Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

IDSC Town Hall Thursday 9/8
2022-08-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)
IDSC is broadening computational resources, services, and grants! We invite you to attend a Town Hall meeting to discover all that IDSC offers. Join us online on Thursday, September 8, 2022, for a look at IDSC’s advanced computing resources, systems and data engineering services, workforce development and educational programming, as well as our research focus areas, outreach, events, engagement opportunities, and variety of grants.
The IDSC Advanced Computing service unit business model will be reviewed, and we’ll discuss our subsidy programs designed to help the heavy supercomputer users as well as the uninitiated.
IDSC is committed to promoting data science to enhance understanding within the University’s research community, and offers the following Grants Programs:

Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM
Access to IDSC Resources for Early Career Researchers
Advanced Computing for Students
Bridge Awards for Degree and Program Community

We believe in a collaborative approach that brings together talented minds in multiple disciplines to leverage the University’s state-of-the-art technology. Join us to explore how the U’s powerful resources can help you achieve research, training, and business goals.
Register Now | Thursday 9/8/22, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom
This event is free and open to the public.

"Information Everywhere" Data Visualization Workshop with Santiago Ortiz POSTPONED
2022-08-30 08:00 - 17:00 | Gables One Tower, 1320 S Dixie Hwy, Training Room 639, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
We regret to announce that the workshop had to be postponed due to unforeseen travel-red-tape. Once we have set an alternate date, we will re-post the event and we hope to see you then.

IDSC is pleased to welcome the return of Santiago Ortiz. As featured in a past Data Citizens lecture, Santiago likes to use his background in mathematics and complexity sciences to push the boundaries in information visualization and data-based storytelling. Join us for this special week-long workshop series on Interactive Data Visualization.
Monday-Friday, 10/3-7 | 1:00 – 5:00 PM each day | Register
Location: Gables One Tower, 1320 S Dixie Hwy, Room 639, Coral Gables, FL 33146 • Map + Directions
Parking: Pay by Phone parking is available for visitors between 8:00 a.m. and 11 p.m. (Current rates are $2/hour and $10/day.) Enter from US1 side and drive up the ramp.
This week-long workshop is free and open to the public.
Information Everywhere
Information at the beginning of the Universe, on its most fundamental quantum properties, the genesis and keeper of an arrow of time, at the birth of life and enabling its evolution, at the core of all forms of cognition and intelligence, in the stories humans tell, and, everywhere and every time, surrounding us. Information is everywhere, but not just as data points on ever-growing datasets. Information is much more, subtler, wider, more omnipresent, more fundamental and more relevant to us than we have been told in the era of big data.
The objective of this workshop is to experience information in more comprehensive and diverse ways, through exploration and experimentation, observing and discussing multiple realities in which information is present, and through collaborative creation of projects. Each of the 5 days we’ll be looking at different aspects of information and in different fields of knowledge, from physics, cosmology, and cellular biology, to how the transmission and transformation of information generate intelligence. We’ll look at how humans radiate information and what can we do to gather and use it for our benefit (as opposed to just let others to do so). We’ll run some creative or explorative activities and challenges, such as trying to measure hotness in spice sauces, measure speed of nervous signals in our bodies, or how do we resemble each other when it comes to film preferences. Along the way, attendees, individually or in groups will be creating projects that use data and information.
Line Up
Day 1 | Monday 10/3: Information Everywhere: an overview of many realities where information plays a key role. What’s information? We´ll look at different ways to start answering this question.
Day 2 | Tuesday 10/4: Data Human Dimensions, an overview of what information means to humans, how we are constantly radiating it, what is its value, and what we can do with it.
Day 3 | Wednesday 10/5: Intelligence. There are as many forms of intelligence as ways information is transferred and transformed. Intelligence is Information having fun.
Day 4 | Thursday 10/6: Data as a way to communicate and express ourselves. We’ll use data to be creative, communicate ideas or learn about ourselves.
Day 5 | Friday 10/7: Projects day, we’ll make progress with the already started projects, and share ideas to improve them.

About Santiago Ortiz
Santiago Ortiz, Chief Data Officer at DrumWave, is a mathematician, data scientist, interactive visualization developer, and inventor, who creates digital experiences that help people solve complex problems with data. Santiago develops interfaces that allow for exploration, combination, deep understanding, and decision making based on large, diverse, and dynamic datasets. He also has experience as a teacher, digital media artist, interactive data visualization researcher, product leader, and entrepreneur. Back in 2012, Santiago started working as an international consultant, helping organizations analyze data and develop information communication strategies—particularly in the United States. And then, in 2016, he co-founded DrumWave in California. As an artist, and as a researcher in the areas of interaction design and information visualization, Santiago’s work has been exhibited in multiple cities in North America, South America, and Europe. His project portfolio may be viewed at moebio.com.

CATCH THE REPLAY (video) of Santiago’s September 2021 IDSC Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series talk.

IDSC Grants Program Call for Proposals INFORMATION SESSION 9/1
2022-09-01 17:00 - 17:30 | Zoom (online)
Led by Ben Kirtman and Ken Goodman, this is an information session for the IDSC CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the “Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM” Grants Program. Here are the details. Bring your questions to this online session Thursday, September 1, 2022 | 5:00-5:30 PM Register Now.
This program is designed to increase the use of data science to foster breakthroughs in disciplinary pursuits making the research team more competitive for external funding. Applications are required to include at least one data scientist (from IDSC) and one researcher from a specific discipline. Typically, the disciplinary researcher initiates and leads the project. The awards include $20K discretionary funds* that can be applied to salary and travel, and 1M Service Units (SUs) to be used for advanced computing. It is anticipated that up to 5 awards will be made.
For the 2022-23 academic year, IDSC remain interested in proposals that address issues in:

Computer ethics and data science
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice

Other topics and issues are also welcome. Pre-submission inquires are encouraged.
In terms of this grant opportunity, data science is defined as utilizing state-of-the-art approaches such as Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable scientific discovery that is data driven. Simply, proposing to analyze large data sets with traditional techniques (e.g., linear regression) is not responsive to this opportunity. Proposals that use ML/AI to develop new understanding are strongly encouraged.
The application process includes two steps and a final report presented as an IDSC seminar.
Step 1: The disciplinary researcher provides a one-page letter of intent to IDSC outlining the discipline-specific research and where data science fits in. Based on the letter of intent, the IDSC review team will identify an IDSC data scientist for the collaboration, if the research team has not already identified an IDSC partner. Deadline: 5:00 PM, Friday, September 23, 2022.
Step 2: [UPON INVITATION] The research team (including the IDSC data scientist) will prepare a two-page proposal that outlines the research and the data science plan. The proposal should also include a short discussion of potential external funding mechanisms that the proposed work can use to enhance the competitive position of the research team and a budget plan on how the funds will be utilized. The research team will have one month from the letter of intent to submit the two-page proposal. Deadline: 5:00PM, Friday, November 18, 2022. Submit Proposal Here.
Reporting
Upon completion of the project, the research team will be required to give an oral presentation describing the research and results as part of the IDSC seminar series. Scheduling of the oral presentation will be coordinated by IDSC.
Review Process
The applications will be reviewed by an evaluation committee to determine feasibility, relevance to IDSC programs, and in terms of how the proposed research will put the team in a more competitive position for external funding.
Important Information and Deadlines

Information session led by Ben Kirtman and Ken Goodman: Thursday, September 1, 2022 | 5:00-5:30 PM Register Now
Step 1 – Letters of Intent: Due by 5:00 PM, Friday, September 23, 2022
Invitation to submit full proposal (Step 2) with identification of an IDSC data scientist partner (if applicable): Friday, October 7, 2022
Step 2 – Two-page Proposal: Due by 5:00 PM, Friday, November 18, 2022
Notice of Award: On or before Friday, December 16, 2022
Project performance period: January 1-December 31, 2023
Service Units (SU) expire January 31, 2024
Oral Presentation of Results: Spring 2024

*Discretionary funds can be used for salary and travel only. Equipment or supplies purchases are not allowed.

GRANTS IN THE NEWS
CALL FOR PROPOSALS! Faculty XR Awards Offering 10 Grants for AR + VR Tech IdeasUM to Receive $8.6 M to Create National Climate Forecasting ServiceIDSC Grants Program Call for Proposals INFO SESSION Monday 9/9 4PM via ZOOMMingzhe Chen Receives NSF Grant to Address ANE Co-Spectrum Existence ProblemsNOW CLOSED: Call for Proposals in Generative AIMingzhe Chen Receives NSF Grant for NextG Wireless Network ProjectAzizi Seixas and Nick Tsinoremas to Lead NIH AIM-AHEAD Health Disparities ProjectNIH Grant to FAU, Caridad Center, and UM MSOM will Tackle Disease DisparitiesCATCH THE REPLAY: Information Session for IDSC Grants Programs Call for ProposalsIDSC Grants Programs Call for Proposals Due 9/232022-23 XR Faculty Awards Proposals due 9/23Azizi Seixas Named to Inaugural AWS Education Champions ProgramIDSC Grants Explore Data Ethics and Social ProcessesAccess to IDSC Resources: Grants Offered for Early Career ResearchersCALL for PROPOSALS: Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UMIDSC Launches New Grant Program with 6 Interdisciplinary AwardsIDSC Partners with NSF Cyberinfrastructure Network FABRICFast-Tracked Early Warning COVID-19 Research ProjectUM and NOAA Launch One-of-a-Kind Climate CollaborationGe-Cheng Zha receives DARPA Award for Aviation Transports

Bring your Questions to the next IDSC Town Hall Thursday 9/8
2022-09-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom (online)

Magic Leap 2 Developer Event at UM Lakeside Village 9/20
2022-09-20 17:00 - 21:00 | Lakeside Village, 1280 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, 33146, United States
The Magic Leap 2 is here and we will be hosting a developer event on September 20 at the University of Miami Lakeside Village Auditorium. This event will feature customer use case presentations from Magic Leap, Unity, PeakActivity, and others, followed by an AMA (Ask Me Anything Q&A Session) and a networking reception.

Sponsored by the VR/AR Association and Unity, and hosted by the University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC), the Magic Leap 2 Developer Event is open to the public and aimed at the Miami tech community, and University of Miami faculty and students. Come and see for yourself how the power of the Magic Leap 2 and Unity will transform how extended reality is used in industries such as Healthcare, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Real Estate development and many others.
Join us on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, in advance of the Magic Leap 2 (ML2) official release date on 9/30!
Tuesday 9/20, 5:00-9:00 PM
Register Now
Doors Open at 5:00 PM
6:00 – 6:30 PM Welcome and presentations from Speakers
6:40 – 7:30 PM Panel (Use Cases with Customers)
7:40 – 8:30 PM Unity + Peak Activity + Magic Leap Panel and/or AMA (Ask Me Anything)
8:30 – 9:00 PM Networking Reception
Featured Speakers

John Cunningham
Head of Government and Aerospace | Unity

Rob Petrosino
Head of Innovation Divison, PeakActivity

Nick Tsinoremas
Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data | University of Miami, and Founding Director | UM IDSC

Lisa Watts
Vice President of Product Marketing and Planning | Magic Leap

Lakeside Village Auditorium

Parking
Parking is available in yellow, grey, or burgundy (pink) lots via the PaybyPhone app.
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Meet a Data Scientist Lecture Series presents Joseph Avery 9/28
2022-09-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom (online)
The Meet a Data Scientist series is a chance to get up close and personal with top-level data science professionals. Join us for a talk on AI Law with Professor Joseph Avery from the Miami Herbert Business School. Prof. Avery conducts research at the intersection of the behavioral, computer, and management sciences.
Register Now | Wednesday 9/28, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom

TALK TITLE: Artificial legal intelligence: Case studies and experiments exploring successes and hurdles in this nascent subset of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine learning (ML)-based technologies have the potential to transform the law, addressing bias, access-to-justice, efficiency, consistency, and other important issues. Yet adoption has been slow, lagging adoption in adjacent professional spheres like medicine and finance. In this talk, I present two examples of high-value AI-law applications, one in the public sector (AI to improve prosecutorial plea-bargaining decisions) and one in the private sector (AI for civil settlement decisions). In both applications, I encountered significant hurdles, one that was more psychological in nature and one that was of a more technical nature. The psychological hurdle concerned how legal matters impinge moral ones. The technical hurdle concerned data silos, data sharing, and privacy. I unpack the former through four experiments, and I unpack the latter largely through explication of a proposed solution. I conclude by mapping the way forward in artificial legal intelligence, both in terms of research and application.
About Joseph
Joseph J. Avery is an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Herbert Business School, a Faculty Member of Miami’s Institute for Data Science and Computing, and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Dr. Avery’s primary line of research employs the methods and tools of the computer, behavioral, and management sciences, as well as those of experimental jurisprudence, to consider artificial intelligence (AI) in three contexts: (1) perception of AI behavior, especially AI failures; (2) the intersection of AI and moral decision making; and (3) artificial legal intelligence.
Prior to joining Miami’s faculty, Dr. Avery received a PhD from Princeton University and a JD from Columbia Law School. In addition, he completed a postdoctoral resident fellowship at Yale Law School. Dr. Avery has practiced law, co-created an artificial legal intelligence named Claudius, and co-founded a National Science Foundation-supported legal technology company.
About the Meet a Data Scientist Lecture Series
The purpose of this series is to introduce the people behind the data, their lives, interests, career choices, their work, and their passion for how they use data to solve grand challenges in their respective fields. This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.

