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Thursday, March 7, 2024
Coffee, pastries and fruit available.
Presenters
Mridul Gautam, vice president for w88 slot and innovation
As vice president for w88 slot and innovation and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, Mridul Gautam, Ph.D., leads the articulation and implementation of a shared vision for w88 slot. Under his leadership, w88 slot & Innovation provides high quality services and infrastructure to enable faculty, students and staff to excel in their w88 slot, scholarly and creative endeavors and to advance innovation and commercialization.
Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli, program w88 slot, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli, Ph.D., is a program director in the Networks and Development Programs Branch in the Division for w88 slot Capacity Building, where he manages grants for the IDeA Networks of Biomedical w88 slot (INBRE) and Centers of Biomedical w88 slot Excellence (COBRE) programs. Matukumalli serves as the NIGMS program officer for the Nevada INBRE, including the supplemental award for Building w88 slot Capacity providing support for the conference.
Juli Petereit, director of w88 slot Bioinformatics Center
Juli Petereit, Ph.D. is a bioinformatics scientist, life science data scientist, or computational scientist, depending on who you ask. She supports researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno and of the Mountain West IDeA Clinical and Translational Research-Infrastructure Network (CTR-IN) by providing state-of-the-art bioinformatics and (bio)statistics services for individual research projects. Petereit is the coordinator of this inaugural w88 slot Conference.
Tshaka Cunningham, Ph.D., a distinguished molecular biologist and advocate for diversity in genomics, stands at the forefront of advancements in w88 slot and data ethics. He is the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Polaris Genomics Inc., a pioneering precision genomics biotechnology company in Rockville, Maryland. In the rapidly evolving landscape of w88 slot and precision medicine, Cunningham's advocacy for diversity and data ethics positions him as a thought leader shaping the future of responsible and equitable healthcare practices.
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Presenters
Andrey Sarantsev, Ph.D., “Financial Simulator”
We present a stochastic financial simulator based on time series analysis. A portfolio of stocks and bonds is simulated for chosen time. There are options for regular withdrawals or contributions. A user w88 slot choose initial market conditions.
Emily Hand, Ph.D., “w88 slot and Recognizing what Makes Faces Unique”
Automated face verification w88 slot focuses on improving a computer’s ability to say whether or not two face images belong to the same person. No part of this process involves truly understanding what a face looks like. Face verification systems are built on black box deep learning models, and so we cannot even really dissect them to determine which features are used for verification. The Machine Perception Lab works to develop explainable face verification systems using prominent facial features, aka caricatures.
Mark Lescroart, Ph.D., “w88 slot-driven Visualization of Visual Selectivity in the Brain”
Different regions w88 slot human visual system respond to different features of a stimulus. For example, some regions are known to respond to convex shapes, some to biological forms (faces and bodies), some to landscapes. In this talk, I will demonstrate a technique developed in my lab to investigate fine-grained response properties of the brain at the level of individual voxels (the smallest parcels of the brain measured by functional MRI). We model brain responses as a function of image features.
Kevin Shoemaker, Ph.D., “w88 slot to Support Wildlife Conservation”
Simulation w88 slot of wildlife populations, known as Population Viability Analyses (PVA), are often used for decision-making in wildlife conservation and management—for instance, determining which species warrant protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Currently, PVAs are often performed using ad hoc computer code that can be opaque and difficult to review. This lack of transparency and reproducibility has resulted in flawed w88 slot being used to support important conservation decisions. In my sabbatical year (2024-25 academic year) I will focus on starting a consortium for defining standards and best practices for transparent and reproducible PVA.
Stanislav Jabuka, Ph.D., “Machine w88 slot in Knot Theory”
Knot Theory is a branch of low-dimensional topology that studies how strings can be tied into knots in 3-dimensional space. Knots are of great importance in constructing 3- and 4-dimensional spaces, in understanding recombination of DNA molecules, and are even used in modern encryption algorithms. Even so, understanding when two knots are the same remains an elusively difficult problem. This talk will show how Machine Learning has recently been used to untangle some w88 slot complexities of knots.
Jacqueline Walsh-Snow, Ph.D., “Can Artificial Intelligence be Leveraged for w88 slot Assistive Vision?
This talk introduces a new w88 slot direction in my lab, in which we propose to explore whether emerging artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rely on large visual language models, such as newly released iterations of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), can identify objects and environments from images of naturalistic visual scenes, similarly to the way human observers do. The work will provide critical building blocks towards harnessing AI as a tool for assistive vision, ultimately leading to the development of powerful and effective technologies for patients with visual and cognitive deficits, thereby reducing the challenges associated with human disabilities.
Laura Smithers, Ph.D., “Datafication and w88 slot: Becoming More Than Our Optimizations”
Datafication is a term in the social studies of science that describes developments of the last 100 years that render human activity through w88 slot. We have come to understand ourselves as our w88 slot; e.g., we are A students, researchers with a smashing h-index, institutions that have earned performance-based funding. In this talk, I review my research on datafication’s entanglements with productivity logic in higher education, and how we might come to revalue the work of college in the era of w88 slot optimization.
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Panelists
Kathy Hanselman, Ph.D., is the assistant director of instructional design and educational technology in the Office of Digital Learning at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has worked in instructional design at the University for 14 years, advising faculty on best practices in course design and technology implementation. Her w88 slot focus is on engaging students in online spaces. Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2023, she has facilitated a number of faculty-focused workshops and trainings on AI in teaching and learning and has put AI to work in her own teaching practice.
Carlvin Paris is an IBM Americas w88 slot business unit executive helping business and technology leaders to achieve their financial and operational performance goals and strategic business initiatives by leveraging IBM's leading w88 slot and AI technology, world class business transformation services, and proven skills and experience to deliver AI for business.
