2026 OMSCS Conference Program
* Indicates events available to virtual attendees
Sunday, May 10
We'll have one or two events (we're still figuring out the volunteer opportunity) for folks to connect with each other the day before the conference! If you have registered to attend the conference in person, you will receive an email to sign up for the events.
Morning/Early Afternoon: We are looking into organizing a volunteer opportunity for conference attendees! We'll provide more details here when that's finalized.
4:00-6:00 p.m.: Bowling and billiards social at Tech Rec in the Georgia Tech Student Center! The cost to attend is $10 per person, which you can pay when you register for the conference.
Evening: While there won't be a formal dinner, we encourage attendees to get dinner together at one of the many restaurants on or near campus. The conference Slack channel can be a great way to organize that beforehand!
Monday, May 11
| Main Auditorium (Room 236) | |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. | Check-in |
| 8:00-9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:10 a.m. | Welcome Address* |
| 9:10-9:15 a.m. | Keynote Introduction* Alex Duncan |
| 9:15-10:15 a.m. | Keynote Address* Barbara Oakley |
| 10:15-10:25 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:25-10:35 a.m. | GT Campus Partner Presentation* |
| 10:40-11:00 a.m. | AI-Augmented Programming Education: Why LLMs Make Learning to Code More Important, Not Less* Senthil Kumaran Traditional Talk |
| 11:05-11:25 a.m. | AI-Assisted Semantic Model Generation for Prompt-to-SQL Applications* Nick Lee and Nanda Koka Traditional Talk |
| 11:30-11:50 a.m. | AI Agent for Wiring Component Intelligence* Bryan Horvat Traditional Talk |
| 11:50 a.m.-12:50 p.m. | Lunch GLC Atrium |
| 12:50-1:50 p.m. | Faculty Perspectives on Building Research Communities Online* Moderator: Breanna Shi Panel Discussion |
| 1:50-2:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 2:00-2:20 p.m. | Black-Box Interpretability of Large Language Models: A Model-Agnostic Framework* Brennen Yu Traditional Talk |
| 2:25-2:45 p.m. | Learning with Stakes: A Cost-Sensitive Framework for Classification* Kabir Kang Traditional Talk |
| 2:50-3:10 p.m. | Agility: A VR Game-Based Clinical Assessment for Parkinson’s Disease* Sandra Nguyen Traditional Talk |
| 3:15-3:35 p.m. | Research in OMSCS* Nick Lytle Traditional Talk |
| 3:35-3:45 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:45-4:35 p.m. | OMSCS Faculty Showcase* Lightning Talks |
| 4:40-4:50 p.m. | Day 1 Closing Remarks* |
| 4:50 p.m. | Group Picture |
| 5:00-7:00 p.m. | Conference Reception GLC Atrium |
Tuesday, May 12
| See Below for Room Information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. | Check-in | ||
| 8:00-9:20 a.m. | Breakfast | ||
| 8:15-9:15 a.m. | Women in OMSCS Panel & Networking Moderator: Bobbie Eicher Rooms 156-158 | ||
| 9:20-10:00 a.m. | State of OMSCS Address* David Joyner Main Auditorium (Room 236) | ||
| 10:00-10:10 a.m. | BREAK | ||
| 10:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. | Resource Fair Rooms 323-324 Poster & Demo Session (starts 10:30 a.m.) 2nd Floor Hallways | ||
| 12:10-12:25 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 12:25-1:25 p.m. | Lunch GLC Atrium | ||
| 1:25-2:25 p.m. | Georgia Tech Career Center Workshop Main Auditorium (Room 236) | Kubernetes from Scratch: Understand How It Works by Running It Yourself Chinmay Anaokar Workshop Room 323 | Practical Exploratory Data Analysis for Machine Learning Ananda Ribeiro Workshop Room 324 |
| 2:25-2:35 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| Main Auditorium (Room 236) | |
|---|---|
| 2:35-2:45 p.m. | GT Campus Partner Presentation* |
| 2:50-3:10 p.m. | Deep Learning for Real-Time Credit Card Fraud Detection* Balakumaran Sugumar Traditional Talk |
| 3:15-3:35 p.m. | AI as an External Cognitive Aid: Scaffolding Reflective Parenting through Source-Grounded LLMs* Pooja Khanapurkar Traditional Talk |
| 3:35-3:45 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:45-4:05 p.m. | Synthetic data for language AI: Insights from low-resource languages* Christian Resch Traditional Talk |
| 4:10-4:30 p.m. | Building a Culture of Applied Research: The DS@GT ARC Story* Murilo Gustineli Traditional Talk |
| 4:35-4:45 p.m. | Conference Closing Remarks* |
5:00-6:30 p.m.: Campus Tour (led by David Joyner); bring headphones if you plan to attend!
Questions About the Conference?
Check out our FAQ page for answers and contact information!