AI Week at MSOE

Save the dates for AI Week at MSOE, April 20-25, 2026!

AI Week 2026 at Milwaukee School of Engineering is a comprehensive week-long conference exploring artificial intelligence across education, industry, and society. Events take place throughout the week, culminating in a full day of distinguished keynote presentations on Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Whether you are an educator, researcher, industry professional, or student, AI Week offers relevant programming to advance your understanding and practice. Keynote speakers from healthcare, bioengineering, technology development, and education will address both opportunities and challenges in AI implementation, including critical considerations of ethics and energy impact.

The conference includes MSOE signature events such as the ROSIE Supercomputer Superchallenge and an NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute workshop, alongside faculty- and student-focused sessions on AI integration in pedagogy and classroom practice. Beyond the university community, specialized AI programming extends to K-12 audiences through the MSOE STEM Center and to working professionals through a dedicated workshop offered by the MSOE Center for Professional Education.

2026 Keynote Presenters

Below are the keynote presenters currently planned. Stay tuned for more presenters for 2026!

Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna, research scientist at MIT Media Lab

Dr. Kosmyna is a Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and a Visiting Researcher at Google.

She has over 15 years of experience in developing and designing end-to-end brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Coming from a background in artificial intelligence, neuroscience and human-computer interaction (HCI), she is passionate about the idea of creating a partnership between AI and human intelligence, a fusion of the machine with the human brain.

Nataliya won multiple awards for her work, among which is L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award she received in 2016. Nataliya was also named as one of 10 Top French Talent 2017 from MIT Innovators Under 35.

Luke Lehnart, chief of staff at Google DeepMind

Luke is chief of staff at Google DeepMind, serving the speech and audio teams, ensuring that GDM's Gemini models can be used across Google products and serve users across the world. His teams provide data, computation, and policy guidance for processing audio.

Luke has been at Google for over 12 years, and previously he was at Brady Corporation in Milwaukee, where he served as a user experience manager, web application services manager and software developer.

Luke graduated from MSOE in 2004 with a B.S. in Business and Computer Systems and was an adjunct professor from 2012-13 and taught management information systems courses.

AI Week at MSOE Registration

Registration coming soon!

Highlights from AI Week 2025

The theme for AI Week 2025 was AI: The Future is Now. The weeklong event featured poster presentations, speakers, networking, the Rosie Supercomputer Super Challenge and more! A diverse array of industry experts served as keynote speakers, representing companies such as NVIDIA, Vanderbilt University, GE HealthCare, Medical College of Wisconsin and others. All events were free to attend.

Events were held on MSOE's campus. View our campus map.

View the 2025 AI Week at MSOE schedule by day: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | Thursday, April 24, 2025 | Saturday, April 26, 2025

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Innovative Teaching: Insights on Generative AI in Education

Time and location: 12-1 p.m. at the Diercks Hall atrium
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty and staff
Food: Lunch available on first-come-first-served basis

Interact with MSOE’s Copilot 365 AI Community of Practice (AI CoP) members. The AI CoP is a group of MSOE faculty members who are exploring the features, potential, and pitfalls of Copilot 365 and other generative AI tools with a focus on how they can benefit university faculty and, indirectly, students. Topics include:

Teaching responsible and effective use of AI tools.
Generating and enhancing course presentations, handouts, and assignments (including lab activities) using AI tools.
The creation of course- and instructor-specific AI agents (virtual tutors).
Understanding the risks and benefits of automating the evaluation of student work.
Identifying the misuse of AI tools by students, including using AI use detection tools.
Automating routine and repetitive faculty administrative tasks using AI tools.

The “Pocket Professor” CS Senior Design team will demonstrate their “AI Pocket Professor” chat agents that leverage recorded lectures for tunable instructional agents.

Data Science Practicum Lightning Talks

Time and location: 2-2:50 p.m. at the Diercks Hall NVIDIA Auditorium
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty, staff and community members

Current students in the CSC 4801 Data Science Practicum will present short talks on the current state of their projects. In this class students work in teams tackling data science problems for real clients using real data.

AI in Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care and Innovation (REGISTRATION FULL)

Time and location: 5-8:30 p.m. at the MSOE Welcome Center
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members
Food: Buffet-style dinner will be available
This event is supported by the following MSOE programs: Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Engineering and School of Nursing

Keynote speakers will present and engage in discussion about options for AI integration into hospital and healthcare systems, with specific examples from Froedtert Hospital. Networking and a reception will allow ample opportunity for further discussion.

