Dr. Yelena Yesha: Keynote Speaker at Take Action! Bias in Technology 3/17
2022-03-17 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)
Diversity . Accessibility . Inclusion . . . What are YOU doing to help build an inclusive tech community? This virtual event is part of a series focused on providing actionable advice to leaders and tech talent in the tech community to aid in building a diverse, accessible, and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. “Actions speak louder than words” is true.
Attend the 4th virtual Take Action South Florida event to learn how you can ‘Take Action!’ IDSC Innovation Officer Dr. Yelena Yesha will be a keynote speaker and join a panel addressing issues around bias in AI such as:

Everyone has biases and when we don’t recognize that we have them, we are unconsciously building them into the technology that we use
Understanding the myriad ways that technology can be biased
Creating diverse teams to develop technology can help to ensure that technology is less biased
Some cultural biases are so strong that even the people negatively impacted by the bias may not realize that they also have that bias

Thursday, March 17, 6:00-8:00 PM
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About Take Action South Florida
The “Take Action!” series is a partnership initiative between local South Florida organizations SIM South Florida, TECH HUB South Florida, and ISACA South Florida focused on providing actionable advice to leaders in the tech community to aid in building a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. Take Action! addresses issues like technology that isn’t thought of as artificial intelligence can be affected by biases. Accessibility technologies are also impacted. Whether it’s a technology device that isn’t accessible to all or automated speech recognition that doesn’t recognize accents or an alternative communication device that doesn’t have ethnic voice choices. Examples of the bias in technology comes down to the fact that the data used to train artificial intelligence is not representative of the diversity of the human race:

A game system that was tested only on men ages 18–35 didn’t recognize women or children.
Voice recognition tools don’t recognize higher-pitched voices.
Facial recognition is most accurate with lighter-skin men than with women and in particular darker-skinned people.
Algorithms for risk scoring loans said that white men were a better risk.
Algorithms reviewing resumes rejected women’s resumes.

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Dr. Yelena Yesha to Speak on Trusted AI at “Hack the Port 22” in FTL 3/21
2022-03-21 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33316, United States
Join the best in cybersecurity with IDSC Innovation Officer and featured speaker Dr. Yelena Yesha at the Maritime and Control Systems Cybersecurity “Hack the Port 22” Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, March 21-25, 2022. This hybrid (in-person/online) event is organized by the Maryland Innovation and Security Institute (MISI) DreamPort Project inspired by U.S. Cyber Command. Dr. Yesha will speak on Trusted AI on Monday, March 21, 10:00-10:30 AM. The majority of conference events will also be broadcasted live (registration types: conference and training, virtual only, cyber expo only, student registration). Hack The Port 2022 will take place at the Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316. The Conference is working with hotel provider, the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, who has finalized room blocks for conference attendees—Book your stay.
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TALK TITLE: Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: Managing Emerging Risks and Opportunities
Small trusted networks with access to local data sets can translate key innovations in artificial intelligence into meaningful information, outcomes, and results within well-defined business domains. However, high-impact problem solving using AI techniques requires the participation of diverse parties and access to sensitive data within limited to zero-trust environments. Attempts to develop working relationships in these diverse environments lead to very limited discovery at high risk and stress today’s regulatory and compliance processes to the point of failure. Research must enable the development of acceptable technologies and platforms for federated learning, encrypted computation, and high assurance for effective problem-solving in zero-trust environments.
Promising technology and computing platforms are emerging that will enable data owners to retain full control of sensitive information. Advances in homomorphic encryption, blockchain architecture, and secure multi-party computing are lighting the path to secure federated learning. Combining these techniques with high assurance for the development, evaluation, deployment, and maintenance of AI solutions form the basis for significant advancement in the development of trustworthy artificial intelligence.

