AI Meets Science

NYC Metro Area Conference

133 E 13th St, New York, NY, April 26th, 2024

About

The conference will explore the dynamic interplay between AI and various scientific disciplines. The one-day agenda is packed with insightful talks, inspiring projects at poster presentations, discussions with experts applying AI to advance research, and of course, opportunities to present your own AI + Science work.

Press release: How AI Can Benefit Scientific Discovery Focus of NYU-Hosted Conference, April 26 

Agenda

Welcome (8.30 - 9 am)
Arrival, Badge pickup, Mingling & Introductions
AIfSR team and Dr. Sergey Samsonau

Opening (9- 9.10 am)
by Dr. Gregory Gabadadze
Professor of Physics, NYU Dean of Science, Senior Vice President of the Mathematics and Physical Sciences division at Simons Foundation

Keynote (9.10 - 9.55 am)

• "AI-induced Trends in Science" by Dr. Justyna Zwolak
  Scientist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division at NIST
  Affiliate Fellow at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland

BREAK (9.55 - 10.10 am)

AI meets Life Sciences (10.10 - 11.10 am)

• "Upcoming AI revolution in healthcare and medicine" by Dr. Olivier Elemento
  Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
  Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
  Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

• "AI-supported diagnosis and response for health-critical space operations" by Ian Maddox
  Technology Maturation Lead, Habitation Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA

• "AI applied to biomedical research" by Dr. David Fenyö
  Professor and Program Director (Biomedical informatics) at the dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU

BREAK (11.10 - 11.30 am)

Poster Session (11.30 am - 1.00 pm)

• Explore the list of accepted posters
  Posters feature research from: 

  • Columbia University

  • Cornell University

  • Fordham University

  • New York University

  • Princeton University

  • Rutgers University

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

Break for Lunch (1 - 2 pm)

AI meets Humanities and Social Sciences (2.00 - 2.40 pm)

• "AI and Social Sciences" by Dr. Elena Manresa
  Associate Professor of Economics at NYU

• "Large Literary Machines: Literary Studies in the Age of AI" by Dr. Leif Weatherby
  Associate Professor of German, Digital Theory Lab, NYU, Author

AI meets Physical Sciences (2.40 - 3.20 pm)

• "AI/deep learning techniques in fusion research" by Dr. Jesse Rodriguez
  Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Statistics & Machine Learning, Princeton University
  Faculty member by courtesy in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University

• "Learning the Universe with novel AI tools" by Dr. Viraj Pandya
  NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University
  Core member of the Simons Collaboration on Learning the Universe

BREAK (3.20 - 3.50 pm)

Roundtable "Enabling AI Adoption in Research" (3.50 - 5.20 pm)

Perspectives: 

• Academia
  Ayat Sweid (ASU)
  AI Program Manager, AI Acceleration, Arizona State University
  Bringing 14 years of experience from ASU, Amazon, and Starbucks, Ayat spends every day thinking about how generative AI can revolutionize learning, amplify research capabilities, and broaden ASU’s societal contributions.
  Dr. Olivier Elemento (Cornell)
  Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
  Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

• Research and Science-enabling Engineering at Government Agency
  Dr. Justyna Zwolak (NIST)
  Scientist in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division at NIST
  Affiliate Fellow at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland
  Ian Maddox (NASA)
  Technology Maturation Lead, Habitation Office, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
  In his role Ian works to identify and advocate for the technologies necessary to sustain human life in hostile environments from the Moon to deep space to Mars
  Over a 14-year career at NASA, Ian has served in numerous systems engineering positions in NASA’s Artemis campaign, Human Lander System, and Space Launch System

• Industry doing research of AI + Science type
  Dr. Stefan Leichenauer (SandboxAQ)
  A trailblazer in AI and Quantum technologies, serves as the Vice President of Engineering and lead scientist at SandboxAQ
  As the inaugural member of the Sandbox team at Alphabet, Stefan played a pivotal role in transforming theoretical concepts into tangible real-world applications

Moderator
Dr. Sergey Samsonau (AIfSR)
Founder and Director of AIfSR, AI expert, Scientist, Educator

Final Notes by AIfSR team (5.20 - 5.30 pm)