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

Program Agenda: Friday, April 26, 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.

Program Agenda

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

Program Agenda: Friday, March 30, 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
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
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
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
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