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AI Research Showcase

AI Research Showcase

April 1, 2026
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Green Room, W444, MSU Main Library Directions to event location

About

Join the Research Facilitation Network for presentations from eight MSU researchers and learn how they are incorporating AI into their research. 

The Research Facilitation Network (RFN) is an alliance of research service providers and facilitators who are conducting research or supporting research computing and data management activities across the research lifecycle at Michigan State University. Members can be faculty, staff, or graduate students from all corners of the university. The goal of this community is to build a constructive space for researchers, research facilitators and technologists to communicate about their experiences, share best practices, ask questions, and develop professional relationships to enhance research computing and data services, programs, and infrastructure. The RFN encourages collaboration, expands access to research tools available to all, and aligns services to the research life cycle. 

Speakers 

(order TBD)

  • Wei-Chu Chen, Data Resource Analyst, Education Policy Center
    • From Job Postings to Research Data: A Practical Framework for Using LLM to Process Unstructured Text Data
  • Dirk Colbry, Sr Specialist, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
    • The AI Bootstrapping Problem: We Want AI to Annotate Scientific Data, but We Need Annotations to Train and Validate the AI
  • Autumn Faulkner, Head of Copy Cataloging, MSU Libraries; Sami Luke, Reference and Discovery Services, MSU Libraries
    • Who is she?: Using AI to isolate “Mrs. Husband’s Name” entries in the MSU Libraries catalog
  • Jon Frey, Associate Professor, Art, Art History, and Design; Daniel Trego, Educational Media Design Specialist, College of Arts and Letters
    • Using Document AI in the MSU Isthmia Archives
  • Gillian MacDonald, Director of the Lab for the Education and Advancement of Digital Research (LEADR); Jesse Draper, Executive Director of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
    • Title TBD
  • Jane Payumo, Research Evaluation and Data Analytics Director
    • Turning Research into Results: Using AI and Microsoft 365 to Quantify Agricultural Impact
  • Fatemeh (Jana) Yousefsaber, Graduate Student, Chemistry
    • Gene Pathway Intelligence (GPI): An AWS-Native Workflow for Evidence-Grounded RNAi Gene Prioritization
  • Yue Xing, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Probability; Lianzhang Bao, Fixed Term Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; Guanao Yan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
    • A Platform for AI-Assisted Learning, and Research on True Student Performance Estimation

*Speakers in bold