About Project DreamPort
DreamPort is a cyber innovation, collaboration, and prototyping facility located in Columbia, MD. It was created by USCYBERCOM through a Partnership Intermediary Agreement awarded to MISI in May 2018. DreamPort was designed as an open facility that welcomes the public to tour, collaborate, and prototype in support of USCYBERCOM and its mission partners. Daily, monthly, and quarterly collaboration events are announced through the website and via email for those that register to participate in our DreamPort Partnership Network. DreamPort is a combination of state-of-the-art facilities, innovative programs, and imaginative people charged with finding that spark that leads to unparalleled capability for USCYBERCOM and the warfighters at large.

Data Citizens Distinguished Lecture Series presents Susan Gregurik 3/22
2022-03-22 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)
Join us for another “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk featuring NIH Associate Director for Data Science, and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy, Susan K. Gregurik. Dr. Gregurick creates and implements new initiatives and activities in data science, in support of the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science.
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.
Register Now | Tuesday 3/22, 2:00-300 PM

TALK TITLE: Connecting Data, Enhancing Software, and Creating a Digital Data Health Ecosystem
The NIH works to maximize opportunities that data science can bring to aid in our mission of improving the health and wellbeing of all US citizens. NIH’s strategic plan for data science serves as a north star to optimizing data storage, creating connected data resources, modernizing our data repository ecosystem, sustaining software development, expanding the national data science workforce, and supporting the NIH data management and sharing policy. Inspired by the strategic plan, and in partnership with colleagues from across the NIH Institutes and Centers, this talk highlights work to catalyze new data science capabilities in biomedical data science.
About Susan Gregurick
Susan K. Gregurick, Ph.D., was appointed Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 16, 2019. Under Dr. Gregurick’s leadership, the ODSS leads the implementation of the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science through scientific, technical, and operational collaboration with the institutes, centers, and offices that comprise NIH. Dr. Gregurick received the 2020 Leadership in Biological Sciences Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences for her work in this role. She was instrumental in the creation of the ODSS in 2018 and served as a senior advisor to the office until being named to her current position.

Are you interested in a Career in Data Science? Attend the GDECA Workshop 4/1
2022-03-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Are you interested in a career in data science? Attend a free in-person workshop at the Richter Library on Friday, April 1st, with Gravity Data Engineering and Cloud Analytics and see where this exciting in-demand career path can take you. Gravity IT Resources provides direct hire, contract-to-hire, and staff augmentation/contract services of UI/UX Strategists, Designers, and Developers, Front End Web Developers, Mobile Developers, Data Scientists, and Contract Writers.
You Will Learn:

Overview of Data Science as a Career
Life of a Data Engineer, Data Architect, Data Scientist
Forms of Architecture One Needs
Why Cloud?
Demo of Data Engineering on AWS
Demo of Data Science at Scale on AWS

Friday, April 1, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room
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About GDECA
Gravity Data Engineering and Cloud Analytics (GDECA) has the expertise to help you build your “Cloud First” data strategy. They start by understanding an organization’s strategic business initiatives and then help you determine how your data can enable success They assess the current state of your data sources and provide clear direction and technical consulting to help you migrate to the cloud. They help aggregate disparate on-premises and cloud data sources, provision necessary and reliable cloud infrastructure, and architect accurate and scalable data pipelines. Your organization can then begin to leverage the world’s most powerful data warehouses and create fast and powerful predictive and prescriptive capability through advanced analytics (AI/ML).