5:05-5:35 p.m.: AI in Healthcare - Responsibility and Enablement
- Melissa Desnoyers, Global Program Manager, EEDP, GE HealthCare

5:35-6:05 p.m.: Healthcare Panel - Integrating AI in Healthcare to Optimize Patient Care and Quality Outcomes
- Sheila Blogg, MSN, RN, PMC-NE, PMC-NL, MHFAC, Director of Nursing Services, Froedtert Hospital
- Eric Pieters, MSN, APNP, FNP, Nursing Operations and Projects Manager, Froedtert Hospital
- Lori Smith, Registered Cardiac Invasive Technologist, Advocate Aurora Cath Lab

6:05-6:50 p.m.: Dinner and Networking
6:50-7:20 p.m.: Wearable Devices, Partnering with Artificial Intelligence, Are Going to Transform Healthcare Delivery
- William Hall, MD, Professor and Chair of Department of Radiation Oncology, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
7:20-7:50 p.m.: Modeling with Meaning: Responsible AI for Drug Design
- Behrgen Smith '23, Engineering Scientist I at Congruence Therapeutics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
7:50-8:20 p.m.: How to Think About How AI Thinks
- Chris Feilbach '13, Senior CPU Architect, NVIDIA

Databricks User Group

Time and location: 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Diercks Hall (DH445) or online (livestream link to come)
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty, alumni and industry

Learn how Databricks is revolutionizing the development and deployment of AI Agents:

Compound AI Systems: Learn what makes these systems different from traditional AI models and how they work together
Mosaic AI Agent Framework: See how this framework makes it easier to build and manage AI agents
Tools & Integration: Learn how to use Unity Catalog functions as tools for AI agents – making them easy to find, manage, and share
Live Demo: Set up an AI agent to analyze data and make decisions using natural language

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

MSOE AI Alumni Council Networking and Resume Raid

Time and location: 1-3 p.m. at Diercks Hall (DH 443)
Attendees: Current MSOE students only

Join members of MSOE's AI Alumni Council for insights on what prospective employers are looking for in a resume. Be prepared with a copy of your resume to review.

Rosie Supercomputer Super Challenge Awards

MSOE students will demonstrate how they've used Rosie the supercomputer to solve a problem, improve a process or answer a difficult question during the Rosie Supercomputer Super Challenge. Judging will take place by:

Dr. Dwight Diercks ’90, NVIDIA senior VP of software engineering, MSOE Regent
Nick Haemel ’02, NVIDIA VP of medical imaging and system software, MSOE Regent
Dr. Jeremy Kedziora, PieperPower Endowed Chair of AI
Dr. Derek Riley, MSOE computer science program director

Rosie Awards Poster Session

Time and location: 4-5 p.m. at Diercks Hall atrium
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty, staff, alumni and industry

Rosie Awards Finals

Time and location: 5-6:30 p.m. at Diercks Hall NVIDIA Auditorium
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty, staff, alumni and industry

Thursday, April 24, 2025

AI at MSOE: Student Voices

Time and location: 12-1 p.m. at Diercks Hall atrium
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty and staff
Food: Lunch available on first come, first served basis

Hear from MSOE students Nathan Seefeld (EE), Zachary Burke (UX), Ben Leshin (UX), Delande Forestal (AE), Lorelei Hengst (SE), Zach Peterson (BME), Cameron Pineres (IE), Ben Paulson (CS), and Brett Storoe (CS) and their thoughts on AI.

Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Jules White, Director of Future of Learning & Generative AI, Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

Presentation title: Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Generative AI and Teaching
Time and location: 5-8 p.m. at Direct Supply Innovation Technology Center, including networking and reception
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members

Dr. Jules White's keynote presentation focuses on generative AI as a new paradigm in computing—one that centers human ideas as the starting point for computational action. Rather than relying on traditional programming, this approach allows people to express complex goals in natural language, making it possible to “compute on thought” across disciplines. His talk will explore how generative AI reshapes our relationship with technology by enabling systems that respond to intent, refine outputs through dialogue, and integrate diverse tools and data. The result is a more interdisciplinary model of innovation, where domain experts, creatives, and technologists collaborate through shared language. At its core, this shift is about augmented intelligence: amplifying human creativity, reasoning, and problem-solving—not replacing it—so that computing becomes a more fluid extension of human thought.

White is Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, Director of Vanderbilt’s Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI, and Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. He created one of the first online classes for Prompt Engineering (https://coursera.org/learn/prompt-engineering). His online courses have had over ~620,000 people enroll and have been covered in media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and The Guardian. White is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient. He won the 2024 Coursera Innovation Award. His research has won multiple Best Paper Awards. He has also published over 170 papers. He is an inventor on multiple patents and has launched several venture-backed startup companies.

Saturday, April 26, 2025

NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Workshop

Time and location: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at MSOE Welcome Center
Attendees: MSOE students, faculty and invited guests
Food: pizza lunch provided by NVIDIA