Year in Review

This year marked an important period of growth and development for CADS as we continued laying the groundwork for the center's potential long-term impact. During 2024, we focused on establishing the programs, partnerships, and infrastructure that would support our mission to advance research, education, and workforce development in analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence. 

CADS expanded its network of academic, industry, and national partners to advance research, education, and workforce development initiatives. Throughout the year, CADS hosted visiting researchers, engaged with NSF AI Institutes and national AI leadership networks, strengthened connections through the Academic Data Science Alliance, participated in national discussions on artificial intelligence policy, and explored strategic collaborations to expand AI research, curriculum development, and workforce pathways. CADS also supported student and academic programs in building professional and research communities across the university.

The TXST ExpandAI Initiative advanced interdisciplinary AI research by strengthening instructional capacity, enhancing research infrastructure, and encouraging collaboration across disciplines. The initiative also provided seed funding to help launch and accelerate new research projects. The CADS 2024 Catalyst Research Awards provided funding to faculty researchers through a competitive review process. Innovation Seed Awards and Collaborative Growth Awards were granted to support promising research initiatives across the university.

Through strategic investments in faculty research, university-wide engagement, industry collaboration, and community-building initiatives, CADS began transforming its vision into a sustainable foundation for innovation across Texas State. 

2024 Stats:

40 Faculty Partners

17 submitted proposals

$6.9M in Research Awards

News and Announcements

CADS Poster 2024 (PDF, 462KB)
CADS flyer 2024 (PDF, 1.58MB)

Seminars & Events

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  • Fiona Nah, City University of Hong Kong, A Study of Flow Experience in Video 
    Gaming Using Electroencephalogram (EEG), 2/2/2024.
  • David Morton, Northwestern University, Design, calibration, and optimization of 
    pandemic alert systems, 2/16/2024.
  • Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Scheduling Productive 
    Maintenance in the Industry 4.0 Era via Reinforcement Learning, 3/8/2024.
  • Rasim Musal, Texas State, Bayesian Learning, Monitoring, and Forecasting of Count 
    Data: Applications to Business Analytics, 3/29/2024.
  • 2024 TXST STEM Conference – Keynote Panel: Unleashing the Power of Data, Analytics, and AI: Transforming Healthcare, Scott Burk, Barbara Hewitt, Tevfik Aktekin, Tahir Ekin. 4/9/2024.
  • 2024 TXST STEM Conference – Keynote Data, AI and Health care, Seth Feder,
    4/12/2024.
  • Tevfik Aktekin, University of New Hampshire, Bayesian Learning, Monitoring, and 
    Forecasting of Count Data: Applications to Business Analytics, 4/12/2024.
  • Andrea Carta, University of Cagliari, SVM - Oblique Trees: A Novel Approach to 
    Regression Tasks, 5/28/2024. 
  • Meng Li, University of Houston, The Value of AI: Two Field Experiments on Medical 
    Platform, 9/6/2024.
  • M. Ali Ulku, Dalhousie University, Big Data and Consumer Behavior: The Case of 
    Retailer Return Policies and Sustainable Supply Chain Performance, 09/27/2024.
  • Jelena Tesic, Texas State University, Data-driven Considerations in Innovative Predictive Modeling from noisy tabular data in Education and Healthcare, 10/25/2024
     

CADS ExpandAI Fall 2024 Seminar Series:
• AI, Cloud, and Sustainability (October 4), Ziliang Zong, Texas State
• AI, Climate, and Resilience (October 18), Eunsang Cho, Soe W Myint, Texas State
• Responsible AI (November 1), Emily DeLarosa, Michigan State and Dr. Chul-Ho Lee, 
Texas State
• Urban Mobility and Transportation (November 15), Krishna Kumar, US-India Chamber Austin AI Innovation Hub and Yihong Yuan, Texas State

3rd Annual Analytics Showcase

CADS hosted our inaugural an annual Analytics Showcase. 

For this event, we had 20 student poster presenters from across the campus, and an industry panel with five speakers serving around 120 attendees.

2024-2025 University Lecturer Funding will support the 2025 Showcase theme “Data Driven 
Analytics for Resiliency in Supply Chains and Transportation”.

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Poster Awards:

  • Panelists Choice Award - Undergraduate: Computer Vision Approach for Real Time 
    Biomechanical Fatigue Detection: Joni Mccawley (Engineering)
  • Panelists Choice Award - Graduate: Semantic Segmentation for Retinal Blood Vessel 
    Images: Tanzina Akter Tani. (Computer Science)
  • Community Choice Award-undergraduate: Utilizing Artificial Intelligence for 
    Algorithmic Trading: James Pavlicek, Jack Burt, Andrew Hocher (McCoy)
  • Community Choice Award-graduate: Adversarial Forecasting-autoregressive models: 
    Vamshi Garega (Computer Science/McCoy)