Meet a Data Scientist presents Shane Elipot 4/5
2022-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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 with physical oceanographer and RSMAS professor Dr. Shane Elipot. A Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Ocean Sciences at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), Dr. Elipot conducts research in physical oceanography—specifically in atmosphere-ocean interactions, oceanic surface boundary layer dynamics, and the changes of the global oceanic thermohaline circulation. Dr. Elipot is also interested in the nature of oceanic and atmospheric observations, and more generally in time series and covariance analyses of environmental data.
The purpose of the Meet a Data Scientist lecture series is to introduce our audience to the people behind the data, their lives, interests, career choices, their work, and passion for how they can use data to solve grand challenges in their respective fields. Join us as we peer behind the curtain and meet the data scientist behind the data! This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.
Register Now | Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom
TALK TITLE: “An Ocean of Data”
Ocean currents are important because they transport freshwater, salt, heat, and CO2, and thus are an integral part of the mechanics of the Earth’s climate. Ocean currents also transport organisms, nutrients, and pollutants such as plastics, and are thus a main driver of variability for marine ecosystems and resources accessible to humans. Yet ocean currents are challenging to observe, and therefore difficult to predict, because the ocean is set in motion on a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, from seconds to millennia, and from millimeters to the circumference of the Earth. For this talk, Dr. Elipot will present some of his previous, ongoing, and future research projects that are concerned with gathering real or simulated ocean current data and deciphering their roles in our climate system.
About Shane
Dr. Elipot received his PhD in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 2006. In 2007-2008, Dr. Elipot was a National Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida. In 2009, he joined the UK National Oceanography Center in Liverpool as a physical oceanographer. In 2013, Dr. Elipot returned to Miami at the Rosenstiel School first as a scientist, then as a research professor starting in 2019. Dr. Elipot’s research is focused on using in situ observations and model outputs to understand the kinematics and dynamics of ocean currents, from small-scale mixing processes associated with tides to the global oceanic circulation.

Data Citizens Lecture Series presents Hillary Leone and Daniel Bor 4/7
2022-04-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)
Join us for another “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk featuring multidisciplinary artist Hillary Leone in a conversation with University of Cambridge neuroscientist Daniel Bor that will explore how they are using data to create art and advance science. 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, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics.
The Data Citizens lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). This lecture is sponsored by the UM Department of Interactive Media and the Ribeiro Innovation Fund Speaker Series, and is free and open to the public.
Register Now | Thursday, April 7, 2022, 4:00-500 PM
TALK TITLE: Data at the Intersection of Art and Science
Synch.Live is a participatory art experience designed to mobilize our human instinct to cooperate, and an open technology research framework that will allow scientists to study collective behavior. The work takes inspiration from emergent systems in nature like flocking birds or swarming ants that work together to create something greater than the sum of their parts. Emergence is incredibly broad in scope, capturing the creation of galaxies, intelligent behavior in ants, economics, ecosystems, and conscious brains. Recent advances in information theory have allowed three of Synch.Live’s collaborating scientists, with colleagues, to develop an algorithm to quantify emergence. In Synch.Live, we use the algorithm behind-the-scenes to measure how emergent the group as a whole becomes. While the algorithm is tested, our application—measuring emergent behavior among humans – is radically new. Each instance of the game will generate anonymized tracking data which will become raw material for 2D and 3D artwork and research data for scientists studying collective behavior.

About Hillary Leone
Hillary Leone is an internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist and award-winning digital creative who works at the intersection of art, science, technology, and social impact. Leone’s artwork, known for interrogating language and systems of meaning, has been exhibited in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and featured in the Whitney Biennial. Recent work includes her project on emergence with a team of UK-based scientists that blends cutting-edge research in information theory with experiential art. As an artist/entrepreneur, Leone has directed more than a hundred projects across digital, video, animation, and experiential. She has received numerous grants and awards and has taught and lectured widely. She received her BA in Semiotics and English and American Literature from Brown University; her BFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts; and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in Studio Art.

About Daniel Bor
Daniel Bor is a neuroscientist based at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. He received his BA in psychology and philosophy from Oxford University, in 1997, and his PhD in neuroscience from Cambridge University in 2002. He has published research in various fields, including how the brain processes consciousness, attention, memory and intelligence, and the extent that mental training can boost cognitive performance, or even change how we perceive the world. He is the author of a general audience book on consciousness science, ‘The Ravenous Brain’, which was chosen as a best book of 2012 in the Wall Street Journal, and the September main selection at Scientific American Book Club. He also co-wrote the popular science book, ’30 Second Brain’. He has written articles for various popular magazines, including Scientific American Mind, New Scientist, Slate, and Wired UK. He has also appeared on various radio shows and has given many public talks.

