Frontiers of Computing in Health and Society
Registration
https://gmu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__xqwXhn6Qyikukjiea5moA
Schedule
September 20 – AI, Social Justice and Public Policy
| Time | Title |
| 10:00 am – 10:03 am | Welcome and agenda for the day by Sanmay Das (GMU) |
| 10:03 am – 10:07 am | Introductory remarks by President Washington (GMU) |
| 10:07 am – 10:40 am | Keynote talk and Q&A with Rediet Abebe (UC Berkeley) |
| 10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Panel discussion on “AI for Social `Good’: Case Studies and Ethical Considerations” Participants: John P. Dickerson (University of Maryland), Linda Eggert (Stanford), Lily Hu (Harvard), Jesse Kirkpatrick (GMU), Robert Pless (George Washington University), and Melanie Sage (University at Buffalo). Moderated by Sanmay Das |
| 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm | Break |
| 12:45 pm – 01:45 pm | Lightning Talks |
| 01:45 pm – 02:55 pm | Panel discussion on “AI and Public Policy” Participants: Robert Axtell (GMU), Rayid Ghani (CMU), Karen Levy (Cornell), Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh), Peter Loewen (University of Toronto), and Jasmine McNealy (University of Florida). Moderated by Laurie Schintler (GMU) |
| 02:55 pm – 03:00 pm | Concluding remarks |
September 21 – Computational Systems Biomedicine
| Time | Title |
| 12:00 noon – 12:05 pm | Welcome and agenda for the day by Siddhartha Sikdar (GMU) |
| 12:05 pm – 12:10 pm | Introductory remarks by Provost Ginsburg (GMU) |
| 12:10 pm – 12:45 pm | Keynote talk and Q&A with Daniel Nicholson (GMU). Title: Is the Cell Really a Machine? Moderator: Siddhartha Sikdar (GMU) |
| 12:45 pm – 01:45 pm | Panel discussion on “Frontiers of Computing at the Cellular and Molecular Scales” Participants: Phillip Bourne (UVA), Mark Gerstein (Yale), Lilia Iakoucheva (UCSD), Anshul Kundaje (Stanford), and others TBA; Moderator: Avrama Blackwell (GMU). |
| 01:45 pm – 02:00 pm | Break |
| 02:00 pm – 03:00 pm | Panel discussion on “Frontiers of Computing with Clinical Data” Participants: Rumi Chunara (NYU), Christina Leslie (MSKCC), Gaurav Pandey (MSSM), Sridevi Sarma (JHU), Jeff Saucerman (UVA), and others TBA. Moderated by Huzefa Rangwala (GMU) |
| 03:00 pm – 04:00 pm | Lightning Talks: contributed talks by participating faculty and graduate students. |
| 04:00 pm – 05:00 pm | Panel discussion on “Computing Across Multiple Scales” Participants: Paul Albert (NIH/NCI), Jonathan Auerbach (GMU), Juan Cebral (GMU), Francesca Chiaromonte (Penn State), Ping Ma (UGA), and others TBA. Moderated by Jiayang Sun (GMU) |
| 05:00 pm – 05:05 pm | Concluding remarks |
