Data Science Symposium & Colloquia
2024
AI in Industry Symposium, March 4/5
The Data Science Institute’s AI in Industry Symposium will be a two-day event, beginning with virtual workshops on March 4th.
Topics will include AI in the C-Suite, developing a competitive edge with AI, upskilling your workforce, cybersecurity, AI and entrepreneurship, AI agents, AI tool use, leveraging AI with private data, multimodal models, AI throughout the enterprise, training employees on AI, building and deploying AI solutions, software product development with AI, and accelerated/upgraded analytics with AI.
Virtual Workshop Topics:
- Generative AI Fundamentals – 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
The in-person symposium on October 17th will be held at the SLC Ballroom, featuring a combination of invited and submitted talks and panels.
Agenda
Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place in the SLC Ballroom:
- 7:30-8:30 am – Executive Breakfast, Board of Trust (BOT) Room
- 8:00 am – Conference Breakfast
- 8:45 am – Welcome
Morning Session:
- 9:00-9:50 am – Talks Session 1
- 9:50-10:00 am – Mid-morning coffee
- 10:00-10:50 am – Panel: Revolutions in Industry
- 11:00-11:50 am – Talks Session 2
Lunch Session:
- 12:00 pm – Lunch
- 12:10-1:00 pm – Panel: Journey to AI in Industry (moderated by Jesse Spencer-Smith)
Afternoon Session:
- 1:00-1:50 pm – Talks Session 3
- 2:00-2:50 pm – Panel: AI and New Ventures (moderated by David Owens*)
- 2:50-3:00 pm – Coffee/snacks
- 3:00-3:50 pm – Talks Session 4
Reception:
- 4:00 pm – Reception
Registration
To register, please use this form.
2023
AI Revolutions Symposium, March 27/28
The Data Science Institute’s AI Revolutions Symposium will be a two-day event, beginning with the virtual workshops on March 27th. These virtual workshops include:
- Understanding AI Models, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
- Making ChatGPT Work for Your Research, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
- ChatGPT Prompt Engineering Clinic, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The in-person sessions on March 28th, including featured speakers, will last all day. The event will be held at the Wyatt Rotunda on Peabody’s campus. Speakers include:
- Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology - John Yang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Chemistry - Gregor Neuert, PhD
Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Pharmacology - Hassane S. Mchaourab, PhD
Louise B. McGavock Chair, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Professor, Physics
Professor, Chemistry
Professor, Structural Biology - Alex Christensen, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychology and Human Development
Department of Psychology and Human Development - Michael Bess, PhD
Chancellor’s Professor of History
Professor, Communication of Science and Technology Professor, European Studies - Ole Molvig, PhD
Assistant Professor, History
Assistant Professor, Communications of Science and Technology
Assistant Professor, Physics;
Founder, emergent technology lab at the Wond’ry
Curator, Garland Historical Scientific Instruments Collection - Frank Tong, PhD
Centennial Professor, Psychology
Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences - Doug Schmidt, PhD
Associate Provost, Research Development and Technologies
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor, Engineering
Professor, Computer Science
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Co-Director, Data Science Institute - Jules White, PhD
Associate Dean, Strategic Learning Programs
Associate Professor, Computer Science - Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD
Chief Data Scientist, Data Science Institute
Interim Director, Data Science Institute
Professor of Practice, Computer Science
A happy hour will follow.
Registration
To register, please use this form.
2020
Due to COVID-19, we unfortunately had to cancel our 2020 symposium. We look forward to welcoming you back to our next event in 2021.
2019
If you attended our 2019 symposium, thanks! If you were unable to make it, we are sorry to have missed you. Below are the recordings to all of the sessions.
8:30am – 9:45am: Registration
8:30am: Graduate Student Poster Session & Breakfast
9:45am: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Video Recording
10:00am: Short Talks
Video Recording
11:00am: Faculty Lightning Talks
Video Recording
12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch
12:15pm – 12:20pm: Graduate Student Poster Award
Video Recording
12:20pm – 1:00pm: Panel Discussion
Video Recording
1:00pm: Key Note Talk
“Terra Cognita: The Silicon Age of Earth Exploration”
Dr. Ian Howat, Ph.D.
Professor, The Ohio State University
Video Recording
2:00pm: Coffee Break
2:30pm: Short Talks
Video Recording
3:30pm: Live Deep Learning Demo
Video Recording
2018
8:00-9:45am – Student Poster Session & Breakfast (lobby outside Flynn auditorium)
- 9:45-10:00am – Welcome Remarks – Andreas Berlind, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy – Video Recording
- 10:00-11:00am – Short Talks – (chair: Douglas Schmidt) – Video Recording
- Analyzing Thousands of Genomes to Map Human Evolution and Disease
Tony Capra, Assistant Professor of Biological Science - Data Analytics and Decision Support for Public Safety
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Assistant Professor of Computer Science - Using Big Data for Population Health Services and Policy Research
Stacie Dusetzina, Associate Professor of Health Policy - Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation Around the World
Noam Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science - Power of Simulation (Even if You Have ‘Big’ Data)
Leena Choi, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Sara van Driest, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
- Analyzing Thousands of Genomes to Map Human Evolution and Disease
- 11:00-12:00am – Lighting Talk Session – (chair: Yu Shyr)
- Research IT Working Group Progress Report
Douglas Schmidt, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering – Video Recording - 15 2-minute talks – Video Recording
- Research IT Working Group Progress Report
- 12:00-1:00pm – Panel Discussion & Lunch – Video Recording
- Panel Discussion: Ethics of Data
Moderator: Jonathan Gilligan, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
Panelists: Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History, Chris Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law, Eugene Vorobeychik, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
- Panel Discussion: Ethics of Data
- 1:00-2:00pm – Short Talks (chair: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann) – Video Recording
- AI for Law and Law for AI – A Typology of Themes
J. B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law - Statistical Thinking for Data Science
Chris Fonnesbeck, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics - Genetic Discovery at Scale through Phenome Phishing
Nancy Cox, Mary Phillips Edmonds Gray Professor of Genetics - Using Spatial Analysis to Understand Access to Higher Education
William Doyle, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education - Data Science at HCA
Jesse Spencer-Smith, Director of Data Science at HCA Healthcare
- AI for Law and Law for AI – A Typology of Themes
- 2:00-2:30pm – Coffee Break
- 2:30-3:30pm – Keynote Talk: Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics
Patrick Ball, Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group – Video Recording - 3:30-4:00pm – Student Poster Awards – Video Recording
- Winner: Andrew Summers
- Runners-up: Victor Calderon, Linda Zhang
Data Science Colloquia
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Fall 2019
2018
Alberto Cairo, U. Miami | Visual Trumpery
September 20, 2018
Cameron McBride, Rubicon Project | Data Science: the What, Why, and How of my Transition from Science to Tech
May 4, 2018
Daniel Tamayo, CITA | Planetary Science in a Data Rich Era
April 13, 2018
Brian Johnson, DonorBureau | Building Your Applied Data Science Toolkit
March 16, 2018
2017
Danielle Beringer, Nissan | Big Data & Analytics – Driving Change at Nissan
December 1, 2017
Jesse Spencer-Smith, HCA | Data Science in Practice: Essential Skills and Training for an Evolving Field
October 5, 2017