[AI Seminar Series] REMINDER: Seminar by Prof. John Franchak, tomorrow Friday October 9th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Reminder for the AI Seminar tomorrow, please register with the link below
if you plan to attend.

V. Tsotras
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On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 10:22 AM Vassilis Tsotras <vassilis.tsotras at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> The next AI Seminar will be on Friday October 9th, 12-1pm, in the MRB
> Seminar Room (1st floor).
>
> *** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
>
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-seminar-series-tickets-2002851278088
>
> The talk will be given by *Prof. John Franchak*, Department of
> Psychological & Brain Sciences, UCR
>
> TITLE: Classifying movement categories from continuously-recording
> wearable sensors
>
> ABSTRACT:
> How infants move in everyday life is critical for understanding healthy
> development. However, existing video-based methods to record movements are
> insufficient to measure the entirety of infants' daily experiences in home
> life. In this talk, I will describe my lab's development of a wearable
> sensor methodology to classify movement categories (position and restraint)
> from inertial sensor data. I will present our validation of the method
> against video-coded ground truth data and discuss which modeling choices
> impact classification performance. Finally, I will discuss our current and
> future applications of the method for studying infant development.
>
>
> Bio
>
> Dr. Franchak earned a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of
> Virginia in 2005 and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from New York
> University in 2011. Afterwards, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at
> New York University (2011-2013) and Indiana University (2013-2014) before
> joining UC Riverside in 2014. Dr. Franchak was named a Rising Star by the
> Association for Psychological Science in 2015 and a Visiting Scholar by the
> McPherson Eye Research Institute in 2020. In 2022, he was promoted to
> Associate Professor. He is a member of the Developmental Area, Cognitive
> and Cognitive Neuroscience Area, and Quantitative Specialized Subfield in
> the UCR Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. His current research
> focuses on infant perceptual-motor development and is funded by grants from
> the James S. McDonnell Foundation and National Science Foundation.
>
> ------------------------------------
> Sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute, the AI Seminar Series presents
> speakers working on cutting edge Foundational AI or applying AI in their
> research. The goal of these seminars is to inform the UCR community about
> current trends in AI research and promote collaborations between faculty
> in this emerging field. These seminars are open to interested faculty and
> graduate/undergraduate students. Please forward this email to other
> colleagues or students in your lab that may be interested. After the
> seminar a discussion will follow for questions, open problems, ideas for
> possible collaborations etc.
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
> Amit Roy-Chowdhury
> Professor, ECE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
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