Featuring faculty from across the university, this showcase celebrates TXST Data and AI research from the recipients of the 2025 Catalyst Research Awards.
Join us on Feb 27, 2026, for a showcase of recent CADS Catalyst Award winners’ work and help bring these innovative projects to the campus community.
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Featuring the following research projects:
College of Science & Engineering
Advancing the Automation of Bat Monitoring for Sustainable Wind Energy Development
Dr. Mylene Queiroz de Farias
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Jelena Tešić
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Sarah R Fritts
Associate Professor, Biology
COSE & McCoy
Deploying Financially Sustainable EV Fast Chargers under Long-Term Uncertainty
Dr. Tongdan Jin
Professor, Ingram School of Engineering
Dr. Emily Zhu
Associate Professor, Information Systems and Analytics
.FCS & University Libraries
Generative AI for Qualitative Adolescent Research: Leveraging Large Language Model Prompting
Dr. Yishan Shen
Associate Professor, School of Family & Consumer Sciences
Dr. Veronica Perez-Rosas
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Stephen Chen
Psychology, Wellesley College, USA
College of Science & Engineering
Mathematical Methods for Medical Image Segmentation
Dr. Young Ju Lee
Professor, Mathematics
McCoy College of Business
Visualizing the Special Education Teacher Workforce: Evidence From SPARC Year 1 and Three Policy-Facing Data Dashboards
Dr. Li Feng
Professor, Finance and Economics
COSE & COLA
Flood-Responsive Traffic Management for Emergency Evacuation
Dr. Tsz-Chiu Au
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Dr. T Edwin Chow
Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
Meet the authors
Agenda
- 11:00 AM - Welcome & Intro
- 11:15 AM - Generative AI for Qualitative Adolescent Research: Leveraging Large Language Model Prompting
- 11:30 AM - Flood-Responsive Traffic Management for Emergency Evacuation
- 11:45 AM - Deploying Financially Sustainable EV Fast Chargers under Long-Term Uncertainty
- 12:00 PM - Break
- 12:15 PM - Advancing the Automation of Bat Monitoring for Sustainable Wind Energy Development
- 12:30 PM - Mathematical Methods for Medical Image Segmentation
- 12:45 PM - Visualizing the Special Education Teacher Workforce: Evidence From SPARC Year 1 and Three Policy-Facing Data Dashboards
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