A conversation with . . . Black Women in AI Founder Angle Bush 10/18
2022-10-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
The University of Miami Ethics Programs and IDSC are pleased to present Special Guest Speaker and Black Women In Artificial Intelligence Founder Angle Bush in person on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Angle will discuss the challenges, triumphs, and opportunities in removing the barriers of entry to AI for marginalized communities.
Angle will also give insight into her journey in the AI space, what she has discovered, and why she believes it is important for organizations to include diversity, equity, inclusion, and retention in their business plan in order to make a greater impact.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM In Person
University of Miami, Richter Library, Conference Room 343 (Third Floor)
1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Directions + Parking
Register Now

About Angle Bush
Angle Bush, Visionary, Leader, Founder – Black Women In Artificial Intelligence. After attending an event that did not fully reflect the diversity needed to ensure access and opportunity in the artificial intelligence sector, Angle decided to do something about it.
In 2020 she founded Black Women In Artificial Intelligence, an organization whose mission is to Educate, Engage, Embrace, and Empower Black women in the Artificial Intelligence industry. In the past two years, the organization has seen phenomenal growth, becoming a global organization whose members span four continents North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.
In 2021 Angle spearheaded the campaign to create National Black Women In Artificial Intelligence day, which is now celebrated annually on August 1 to amplify the voices of Black women and honor their contributions to Artificial Intelligence. Aligning with the mission to provide access and opportunity, the organization has also developed partnerships with some of the top companies in the nation including Amazon, Capital One, Expedia, and NVIDIA. From learning opportunities to mentorship programs, the organization continues to create initiatives that focus on creating spaces for Black Women to thrive.
Before starting Black Women In Artificial Intelligence, Angle worked in the oil and gas industry for over fifteen years serving in several positions from Process Improvement Manager to Vendor Relationship Manager. She also served as the Executive Producer of Your15Minutes Radio an online podcast that focuses on entrepreneurship. All of which has led her to this mission, this moment.
Angle earned a Master’s degree in Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Community Development with a concentration in Public Administration from Central Michigan University. She also attended Harvard University where she studied History.
Notable – New York Stock Exchange Closing Bell, NPR, M.Live, Inc.Magazine, National Black Women In Artificial Intelligence Day

Special Guest Lecture: Paul Timmers on Strategic Autonomy and the EU 10/21
2022-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (online)
The University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing is pleased to present Dr. Prof. Paul Timmers, Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute. Please join us via Zoom as Dr. Timmers sheds light on the EU Chips Act, which address semiconductor shortages and strengthens Europe’s technological leadership.
TALK TITLE: Strategic Autonomy and the European Union with specific attention to the EU Chips Act
With rising geopolitical tensions, disruptive digitization, and global challenges such as cyber-crime and climate change, Europe seeks to increase autonomy in a range of areas, from digital technologies, to materials, energy, and finance. Digital strategic autonomy, or tech sovereignty, is high on the agenda of government and business leader in the European Union. Recently firm public policy has been put forward amongst others addressing strategic autonomy with large investment in semiconductors (the EU Chips Act which has similarities from the CHIPS and Science Act in the USA) and also addressing the power of digital platforms. This talk will outline major lines of thinking in the quest for strategic autonomy in the EU, recent policy developments, and future perspectives.
Friday, October 21, 2022 | 12:00-1:00 PM via Zoom
Register Now | Free and Open to the Public
About Dr. Timmers
Dr. Timmers is a Research Associate at University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute. He is also a Professor at European University Cyprus, a Visiting Professor at KU Leuven and the University of Rijeka, a Sr. Advisor EPC Brussels, President of the Supervisory Board Estonian eGovernance Academy, and CEO of iivii. Previously, as Director at European Commission (EC)/DG CONNECT, he was responsible for legislation and funding programmes for cybersecurity, e-ID, digital privacy, digital health, smart cities, and e-government. He was also a cabinet member of EC Liikanen.
Dr. Timmers holds a physics PhD from Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL), MBA from Warwick University (UK), EU fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill (US), and cybersecurity qualification from Harvard. His main interests are digital policy, geopolitics, and Europe. He frequently publishes and speaks on the interplay of digital developments with sovereignty, cybersecurity, industrial policy, and sectoral policies, and regularly advises governments and thinktanks.

2-Day Software Carpentry-Python Workshop 10/27-28 at Rosenstiel Campus
2022-10-27 09:00 - 2022-10-28 16:30 | Rosensteil School of Marine Atmospheric and Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, Florida, 33149, United States
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This in-person only, hands-on, two-day Python workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation, as well as a segment on Data Ethics.
Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Syllabus with Instructions | Register Now (free)
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing”.
Who The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where The Map Room, Science Laboratory and Administration Building (SLAB), Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Library, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps | Campus Map
When Thursday + Friday, Oct. 27-28, 2022. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. For workshops at a physical location, the workshop organizers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.
Power sources/extension cords are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact Please email tnorris@miami.edu for more information.
Roles To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.

Instructors

Julian Dallmeier, Computational Neuroscience PhD Candidate
Tim Norris PhD, Data Scientist
Helpers

Erica Newcome MLIS, STEM and Interdisciplinary Research Librarian
Thilani Samarakoon PhD, Biomedical Data Librarian
Data Ethics

As part of this 2-day workshop, two guests will join us for a Special Program in Ethics for Scientific Writing and Coding:

Joanna Johnson, PhD, Writing Studies Department, on Scientific Writing
Tim Norris PhD, UM Libraries, on Ethics and Coding

This workshop series is sponsored by:
CALDER LIBRARY
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
GRADUATE SCHOOL
IDSC
OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
UM LIBRARIES

Data Citizens Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. John Hansen 11/2
2022-11-02 16:00 - 17:00 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
Join us for a “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk on big data naturalistic audio processing by John H. L. Hansen, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research at the Center for Robust Speech Systems at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas (CRSS-UTDallas).
Dr. Hansen is also a Distinguished University Endowed Chair in Telecommunications Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and a Speech and Hearing Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Register Now | Wednesday 11/2, 4:00-5:00 PM
University of Miami, Richter Library, Conference Room 343 (Third Floor)
1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Directions + Parking

TALK TITLE: “Challenges and Advancements in Speaker Diarization & Recognition for Naturalistic Data Streams”
Abstract
Speech communications represents a core domain for education, team problem solving, social engagement, and business interactions. The ability for Speech Technology to extract layers of knowledge and assess engagement content represents the next generation of advanced speech solutions.
Today, the emergence of BIG DATA, Machine Learning, as well as voice-enabled speech systems have required the need for effective voice capture and automatic speech/speaker recognition. The ability to employ speech and language technology to assess human-to-human interactions offers new research paradigms having profound impact on assessing human interaction.
In this talk, Dr. Hansen will focus on big data naturalistic audio processing relating to (i) child learning spaces, and (ii) the NASA APOLLO lunar missions. ML based technology advancements include automatic audio diarization, speech recognition, and speaker recognition. Child-Teacher based assessment of conversational interactions are explored, including keyword and “WH-word” (e.g., who, what, etc.). Diarization processing solutions are applied to both classroom/learning space child speech, as well as massive APOLLO data.
CRSS-UTDallas is expanding their original Apollo-11 corpus, resulting in a massive multi-track audio processing challenge to make available 150,000 hours of Apollo mission data to be shared with science communities: (i) speech/language technology, (ii) STEM/science and team-based researchers, and (iii) education/historical/archiving specialists. The goals here are to provide resources that allow a better understanding of how people work/learn collaboratively; and for Apollo, to accomplish one of mankind’s greatest scientific/technological challenges in the last century.
About John
John H. L. Hansen, received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, and B.S.E.E. from Rutgers University. He joined the University of Texas at Dallas (UTDallas) in 2005, where he currently serves as Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Distinguished University Chair in Telecommunications Engineering, and directs the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS). He is an International Speech Communication Association Fellow (ISCA), IEEE Fellow, and has served as Member and Technical Committee Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SLTC), and Technical Advisor to U.S. Delegate for NATO (IST/TG-01).
He served as ISCA President (2017-21), ISCA Board (2015-23), has supervised 99 Ph.D./M.S. thesis candidates (EE, CE, BME, TE, CS, Ling., Cog.Sci., Spch.Sci., Hear.Sci), was recipient of 2020 UT-Dallas Provost’s Award for Graduate Research Mentoring, and author/co-author of 840 journal/conference papers in the field of speech/language/hearing processing & technology. He served as Organizer/Chair/Co-Chair/Technical Chair for ISCA INTERSPEECH-2022, IEEE ICASSP-2010, IEEE SLT-2014, ISCA INTERSPEECH-2002, IEEE ICASSP-2024. He received the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Leo Beranek MERITORIOUS SERVICE Award.
About Data Citizens
Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series is an ongoing course of in-depth talks by experts in the field of data science on a wide variety of topics including data visualization, big data, AI, and predictive analytics. The Data Citizens lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.

Move Beyond Data Collection: Practical Perspectives for Researchers 11/17
2022-11-02 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom (online)
Join us as Dr. Tsinoremas, Founding Director of IDSC and Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data, leads an important discussion to learn more about:

Opportunities and resources available through IDSC
Best practices on how to not only collect and manage data, but also which technology platforms are ideal for next steps
How to incorporate machine learning or infrastructure resources such as the Viz Lab, or TRITON and Pegasus, the University’s supercomputers

TALK TITLE: “Move Beyond Data Collection: Practical Perspectives for Researchers at UM”
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM via Zoom
Register Now

This event is sponsored by the University of Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Miami CTSI). The seminar is part of their Connection Seminar Series. The Connection is a research network created to advance the research careers of early stage investigators through information exchange, networking, group learning, and mentorship required for team science.

2-day Software Carpentry-R Workshop 11/10-11 at Medical Campus
2022-11-10 08:30 - 2022-11-11 16:30 | Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Software Carpentry helps researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation, as well as a segment on Data Ethics.
Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Syllabus with Instructions | Registration Closed (course is full)
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing”.
Who The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where Rooms 710 R&Q, Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St., Miami, FL 33136. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When Thursday and Friday, November 10-11, 2022 | 9:00-4:30 Course Hours Both Days Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. For workshops at a physical location, the workshop organizers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email tnorris@miami.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.

Instructors

Gabriel Odom, PhD, Assistant Professor, Florida International University Department of Biostatistics
Cameron Riopelle, Head, Data and Visualization Services, UM Libraries
Thilani Samarakoon PhD, Biomedical Data Librarian

Helper

Tim Norris PhD, Data Scientist

Data Ethics

As part of this 2-day workshop, two guests will join us for a Special Program in Ethics for Scientific Writing and Coding:

Joanna Johnson, PhD, Writing Studies Department, on Scientific Writing
Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, on Ethics and Coding

This workshop series is sponsored by:
CALDER MEDICAL LIBRARY
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
College of Arts and Sciences’ Department Computer Science
GRADUATE SCHOOL
IDSC
OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
UM LIBRARIES

Data Science Internship Fair 11/15 3-5PM at Lakeside Village Auditorium
2022-11-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Lakeside Village, 1280 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, 33146, United States
Hosted by the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences, this fair is open to any student looking for internships or career opportunities in any aspect of data science, including visualization, marketing, computer science, smart cities, public planning, geospatial technology, and more. Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity to meet with recruiters ready to offer internships and full-time career opportunities. The fair will be held at the Lakeside Village auditorium on Tuesday, November 15, from 3:00-5:00 PM. Internships may range in length and scope, with one academic credit equivalent to 50 hours of work. In person and remote internships are possible, as are both paid and unpaid opportunities. Scheduled to attend the Data Science Internship Fair are:

Royal Caribbean
VISA
City of Coral Gables
UKG
Accenture
Precision Ecology

Students register here to attend.
Visitors must pay for parking. Visitors can use visitor’s code 330322 to pay to park in Merrick or Pavia Garages either using PayByPhone or the kiosk parking machine.
Pavia Garage Address: 5615 Pavia Street Coral Gables, FL, 33146 | Merrick Garage is to the left of Pavia.
In addition, for those of you who may want to take the Metrorail, get off at University Station. The Lakeside Village is to the right (east) of the Watsco Center. Please review the link for more information https://pt.fop.miami.edu/campus-transportation/index.html.

Move Beyond Data Collection: Practical Perspectives for Researchers 11/17
2022-11-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom (online)
Join us as Dr. Nick Tsinoremas, Founding Director of IDSC and Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data, leads an important discussion to learn more about:

Opportunities and resources available through IDSC
Best practices on how to not only collect and manage data, but also which technology platforms are ideal for next steps
How to incorporate machine learning or infrastructure resources such as the Viz Lab, and TRITON or Pegasus, the University’s supercomputers

TALK TITLE: “Move Beyond Data Collection: Practical Perspectives for Researchers at UM”
Thursday, November 17, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM via Zoom
Register Now

This event is sponsored by the University of Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Miami CTSI). The seminar is part of their Connection Seminar Series. The Connection is a research network created to advance the research careers of early stage investigators through information exchange, networking, group learning, and mentorship required for team science.

2022-2023 IDSC Fellows Launch Symposium 12/14
2022-12-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
The Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 IDSC Fellows have been chosen. Join us in congratulating (clockwise from top left): Sadegh Tale Masoule, Kelly Soluri, Jeffrey Serville, and Shara Sookhoo.
IDSC joins with University faculty to mentor IDSC Fellows on how to best utilize University’s cutting-edge advanced computing resources in their proposed research projects. This is a prestigious designation awarded each year to four students, either undergraduate (sophomore level or above) or graduate level.
You are invited to attend the IDSC Fellows Launch Symposium, hear their project proposals, and enjoy light refreshments.
Wednesday 12/14 • 3:00-4:00 PM
Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room (343)
Register Now
This event is free and open to the public.

