Missouri Data Science & Informatics Symposium 2024: Full Schedule

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8:30am CDT

Welcome Breakfast and Introductions

Monday October 21, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am CDT

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Speakers

Chi-Ren Shyu

Director, MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, University of Missouri

Monday October 21, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am CDT
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Welcome

9:00am CDT

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Hua Xu; Title: Large Language Models for Biomedical Applications

Monday October 21, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT

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Dr. Hua Xu is Robert T. McCluskey Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), as well as Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics at YSM. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University. His primary research interests include biomedical natural language processing (NLP) and data mining, as well as their applications in secondary use of electronic health records data for clinical and translational research. His research is funded by multiple agencies (i.e., NLM, NCI, NIGMS, NIA, AHA, and CPRIT), and methods/tools developed in his lab have been widely used to support diverse biomedical applications. He served as the Chair of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) NLP Working Group and now leads the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) NLP Working Group. Dr. Xu is a fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).

Dr. Hua Xu Photo jpg

Monday October 21, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
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Keynote Speaker

Company Yale University
Area Biomedical Informatics

10:00am CDT

Faculty Spotlight - Dr. Paul de Figueiredo; Title: DNA -based data storage

Monday October 21, 2024 10:00am - 10:20am CDT

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Dr. de Figueiredo is a NextGen Precision Health Endowed Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology. He has broad experience and training in molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, and biochemistry, with specific expertise in host-pathogen interactions and biotechnology development. He has co-founded several biotechnology companies, including HelioWave Technologies, LLC, and authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications. His research has been supported by awards from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ARPA-h, NIH, NSF, USDA, DTRA, and DARPA, as well as several other private foundations.

Monday October 21, 2024 10:00am - 10:20am CDT
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Faculty Speaker

Company School of Medicine - University of Missouri
Area Biomedical Informatics

10:20am CDT

Faculty Spotlight - Dr. Dong Xu; Title: Large protein language models and their prompt-based learning

Monday October 21, 2024 10:20am - 10:40am CDT

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Dong Xu is Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with appointments in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and did two years of postdoctoral work at the US National Cancer Institute. He was a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2003 before joining the University of Missouri, where he served as Department Chair of Computer Science during 2007-2016 and Director of Information Technology Program during 2017-2020. Over the past 30 years, he has conducted research in many areas of computational biology and bioinformatics, including single-cell data analysis, protein structure prediction and modeling, protein post-translational modifications, protein localization prediction, computational systems biology, biological information systems, and bioinformatics applications in human, microbes, and plants. His research since 2012 has focused on the interface between bioinformatics and deep learning. He has published more than 400 papers with more than 21,000 citations and an H-index of 73 according to Google Scholar. He was elected to the rank of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2015 and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow in 2020.

Monday October 21, 2024 10:20am - 10:40am CDT
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Faculty Speaker

11:00am CDT

Poster Pitches

Monday October 21, 2024 11:00am - 11:15am CDT

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Monday October 21, 2024 11:00am - 11:15am CDT
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Poster Session

1:15pm CDT

Industry Panel

Monday October 21, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm CDT

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Theme: Artificial Intelligence for Good: An Industry Perspective

Artists

Andrew Roberts

Oracle

Giri Balathusan

Bayer

Keith Wilson

C3.AI

Tom Henry

Schnuck's

Monday October 21, 2024 1:15pm - 2:15pm CDT
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Keynote Speaker

2:15pm CDT

Alumni Keynote Speaker - Dr. Saif Khairat

Monday October 21, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT

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Monday October 21, 2024 2:15pm - 3:15pm CDT
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Panel Discussion

3:30pm CDT

Student Spotlight - Solaiman Khan

Monday October 21, 2024 3:30pm - 3:45pm CDT

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Monday October 21, 2024 3:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
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Student Spotlight

8:30am CDT

Breakfast and Day 2 Welcome

Tuesday October 22, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am CDT

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Tuesday October 22, 2024 8:30am - 9:00am CDT
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Welcome

9:00am CDT

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Nadine Alameh

Tuesday October 22, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT

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Tuesday October 22, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
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Keynote Speaker

10:00am CDT

Student Spotlight

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:00am - 10:15am CDT

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Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:00am - 10:15am CDT
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Student Spotlight

10:30am CDT

Faculty Spotlight - #

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:30am - 10:50am CDT

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Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:30am - 10:50am CDT
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Faculty Speaker

10:50am CDT

Faculty Spotlight - Dr. Robert Bautista - Title: Achieving AI for Good

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am CDT

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Dr. Bautista is an Assistant Professor at the Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). He also holds other MU appointments, such as MizzouForward Faculty, MUIDSI Core Faculty in Health Informatics, and MU Provost’s AI Teaching Fellow. He has an interdisciplinary background in health (nursing and public health), informatics (health, social, and social justice informatics), and communication science (health and organizational communication), with specific training and expertise in both qualitative (interviews, observations, and document analysis) and quantitative (primary and secondary survey data) research. As an early career researcher, he has received fellowships and internal grants to conduct socio-technical research to identify the benefits and risks of using smartphones, social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence (AI) for health-related purposes. Since 2022, he has gained valuable insights and knowledge on the ethical and responsible use of AI by attending competitive workshops (e.g., Global Sandpit on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems and Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines Workshop) and facilitating workshops (e.g., at UT Austin, Johns Hopkins, and Yale).

Speakers

Dr. Robert Bautista

Assistant Professor, MU Sinclair School of Medicine

Dr. John Robert Bautista uses a socio-technical strategy to understand the role and impact of technologies (smartphones, social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence) among health professionals and consumers. As an interdisciplinary researcher, he utilizes concepts from communication... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am CDT
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Faculty Speaker