Registration for the commencement will start at 12:15 P.M., in front of Mahler Hall. 

Guests will not be provided with tickets; students who have registered must obtain a graduation slip for entry. 

Seating for guests is first-come, first-served.

The event can be viewed live on the SoC YouTube Channel. It will also be recorded and will be available for viewing on the channel anytime after the event concludes.

Khalifeh Al Jadda, PhD Computer Science ’14, is a trailblazer in the world of computer science who doesn’t wait for opportunities but creates them. Recently, Al Jadda was recognized as an Alumni of Distinction from UGA’s Graduate School. Al Jadda’s drive for real-world impact is evident from his work life at Google to his determination to support Atlanta’s population through his non-profit, ATLytiCS.

This year marks the 40th year of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. That’s 40 years of groundbreaking innovation, research and development from areas of healthcare, agriculture, computer science, robotics and more.

Believe it or not in 1984, a group of individuals from the Department of Computer Science were drawn to creating technology and innovation that traditionally required human intelligence and that’s how AI found its roots at UGA.

A recent article published by Nature Medicine introduces the world to a recently discovered open-source visual-language foundation model BiomedGPT that has been used for various biomedical applications in the field. As we have witnessed the rise of AI use in various technologies over the past year Dr. Tianming Liu's research team has used this idea and collaborated on using AI techniques in solving tasks within the biomedical field such as radiology interpretation and clinical information summarization.

Dr. Ramviyas Parasuraman has received a new 3-year $1M NIFA grant on Cyber-Physical Systems for the project titled "Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: AI-driven Cyber-Physical Heterogeneous Systems for Precision Poultry Farming."