Special thanks to the IDSC Fellows Steering Committee:
CHAIR | Mohamed Iskandarani
MEMBERS | Alberto Cairo, Kim Grinfeder, Daniel Messinger, Mitsunori Ogihara, Kamal Premaratne, Azizi Seixas, Ravi Vadapalli

Meet the IDSC Fellows

Sadegh Tale Masole

Jeffrey Serville

Kelly Soluri

Shara Sookhoo

Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series Presents Dr. Zahi A. Fayad 1/11
2023-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
Join us for another “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk featuring Dr. Zahi A. Fayad, the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Medical Imaging and Bioengineering at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is also a Professor of Radiology (Vice-Chair for Research) and a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology). Dr. Fayad is the founding Director of the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (ranked 15th in 2021 NIH funding in the field of Radiology).
Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series is an ongoing course of in-depth talks by experts in the field of data science on a wide variety of topics. The series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), and is free and open to the public.
Register Now
Wednesday, January 11, 2022 | 4:00-5:00 PM
Via Zoom or in person at University of Miami, Richter Library, Conference Room 343 (Third Floor), 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Map + Directions
TALK TITLE “Advancements in Whole Person Research, Mobile/Digital Health, and Immuno-Imaging/Therapy”
ABSTRACT The starting point of personalized patient care is collection and processing of deep (omics, flow cytometry, advanced imaging, etc) and longitudinal/continuous data (medical records and labs, wearables, apps etc). Advancements in mobile health, in artificial intelligence and its derivative techniques as well as in quantitative high-resolution whole body imaging at the molecular level (e.g., PET/MR, immuno-PET, etc) are being leveraged for this systems medicine approach to healthcare. Finally, immuno-based therapies (e.g, innate trained immunity targeted) using nanobiologics are being tested as new potential personalized cures for cardiovascular disease.
ABOUT ZAHI A. FAYAD, PhD, FAHA, FACC, FISMRM
Dr. Fayad’s research has been dedicated to the detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease with many seminal contributions in the field of multimodality biomedical imaging (MR, CT, PET and PET/MR) and nanomedicine. Recent collaborative work has been in: 1) the study of psychosocial stress exposure in the brain, the cardiovascular system and the immune system; 2) the development of platform nanotechnology to produce nanobiologics for immunotherapy in multiple disease conditions; 3) the development of the Mount Sinai Imaging Research Warehouse (de-identified, pseudo-anonymized images and metadata) as a unique repository of radiological imaging/reports for focused imaging and general healthcare research; 4) Covid data and data science research by co-founding the Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center now known as the Mount Sinai Clinical Intelligence Center; 5) the use of mobile health (wearables and apps) for the study of disease and the deployment of digital therapies like the Warrior Watch and Warrior Shield programs.
He is Guest Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology Imaging (JACC Imaging), Section Editor for Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), Consulting Editor for Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB), Guest Editor for the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) and past Associate Editor of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM). From 2013-2017, he served as Charter Member, NIH Center of Scientific Review, Clinical Molecular Imaging and Probe Development Study Section. In 2015, he chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) PARCC program at the HEGP in Paris.
Dr. Fayad has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications (h-index of 123 accessed 08/01/2022 on Google Scholar with over 142,000 citations), 50 book chapters, and over 500 meeting presentations. He is currently the Principal Investigator of multiple federal, foundation and industry grants including 6 grants (5 R01s, 1 P01) funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and National institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. In 2021, Dr. Fayad ranked in top 10 in NIH research overall funding in the field of Radiology.
Dr. Fayad had his engineering trainings at Bradley University (BS, Electrical Engineering ’89), the Johns Hopkins University (MS, Biomedical Engineering ‘91), and at the University of Pennsylvania (PhD Bioengineering ’96). From 1996 to 1997 he was junior faculty in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997 he joined the faculty at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Assistant Professor in Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology).
As a teacher and mentor, Dr. Fayad has been also extremely successful. He has trained over 100 postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows and students. His trainees have received major awards, fellowships, and positions in academia and industry.
Dr. Fayad is the recipient of multiple prestigious awards including, but not limited to Fellow American Heart Association (2001), British Medical Association Book Award (2004), Fellow American College of Cardiolgy (2005), the John Paul II Medal, Krakow Poland (2007), Outstanding Teacher Award from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2008), Honorary Professor of Nanomedicine, Aarhus Univ, Denmark (2009), Opening speaker at the 97th Scientific Assembly and Scientific meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (2011), Henry I Russek Lecture at the 45th Anniversary of the ACCF New York Cardiovascular Symposium (2012), Fellow International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2013), Academy Radiology Research Distinguised Investigator (2013), Distinguished Reviewer award from Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2013), Centurion Society Medal from Bradley University (2014), the Editor’s Recognition Award, from the journal Radiology (2014), and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Biogengeering & Medical Imaging (2015), Dr. Joseph Dvorkin Memorial Lecturer at the Cardiac Research Day of the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2015), Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar lecturer at the Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research in Toronto (2016), Dr. Fayad’s work on stress, the immune system and cardiovascular disease published in the Lancet was featured in the Altmetric Top 100 (2017), Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021,2022), Mount Sinai Jacobi Medallion Award (2019).
He is married to Monique P. Fayad, MBA and is the proud father of Chloé (20 year old) and Christophe (16 year old) and after spending seven years in Manhattan now lives in Larchmont, runs in Central Park and participates regularly in New York Road Runners races. He also enjoys sailing and stand-up board paddling in Larchmont, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, the Caribbean Islands and beyond. He practices all type of daily fitness regimens (while wearing different sensors) that include strength (power and olympic lifting), cardiovascular, core, flexibility and high intensity interval trainings for fun and to stay healthy.

Ethics, Computer Science, and Writing: The Challenge and Opportunity of Text Generation 1/23
2023-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
The University of Miami has a long track record in studying ethics and information technology. This special event links the Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC), the University’s new Department of Writing Studies, and the UM Ethics Programs on a panel to address challenges related to the explosive interest in—and use of—Artificial Intelligence programs that generate text and computer code.
A multidisciplinary expert panel will review (i) concerns about using computers to write assignments, (ii) credible and interesting uses of text-generation programs, and (iii) options for institutional responses and policies to address these issues. This is a hybrid event hosted by Nicholas Tsinoremas, PhD, Director, IDSC; Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE, Director, IDSC Data Ethics + Society; and Joanna Johnson, PhD, Assoc. Professor, Department of Writing Studies.
Monday 1/23/2023 • 12:00-1:00 PM | Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room #343
Zoom Link | https://miami.zoom.us/j/99240273225?pwd=[REDACTED]

Save the Date 2/1/2023 for the 7th Annual Big Data Conference
2023-02-01 13:00 - 19:00 | Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The 7th Annual Big Data Conference: AI in Healthcare and Latin America focuses on the digital transformation initiatives in Latin America and the use of AI tools and methodologies to drive analytics, expedite diagnosis processes, and improve accuracy to achieve better outcomes. Big Data 2023 offers in-depth discussion with some of the top industry leaders in business, innovation, healthcare systems, and academia from Latin America, local and national regions. This limited admission event is tentatively scheduled for February 1, 2023. Doors open at 12:00 noon, and the event begins at 1:00 PM, followed by a networking reception in the early evening.
Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact IDSC@miami.edu for more information.
Register Now (free)

Location
University of Miami Newman Alumni Center
6200 San Amaro Drive (Multi-Purpose ABC)
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Parking Information forthcoming . . .

The annual Big Data Conference is hosted by the University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) and is free and open to the public.

Bring your Questions to the next IDSC Town Hall 2/7
2023-02-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom (online)
IDSC is broadening computational resources, services, and grants! We invite you to attend a Town Hall meeting to discover all that IDSC offers. Join us online on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, for a look at IDSC’s advanced computing resources, systems and data engineering services, workforce development and educational programming, as well as our research focus areas, outreach, events, engagement opportunities, and variety of grants.
Register Now
The IDSC Advanced Computing service unit business model will be reviewed, and we’ll discuss our subsidy programs designed to help the heavy supercomputer users as well as the uninitiated.
IDSC is committed to promoting data science to enhance understanding within the University’s research community, and offers the following Grants Programs:

Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM
Access to IDSC Resources for Early Career Researchers
Advanced Computing for Students
Bridge Awards for Degree and Program Community

We believe in a collaborative approach that brings together talented minds in multiple disciplines to leverage the University’s state-of-the-art technology. Join us to explore how the U’s powerful resources can help you achieve research, training, and business goals.
Tuesday 2/7/2023, 4:00-5:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public.

Data Citizens Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Joel Saltz 2/13
2023-02-13 15:30 - 16:30 | Allen Hall, 5050 Brunson Drive, Room 209, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us for a “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk on health-related AI methods by Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Stony Brook University, Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Saltz’s work involves high-end and data-intensive computing, applications of machine learning and AI, pathology informatics, large-scale data analytics, and clinical informatics.
At SUNY, Dr. Saltz also serves as the Vice Chair for Laboratory Initiatives and Digital Medicine in the Department of Pathology; Vice President for Clinical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine; Associate Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center; and Director of the Institute for Engineering Medicine.
Register Now | Monday 2/13, 3:30-4:30 PM
VIA ZOOM or IN PERSON: University of Miami, Division of Continuing and International Education
Allen Hall Room 209, 5050 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Directions + Parking
TALK TITLE: “Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Modal Analysis, Digital Health, and Clinical Informatics”
Abstract
This talk will survey rapidly emerging health-related artificial intelligence methods, AI-driven clinical informatics projects and end with a description of how health AI applications can be used to spur Computer Science research.
Our guest speaker describes the evolution of artificial intelligence methods that simultaneously analyze many types of complementary information to guide medical and population health decision-making and to create new predictive biomarkers. One key component of these methods lies in the development of methods that are able to resolve image data – Radiology, Pathology and geospatial – into meaningfully labeled objects. In this talk, Dr. Saltz will describe progress made in this area and the application of these methods in the context of clinical data analyses.
Dr. Saltz also describes a number of AI-driven clinical informatics efforts; these encompass analysis and modeling of human attention patterns in Pathology image interpretation, aortic aneurysm detection and management, prediction of health system patient flow and emergency department congestion, algorithms to predict hospital readmission and development of methods for normalizing data in multi-million patient real word data studies.
Finally, Dr. Saltz addresses the use of digital health and biomedical informatics challenges as driving applications that can spur innovative Computer Science research and discuss how to build synergistic multi-disciplinary teams.
About Joel Saltz, MD, PhD
Dr. Joel Saltz is a leader in research on advanced information technologies for large scale data science and biomedical/scientific research. He has developed innovative pathology informatics methods, including: the first published whole slide virtual microscope system; pioneering pathology computer-aided diagnosis techniques; and methods for decomposing pathology images into features and linking those features to cancer “omics”, response to treatment and outcome.
He has broken new ground in big data through development of the filter-stream based DataCutter system, the map-reduce style Active Data Repository and the inspector-executor runtime compiler framework. He has also been an active contributor in clinical informatics, having developed predictive models for hospital readmissions, point of care laboratory testing quality assurance systems, decision support systems for electrophoresis interpretation and graphical user interfaces to support clinical data warehouse queries.
Dr. Saltz has been a pioneer in establishing the field of biomedical informatics; he founded and built two highly successful departments of biomedical informatics, one at Ohio State University and one at Emory University. In 2013, he came to Stony Brook as Vice President for Clinical Informatics and Founding Department Chair of Biomedical Informatics—to create a living laboratory for biomedical informatics and to create a third unique biomedical informatics department dually housed in the School of Medicine and the College of Engineering.
Dr. Saltz is trained both as a computer scientist and as a physician through the MSTP program at Duke University. He has deep experience in computer science, having served on the computer science faculties at Yale University and the University of Maryland. He completed his residency in clinical pathology at Johns Hopkins University and he is a practicing, board-certified clinical pathologist.
Read more about Dr. Saltz’s research. . .
About Data Citizens
Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series is an ongoing course of in-depth talks by experts in the field of data science on a wide variety of topics including data visualization, big data, AI, and predictive analytics. The Data Citizens lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.

Data Citizens Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Joel Saltz 2/13
2023-02-13 15:30 - 16:30 | Allen Hall, 5050 Brunson Drive, Room 209, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Join us for a “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk on health-related AI methods by Joel Saltz, MD, PhD, Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Stony Brook University, Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Saltz’s work involves high-end and data-intensive computing, applications of machine learning and AI, pathology informatics, large-scale data analytics, and clinical informatics.
At SUNY, Dr. Saltz also serves as the Vice Chair for Laboratory Initiatives and Digital Medicine in the Department of Pathology; Vice President for Clinical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine; Associate Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center; and Director of the Institute for Engineering Medicine.
Register Now | Monday 2/13, 3:30-4:30 PM
Via ZOOM or in person: University of Miami, Division of Continuing and International Education
Allen Hall Room 209, 5050 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Directions + Parking
TALK TITLE: “Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Modal Analysis, Digital Health, and Clinical Informatics”

This talk will survey rapidly emerging health-related artificial intelligence methods, AI-driven clinical informatics projects and end with a description of how health AI applications can be used to spur Computer Science research.
Dr. Saltz will describe the evolution of AI methods that simultaneously analyze many types of complementary information to guide medical and population health decision-making and to create new predictive biomarkers. One key component of these methods lies in the development of methods that are able to resolve image data—Radiology, Pathology, and geospatial—into meaningfully labeled objects. Dr. Saltz will also describe progress made in this area and the application of these methods in the context of clinical data analyses.
In addition, Dr. Saltz will discuss a number of AI-driven clinical informatics efforts: these encompass analysis and modeling of human attention patterns in Pathology image interpretation, aortic aneurysm detection and management, prediction of health system patient flow and emergency department congestion, algorithms to predict hospital readmission, and the development of methods for normalizing data in multi-million patient real word data studies.
Finally, Dr. Saltz will address the use of digital health and biomedical informatics challenges as driving applications that can spur innovative computer science research, and he will discuss how to build synergistic multi-disciplinary teams.
About Joel Saltz, MD, PhD
Dr. Joel Saltz is a leader in research on advanced information technologies for large scale data science and biomedical/scientific research. He has developed innovative pathology informatics methods, including: the first published whole slide virtual microscope system; pioneering pathology computer-aided diagnosis techniques; and methods for decomposing pathology images into features and linking those features to cancer “omics”, response to treatment and outcome.
He has broken new ground in big data through development of the filter-stream based DataCutter system, the map-reduce style Active Data Repository and the inspector-executor runtime compiler framework. He has also been an active contributor in clinical informatics, having developed predictive models for hospital readmissions, point of care laboratory testing quality assurance systems, decision support systems for electrophoresis interpretation and graphical user interfaces to support clinical data warehouse queries.
Dr. Saltz has been a pioneer in establishing the field of biomedical informatics; he founded and built two highly successful departments of biomedical informatics, one at Ohio State University and one at Emory University. In 2013, he came to Stony Brook as Vice President for Clinical Informatics and Founding Department Chair of Biomedical Informatics—to create a living laboratory for biomedical informatics and to create a third unique biomedical informatics department dually housed in the School of Medicine and the College of Engineering.
Dr. Saltz is trained both as a computer scientist and as a physician through the MSTP program at Duke University. He has deep experience in computer science, having served on the computer science faculties at Yale University and the University of Maryland. He completed his residency in clinical pathology at Johns Hopkins University and he is a practicing, board-certified clinical pathologist.
Read more about Dr. Saltz’s research. . .
About Data Citizens
Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series is an ongoing course of in-depth talks by experts in the field of data science on a wide variety of topics including data visualization, big data, AI, and predictive analytics. The Data Citizens lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.

