- David Eagleman, PhD, Director, Center for Science and Law; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University, Co-founder & CEO, Neosensory, Inc.
- David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author, TED speaker, and Guggenheim Fellow. He is the writer and presenter of The Brain on PBS, an Emmy-nominated television series, and The Creative Brain on Netflix. His talk will examine the collapse of previous societies and ask how the advent of the net fundamentally changes our existential equations.
- Maria Chatzou Dunford, PhD, CEO & Co-founder, Lifebit Biotech.
- The Genomics England – Lifebit partnership set a new precedent this year with a next-generation research environment underpinning the UK’s research response to COVID-19. Dr Maria Chatzou Dunford, Lifebit CEO, shares how this federated end-to-end genomics platform is able to combine Fort Knox-grade data security with maximum research flexibility. For the first time, disparate cohorts of large and sensitive data are being analyzed without copying or moving the data, and true collaboration is enabled.
- Maria Chatzou Dunford will participate in a panel on the future of data governance and ethical use of data and AI in healthcare.
- Nidal Moukaddam, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine and Director, Ben Taub Hospital Psychiatry Outpatient Clinics.
- Nidal Moukaddam’s research interests focus on how psychiatry can benefit from technological advances for detection, tracking, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Recent work includes the creation and testing of smartphone applications for mental illness across the age spectrum, research performed in collaboration with the Rice University department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Their team has also released a longitudinal adaptive study for the effects of COVID-19 on mental health, available at http://sh.rice.edu/covid-sense/
- Michelle Gill, PhD, Senior Scientist, Deep Learning and Proteomics, NVIDIA and Avantika Lal, PhD, Senior Scientist, Deep Learning and Proteomics, NVIDIA
- The Nvidia team will show how GPUs can accelerate the analysis of data from single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing experiments, as well as features derived from libraries of small molecules, enabling analyses that previously required minutes or hours to be completed in seconds. This magnitude of acceleration makes the prospect of interactive, real-time sequencing analysis a reality.
- Thomas Lecocq, PhD, Geologist – Seismologist, Work Leader at Royal Observatory of Belgium
- Andre Dekker, PhD, Medical Physicist and Professor of Clinical Data Science, MAASTRO Clinic, Maastricht University, Maastricht University Medical Center+
- Andre Dekker will participate in a panel on the future of data governance and ethical use of data and AI in healthcare.
- Ioannis Pavlidis, PhD, Eckhard-Pfeiffer Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of Houston.
- Ioannis Pavlidis has focused on unobtrusive and sustained monitoring of physiological variables, particularly in the areas of human stress. He plans to reimagine his work in the context of covid for this talk.
- Raghu Ramakrishnan, PhD, CTO for Data, Technical Fellow, Cloud and AI (C+AI) Division, Microsoft
- Raghu Ramakrishnan will participate in a panel on the future of data governance and ethical use of data and AI in healthcare.
- Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD, Assistant Professor, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
- Fritz Sedlazeck works on the development of scalable algorithms to assess the variability in genomes in terms of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) as well as structural variations (SVs) within and among populations. His focus for this talk will be the study of the Covid-19 virus genomes.
- Lauren Stadler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University.
- Lauren Stadler’s research is focused on advancing sustainable and safe wastewater management systems and she works closely with the City of Houston’s water utility and health department. This talk will summarize the methods being using to measure SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples, the statistical models developed to analyze wastewater data, and how the analysis is being used by the Houston Health Department.
- David Jaffray, PhD, Chief of Technology and Digital Officer, Department of Information Security, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
- David Jaffray will participate in a panel on the future of data governance and ethical use of data and AI in healthcare.
- David Jaffray will host a panel on the D3CODE collaborative effort at the UT MD Anderson Center. Data-Driven Determinants for COVID-19 Oncology Discovery Effort (D3CODE) is creating a cross-functional, institution-wide data science initiative linked to the pandemic. The panel will include Andy Futreal, Caroline Chung, Chris Jermaine, and Lydia Kavraki,
- Caroline Chung, MD, MSc., Associate Professor, Director of Advanced Imaging – Strategic Initiative, Director of Imaging Technology and Innovation, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Caroline Chung will participate in a panel on the future of data governance and ethical use of data and AI in healthcare.
- Caroline Chung will participate in a panel on the D3CODE collaborative effort at the UT MD Anderson Center. Data-Driven Determinants for COVID-19 Oncology Discovery Effort (D3CODE) is creating a cross-functional, institution-wide data science initiative linked to the pandemic.
- Andy Futreal, PhD, Department Chair and Professor, Department of Genomic Medicine, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Andy Futreal will participate in a panel on the D3CODE collaborative effort at the UT MD Anderson Center. Data-Driven Determinants for COVID-19 Oncology Discovery Effort (D3CODE) is creating a cross-functional, institution-wide data science initiative linked to the pandemic.
- Angela Wilkins, PhD, Executive Director, Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University
- Angela Wilkins will host a panel on the future of data governance and ethical use of data and AI in healthcare with Raghu Ramakrishnan, David Jaffray, Andre Dekker, Maria Chatzou Dunford, and Caroline Chung.