Data Citizens presents NIST's Dr. Ram Sriram 4/19
2022-04-19 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
Join us for another cutting-edge lecture as Ram D. Sriram, PhD, Chief of the Software and Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) IT Lab, takes a look at the third wave of AI combining neural networks and knowledge structures and how it is impacting his health care research at NIST.
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.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022| 4:00-5:00 PM IN PERSON or via ZOOM
Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room
1300 Memorial Drive, Room #343, Coral Gables, FL 33146
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TALK TITLE: ”Transforming Health Care Through Artificial Intelligence Revolutions”
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with the development of computer programs that emulate the intelligence of humans, i.e., AI is deeply concerned with the understanding of human problem-solving strategies and incorporating (or simulating) these strategies into computer programs. Since the 1950s, when the term AI was coined, there has been considerable progress in this area. The 1980s was dominated with the rise of knowledge-based systems, which is also called “the first wave.” Advancements in computer hardware facilitated multilayered neural networks, which led to significant improvements in machine learning for certain classes of problems in 2000s. This was the “second wave.” Now, we are witnessing the “third wave,” which will include a combination of neural networks and knowledge structures. In the talk, I will provide a brief overview of AI methods and discuss how these methods can be used to address problems in health care. AI Topics will include: the derivation-formation spectrum of problem solving, knowledge-based expert systems, neural networks and other machine learning techniques. I will also discuss several current projects at NIST, and will address some challenges for the future.
ABOUT RAM D. SRIRAM
Ram D. Sriram, PhD, is currently the chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Before joining the Software and Systems Division, Dr. Sriram was the leader of the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, where he conducted research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems.
Prior to joining NIST, he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory.
Dr. Sriram has co-authored or authored more than 275 publications, including several books, and was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering.
Dr. Sriram has received several awards including:
• NSF’s Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989)
• ASME Design Automation Award (2011)
• ASME CIE Distinguished Service Award (2014)
• Washington Academy of Sciences’ Distinguished Career in Engineering Sciences Award (2015)
• ASME CIE division’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2016)
• CMU CEE Lt. Col. Christopher Raible Distinguished Public Service Award (2018)
• IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award (2021)
Dr. Sriram is a Fellow of AAIA, AIBME, ASME, AAAS, IEEE, INCOSE, SMA, and the Washington Academy of Sciences. He is a Distinguished Member (life) of ACM and Senior Member (life) of AAAI.
Dr. Sriram has a B.Tech. from IIT, Madras, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

IDSC Fellows Capstone Event 4/26
2022-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)
From endangered whales to Alzheimer’s disease, concrete durability, and the brain-computer interface, four University of Miami graduate students are applying advanced data science and computing tools to their multidisciplinary research projects selected for the IDSC Fellows Program for the 2021-22 academic year.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022 | 3:00-5:00 PM
This hybrid event is free and open to the public. Attend virtually via Zoom aor in person at the University of Miami Coral Gables campus, Gables One Tower building, 1320 S Dixie Hwy, Training Room 639 (6th floor), Coral Gables, FL 33146. Free guest parking available through US1 front entrance. Map + Directions
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The 2021-2022 IDSC Fellows, Ashley Cook, Julian Dallmeier, Kevin Davis, and Mingyue Wu have been working closely with multiple mentors—from their field plus an IDSC faculty mentor—to develop their computational skills and expand their research experience for their capstone spring symposium presetations.
“Our goal is to inspire a new generation of leaders in data science to cross traditional boundaries of disciplines,” said Giannina Bianchi, IDSC’s Engagement and Outreach Manager, who introduced the new IDSC Fellows at a December 7, 2021 webinar launch event. “Through IDSC they will have access to our advanced computer resources in their research.”
Here are the projects of the four students, who constitute the eighth cohort for the IDSC Fellows Program:

