AI/ML Journal Club


Welcome to the AI/ML Journal Club. We aim to explore and discuss the foundational concepts of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a collaborative environment. Everyone, regardless of their expertise or background, is warmly welcomed.


We host a biweekly meeting “AI/ML Journal Club” beginning on January 23, 2024, from 9 AM to 10 AM (CT).

The Journal Club will be conducted in a hybrid mode. The physical meeting room is DRC I 6003.

The Zoom link is https://unmc.zoom.us/j/94435819629?pwd=R1A5Qnhtd1g0ZHlqcXNUZFZBR2Z5QT09&from=addon.


2025 Schedule
Speaker Date Paper/Title Room
Lusheng Li 10/14/2025 Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)​​ 6003
Yanan Lou 09/30/2025 Linear Neighborhood Propagation 6003
Nicholas Peterson 09/16/2025 Kernel Learning 6003
Min-jeong Baek 09/02/2025 Canonical Correlation Analysis--Seurat v2​​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 08/19/2025 DBSCAN​​ 6003
Xinchao Wu 08/05/2025 Federated Learning​​ 6003
Lusheng Li 07/22/2025 Wasserstein Distance​​ 6003
Hanyu Xiao 07/08/2025 KAN: Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks​​ 6003
Yanan Lou 06/24/2025 Maximum Diversity Clustering 6003
Nicholas Peterson 06/10/2025 Cluster-based Similarity Partitioning Algorithm (CSPA)​​ 6003
Min-jeong Baek 05/27/2025 Bayesian Neural Network​​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 05/13/2025 Large Language Models​​ 6003
Xinchao Wu 04/29/2025 Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT)​​ 6003
Lusheng Li 04/15/2025 Kullback–Leibler Divergence​​ 6003
Hanyu Xiao 04/01/2025 Transfer Entropy​​ 6003
Anulika Pearl Nwashili 03/18/2025 Spectral Clustering​​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 03/04/2025 ​​Contrastive Learning​​​​ 6003
Nicholas Peterson 02/18/2025 Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs)​​ 6003
Min-jeong Baek 02/04/2025 Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) II 6003
Yanan Lou 01/21/2025 Mutual Nearest Neighbor​​​​ 6003
Xinchao Wu 01/07/2025 Self-Supervised Learning 6003




2024 Schedule
Speaker Date Paper/Title Room
Lusheng Li 12/10/2024 Diffusion Models 6003
Hanyu Xiao 11/26/2024 Louvain clustering 6003
Nicholas Peterson 11/12/2024 Support Vector Machine II 6003
Min-jeong Baek 10/29/2024 Transfer Learning II 6003
Ziyang Xu 10/15/2024 nnU-net 6003
Charlie Soh 10/01/2024 SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) 6003
Mengtao Sun 09/17/2024 Transfer Learning​ 6003
Ruobing Liu 09/03/2024 nnU-net​ 6003
Lusheng Li 08/20/2024 Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) 6003
Hanyu Xiao 08/06/2024 Deep Reinforcement Learning​ 6003
Xinchao Wu 07/23/2024 cNMF​ 6003
Lusheng Li 07/09/2024 UMAP​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 06/25/2024 Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)​ 6003
Hanyu Xiao 06/11/2024 Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 05/28/2024 Multi-Layer Perceptron 6003
Hanyu Xiao 05/14/2024 Restricted Boltzmann Machine 6003
Wenhao Zhang 04/30/2024 Transformer 6003
Lusheng Li 04/16/2024 Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 04/02/2024 Autoencoder 6003
Hanyu Xiao 03/19/2024 LASSO 6003
Lusheng Li 03/12/2024 Back-Propagation 6003
Wenhao Zhang 02/20/2024 U-Net 6003
Mengtao Sun 02/06/2024 Gradient Descent 6003
Hanyu Xiao 01/23/2024 Expectation-Maximization (EM) Algorithm 6003




2023 Schedule
Speaker Date Paper/Title Room
Lusheng Li 12/12/2023 XGBoost​ 6003
Hanyu Xiao 11/28/2023 Neural network​ 6003
Andy Liu 11/14/2023 Naive Bayes 6003
Mengtao Sun 10/31/2023 Principal component analysis (PCA) 6003
Hanyu Xiao 10/17/2023 Linear Regression (LR)​ 6003
Lusheng Li 10/03/2023 The Introduction of Decision Tree and Random Forest​ 6003
Mengtao Sun 09/19/2023 Hierarchical clustering 6003
Hanyu Xiao 09/05/2023 K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) 6003
Mengtao Sun 08/23/2023 Support vector machine 6003
Lusheng Li 08/08/2023 The art of using t-SNE for single-cell transcriptomics 6003