HOBI Grand Rounds presents Halil Kilicoglu, PhD

Please join us in the Malachowsky Hall, DSIT 7200 for HOBI Grand Rounds seminar "In Machines We Trust? Harnessing AI to Strengthen Research Rigor and Integrity" presented by Halil Kilicoglu, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Lunches are provided for in-person attendees who complete the event registration form found here prior to September 17. Please note, this form may only be completed once.

A limited number of additional lunches may be available on a first come, first served basis.

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About the Speaker

Dr. Halil Kilicoglu is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and knowledge representation, with a focus on biomedical applications. His research centers on extracting and structuring knowledge buried in textual artifacts to advance biomedical discovery, support scholarly communication, and improve healthcare outcomes. A key area of his work involves developing automated methods to assess the rigor, transparency, and integrity of biomedical publications. Before joining the iSchool faculty in 2019, he was a research scientist at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NLM/NIH), where he led the Semantic Knowledge Representation project. His research has been supported by NIH, AHRQ, and HHS Office of Research Integrity.