2026-06-25: 2026 WS-DL Research Expo

On June 23, 2026, we held our sixth annual WS-DL Research Expo.  We continued the same format as the prior years (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short overview of their research.  Links to all the materials (slides, papers, software, data) are gathered in the GitHub repo, but repeated here are the links for the students and their presentations: 

• Brian Llinas: RAG-TEC: Extracting and Classifying Topics in Digital News Collections Using LLMs
• Lawrence Obiuwevwi: Cognitive Prosthetic: An AI-Enabled Multimodal System for Episodic Recall in Knowledge Work
• Akshay Kolgar Nayak: Contextual Scaffolding and Self-Efficacy: Supporting Computer Skill Development among Blind Learners in India
• Rochana Obadage: CC30k: A Citation Contexts Dataset for Reproducibility-Oriented Sentiment Analysis
• Himarsha Jayanetti: Infrastructure for Tracking Information Flow from Social Media to U.S. TV News

We were fortunate enough to welcome back several of our alumni, including: Sawood Alam (PhD, 2020), Justin Brunelle (PhD, 2016) Yasith Jayawardana (PhD, 2024), Mat Kelly (PhD, 2019), Bhanuka Mahanama (PhD, 2025), and Alexander Nwala (PhD, 2020). We really appreciate the ongoing relationship we have with our alumni -- WSDL is for life! 

If you were unable to attend, we recorded the students' presentations and have embedded the video below.

--Michael