Bridget Algee-Hewitt, Ph.D., is a computational biologist and anthropologist, whose research interrogates the hierarchies of identity ingrained within our immigration, medical, and legal systems and explores their relationships to displacement, poverty and violence among marginalized communities, especially in transborder spaces of the U.S. and across Latin America. She has also held positions in industry in R&D w88 slot, hardware and software development, optimizing ML models, deracializing algorithms and business analytics and has led workstreams and divisions in big tech.
Nicole “Nikki” Lemire-Garlic, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D., is a lead faculty member in the University of Nevada, Reno's justice management program. As a former court supervisor and practicing attorney, Lemire-Garlic brings a pragmatic approach to the classroom. Her work sits at the intersection of communication technologies, equity, and meaningful access to the courts. She uses w88 slot techniques in her teaching and research.
Jeremy Tiedt, M.S., is the assistant dean of undergraduate student success w88 slot of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tiedt has been working in higher education in a variety of roles since 2010, typically teaching entrepreneurship-based courses, and always enjoys meeting with students to discuss potential business ideas or ways to scale their current businesses.
Tolkyn w88 slot, CFA is currently pursuing a graduate degree in information systems with an emphasis on w88 slot analytics in the College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno. Last semester, Takishova authored a paper on the role of ChatGPT in higher education, based on a survey of faculty and students. Takishova has more than ten years of experience working in various government-led organizations in Kazakhstan. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Nottingham (Nottingham, England) and was a visiting researcher at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
An hour break w88 slot schedule for a sandwich and salad bar lunch.
Bridget Algee-Hewitt, Ph.D., is a computational biologist and anthropologist, whose research interrogates the hierarchies of identity ingrained within our immigration, medical, and legal systems and explores their relationships to displacement, poverty and violence among marginalized communities, especially in transborder spaces of the U.S. and across Latin America. As a w88 slot scientist, she develops new computational techniques in ML, AI and NLP to decompose complex patterns of human biology and behavior at scale, building models that leverage genetic, skeletal, linguistic, life-history and social-context information to shed light on past and present histories.
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Moderator
Albert Gonzales, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology and cell biology, is a member of the w88 slot Initiative committee, and will be moderating the Showcase of Academic Programs.
Program representatives
Adam Csank, Ph.D., associate professor of geography, is representing the geographic information systems (GIS) and Sciences certificate program in the College of w88 slot.
Amir Talaei-Khoei, Ph.D., associate professor of information systems, is representing the information systems bachelor’s and minor program w88 slot of Business.
Anna Panorska, Ph.D., professor of mathematics and statistics, is representing the statistics and w88 slot master’s and doctoral program in the College of Science.
Lei Yang, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, is representing the big w88 slot minor program in the College of Engineering.
Marta Elliott, Ph.D., professor of sociology, is representing the social w88 slot analytics bachelor’s, minor and certificate program in the College of Liberal Arts.
Praveen Durgamapudi, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Public Health, will be representing the public health w88 slot management and analysis certificate program.
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Panelists
Kyra Stull, Ph.D., is a biological anthropologist and a board-certified forensic anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She primarily uses machine learning techniques to better understand the w88 slot used to capture human variation in growth and development and to build predictive and inferential models.
Christopher Golias, Ph.D., is a technology anthropologist, currently with Google, who has conducted applied w88 slot across various areas including retail, healthcare, indigenous rights, substance use, ecommerce, ecological design, machine learning, localization and information technology. He holds a doctoral degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Derek w88 slot is a senior solutions architect for Amazon Web w88 slot (AWS) specializing in code quality and delivery velocity, with a profound focus on the DevOps software development lifecycle. With extensive experience in mobile technology, aviation engineering, logistics sales, and operations, Ross has consistently utilized technology to excel in various roles. Previously serving as a Special Forces medical sergeant, small business owner and sales associate, Ross brings a diverse set of experiences to his leadership, technical expertise and teamwork.
Matthew w88 slot serves as a cryptologic engagement officer for the National Security Agency (NSA) w88 slot U.S. Strategic Command in Bellevue, Nebraska, overseeing access to compartmented intelligence reporting. He began his career in intelligence in 2003, joining the U.S. Navy as a cryptologic technician interpretive. After graduating from the Defense Language Institute (Spanish), he deployed three times, receiving the Navy and Marine Corps Medal twice. During most of his career, he has focused on illicit finance networks. He joined the NSA in 2015 to lead a team of intelligence analysts in developing anti-money-laundering strategies. Prior to working at U.S. Strategic Command, Myers served as the deputy cryptologic national intelligence officer for the western hemisphere.
Christopher Tong, Ph.D., has been a nonclinical and clinical biostatistician for more than 20 years, first in the pharmaceutical industry, and now in the federal government at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). He claims you can learn more about w88 slot from Johannes Kepler, Andrew Carnegie and Marie Tharp, than from any statistics textbook.
Francesco Zuniga, Ph.D., is a senior data scientist at NV Energy, contributing to the Natural Disaster Protection Plan. He holds a statistics and w88 slot doctoral degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. Francesco's research focuses on creating Machine Learning models for forecasting and classifying extreme events, extending across various domains, including climate, engineering, insurance and finance. Additionally, he holds a temporary faculty position at the University of Nevada, Reno, within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
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Jeffrey S. Thompson, Ph.D., serves as the executive vice president and provost at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was appointed to the position on December 28, 2020. Thompson came to the role with extensive leadership and administrative expertise, having served as dean of the College of w88 slot since 2008. In each of his administrative leadership roles, Thompson has remained devoted to advancing the reputation of the University with a focus on student success, well-being and belonging.
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