by Kristen Mcintyre | Oct 21, 2025 | Upcoming Events
About This Event
Facilitators: Waverly Tseng (DTEI) and Dominic Slauson (OIT)
In partnership with the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) is excited to announce Hands-On with ZotGPT: Practical Applications for the Classroom, a workshop series exploring practical applications of ZotGPT Chat and ZotGPT ClassChat to support student learning. Through these workshops, participants will engage with ZotGPT tools in a guided space and brainstorm diverse applications of ZotGPT tools for their classroom contexts.
Register for Hands-On with ZotGPT ClassChat
Register for Leveraging ZotGPT in the Classroom
Event Details
Hands-On with ZotGPT ClassChat
Date: Tue, Nov 18
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Leveraging ZotGPT in the Classroom
Date: Thur, Dec 14
Time: 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Location
1020 Anteater Instruction & Research Building (AIRB) 1030
by Kristen Mcintyre | Oct 20, 2025 | Home Page News, Technology Stories
New AI-powered tool now available to all UC Irvine faculty
By Kristen McIntyre
UC Irvine is continuing its pursuit of academic innovation with ScholarConnect, an AI-powered platform that transforms faculty CVs into searchable online profiles. ScholarConnect addresses the longstanding challenge of adequately showcasing UCI’s research prowess to a broader audience. The project’s ultimate goals are to connect faculty with other scholars, help new faculty discover potential collaborators on campus, and elevate UCI’s research profile globally.
“For years, we’ve been adequately acknowledged for our extraordinary work with students, but we didn’t get the appropriate recognition for the extraordinary research happening on our campus,” explains Roxane Silver, Vice Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning. Silver has been focusing for several years on how to elevate the research profile of our campus. “What we’ve created now is a living search engine for our campus research activities.”
The platform, designed and run in-house by a small team, uses artificial intelligence to extract key information from faculty CVs, creating comprehensive, up-to-date web profiles with minimal effort from busy academics. “Faculty typically keep their CVs current, so we wanted to tap into that to ensure their web presence stays in lockstep,” says Max Garrick, Acting Director, OIT Student & Academic Services, who spearheaded the project’s technical development.
Key features of ScholarConnect include:
- Automated profile creation from CV data
- Integration with UCI Library systems for real-time publication updates
- Powerful expertise search functionality for internal and external users
- Faculty control over profile content and publication
Garrick emphasizes the platform’s user-friendly approach: “Everything is opt-in. We’re not going to create a profile if people don’t want it. Faculty can review, edit, and approve their AI-generated profile before it goes live.”
Following a successful pilot in the School of Physical Sciences, the UC Irvine Senate Cabinet has unanimously endorsed campus-wide expansion of the tool. As the platform expands, with a campuswide rollout this fall, it promises to showcase UCI’s research excellence to a global audience, fostering new collaborations and elevating the university’s academic reputation.
UC Irvine faculty members are welcome to try ScholarConnect by emailing their CV to scholarconnect@uci.edu. Ability to directly upload a CV to ScholarConnect is coming soon.
by Meredith Ehrenberg | Oct 17, 2025 | Upcoming Events
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Digital Accessibility is a Campus-wide Responsibility
To help UCI staff better understand accessibility and how to prepare for the ADA Title II Final Rule deadline (April 24, 2026), Student Affairs IT has created 2 trainings. We invite you to join one of the following sessions, as appropriate for your role at UCI.
– FOR EVERYONE –
Digital Accessibility Basic Skills Workshop
Every UCI worker who uses a computer can and should learn the basics of digital accessibility. This workshop teaches the 5 basic skills necessary for producing accessible documents and content, e.g. email, documents, flyers, and websites.
Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. via Zoom
- 10/29, 11/12, 11/26, or 12/10
Register for Accessibility Basics
– FOR TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS AND WEB/APP DEVELOPERS –
Web Accessibility Notes for Developers (WAND) Workshop
This workshop explains what digital accessibility is, who it impacts, why we should practice it, and how to build and retrofit our web applications to meet accessibility standards. See WAND sample agenda.
Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m. via Zoom
Register for WAND
Event Details
– ACCESSIBILITY BASICS –
Date: 10/29, 11/12, 11/26, or 12/10
Time: 9:00 A.M. PST
– WAND –
Date: 11/5 or 12/3
Time: 1:00 P.M. PST
Location
via Zoom (link provided after registering)
by Kristen Mcintyre | Oct 16, 2025 | Upcoming Events
About This Event
Save the Date! You’re Invited to the ZotGPT Build-a-Bot Workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop series where you’ll learn to build your own AI assistant from scratch while connecting with others across campus. Share experiences, discover how others are using AI tools, and learn practical skills you can apply right away.
Whether you’re new to chatbots or already experimenting with AI, this workshop is your chance to build, network, and learn from the diverse ways our campus community is leveraging these technologies. Put your skills to the test in our finale competition, where you’ll showcase your chatbot creation and compete for exciting prizes!
No experience necessary – just bring your curiosity!
Hosted by UCI Office of Information Technology
Register for Build-A-Bot workshop
Event Details
KICK OFF
Date: Tuesday, Dec 2
Time: 2:00-3:00 P.M. PST
FINALE
Date: Thur, Dec 11
Time: 2:00-3:00 P.M. PST
Location
Division of Continuing Education (DCE), Building 8
Registration
by Sylvia Bass | Oct 3, 2025 | Past Events
About This Event
What is Q-Day, and why is the government preparing for it now? The day that quantum computers can crack current digital encryption, and plainly read our most valuable secrets, has been tagged as Q-Day. Every government, business, and individual on Earth can be negatively affected, and the question is, even if there are post-quantum solutions available, is there time to put them in place?
Biography
Ever see the movie “Catch Me If You Can”? As a teenager, for 3 years John Young and a friend successfully hacked the AT&T network, until the FBI scared him straight into a 40-year cybersecurity career.
The former network director of McDonnell Douglas’s $41 billion C-17 program, John later retired after decades at IBM, and then became one of only 11 cybersecurity experts worldwide to earn all nine ISC2 certifications.
Named to the board of directors at Quantum eMotion, John recently became COO for its new US subsidiary based in Irvine, Quantum eMotion America.
It’s mission; to use our cutting edge technology to save lives, protect data, and prepare industries for the onslaught of the dreaded, but inevitable, Q-Day…the day when every digital lock on Earth can be broken by quantum computers.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM PST
Location
Zoom Webinar