The Human Renascence in the Era of Robots with Alberto Levy 2/16
2023-02-16 15:30 - 16:45 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
As we watch incredible advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, machines get smarter and stronger every day. Some say robots will take everyone’s jobs and we are doomed to live under harsh circumstances, but the reality is that humans are needed more than ever and this is an opportunity for a “Human Renascence”.
Why not allow machines to do what they do better and further develop our human skills? Critical thinking, creativity, negotiation, emotional intelligence, and love, cannot be developed by machines as humans do, yet those skills are fundamental in the construction of our future and in the design of robots.
In this lecture, Alberto Levy will talk about how we are educated to be robots, and will discuss jobs, ethics in AI, and how to combine technology and humanity for a better future.
Thursday, February 16 | 3:30-4:45 PM
ZOOM LINK or IN PERSON at:

Richter Library, 102B Learning Commons Flexible Program Space
1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

This lecture is co-hosted by IDSC and the School of Communication Interactive Media program, is free and open to the public, and was made possible by The Ribeiro Innovation Fund. No registration required.

About Alberto Levy
Alberto Levy is considered an “Innovation Evangelist” by the Harvard Business Review Summit and the Global Shapers program of the World Economic Forum. He is an international lecturer, a technology and marketing consultant, an executive strategist, and a creative soul with the ability to continuously break paradigms with new proposals for an effective and memorable dialogue cross-platform between organizations, governments, brands, and consumers.
An award-winning computer engineer who mixes art with technology to tell stories in non-traditional ways, Alberto has co-founded many startups and has been a featured speaker for Singularity University, TEDx, Indian Institute of Technology, University of California, WoBI, Harvard Business Review Summit, MIT EmTech, and Oracle Leaders Circle, among others. He holds a Master’s in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU.
As an Aspen Institute Alumni and International MBA Professor at IE Business School (Madrid), in recent years Alberto has helped high-impact startups and corporations on 4 continents change the world, in roles such as mentor, advisor, and board member. His active presence is seen not only in corporations and in universities, but also in prisons and active war zones.

2-day Software Carpentry-R Workshop 2/23+24 Medical Campus
2023-02-23 09:00 - 2023-02-24 16:30 | Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Software Carpentry helps researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation.
Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Syllabus with Instructions | Registration Closed
This workshop is at capacity. To be put on a waiting list, please email tnorris@miami.edu.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing“.
Who The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th Street, 7th Floor, CTSI Research Training Center, Miami, FL 33136. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When Thursday and Friday, February 23+24, 2023 | 9:00-4:30 Course Hours Both Days Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. For workshops at a physical location, the workshop organizers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email tnorris@miami.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.

Code of Conduct: Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Surveys: Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey
Post-workshop Survey

Click here for Syllabus | Full Agenda

Instructors

Tim Norris PhD, Data Scientist, UM Libraries

Gabriel Odom, PhD, Assistant Professor, FIU Department of Biostatistics

Cameron Riopelle, Head, Data + Visualization Services, UM Libraries

Thilani Samarakoon PhD, Biomedical Data Librarian, UM Libraries

Helpers: Anny Rodriguez, Catalina Canizares Escobar, Dana Godrich

This workshop series is sponsored by:
CALDER MEDICAL LIBRARY
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
College of Arts and Sciences’ Department Computer Science
GRADUATE SCHOOL
IDSC
OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
UM LIBRARIES

2-day Software Carpentry-Python Workshop 3/2+3 Medical Campus
2023-03-02 09:00 - 2023-03-03 16:30 | Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Software Carpentry helps researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation.
Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Syllabus with Instructions | Register Now
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing“.
Who The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don’t need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th Street, 7th Floor, CTSI Research Training Center, Miami, FL 33136. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

When Thursday and Friday, March 2+3, 2023 | 9:00-4:30 Course Hours Both Days Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below).
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. For workshops at a physical location, the workshop organizers have checked that:

The room is wheelchair / scooter accessible.
Accessible restrooms are available.

Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email tnorris@miami.edu for more information.
Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.

Code of Conduct: Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.
Surveys: Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey
Post-workshop Survey

Click here for Syllabus | Full Agenda

Instructors

Tim Norris PhD, Data Scientist, UM Libraries

Julian Dallmeier, PhD, Computational Neuroscience PhD Candidate

Helpers: Melvin Ayala, Dana Godrich, Erica Newcome. Thilani Samarakoon

This workshop series is sponsored by:
CALDER MEDICAL LIBRARY
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
College of Arts and Sciences’ Department Computer Science
GRADUATE SCHOOL
IDSC
OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
UM LIBRARIES

Smart Cities MIAMI Conference Looks at Climate Resilience 3/30-31
2023-03-30 12:00 - 17:00 | Lakeside Village, 1280 Stanford Drive, Coral Gables, 33146, United States
The 6th annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference is co-hosted by the University of Miami School of Architecture and the Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) in partnership with the Climate Resilience Academy, with special thanks to Presenting Sponsor Double C.
To aid in the design and development of more sustainable, livable, and resilient cities, the University of Miami brings cutting-edge research in urban planning, architecture, and engineering in alignment with computational resources and analytical methods. The annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference is an extension of these efforts, providing a forum for leaders in academia, industry, and government to closely examine evolving theories and practices in the Smart City field. The topics considered vary in scope and nature within a general theme that is particularly relevant for each year. Smart Cities MIAMI 2023 takes place on Thursday and Friday, March 30-31 and will consider the impact of climate change and its related stressors on South Florida and will focus on opportunities enabled by smart-city technology for enhancing resilience, from responsive infrastructure to big-data-driven modeling.
Presenting Sponsor | Double C
REGISTER NOW ($50pp )
PROMO CODE available for UM Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students—please email idsc@miami.edu.
The 6th annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference is co-hosted by the University of Miami School of Architecture and the Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) in partnership with the Climate Resilience Academy. Special thanks to Smart Cities MIAMI 2023 Presenting Sponsor Double C.
To aid in the design and development of more sustainable, livable, and resilient cities, the University of Miami brings cutting-edge research in urban planning, architecture, and engineering in alignment with computational resources and analytical methods. The annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference is an extension of these efforts, providing a forum for leaders in academia, industry, and government to closely examine evolving theories and practices in the Smart City field. The topics considered vary in scope and nature within a general theme that is particularly relevant for each year. Smart Cities MIAMI 2023 takes place on Thursday and Friday, March 30-31 and will consider the impact of climate change and its related stressors on South Florida and will focus on opportunities enabled by smart-city technology for enhancing resilience, from responsive infrastructure to big-data-driven modeling.
DAY 1 | Thursday 3/30 • Lakeside Village Expo Center, UM Coral Gables campus (MAP)
Buffet Lunch [ 12:00-1:00 PM ]
Conference [ 1:00-5:00 PM ]
Networking Reception [ 5:00-7:00 PM ]
The Day 1 theme focuses on climate resilience in smart cities.
DAY 2 | Friday 3/31 • Lakeside Village Pavilion 1000, UM Coral Gables campus (MAP)
Light Breakfast + Registration [ 8:00-9:00 AM ]
Conference [ 9:00 AM-12:00 PM ]

The Day 2 spotlight on Miami and Medellin compares how these two cities strive to be a smart city, and discusses how public policy can promote growth with resiliency.

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DAY ONE • Climate Resilience

Buffet Lunch—Exhibits Open [ 12:00-1:00 PM ]
Conference Begins [ 1:00 PM ]

OPENING KEYNOTE [ 1:10 PM ]

Dr. Ben Kirtman
William R. Middelthon Endowed Chair of Earth Sciences
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | UM Rosenstiel School
Director | NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
Deputy Director | UM Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)
In recent years, Miami has taken center stage as ground zero for climate change. At the forefront of studies on the predictability and variability of the Earth’s climate system, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science professor of atmospheric science Dr. Ben Kirtman is known worldwide for using atmosphere-ocean general circulation models to bring unprecedented detail to climate change measurement. An engaging and entertaining speaker, Dr. Kirtman is often asked to share his expertise in the public eye and behind the science and we are thrilled to have him keynote this year’s Smart Cities MIAMI Conference on climate resilience in smart cities.
(Read more about Dr. Kirtman)
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PANELS

PANEL 1 Smart and/or Resilient [ 1:40 PM ]

How does smart-city infrastructure facilitate adaptation? What are the promising technologies in the climate-solutions space? What are the challenges from a cyber-security angle? What are the ethical and legal consequences of technology driven solutions? These and other questions tackle the promise and potential pitfalls of technological solutions to climate change impacts.

MODERATOR

Pete Martinez
Pete Martinez is Chairman and CEO of the SIVOTEC family of companies; high tech and scientific innovators at the massive intersection of Health, Sports, Technology, Big Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. Martinez is also the Chairman of RaiseLink a FinTech platform for advanced investor-startup matching, engagement, and related services.
An international entrepreneur, he has led numerous high impact initiatives in the areas of high technology, business consulting, healthcare, and education. Martinez is a 32 year veteran of IBM, where he was Vice President of Global Business Services and Senior Executive for IBM South Florida. He is also a research affiliate at MIT, and a visiting professor at Florida Atlantic University and Florida International University.
With over 30 patents and publications he is a frequent international speaker while consulting to leading edge companies. He is a graduate of the University of Miami College of Engineering and past Chairman of the Florida Research Consortium. June 22, 2007 was proclaimed ‘Pete Martinez Day’ by the City of Boca Raton.

PANELISTS

David R. Chapman, PhD
Associate Professor | UM Department of Computer Science
Dr. Chapman has had three years of industry experience with Oceaneering International, where he developed a novel dynamic programming algorithm for edge detection for the purposes of subsea robotic navigation. Dr. Chapman’s present research emphasizes computer vision and image processing algorithms primarily with applications to medical imaging analytics. Recent research results include a novel semi-supervised image classification algorithm with applications to lung cancer screening as well as COVID19 classification, a novel algorithm for CT-scan image deep denoising, as well as an approach for domain invariant feature learning to reduce algorithmic bias for X-ray image screening for Tuberculosis.
Dr. Chapman is actively collaborating with RAD-AID International (they bring radiology to low-resource areas), Carestream Health (a worldwide provider of X-ray imaging systems), and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, to create the largest ever medical imaging dataset for Tuberculosis screening. He is also collaborating with RAD-AID International and Google Foundation to address and overcome issues of algorithmic bias that may affect clinical translation of diagnostic screening to low- and middle-income countries. Furthermore, he is collaborating with the National Alliance against Disparities in Public Health (NADPH) to improve AI infrastructure for minority-serving institutions. Finally, Dr. Chapman is working on the development of core computer vision and machine learning algorithms, including a novel methods for semi-supervised learning and edge detection. (Read the recent article in IDSC Magazine on Dr. Chapman: Meet the Scientist Fast-Tracking Improvements in Digital Image Diagnostics.)

Tony Cho
CEO & Founder | Future of Cities
Tony Cho is a real estate pioneer, impact entrepreneur, and the CEO & founder of the Future of Cities—a mission-driven consortium and multi-pronged platform invested in transforming the built environment by adopting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies to improve the quality of urban living.
Influenced by his work as founder and chairman of Metro 1—an award-wining, forward-thinking real estate investment and development firm—Cho’s career has focused on shaping neighborhoods and developing sustainable cities. Cho is also a co-founder of the Magic City Innovation District Little Haiti and he has played an influential role in shaping other emerging neighborhoods, including Wynwood, as a founding member of the Wynwood Business Improvement District (BID) championing the progressive rezoning of the area, which transformed blighted streets into a diverse, 24-hour, mixed-use, arts-and-innovation district.
Cho and his wife, Ximena, founded the Cho Family Foundation, focused on environmental, wildlife, and indigenous culture awareness and preservation as well as mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. The Foundation has supported organizations such as the Chopra Foundation, Amazon Watch, and Path of the Panther. Leveraging the principles of social capitalism, the pair have also founded and grown several other pioneering businesses, including ChoZen Retreat, a sustainable eco-retreat and sanctuary in Central Florida, and they are investors in companies such as Dance, OpenSeed, and CARAVANA.

Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE
Director | UM Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy (a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy, one of 13 in the world and the only one in the U.S.)
Director | UM Ethics Programs
Director | UM Institute for Data Science and Computing, Data Ethics + Society
Dr. Goodman is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami with appointments in the Department of Philosophy, School of Nursing and Health Studies, and Department of Public Health Sciences. He is immediate past chair of the Ethics Committee of the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association), for which organization he co-founded the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group. He has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI). He is also a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology (FACE), and past chair of its Ethics Committee, and of the Hastings Center.
Dr. Goodman is a co-founder of the North American Center for Ethics and Health Information Technology, a partnership with the Center for Bioethics at Indiana University. He also directs the Florida Bioethics Network and chairs the UHealth/University of Miami Hospital Ethics Committee and the Adult Ethics Committee for Jackson Memorial Health System.
Dr. Goodman’s research has emphasized issues in health information technology and in epidemiology and public health. His most recent book, Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology: Intelligent Machines and the Transformation of Health Care (Cambridge University Press 2016) identifies and analyzes a number of issues in biomedical informatics. He has edited a book on the Terri Schiavo case for Oxford University Press, published a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press, co-authored a book of case studies in ethics and health computing for Springer-Verlag and co-authored another volume of case studies in ethics in public health for the American Public Health Association. He has also co-authored a book on artificial intelligence, edited a book on ethics and medical computing, co-edited a volume on artificial intelligence, and published and presented numerous papers in bioethics, including end-of-life care, the philosophy of science, and computing.

