DBDS Fest 2024

DBDSfest 2024

Where Unity Creates Strength:

Celebrating People, Diversity 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

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