Fwd: [College of Engineering Faculty] Looking forward to next month’s Applied AI Futures Seminars
Tiffany Barnes
From: Jim Pfaendtner <pfaen...@ncsu.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Subject: [College of Engineering Faculty] Looking forward to next month’s Applied AI Futures Seminars
To:
Dear Engineering Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students,
I am looking forward to seeing many of you at next month’s two Applied AI Futures Seminars, part of the Dean's Distinguished Seminar Series.
On Monday, Feb. 9, René Vidal will be visiting from the University of Pennsylvania to deliver a seminar titled “Engineering Faithful and Interpretable AI Systems.”
The following week on Tuesday, Feb. 17, alumnus Craig Nowell ’03, VP of Global AI Go-to-Market at Databricks, will share an industry perspective in his seminar “Observations from an AI Pragmatist.”
More details and registration are on the Dean's Distinguished Seminar Series web page.
Please register in advance for both of these seminars.
Thank you, and I hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Dean Jim Pfaendtner
Louis Martin-Vega Dean, College of Engineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering
NC State University
Campus Box 7901
Raleigh, NC 27695-7901
pfaen...@ncsu.edu | 919-515-2311