Matt Haggman
Executive Vice President, Opportunity Miami | Miami-Dade Beacon Council Board of Directors
Matt Haggman is Executive Vice President, One Community One Goal at the Miami-Dade Beacon Council. In this role he leads the efforts of this community-wide strategic initiative focused on shaping Miami-Dade’s economic future. Relaunched in 2012 as a roadmap for long-term economic development success, One Community One Goal (OCOG) convenes a broad spectrum of Miami-Dade businesses, anchor institutions, and organizations in both the private and public sectors, collaborating to advance the goal of a thriving, inclusive, and diverse community. Haggman served as Co-Chair of One Community One Goal from 2015 to 2017.
Haggman is an ardent believer in entrepreneurship as a way to transform communities from the ground up. Previously, as Miami Director at the Knight Foundation, he created and built the Foundation’s program focused on propelling high-growth entrepreneurs and civic innovators as a way to drive innovation, expand opportunity, and stir greater community engagement. Numerous efforts funded and supported under Haggman’s leadership are now pillars of Miami’s rapidly growing entrepreneurial ecosystem. This includes Endeavor Miami, The Idea Center at Miami Dade College, eMerge Americas, Center for Black Innovation, 500 Startups Miami, and Babson’s Women Innovating Now Lab, among many others. Several Harvard Business School case studies have cited the work. In The Miami Herald, Haggman was called “the cornerstone of a renaissance in Miami tech” and “a pioneer in Miami [who] has spearheaded the entrepreneurial movement.”
Prior to joining the Knight Foundation, Haggman was an award-winning journalist with The Miami Herald and the Daily Business Review. He covered business, government, and investigative stories of local and national importance. Results of his and his colleagues’ work include consumer protection reforms in Tallahassee, an overhaul of Miami-Dade County government, and changes to voting systems in Florida. Haggman has won numerous local and national awards, including a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism. In his last two years at The Miami Herald he twice won the President’s Award, honoring the best work in the McClatchy Newspaper chain. In his last year as a reporter, he was named Best Miami Herald Reporter in Miami New Times’ annual “Best of Miami” awards.
With a long-held passion for Miami, Haggman has been active in numerous organizations across the community. He currently is a founding Board Member of Endeavor Miami, a Trustee at New World Symphony and advisor to national nonprofit, Right to Start. Haggman previously served as co-chair of One Community One Goal. He has been a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami for more than a decade. Several years ago, Haggman joined with friends to launch TEDxMiami, which continues today under a new generation of leaders. Originally from Boston, Haggman has degrees from Tulane University and Vermont Law School. He and his wife Danet Linares live in Coconut Grove.

Cyrus Hodes
Cofounder | World Climate Tech Summit
Cofounder | Duckweed Bio
Partner | FoundersX Ventures
Cofounder | AI Initiative (The Future Society)
Cyrus is a co-founder of the World Climate Tech Summit and is the co-founder of Duckweed Bio, an Agtech/climate tech startup based in south Florida. He is a Contributor with Blockchain Web Services (BWS) a Web3 P2P cloud computing platform for Machine Learning which enables resilient and more sustainable computation on a distributed network.
Cyrus is a Partner at FoundersX Ventures, a cross-stage Silicon Valley VC firm focusing on AI, biotech, digital healthcare, enterprise SaaS, quantum computing, Fintech and Foodtech.
He was the co-founder and Chair of the AI Initiative of The Future Society, a think and do tank incubated at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he led global governance of AI projects such as the Global Data Access Framework with the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General Office and global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He served as Advisor to the UAE Minister of Artificial Intelligence where he convened for 2 years the Global Governance of AI Roundtable at the World Government Summit.
Besides volunteering with the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) on AI for climate action, he is a member of the International Advisory Board of the EU Parliament STOA, a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI (ONE AI) and a member of the AI Ethics Board of Smart Dubai.
Cyrus was educated at Sciences Po Paris, where he later was a Lecturer in International Security, holds a M.A. (Hons) from Paris II University in Defense, Geostrategy and Industrial Dynamics and a M.P.A. from Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, MBA
CEO | Softhread.com
Chief Quality & Safety Officer and Chief of Compliance | UHealth
Director, Clinical Research Trials Program | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Lecturer | Miami Herbert Business School
Dr. Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes s a healthcare executive, futurist, and globalist who is highly dedicated to digital and ethics advocacy. She is a Forbes Business Council member, digital strategist, passionate educator, and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder, known as an expert speaker, board advisor, and consultant. Throughout her career, she has received several awards for excellence in research, teaching, or leadership. Most notably: WBAF World Excellence Award-Social Entrepreneurship 2021, Top 10 Quantum, Top 10 HealthTech, Top 10 Privacy, Top 20 Digital Twins, Top 50 Global Ecosystem Thought Leaders. Additionally, she serves as an Expert Advisor to the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum, is leading the Government Blockchain Association Global’s Smart Cities Working Group, serves as Chair of the World Metaverse Council’s Ethics Working Group, and is the Co-Founder of the WBAF World Smart Cities Economic Development Council.
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes completed her resdiency and fellowship training at Columbia University in NYC and her Executive MBA at the Miami Herbert Business School. She is member of numerous prestigious professional organizations and holds several executive certifications, such as Bioethics from Harvard; AI and Business Strategy, and, Blockchain Technology and Business Innovation from MIT Sloan; Finance from Harvard Business School; Negotiation from Harvard Law School; and Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes holds numerous leadership roles in the commercial and not-for-profit arenas, and continues to teach at the WBAF Business School and the Miami Herbert Business School. She is also acting as the Chief Innovation Officer for Government Blockchain Association and is an Ambassador for Women in AI. Most recently, she served as President of Detect Genomix, and Chief Quality and Safety Officer Chief and Innovation Officer for Mednax, and Chief Quality and Safety Officer and Chief of Compliance for the UHealth System. Additionally, Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes is an Honorary Advisory Board Member of several companies, entrepreneurship incubators or accelerators, as well as an Editorial Board Member for several international publications, an author, keynote speaker, and TV/Media partner.

Yelena Yesha, PhD
Director | UM IDSC AI + Machine Learning Program and IDSC Innovation Officer
Knight Foundation Endowed Chair of Data Science and AI
Founding Director, NSF CARTA
At the University of Miami, Dr. Yelena Yesha is the Knight Foundation Endowed Chair of Data Science and AI at the Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC). At IDSC, Dr. Yesha is also the Innovation Officer and Head of International Relations. In this role, Dr. Yesha assists faculty in engaging government and industrial partners to collaborate with the University and consults with faculty on developing research ideas into innovations.
Dr. Yesha was the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA), an NSF-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that aims to develop long-term partnerships among industry, academia, and government. CARTA partners with Rutgers University New Brunswick, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Tel Aviv University, and the University of Miami.
Dr. Yesha received her B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and in Applied Mathematics from York University, Toronto, Canada, and her M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. She has published 11 books as author or editor, and more than 200 papers in prestigious refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings, and she has been awarded external funding in a total amount exceeding 45 million dollars. She is currently working with leading industrial companies and government agencies on new innovative technology in the areas of blockchains, cybersecurity, and big data analytics with applications to electronic commerce, climate change, and digital healthcare. Dr. Yesha is a Fellow of the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies.
Forbes magazine highlighted Dr. Yesha’s accomplishments in technology in a two-part profile:
Part I: Dr. Yelena Yesha: Meet The Tenacious Pioneer Pushing Innovation To Address Real World Problems
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2018/12/12/dr-yelena-yesha-meet-the-tenacious-pioneer-pushing-innovation-to-address-real-world-problems/?sh=d4e5e444e9a3
and Part II: Dr. Yelena Yesha: Pushing Technology Boundaries To Solve The World’s Biggest Problems
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/02/20/dr-yelena-yesha-pushing-technology-boundaries-to-solve-the-worlds-biggest-problems-part-ii/?sh=467e23e5224a

Break—EXHIBITS Open [ 2:25-2:45 PM ]
PANEL 2 Resilient Networks [ 2:45-3:30 PM ]

Power grids, telecommunications, transportation infrastructure: the networks that are fundamental to the workings of a city are increasingly disrupted by climate change impacts. The panel presents and discusses the use of technology in developing adaptation strategies and solutions.

MODERATOR

Pratim Biswas, PhD
Dean | UM College of Engineering
Professor Biswas is the Dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering. He is a faculty member in the Dept of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, with an affiliated appointment in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Dean Biswas is a pioneer in his field recognized for applying aerosol science and engineering to multiple areas, such as energy and environmental nanotechnology, solar energy, air pollution control, and medicine. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society, for his pioneering contributions to aerosol science and engineering. Prior to joining the University of Miami, he was the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor and Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri). He also served as the Asst. Vice Chancellor for International Programs, and as the Director of the McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership (MAGEEP). Pratim Biswas received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology; MS from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Professor Biswas’s research and educational interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, environmentally benign energy production, combustion, materials processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, public health, and the thermal sciences. His work is conducted through the world-renowned Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory (AAQRL). His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, US Environmental Protection Agency, and by industry. He has graduated and advised 60 PhD students, and, with them, published more than 450 refereed journal articles.

PANELISTS

Guillermo Aleman
Manager, Technology and Innovation | Florida Power & Light
Guillermo Aleman is Manager of Technology and Innovation on the Smart Grid and Innovation Team for Florida Power and Light. In this role, he leads multiple teams responsible for the development and testing of new technologies, predictive algorithms, and applications for situational awareness and intelligence, with the goal of improving productivity and cost reduction.
Prior to his current role, Guillermo was the Outlier Reliability Manager. In this role, he was responsible for core reliability programs and processes designed to improve the reliability of the worst performing devices. His team was responsible for some of FPL’s core indicators including CEMI, MAIFI, CEMM, and CME. Before this, he was the Manager of Lateral Reliability for Power Delivery and led a team responsible for the performance of lower level devices including laterals and transformers. He previously also served as a lead at the Equipment Repair Center where he oversaw the testing, repair, and failure mode investigations for distribution equipment. He also ran the field operations for the thermal inspection program and the vault inspection program. He started his career at FPL as a Protection and Control engineer in Dade County.
Guillermo earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering graduating Magna Cum Laude from Florida International University. He is certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt.

Mingzhe Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | UM College of Engineering
Dr. Mingzhe Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in Beijing, China, in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, working with Prof. Walid Saad. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, working with Prof. H. Vincent Poor. In 2022, he worked as an AI Researcher at Ericsson Research, USA.
His research interests include: machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for wireless networks, distributed/dederated learning fundamentals, distributed/federated learning over real-world wireless networks, virtual reality over wireless networks, unmanned aerial vehicle over wireless networks, and age of information. (Read the recent article in IDSC Magazine on Mingzhe.)

Carlos Cruz-Casas, P.E.
Chief Innovation Officer | Transportation and Public Works, Miami-Dade County
Carlos is the Chief Innovation Officer at Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works. His primary focus is to introduce mobility innovation and plan for a fully integrated transportation system. His career includes both public and private sector experience ranging from conceptual design to implementation of pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and traffic projects. As a professional engineer dedicated to the development of Livable Transportation, Carlos seeks to achieve the right balance between mobility and livability.
Carlos received his Master’s degree in urban transportation planning from University of Florida’s College of Engineering, and his Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico. He now serves as a Board Member for the Open Mobility Foundation.

Matt Denesuk, PhD
Senior Vice President | Data Analytics & AI, Royal Caribbean Group
Matt Denesuk has devoted his life to using math & data to make the world work better.  He is currently SVP of Data Analytics & AI at Royal Caribbean Group, and leads the development and deployment of data- and data-science-driven capabilities across the company, in such areas as revenue management, industrial operations, customer experience, marketing, sales, hotel operations, and supply chain. He previously was Chief Data Science Officer and a founder of Noodle.ai, which provides AI-as-a-Service to enterprise and industrial firms. Prior to that, he was the Chief Data Science Officer of General Electric, leading the data, analytics, and Data Science functions across GE’s industrial business units.  He also led Smarter Planet Modeling & Analytics at IBM Research, and was a Partner in IBM’s Venture Capital Group. Matt has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees from MIT and the University of Arizona.

Brian Freed
Chief Operating Office | Eagle Aerospace
Brian Freed, the CEO of Eagle Aerospace Ltd., has had a diverse career path that started on Wall Street and then transitioned to digital airfield solutions, with stints in HPC and connected pharmaceutical solutions along the way. Throughout his journey, Brian has maintained a strong focus on the data lifecycle, including point of capture, data storage, data networking, data analysis, and cloud-to-edge solutions for closed-loop response.
At Eagle Aerospace, he’s responsible for leading the product and go-to-market strategy for the company’s digital solutions portfolio. Prior to his current role he was the COO at Phizzle, an IoT software provider that specializes in digital transformation in the pharmaceutical manufacturing space. Additionally, Brian held the position of General Manager of the High-Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) business unit at SGI.
Before SGI, Brian spent 13 years on Wall Street, where he worked as a Chartered Financial Analyst. During his time there, he focused exclusively on industry research, financial modeling, and investment recommendations for companies that used Data Analytics and Data Lifecycle technology.

