long project. It is an event to showcase what each AIM group has achieved throughout the semester. 

AIM Presentation Night

Members can play games and chill, and interact with the AIS team! 

AIS Member Social

This event is to learn the fundamentals of reinforcement learning and how to get started with topics such as QLearning and apply them in projects.
Access Passcode: lJ2m.4*j

Varun Joshi

Reinforcement Learning 

We will be hosting a fundraiser to raise funds for AIS UTD by selling a variety of Boba Tea. Please come to support our organization and socialize with our fellow members! 

AIS UTD

Boba With AIS

A podcast with the co-founder of [DeepRisk.AI](DeepRisk.AI), Chaitanya Vaidya, regarding AI, the industry and startups

Industry Team

The AI Talkshow

This is basically going over the kaggle competition that will be running from the 15th to 22nd.
Winners of the contest will be announced at this event.
We will also go over solutions for the kaggle contest and tip and tricks on how to do well in general machine learning competitions

How to Win Kaggle Competitions

Basically a deep dive into deep learning theory (neurons, gradient descent, activation functions, a lot of mathy stuff). Make sure to put on there to brush up on their calculus. There will also be a kaggle contest at the end

Intro to Deep Learning 2

Our first AI panel this semester to provide advice from our AIS alumni holding jobs in AI/ML related positions and perspective from experienced engineers and directors at companies on how to land a job in the AI industry, as well as offer insight on the trend and skills to learn for this field.

Sanjeev Penupala

Amol Mavuduru

Noreen Ahmad

Babar Bhatti

Sudhir Sundararam

Landing a Job/Internship in AI

Come join us in-person or tune in virtually to learn more about the Artificial Intelligence Society and what we have planned for the upcoming semester, from workshops to hackathons! Experienced or not, we have something for you. Food is provided while supplies last!

AIS Board & Directors

This will give an overview and introduction of deep learning, specifically the math behind it and implementing them in TensorFlow

Introduction to Deep Learning

An introduction to Python, a popular language used by beginners and loved by the AI community for its extensive libraries and support! This workshop is specifically geared towards people with absolutely no programming experience whatsoever, so come on over to learn something new!

Introduction to Python

Bring your snacks and drinks and join us for a movie night social where we’ll be watching and discussing a movie that surrounds Artificial Intelligence! To determine which movie will be selected, take your vote in the #announcements channel on the AIS Discord before Thursday at midnight! 

AIS 

End of Summer AI Movie Night 

The event would be an Ask Me Anything (AMA) event, similar to a Q&A panel but w/ one person in the spotlight, where the speaker and participants will be able to have a discussion regarding anything AI related.

Dr. Anurag Nagar

Ask Me Anything with Dr. Nagar

This workshop showcases how to use OpenCV and EasyOCR to detect license plates from images.

Meah Ahmed

 Adithya Viswanathan

License Plate Recognition

AI is increasingly adopted in multiple fields. Yet, it still remains vulnerable to malicious applications. Learn about adversarial attacks and watch as we demonstrate an attack on an image classification model and cause it to make faulty predictions. 

Perry Son

Anusha Saha

Exploring Adversarial Attacks on Image Datasets

A presentation about genetic algorithms with an accompanying online visualization.

Usaid Malik

Genetic Algorithm Presentation + Visualization

Take a sneak peek at the field of NLP and how computers understand human’s language through the use of word embeddings. Also, try your hand at building your first dictionary for computers!

Bach Nguyen

Intro to Natural Language Processing Part 1: Defining Your Words with Word Embeddings

EmoReCom is built for a competition to develop a vision-text method to recognize emotions in comic scenes. This project guides you how to turn ideas into your first submission in an AI competition. 