Data Science Symposium
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