Raimundo Rodulfo
Director of Innovation and Technology | City of Coral Gables Innovation and Technology Department
Raimundo Rodulfo started his career in the early 1990s as an engineer in the telecommunications industry. He joined the City of Coral Gables in 2004 and currently leads strategic planning, oversight and management of citywide IT operations, infrastructure, and smart city initiatives. Under his leadership, the City has received numerous awards including IEEE Smart Cities Jury Award in 2022, first place in the Digital Cities 2018 for cities of up to 75K population, first place in the U.S. Open Cities Index in 2019 and 2020, Smart 50 Award in Urban Infrastructure in 2020, Smart Cities Council Innovation Excellence Award in 2022, and being recognized as one of the 8 Smart Cities to Watch in 2020 by State Tech Magazine and as one of the 12 finalists worldwide in the Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards for government in 2021.
Prior to joining the City, he spent ten years in the private sector working for various Fortune 500 companies such as Bellsouth, Siemens, and NCR in varying capacities. During this time, he also assisted on technology projects for Motorola and Lucent Technologies in Chicago, and Agilent Technologies in Silicon Valley.
He volunteers as Co-Chair of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Global Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) Superclusters, as a member of the World Business Angel Imvestment Forum (WBAF) Miami Board of Directors and the Cities Today Institute (CTI) Leadership Forum, and as an advisory member of international nonprofit professional committees and engineering standard development organizations. He has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences and events, and has also authored multiple research papers, articles, technical book chapters, and other publications in the areas of smart cities, engineering, and technology.
Rodulfo has received numerous awards and recognition throughout his career. Most recently, he received the Globant Digital Disruptor award and the CyberTrust Pioneer award in 2021, was named to State Tech Magazine’s list of 30 State and Local Government IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2020, and received the Key to the City from the Mayor of Coral Gables.
He holds a Master of Science in Engineering Management and a Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Systems from Florida International University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Polytechnic University. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer (P.E., Florida and National NCEES Record), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), and a certified professional in PCI, HIPAA, Incident Management, Virtualization, SAP, and ITIL.

Break—EXHIBITS Open [ 3:30-3:50 PM ]
PANEL 3 Design and Policy for Coastal Resilience [ 3:50-4:30 PM ]

The panel considers innovative design solutions and municipal strategies addressing the double threats of intensifying weather events and incremental sea level rise. Could policy and innovation effectively align to protect vulnerable coastlines?

MODERATOR

Ana Peralta Chammas
Director of Innovation | Miami-Dade County
With an eye for innovation, strategic vision, and multidisciplinary experience, Ana has helped advance IT strategy and the organizational transformation that drive the customer experience in Miami-Dade. By cultivating competencies in innovation infrastructure and digital strategy, she has the vision for what a Future Ready government needs to make community impact. With over 20 years in the field, Ana bridges gaps between creative and development teams, business users, and C-level executives to provide effective, customer-centric solutions.
Her experience includes directing the functions and programs related to the County’s information channels (miamidade.gov, 311 Answer Center, and Miami-Dade TV) as well as the development of civic engagement and customer service strategy for customers. Ana has cultivated long-standing relationships with public and private partners to enhance the customer experience tackling a municipal-wide open data platform, building a cross-municipal strategic alliance as well as the evolution of the County’s omnichannel presence. Ana is a long-standing member of the FIU Kopenhaver Center Leadership Council in CARTA’s Innovation Labs + Incubators. In this role, she has contributed valuable input in modernizing student curriculum and directly mentoring graduate students fighting to find a place in the Digital and Communications space in the private sector. In addition, as a Government Community of Interest leader, she is initiating global dialogue and crafting content as a Technology contributor in the BRMBOK for the BRM Institute. As a founding member of the Vizcaya Tech Advisory Committee, Ana worked with the museum’s IT team to establish its independent systems, network and security to tackle its digital footprint. This includes resilience and preservation projects using new media and tech like AR, VR and 3D exhibit experiences. Ana is passionate about community engagement and philanthropic causes providing outreach support for Pediatric and Breast Cancer, Habitat for Humanity, Alzheimer’s disease, and expanding government reach in the Miami Tech movement with opportunities such as eMerge Americas, Miami Tech Month (April 2023), and local hack events. It is with bold tenacity and a passion for making community impact that she leaves an imprint as she moves full speed ahead as a driver in the digital revolution and renaissance that we are experiencing today.

PANELISTS

Esber Andiroglu, PhD
Associate Professor of Practice, Dept. of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering | UM College of Engineering
Dr. Andiroglu is an Associate Professor of Practice in Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering with a secondary appointment at School of Architecture. In addition, he is the Director of MS in Construction Management Program offered by College of Engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a LEED AP accredited educator with academic focus on building environmental systems, water resources and sustainability areas. His research area of interest is aimed at development of engineered solutions related to smart water-energy infrastructures in response to climate change challenges in urban community settings. He is currently engaged in a U-LINK (Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge) research project with focus on development of next generation of coastal structures in response to climate change impacts in our community and beyond.
Dr. Andiroglu’s other work includes development of virtual fan/pump flow meters and their application towards operational efficiency optimization of air/water conveyance systems. He has recently started a new pilot project in the local community in partnership with Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department to apply virtual flow metering technology to improve operational efficiencies of wastewater pump stations.

Brian Haus, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Ocean Sciences | UM Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atomospheric, and Earth Science
Dr. Haus is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ocean Sciences at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. His research focuses on experimental studies of air-sea interactions, ocean surface currents, radar remote sensing of oceanographic processes, shelf and estuary dynamics and wave-current interactions. Key to these efforts are laboratory studies of air-sea interactions and turbulence in the SUSTAIN Laboratory.

Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos, PhD
Assistant Professor | UM College of Engineering
Dr. Rhode-Barbarigos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering with secondary appointments at the School of Architecture and the Department of Ocean Sciences at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.
He is an expert in structural morphology, which investigates the relationship between structures, as well as their form, function, material and forces. He focuses on lightweight structures, such as tensegrity systems, as well as coastal applications, including ecofriendly solutions for shoreline protection.

Roland I. Samimy, PhD
Chief Resilience and Sustainability Officer | Village of Key Biscayne
Dr. Roland Samimy holds the position of Chief Resilience and Sustainability Officer (CRSO) for the Village of Key Biscayne, FL. Dr. Samimy is responsible for the development, oversight and delivery of initiatives targeted towards advancing resilience and sustainability across the Key Biscayne community to address chronic and acute impacts from climate change and sea level rise. Dr. Samimy is currently leading the launch of the Village-wide Resilient Infrastructure Upgrade Program that will be executed over a 10-15 year period and focus on shoreline protection, stormwater system enhancement, roadway improvement, and hardening of critical utilities (electrical, telecom, water, sewer). Prior to taking the position of CRSO, Dr. Samimy was a Senior Scientist and Water Resources Technical Manager for Atkins Global, a large international engineering – environmental consulting firm. Before joining Atkins in 2018, Dr. Samimy was a full time Hydrologist and Senior Research Manager for the Coastal Systems Program within the Department of Estuarine and Ocean Science at the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth (UMD). During that time he was also a visiting scholar at Florida International University in the Applied Research Center. Dr. Samimy is a Fellow member of the Explorers Club and completed a Ph.D. in Coastal Systems Science at UMD-SMAST. Receiving his M.S. (Water Resources Systems Engineering) and M.A. (Urban and Environmental Policy) from Tufts University, Dr. Samimy served as the Technical Coordinator and Technical Lead in Hydrology for the Massachusetts Estuaries Project (MEP), one of the largest on-going estuarine restoration programs in the United States.
Prior to joining the University of Massachusetts Coastal Systems Program Team Dr. Samimy worked as a water resources scientist for CDM-Smith. During that time Mr. Samimy was engaged in numerous scientific assignments such as completion of a water supply assessment for the Republic of Palau through a contract with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). Additionally, while a contract scientist to a research program run out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Dr. Samimy also spent two field seasons (1994 and 1995) in Antarctica as a member of a small science team completing the two final years a whole ecosystem research grant issued by the National Science Foundation. On his spare time, he relaxes by farming lychees in south Florida, deep decompression wreck diving, sailing, and kite surfing as hard as the wind will blow, and spending as much time as possible with his 21-year old son Perry and wife Ellen of 27 years.

CLOSING KEYNOTE [ 4:30-5:10 PM ]

The Honorable Daniella Levine Cava
Mayor, Miami-Dade County
Daniella Levine Cava was elected Miami-Dade County’s first-ever woman Mayor in November 2020. She entered the Mayor’s office following a 40-year career as a relentless advocate for South Florida families in public service and elected leadership. As Miami-Dade County’s Mayor, she oversees a metropolitan government with nearly 30,000 employees serving nearly 3 million residents, managing an annual budget of approximately $10 billion. Since taking office, she has worked to protect lives and livelihoods by deploying a countywide operation to distribute coronavirus vaccines efficiently and equitably across Miami-Dade; appointing the County’s first Chief Medical officer; and working closely with city leaders and the business community to spread a unified pandemic response message. In collaboration with the Board of County Commissioners, she is working to distribute millions of federal dollars in American Rescue Plan relief funds to support small businesses and residents impacted by the pandemic, invest in critical infrastructure projects, and kickstart long term recovery.
Mayor Levine Cava’s administration is focused on building a stronger, more inclusive, more resilient Miami-Dade: prioritizing reforms to make our county safer and prevent gun violence through the Peace and Prosperity Plan; restoring and reinvigorating a thriving economy that delivers economic security for Miami-Dade businesses and families and attracts new industries; saving Biscayne Bay and building and protecting our environment; and directly engaging with residents to make local government more responsive, transparent, and accountable. Learn more about the Mayor’s key priorities and progress.
(Read more about the Mayor)

Networking Reception—Exhibits Open [ 5:12-7:00 PM ]

DAY TWO • Miami/Medellin

Light Breakfast + Registration [ 8:00-9:00 AM ]
Day Two Begins [ 9:00 AM ]

KEYNOTE SPEAKER [ 9:00-9:45 AM ]
Jorge Ponce Dawson
Main Board Director | Broadway Malyan
Jorge is the Director of Broadway Malyan, Spain. Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge moved to Spain and within the first five years established an architectural studio in Málaga.
Jorge has a profound understanding of the world of architecture, specializing in Retail, Urbanism, Mixed Use, and Residential. He is a prolific speaker at international forums on topics like “The City of the Future” and the “The Retail of the Future.” Apart from his work at Broadway Malyan, Jorge leads a Think Tank, is the Director of the Club de Lecturas, and has forged a solid reputation as an influencer in social networks.
PANEL 1 Miami/Medellin: How to Build a Resilient City [ 9:45-10:30 AM ]
The panel brings developers, architects, planners, and policy makers from different cities to share and compare recent histories, current strategies, and visions for resilient futures in the face of climate change impacts and other stressors.
MODERATOR
Carie Penabad
Associate Professor | UM School of Architecture
Founding Partner | CÚRE & PENABAD Architecture
Carie Penabad holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture; and has held the Louis I Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship at Yale University with Adib Cure. Her publications include: Marion Manley: Miami’s First Woman Architect (with Catherine Lynn, University of Georgia Press, 2010); Call to Order: Sustaining Simplicity in Architecture (ORO Publishers, 2018), and the forthcoming book: Made in Miami/Hecho en Miami (with Adib Cure, Actar Publishers, 2023).
Parallel to her teaching, writing and research, Penabad is a founding partner of the Miami-based firm of CÚRE & PENABAD Architecture. The work of the firm has insisted on the importance of architecture and the design of the city as a singular investigation where inquiry and realization, poetry and practicality, history and invention are inextricably linked. Most recently, the firm was honored with the prestigious Emerging Voices prize from the Architectural League of New York, a competition that recognizes individuals with a distinct design voice and a significant body of realized work.
As of January 2023, Penabad is the host of ON CITIES, a national radio show on the Voice America network focused on the ways that the design of our built environment shapes the quality of our lives. The show is syndicated and can be found on Spotify, Apple iTunes, and other podcast platforms.
PANELISTS
Matt Anderson
Assistant Director for Mobility and Sustainability | City of Coral Gables Sustainable Public Infrastructure Division
Matt’s primary responsibilities include: Coordinating and managing all of the environmental, sustainability, and resiliency initiatives in the City. This includes, but is not limited to, overseeing the development and implementation of the City’s Sustainability Management Plan. Matt serves as Staff liaison for the City’s Sustainability Advisory Board, and works across all city departments to develop policies and actions to reduce energy, water, fuel consumption, and City operations and community-wide greenhouse gas emissions. Matt’s responsibilities also include assisting in expanding the City’s electric vehicle fleet and charging infrastructure, alternative transportation options, and coordinating the majority of the City’s community environmental events and environmental awareness campaigns. He coordinates the City’s participation in the SE Florida Regional Climate Compact and is involved in developing climate change and sea level rise adaptation and mitigation strategies. Matt is a LEED AP O+M and Envision Sustainability Professional.

Natalia Castaño Cárdenas
Director + Architect | Project Leader, URBAM (Universidad EAFIT university studio)
Natalia is an architect from the National University, with a Master in Landscape, Environment, and City from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Natalia has worked at the Urban Development Company from 2004 to 2007 in the design of public space projects and the development of strategic urban projects.

She worked in Quito with the Ciclópolis Foundation, in Portoviejo (Ecuador) with Belgian International Cooperation as technical support to the Municipality, in Lima in the development of a public space project for the District of Comas, and in Pisco (Peru) in the development of proposals for the reconstruction of the city. During 2011, she was part of the technical team of the BIO 2030 Master Plan for the Aburrá Valley. She was the academic coordinator of urbam and of the Master’s Degree in Urban and Environmental Processes of the EAFIT University between 2012 and 2016. She is currently part of the group of project coordinators of the Center for Urban and Environmental Studies.

Álvaro Martínez Fernández, P.E., S.I.
Regional Vice President of Structural Engineering | Double C
Álvaro has experience in leading local and international structural engineering teams. Currently, he is the regional vice-president of structural engineering at Double C by Conconcreto in Miami, Florida. In this capacity, he plans and oversees the execution of structural designs for all projects in the US market and leads and prepares proposals for new projects. Álvaro is the engineer of record on a wide variety of multi-family, commercial, and industrial structural design projects as well as manages a team of 55 professionals through the design and construction administration phases.
Álvaro has a Master of Science in civil and structural engineering from Cantabria University in Santander, Spain, and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Quantic University in Washington, D.C.

