Somayeh

This talk will explore the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence from rule-based systems to the Transformer era, highlighting the emergence of foundation models that enable powerful multimodal capabilities across language, vision, and complex reasoning tasks. We discuss milestone advancements such as GPT-based models and contrast their transformative potential with growing concerns around fairness, privacy, interpretability, and the substantial computational and energy demands associated with training and deploying large generative models. We will also examine sustainability challenges, the need for “Green AI” strategies, and the future role of advanced hardware and quantum computing in maintaining scalable and responsible progress in AI.

Biography:

Dr. Somayeh Bakhtiari Ramezani is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Data Science at Meharry Medical College, specializing in

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and quantum computing with a focus on Human-Centered AI and its applications. Her honors include SEC Emerging

Scholar of 2023 and ACM SIGHPC Fellow of 2021 for her research in data science and high-performance computing. She holds a BSc in

Computer Engineering, an MSc in Information Technology, and a PhD in Computer Science. Beyond academia. Dr. Ramezani is an IEEE

senior member and the founder, past Chair, and current Vice Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) MS Chapter.