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Artificial intelligence leadership and AI-leading areas in education will be the focus of today’s Breakthrough Thinking session designed to challenge and inspire out-of-the-box thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pete Smith, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The presentation \u2014 open to all faculty, staff and students \u2014 will be from noon to 1 p.m. CT via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will feature Pete Smith, PhD, chief analytics and data officer and professor of modern languages at the University of Texas at Arlington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Smith is the founding administrator of University Analytics at UTA, a data science unit that engages more than 30 analysts toward achieving the strategic academic and business goals of the university. Since taking the CAO role in 2015, he has overseen the building of a campuswide analytics and learning analytics infrastructure and worked toward a campus culture of trustworthy data and analytics in planning and decision making. In 2022, he also took on the role of chief data officer for UTA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Smith\u2019s academic teaching and research focus is on big data in education, natural language processing and natural language understanding, as well as technology-aided and AI-driven translation. He also teaches actively in the area of machine translation, including bringing industry partnerships with leading Silicon Valley AI companies into UTA classes and students\u2019 learning. In his academic department, he oversees UTA\u2019s localization and translation program, offered to students of seven languages as an introduction to the language services industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find the link to the webinar in the\u00a0event\u2019s calendar listing<\/a>.<\/p>\naaajPjdgAqwfrsi Frl CeOFzLT<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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