The New Jersey Big Data Alliance is convening the NJBDA Research Forum which is open to all research professionals, faculty, research computing professionals, students, and other campus partners interested in shaping the Big Data and AI research collaboration landscape. Please feel free to share with your communities!
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Stephen K. Burley, Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank.
Forum highlights:
Big Data and AI Research Collaborations
Communities and Resources for Advancing Collaborations
Funding Opportunities
Establish Contacts with the New Jersey Big Data & AI Research Community
Welcome and Opening Remarks (NJBDA and Saint Peter’s University host institution)
Forough Ghahramani, Vice President, NJBDA Research Committee; Assistant Vice President, Research & Innovation, NJ Edge
Sharath Kumar Jagannathan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor;School of Business & Data Science Institute, Saint Peter’s University
10:05 AM
NJBDA Updates: New Jersey Big Data Alliance Annual Symposium and The Journal of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Forough Ghahramani, Assistant Vice President, Research & Innovation, NJ Edge Hieu Nguyen, Ph.D., Professor, College of Science and Mathematics, Rowan University
10:15 AM
Resources and Communities for Advancing Research Collaborations
Judith Sheft, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology
Forough Ghahramani, Assistant Vice President, Research & Innovation, NJ Edge
10:30 AM
Keynote: “Protein Data Bank: From Two Epidemics to the Global Pandemic to mRNA Vaccines and Paxlovid“
Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil; University Professor and Henry Rutgers Chair; Founding Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine; Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank; Co-Lead, Cancer Pharmacology Research Program, Cancer Institute of New Jersey; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
11:15 AM
Research collaboration opportunities – lightning presentations
11:15-11:25 – “Blueberry Drone AI: Research collaboration between Rowan University and Camden County College” – Hieu Nguyen, PhD, Professor, College of Science and Mathematics, Rowan University
11:25– 11:35 – “Unleashing the Power of Ontologies: From Structuring Knowledge to Ethical AI” – Navya Martin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
11:35 – 11:45 – “Application of Machine learning and Deep learning to diverse challenges in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology”- Iman Dehzang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
11:45 – 11:55 – “Learning Hyperbolic Brain Network Representations for Healthy Aging Trajectories and Cognitive Decline Prediction” – Mengjia Xu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Data Science, Ying Wu College of Computing, New Jersey Institute of Technology
12:00 PM
Research funding opportunity and tips for writing successful grant proposals
Greg Monaco, Ph.D., CEO, Research Advisors
12:30 PM
Working Lunch – Roundtable discussions by broad areas of research
AI and Machine/Deep Learning
Collaboration between 4-year and 2-year schools
Generative AI (ex: ChatGPT)
Healthcare/Medicine
Cybersecurity, Cyber infrastructure, HPC
Physics, Astro physics
Smart cities, IoT
Sustainability
Other areas of interest
1:15 PM
Roundtable Session Reports
1:30 PM
Workshop Adjourns and Informal Networking
Parking
Parking is available at Armory Lot located at 686 Montgomery Street.
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