Gian Carlo Mazzanti
Review Architect | El Equipo Mazzanti
Gian Carlo graduated from the Javeriana University of Colombia, with postgraduate studies in industrial design and architecture in Florence, Italy. He has academic experience as a visiting professor at numerous Colombian universities, as well as at world-renowned universities such as Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton; and he is the first Colombian architect to have his works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and in the Centre Pompidou, in Paris.
Gian Carlo has more than 25 years of professional experience and his studio, El Equipo Mazzanti, located in Bogotá, has gained notoriety due to its design philosophy based on modules and systems, with which flexible elements capable of growing are generated and adapt over time, looking for an architecture that is closer to the idea of strategy than to a finite and closed composition. This idea of architecture as an operation is born from exploring the different forms of material and spatial organization, taking into account concepts such as repetition, the indeterminate, the unfinished, instability, layout, and patterns.
The Mazzanti Team also stands out for the research it has carried out on the game and its link with the world of architecture. It is precisely this interest in the game-architecture relationship that has led him to seek new collaborations with professionals from different areas of knowledge, finding new opportunities for cooperation, and developing projects and exhibitions that have been presented throughout the world under the brand We play You play.
Social values are at the center of Mazzanti’s architecture, who seeks to carry out projects that give value to social transformations and build communities. He has dedicated his professional life to improving the quality of life through the design of the environment and the idea of social equality. His work has become a reflection of the current social changes taking place in Latin America and Colombia, demonstrating that good architecture manages to build new identities for cities, towns, and inhabitants, transcending reputations of crime and poverty.
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, LEED AP
Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director, Master of Urban Design program | University of Miami School of Architecture
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Urban Design Program. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine. She was dean of the School of Architecture 1995-2013. She teaches courses on urban design and built environment adaptation to climate change.
Plater-Zyberk has collaborated with faculty across the University including recently with Engineering colleagues researching net-zero water management in buildings. She is a member of the UM Built Environment Behavior and Health Research Group, working with Miller School faculty on projects researching the well-being of children and elders’ relation to characteristics of the built context in which they live. As a consultant with DPZ Partners, she has worked with healthcare systems in Richmond and Chicago on the design of their campuses and community surroundings.
Plater-Zyberk is recognized as a leader of the movement called the New Urbanism, promoting walkable resilient urban design. A co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) in 1992, her teaching, research, and consulting professional practice has ranged across new community design, community rebuilding, regional plans, and zoning codes. A number of innovations in professional practice, such as the traditional neighborhood design zoning code (TND), were initiated with students in School of Architecture design studios and first implemented through community outreach in South Florida. Recent professional projects include the design of the University President’s house and the City of Miami Zoning Code, Miami 21.
Plater-Zyberk’s publications include refereed journal articles and book chapters. She is co-author of Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (over 85,000 sold), and The New Civic Art: Elements of Town Planning. Her work, with Andres Duany and DPZ Partners, has received numerous awards and recognitions including honorary degrees, Architectural Record’s first Women in Architecture Award, and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. She has served on numerous review and editorial panels, including the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. (See full UM bio.)
Galen Treuer
Head of Climate Tech and Economic Innovation | Miami-Dade County
Galen Treuer handles Climate Tech and Innovation for Miami-Dade County. He leads major climate tech projects for Miami-Dade and oversees their step by step execution. As part of the NSF-funded South Florida Water Sustainability and Climate project, he uses a combination of qualitative (interviews + participant observation) and quantitative (experiments + surveys) techniques to identify behavioral barriers to the effective use of scientific information, including a hydro-economic model that optimizes water allocation for the Everglades watershed across multiple future climate and land use scenarios.
In his experimental research, Galen uses an online tool that accelerates participants in time to simulate the experience of future hazard. Through collaboration with partners including agencies and local governments, the aim is to contribute to the effective implementation of sustainable, climate resilient policy. He received his BA in economics from Oberlin College and is an NSF graduate research fellow, and completed his PhD at University of Miami in 2017 (focused mainly on climate change impacts, risk perception and policy level decision making as it related to urban water management and sea level rise in South Florida). Before coming to the University of Miami, Galen was a research assistant at Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions and Columbia Business School’s Center for Decision Sciences.
Break [ 10:30-10:45 AM ]
PANEL 2 Game Changers: Transformative Technology for the Building Industry [ 10:45-11:30 AM ]
Most industries and professional fields have been transformed by new technology. The building industry has yet to undergo major disruptions. Radically innovative technologies may soon change that. The panel explores potential agents of disruption, from new building materials to additive manufacturing and AI
MODERATOR
W. Robert “Bob” Miller
Bob Miller is a native of Miami and holds a degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Miami (‘77). Bob is a licensed general contractor and had a forty-two-year career as a principal and CEO of First Florida Building Corporation. First Florida has buildings in 48 states, Canada, and the Caribbean. During his tenure, First Florida produced more than two billion in revenues and constructed varied projects including: 12,000 apartments, numerous hotels and resorts, and a section of the Pan American Highway in Colombia. Bob sold First Florida to a key employee in 2017.
Bob is a past president of the Associated General Contractors and a Board Member of Rebuilding Together National. He serves on the University of Miami School of Architecture Visiting Committee and is Chair of its Construction Management Board.

PANELISTS
Andy Cohen
Chairman + CEO | Admix Innovations
Andy Cohen is the chairman and CEO of Admix Innovations, an early stage technology company that has solved for the dispersion, homogenization and adhesion of nanoparticles into a cementitious mix design. This ground breaking green dispersion technology has unlocked a non-disruptive method to deliver Graphene into both mortar and concrete products without the need for specialty mixing equipment using a single dose of their Equinox™ product line. The byproduct of this invention is that it will also deliver recycled and waste materials such as; rubber, glass, plastics, metals and a host of fibers to enhance the quest for sustainability.
Andy is an innovative and process-driven business leader with a genuine passion for helping disruptive businesses and investors realize their full potential. With holdings in recruiting, technology and investor services his collection of companies is uniquely positioned to enhance the investment thesis and guide these portfolio companies to scale and commercialization.
Maxwell Jarosz, AIA, LEED AP BDC+C
Director, Fabrication | University of Miami
Director | Daft Buro, LLC
Max Jarosz is a licensed architect and the Director of Fabrication at the University of Miami where he oversees the fabrication facilities and operations. He teaches courses on robotics, digital fabrication, and emerging technology in the field of Architecture. Max is currently serving as the principal investigator for the Double C Research Unit and serves on the Digital Fabrication and Technology committee, D.E.I. committee, and the Construction Technology sub-committee at the University of Miami. He has been included in a variety of publications such as Architect Magazine and MAS Context, and presented at conferences including the 2022 Smart Cities MIAMI Conference and the 2019 AIA Conference.
Max holds a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Additionally, he holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Miami. Prior to joining the University of Miami, Jarosz was a project architect and worked at internationally recognized architecture firms in Boston and New York.
Philip Lund-Nielsen
Co-Founder & Head of Americas | COBOD International
Philip Lund-Nielsen is Co-founder of COBOD International, the World’s #1 supplier of 3D printers for the construction industry, with investors General Electric (USA), Holcim (Switzerland), CEMEX (Mexico), and PERI Group (Germany). After building experience as management consultant with McKinsey & Co., Philip re-joined COBOD in 2021 to assume his current role as Head of Americas. In 2022, he moved to Miami with his team to establish COBOD’s regional research facilities in collaboration with the University of Miami.
Kenneth Smuts
President | Renco, USA
Ken is the President of Renco, USA, Inc., a composite manufacturing and building industry start-up. He has spearheaded the research and development of the Renco Structural Building System in the United States and has codified and secured Renco’s approvals under the International Building Code (IBC). Having secured US patents and all necessary approvals to build mineral composite fiber reinforced structures under the IBC, Renco is embarking on a campaign to launch the marketing, sale and implementation of its structural building products throughout the United States.
Ken is also an accomplished builder and real estate developer, successfully completing over $5 billion dollars of development and construction projects. He has over 30 years of development, design, financing, construction management and sales and marketing experience on a wide variety of mixed-use, multi-family, hospitality, retail, commercial office, health care and industrial projects.
Starting his career as a nuclear construction engineer, he moved to commercial building where he quickly advanced as a project manager and then as an executive, providing corporate vision, strategy, leadership and guidance for several prominent New York and Philadelphia based construction managers and developers. Recent appointments include Senior Vice President of Coastal Construction, where he was responsible for assisting prominent clients by managing their development efforts and prior to that, with The Related Group, serving as a Senior Vice President and Managing Director for the $1.5 billion – 2,000,000 square foot St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort & Residences and for the $1.8 billion – 4,000,000 square foot Icon Brickell in Miami, Florida.
Ken is a professional engineer and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in civil engineering from Drexel and Rutgers University.
CLOSING KEYNOTE [ 11:30 AM ]
Andrew Kudless
William D. Kendall Professor of Design Technologies | University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design
Director| Advanced Media Technology Lab, University of Houston
Founder | Matsys
Andrew Kudless is a designer based in Houston, Texas where he is the Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professor at the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture Design as well as the Director of the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technologies Lab (CRAFT Lab). Previously, Andrew has taught at the California College of the Arts, the Ohio State University, the Architectural Association, and Yale University. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. The work of Matsys has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France. His work on Confluence Park has won a number of awards including a 2019 AIA National Honor Award. In 2019, he became the first American designer to contribute to Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades collection. He holds a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University.
(Read more about Andrew Kudless)
Conference Ends [ 12:00 PM ]

Inaugural Computing Day at UM 4/14
2023-04-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, 1201 Memorial Drive, Great Room 1st Floor, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Please join us for the University of Miami’s inaugural Computing Day, Friday April 14, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the new Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science building on the Coral Gables campus.
Computing Day is part of a broad initiative to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in computing. The event convenes corporate and government professionals, faculty and student scholars, and other audiences engaged in all facets of computing as we design the future.
Highlights include a panel of alumni industry experts, faculty and student poster presentations, and a keynote address from Pierre Baldi, director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics and associate director of the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Irvine, who has made significant contributions to the theory of AI and deep learning.
Register Now
Friday, April 14, 2023 | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
Frost Building Great Room, 1st Floor, 1201 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

Keynote Speaker • PIERRE BALDI, PhD 10:15 AM
Pierre Baldi earned MS degrees in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Paris, and a PhD in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, and Associate Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California Irvine.
The long-term focus of his research is on understanding intelligence in brains and machines. Dr. Baldi has made several contributions to the theory of AI and deep learning, and developed and applied AI and deep learning methods for the natural sciences to address problems in physics (e.g., exotic particle detection), chemistry (e.g., reaction prediction), and biomedicine (e.g. biomedical imaging analysis). He recently published his fifth book: Deep Learning in Science, Cambridge University Press (2021). His honors include the 1993 Lew Allen Award at JPL (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology), the 2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize for research in machine learning, and election to Fellow of the AAAS, AAAI, IEEE, ACM, and ISCB. In addition, he has co-founded several startup companies.
LUNCH BREAK + POSTER/DEMO SESSION
AND NETWORKING 11:00 AM-12:30 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION 12:30-1:30 PM
MODERATOR

Eduardo “Eddy” Vadia, MD | Co-Founder Access Physicians
Dr. Eduardo Vadia graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 2006. He completed his Internal Residency Residency, Chief Medical Residency, and Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship at UT Southwestern in Dallas, TX. Dr. Vadia was tenured as a faculty physician at UT Southwestern through April 2019, where he focused his efforts on medical education in the Parkland Hospital ICU. He is currently boarded in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.
During his fellowship, Dr Vadia co-founded Access Physicians, a multi-specialty telemedicine physician group focused on “scaling clinical excellence” in its effort to deliver care to high-acuity, high-complexity patients in the inpatient setting. Dr Vadia grew the company from inception to the second-largest inpatient telemedicine group in the country. Access Physicians had over 200 hospital deployments across 30 states, managed over 600 physicians, and secured enterprise agreements with many of the largest health and hospital systems in the country. Access Physicians was acquired in March, 2021 by SOC Telemed.
Dr Vadia has returned home to Miami and is still focused on high-impact innovation as an investor and as a founder.

PANELISTS

Danny Carvajal | VP of Product Excellence, Contentsquare
Danny is a seasoned product development team coach and organizational leader with extensive experience building high-performing cross-functional product teams. Prior to Contentsquare, Danny was Head of Global Product Enablement for Samsung NEXT. Under his leadership, Product Enablement was established as a new discipline that led to enhanced performance across product teams. Danny built a global team of program and project managers responsible for program management, agile coaching, workshop planning and facilitation, and operational support. Danny has also designed outcome-based strategic product roadmap frameworks and coached product managers on how to develop them.

Jeanna Hamilton | Booking.com
Jeanna Hamilton graduated from UM in December 2007, with a Bachelor’s degree in film, art & art history and a minor in psychology. She worked as a front-end developer and UX designer for various agencies in Berlin before joining Booking.com in The Netherlands in 2017.
Jeanna designs Booking.com’s Machine Learning and Data Science Platforms. An enthusiast for product design in tech, and data-driven design decisions, she volunteers for Booking.com’s Responsible AI initiative, helping to increase data transparency and ML fairness within the company’s internal operations.

Kelsey Kjeldsen | Senior Technical Product Manager, Video NBA
Kelsey is a UM alum from the Interactive Media MFA program in 2016. She is the current Senior Technical Product Manager at the National Basketball Association (NBA) managing streaming video advertising throughout the League Pass app. Kelsey has a demonstrated history of leading teams through the full SDLC for mobile, web, and connected devices for OTT and other digital products. She is skilled in JIRA, Agile Development, Market Research, HTML, UX Design and Software Development.
Before joining the NBA, she was Technical Product Manager at Chewy, where she helped drive key initiatives for Chewy’s native mobile apps team and managed cross-functional projects including service migrations, hybridization, and feature-related work across the organization.

