DBDS Fest 2024

DBDSfest 2024

Where Unity Creates Strength:

Celebrating People and Data Science

April 23, 2024
8:30-4:30pm

DBDSfest Registration Link: https://forms.gle/yCY4K2sdjbaXFGnL7.

DBDSfest Poster Link: https://forms.gle/JGQKC9pQeS14BSBt8.

Schedule:

8:30-9:00am	Breakfast/Headshots
9:00-9:10	Welcome and Overview of the Department – Sylvia Plevritis
9:10-9:50	Faculty Lightning Talks •Andrew Gentles, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pathology, Medicine and (by courtesy) Biomedical Data Science •Roxana Daneshjou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Dermatology •Olivier Gevaert, Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and of Biomedical Data Science: “Cross-modal modeling: from data imputation to synthetic data” •Dennis Wall, Professor of Pediatrics (Clinical Informatics) and of Biomedical Data Science
9:50-10:00	Icebreaker
10:00-10:30	Fireside chat Karthik Narain, Accenture – Group Chief Executive – Technology Sylvia Plevritis, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science
10:30-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-11:30	Julia Salzman moderating “Diversifying Data, Diversifying Viewpoints” panel •Roxana Daneshjou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Dermatology •Sanmi Koyejo, Assistant Professor of Computer Science •Laurel Stell, Research Engineer, Department of Biomedical Data Science •Carole Federico, Ph.D., GSK.ai-Stanford Ethics Fellow – SoM Biomedical Ethics
11:30-11:45	Funding Opportunities – School of Medicine Proposal Development Office Lee G. Fradkin, Ph.D. Find bio here Title: Transitioning From Trainee to Early-Stage Investigator and Beyond: How funding changes
11:45-12:15	Lab Speed Meeting
Afternoon
12:15-12:45	Lunch
12:45-1:30	Poster Session 1
1:30-2:15	Student Talks Erin Craig, Ph.D. student: “Pretraining and the Lasso” Gautam Bhaskar Machiraju, Ph.D. student: “Using Foundation Models to Identify Differential Expression in Unstructured Data” Matthew Aguirre, Ph.D. student: “Gene regulatory network structure informs the distribution of perturbation effects” Indrani Bhattacharya, PhD, Research Engineer, Stanford University, “Learning from Multimodal Data for Improving Radiology Imaging-Based Cancer Detection”
2:15-2:45	Faculty Lighting Talks: •Stephen B. Montgomery, Stanford Medicine Professor of Pathology, Professor of Genetics and of Biomedical Data Science •Julia Salzman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Statistics •Zihuai He, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Medicine (BMIR/QSU) and, by courtesy, Biomedical Data Science: “Beyond guilty by association at scale: Searching for causal variants on the basis of genome-wide summary statistic”
2:45-3:00	Coffee Break
3:00-3:45	Poster Session 2
3:45-4:30 pm	Award Ceremony/Refreshments, Happy Hour