Megan Page | Insights Practitioner
Megan graduated with the class of 2021, degreed in Interactive Media and Computer Science. Her interest in the field of user experience research and design stemmed from her experience conducting public health research, as a Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training (MHIRT) grant recipient from the NIH.
She conducted her study in her family’s home country, Jamaica, in collaboration with the School of Nursing and Health Studies at UM and the University of the West Indies. To pursue her interests in product design, innovation, and user advocacy, she studied UX design and research. She is passionate about user research and worked on projects for the advancement of medical technology under UM IDSC. Upon graduation, she continued as an insights practitioner for both small startups and large tech corporations.

JUDGES’ and PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 1:30-2:30 PM
CLOSING REMARKS 2:30-2:45 PM

POSTER COMPETITION DETAILS
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Augmented Reality
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Cybersecurity
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Software Engineering
Data Science Applications
And Other Related Topics

Note: poster dimensions: 36″ height x 48″ width
Poster/Demo Awards categories:

Judges’ awards: first prize $1000, second prize $500, third prize $250
People’s choice awards: two awards, poster $500, demo $500

Award eligibility and evaluation criteria:

The first author/designer/developer must be a graduate or undergraduate student to be eligible for an award

Printing your Poster
The University offers several printing locations on campus with affordable pricing. Please note that they do not have an immediate turnaround so advance planning is recommended.
• How to design an academic poster
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Yelena Yesha to Keynote AIChE 4th Engineering Cosmetics and Consumer Products Conference (ECCP) 4/18-20
2023-04-18 00:00 - 2023-04-20 23:59 | Crowne Plaza Princeton Conference Center, 900 Scudders Mill Road, Plainsboro Township, NJ, 08536, United States
IDSC Innovation Officer and Head of International Relations Dr. Yelena Yesha will be a keynote speaker at the AIChE 4th Engineering Cosmetics and Consumer Products Conference (ECCP), April 18-20, 2023. ECCP offers scientists, engineers, and academic researchers a window into the latest technologies and approaches for manufacturing, packaging, and engineering.
The Conference takes place at the Crowne Plaza Princeton Conference Center in Plainsboro, New Jersey. Technical sessions will take place April 19-20, and receptions occur the evening before and the evening after the first day of the technical program. Dr. Yesha’s Keynote Address will be on Day 3 4/20 from 8:10 to 8:55 AM ET.
“ECCP 2023 serves as an international platform for researchers, product developers, and entrepreneurs from industry and academia to share their unique insights on key current and emerging developments from product engineering to the connected consumer and from AI to sustainability.”
-SAMIUL AMIN, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Register Now | Topics and Agenda

Conference Topics

Product Engineering Covers all aspects of formulation design of cosmetic and consumer products including utilization of novel materials, characterization of microstructure and performance.
Process and Packaging Engineering Covers all aspects of processing of formulated products including novel processing techniques, in-line characterization of processes, and processing challenges. All aspects of packaging design including sustainability aspects are covered.
Connected Consumer and Digital Beauty This covers new technology, software, and devices allowing collection and integration of consumer data in developing consumer products. The utilization of AI based approaches is covered, as well as novel developments in sensor technologies to allow consumers to monitor skin, hair conditions and health.
Health, Hygiene & Microbiome This covers all research and product development which is based on impacting the skin microbiome and overall which is targeted towards impacting health and beauty.
Sustainability in Consumer Products and Clean Beauty This covers all aspects of designing and manufacturing of sustainable products from ingredient sourcing, formulation and process design to packaging. All aspects which are aligned with clean beauty are within scope.

About Yelena Yesha, PhD
Innovation Officer and Head of International Relations, University of Miami Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)
Director, IDSC AI + Machine Learning
Knight Foundation Endowed Chair of Data Science and AI
Professor, Department of Radiology
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Founding Director, NSF CARTA
At the University of Miami, Dr. Yelena Yesha is the Knight Foundation Endowed Chair of Data Science and AI at the Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC). At IDSC, Dr. Yesha is also the IDSC Innovation Officer and Head of International Relations. In this role, Dr. Yesha assists faculty in engaging government and industrial partners to collaborate with the University and consults with faculty on developing research ideas into innovations.
Dr. Yesha was the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA), an NSF-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that aims to develop long-term partnerships among industry, academia, and government. CARTA partners with Rutgers University New Brunswick, North Carolina State University, the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Tel Aviv University, and the University of Miami.
Dr. Yesha received her B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and in Applied Mathematics from York University, Toronto, Canada, and her M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Ohio State University. She has published 11 books as author or editor, and more than 200 papers in prestigious refereed journals and refereed conference proceedings, and she has been awarded external funding in a total amount exceeding 45 million dollars. She is currently working with leading industrial companies and government agencies on new innovative technology in the areas of blockchains, cybersecurity, and big data analytics with applications to electronic commerce, climate change, and digital healthcare. Dr. Yesha is a fellow of the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies.
Forbes magazine highlighted Dr. Yesha’s accomplishments in technology in a two-part profile: Part I: Dr. Yelena Yesha: Meet The Tenacious Pioneer Pushing Innovation To Address Real World Problems and Part II: Dr. Yelena Yesha: Pushing Technology Boundaries To Solve The World’s Biggest Problems.

Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series presents Dr. Matthew Goodwin 4/19
2023-04-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
Join us for a Data Citizens lecture on “The Promises of Wearable Bio-Sensing Technology for Youth with Autism” by Dr. Matthew S. Goodwin, Interdisciplinary Associate Professor at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University.
Register Now
Wednesday 4/19, 4:00-5:00 PM
via Zoom or in person: Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room 343
1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33146 | Map + Directions
About Dr. Goodwin
Matthew S. Goodwin is an Interdisciplinary Associate Professor with tenure at Northeastern University jointly appointed in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the Khoury College of Computer Science, where he is a founding member of a new doctoral program in Personal Health Informatics and Directs the Computational Behavioral Science Laboratory.
Goodwin has held appointments at Harvard Medical School as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (2018-2020), Brown University as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (2008-2018), and the MIT Media Lab as Director of Clinical Research (2008-2011). He has also served on the Executive Board of the International Society for Autism Research (2005-2008) and the Scientific Advisory Board for Autism Speaks (2014-2017). He has over 25 years of research and clinical experience working with children and adults on the autism spectrum and developing and evaluating innovative behavioral assessment and intervention technologies, including video and audio capture, telemetric physiological monitors, accelerometry sensors, and digital video/facial recognition systems.
Goodwin has received several honors, including a dissertation award from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, the Peter Merenda Prize in Statistics and Research Methodology, Hariri Award for Transformative Computational Science, a career contribution award from the Princeton Autism Lecture Series, and he was named an Aspen Ideas Scholar by the Aspen Institute and a Matilda White Riley Early-Stage Investigator by the National Institutes of Health. He has obtained research funding from various sources, including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, Department of Defense, Simons Foundation, Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, and Autism Speaks.
Goodwin received his B.A. in psychology from St. Clare’s in Oxford and Wheaton College and his MA and PhD in experimental psychology and behavioral science from the University of Rhode Island. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Affective Computing in the MIT Media Lab in 2010.

TALK TITLE: The Promises of Wearable Bio-Sensing Technology for Youth with Autism
This presentation will demonstrate several innovative technologies being developed to enhance and accelerate research and learning in individuals on the autism spectrum, including wireless sensors for long-term monitoring of physiological arousal in natural settings; wireless 3-axis accelerometers and pattern recognition algorithms that can automate the detection of stereotypical hand flapping and body rocking; and unobtrusive audio and video capture systems able to gather ultradense longitudinal records of behavior and development in home environments. This approach illustrates how objective data streams can be modeled to predict real world behavior in clinical samples.
Learning Objectives:

Develop awareness of wearable autonomic nervous system sensing technology to assess physiological indicators of stress and arousal in individuals with ASD.
Develop awareness of wearable physical activity sensing technology to assess stereotypical motor movements in individuals with ASD.
Develop awareness of audio and video capture devices to assess longitudinal behavior and its development in individuals with ASD.

About Data Citizens
Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series is an ongoing course of in-depth talks by experts in the field of data science on a wide variety of topics including data visualization, big data, AI, and predictive analytics. The Data Citizens lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.

You’re Invited to our (virtual) Advanced Computing User Group Meeting 4/27
2023-04-27 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom (online)
IDSC is excited to invite you to join the Advanced Computing User Group founded on “User-helps-User” approach and serving as a platform to promote interdisciplinary collaborations through computing and analytics across the UM enterprise. Join us via ZOOM on Thursday 4/27 from 1:00-2:30 PM, no registration required.
The user group meets twice a year and serves as a catalyst to promote collaborations across topics including computing infrastructure, domain areas, applications, and training needs. We anticipate that this engagement will bolster computational research and training opportunities while streamlining existing research and training activities.

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2022-2023 IDSC Fellows Final Project Presentations 4/27
2023-04-27 15:00 - 16:30 | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
The 2022-2023 IDSC Fellows will gather once again to present the final project presentations at the Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room, #343, on Thursday, April 27, from 3:00-4:30 PM. Join us in person for light refreshments (or via ZOOM) and hear their progress since their initial pitch.
Take a look back at their opening presentations. Each spoke briefly on what they hoped to accomplish, and we look forward to hearing what progress they have made, and what they learned as they utilized data science and advanced computing in their research.
WATCH—Initial project presentations (in this order): Jeffrey Serville (starts at 5:22), Kelly Soluri (starts at 14:00), Sadegh Tale Masoule (starts at 39:54), and Shara Sookhoo (starts at 48:00).
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Orientation-selective Deep Brain Stimulation of Midbrain Circuits in the Yucatan Micropig for Improving Gait After Spinal Cord Injury

Jeffrey W. Serville
MENTOR: Ravi Vadapalli, PhD | Director, IDSC Advanced Computing
– Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
– Department to Neurological Surgery, Miller School of Medicine
– The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
– Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)
– Institute for Neural Engineering (INEM)
Jeffrey is a 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on neuromodulation and rehabilitation for movement disorders, specifically spinal cord injury. As an IDSC Fellow, he aspires to utilize the university’s Triton supercomputer to accelerate preprocessing algorithms designed for diffusion-weighted images (including eddy-current, susceptibility, and motion distortions) and automate MRI-based segmentation of the pig brain that is used for generating anatomically-constrained-tractograms (3D reconstructed fiber pathways) to predict neural activation patterns resulting from deep brain stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region (midbrain/brainstem) in pigs. The purpose of his research project is to optimize stimulation programming, as it relates to generating locomotion while minimizing unwanted side-effects, by implementing the finite-element method to solve the associated bioelectric field problem on a subject-by-subject basis.

Project Overview

Overcome computational bottlenecks commonly encountered in traditional desktop or workstation environments, for, specifically, preprocessing of diffusion-weighted images (DWIs). This can take eight up to sixteen hours and it’s a huge bottleneck in the computational workflow.
Improve DBS (deep brain simulation) outcomes by offering more realistic visualizations and realizations (i.e. surgical planning and/or consultation)
Decrease the times it takes for potential DBS therapies to go from bench to bedside.

Forecasting Bycatch Hotspots Using Machine Learning

Kelly S. Soluri
Kelly Soluri, M.S. Candidate for Marine Biology and Ecology, Rosenstiel School for Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science
MENTORS:
– Dr. Elizabeth Babcock, quantitative fisheries scientist and professor at the University of Miami with a specialty in fisheries stock assessments.
– Dr. Gang Ren, data and computer scientist and professor at the University of Miami with expertise in artificial intelligence
– Dr. Mitsunori Ogihara, Director of Workforce Development and Education at IDSC and Editor-in-Chief of the Theory of Computer Systems Journal with research interests in data mining
– Cooperative Institute for Marine And Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Kelly Sophia Soluri is a Marine Biology and Ecology Master’s student at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Sciences at the University of Miami. She is using machine learning to research quantitative fisheries with Dr. Beth Babcock with a focus in optimizing ways to forecast hotspots in the Gulf of Mexico where many untargeted species are caught. Previously, she has researched sea turtles with Dr. Mariana Fuentes of Florida State University, science diplomacy for the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Science and Technology Cooperation in Washington D.C., and environmentally equitable urban planning with the Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience.
Kelly has strong interests in ecological processes in oceanic and coastal systems as well as learning novel technologies and methods to better understand how these processes function as a response to climate change or anthropogenic pressure. As a native South Floridian, she wishes to support coastal communities that deal with sea level rise, resource insecurity, and intensifying natural disasters. She is also passionate about science literacy for all and the uplifting of minority communities in STEM.

Segmentation and Evaluation of Micro-Cracks from Micro-CT Images of Concrete Elements

Sadegh Tale Masoule
MENTOR: David Chapman, PhD | IDSC AI + Machine Learning
Sadegh is a second-year PhD student doing research in the advanced infrastructure materials lab in the college of engineering. His research includes measuring physiochemical properties of polymers in fluids and in cast construction materials, and then analyzing the results with different methods, one of them being machine learning that he’s currently pursuing. He hopes that with access to the IDSC’s expertise and resources, he can achieve good progress on his project.

Project Goals

Learn more about different segmentation models and transfer learning
Build a comprehensive database of micro-cracks with different samples
Develop a pipeline to accurately segment and measure micro-cracks as an estimation for the level of damage in elements
Publish the results

To Investigate the Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Microbiomes of Six Species of Corals

Shara Sookhoo
MENTOR: Manohar Murthi, PhD, Associate Professor | College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
– Dr. Nikki Traylor Knowles, Associate Professor, Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, Rosenstiel School for Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science | Secondary Faculty in Biology
– Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium

Shara is a Junior majoring in Marine Biology and Ecology with minors in Computer Science and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. After learning to SCUBA dive at 14, she became passionate about coral conservation. Through her work with University of Miami’s Marine Genomics lab and Mote’s Coral Health and Disease lab, she is learning the skills to find and develop corals that are more resilient to climate change and disease. In the last year, these interests have led her to jump off a bridge in the Florida Keys and climb a volcano in the Galapagos. Both in and out of the lab, Shara always looking for the next adventure.