Cetacean Acoustics | Ashley Cook
As a doctoral student in the Marine Biology and Ecology program at the Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS), Ashley Cook is studying cetacean acoustics to detect Rice’s whales, an endangered species in the DeSoto Canyon off Florida’s west coast.
“With fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remaining, we need to learn more about their location and activities in their primary habitat,” said Cook. Currently, there are 17 hydrophone sites in the region that detect the “long moans and downsweep trains” of the whales and generate recordings. However, it is not feasible to manually review the recordings to identify individual animals—particularly against background noises such as passing ships.
For her project, “Detection of Rice’s Whale Calls in the Gulf of Mexico Using Passive Acoustic Data and Deep Learning,” Cook plans to develop a call detector for this baleen whale species that could also be applied to other long-term acoustic datasets.
Cook’s mentors are

Elizabeth Babcock, PhD | Professor, Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, RSMAS
Melissa Soldevilla, PhD, who leads the Passive Acoustic Monitoring program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fisheries.
Gang Ren, PhD | IDSC AI + Machine Learning | Research Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science
Mitsunori Ogihara, PhD | Professor, Department of Computer Science | Director, IDSC Workforce Development and Education | Cooper Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences | Site Director, NSF University of Miami CARTA

Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology | Julian Dallmeier
A neuroscience doctoral student, Julian Dallmeier hopes to gain new insights into Alzheimer’s disease by studying patterns in brain tissues. “Being named an IDSC Fellow is a great honor,” he said. “This program is a great opportunity for young scientists to learn more about data science in their disciplines.”
Dallmeier will apply feature extraction and clustering algorithms to study hyperphosphorylated tau and amyloid plaques—a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease—in his project, “Spatial Clustering Analysis of Corpora Amylacea and Tau in the Hippocampus.” Using tissue samples from UM’s Brain Endowment Bank, Dallmeier will look at clustering patterns of plaque buildup and see if they can be correlated to genetic risk factors.
Dallmeier’s mentors are:

William Scott, PhD | Professor, and Vice-Chair for Education and Training, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics | Professor of Neurology and Public Health Sciences, UM Miller School of Medicine | Faculty Member, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) | Executive Director, UM Brain Endowment Bank
Mitsunori Ogihara, PhD | Professor, Department of Computer Science | Director, IDSC Workforce Development and Education | Cooper Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences | Site Director, NSF University of Miami CARTA

Brain-Computer Interface | Kevin Davis
Kevin Davis, an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering program, will be applying IDSC’s Advanced Computing resources to improve the functions of an implanted brain-computer interface in a homebound patient with chronic cervical spinal cord injury.
“By using machine learning and classification and regression algorithms, I hope to expand the interface we have developed at the UM Brain + Machine Learning Lab,” said Davis. “This could be of great potential benefits to patients with neurological injuries or disease.”
Davis’s project, “Expanding Functional Control of a Fully Implanted Brain-Computer Interface,” involves capturing signals from the brain using a non-invasive technique called electroencephalography and sent to a computer on the patient’s wheelchair. Machine learning and deep learning algorithms would then be used to translate those commands from the brain into hand, wrist, and elbow movements.
Davis’ mentors are:

Abhishek Prasad, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Odelia Schwartz, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences | Director of Undergraduate Studies, Secondary Faculty in Biology | Principal Investigator, Brain + Machine Learning Lab

Concrete Durability | Mingyue Wu
Mingyue Wu, a doctoral student in the Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering Department, is studying the problem of concrete “creep,” which shortens the lifespan of structures.
“Creep is the long-term deformation of concrete that is driven by sustained loads,” said Wu. “We know that how nanoparticles move under that stress depends on the structure of the local environment, but we don’t yet understand those patterns.”
Wu will apply machine learning techniques to molecular dynamics simulations in her project, “The Role of Cement Nanostructure on the Creep Behavior or Concrete.” She hopes to identify insights that will significantly enhance concrete durability.
Her mentors are:

Luis Ruiz Pestana, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Melvin Ayala, PhD | IDSC Systems and Data Engineering, and Advanced Computing

Story by Richard Westlund

Meet A Data Scientist Lecture Series Presents Amanda Myers 4/28
2022-04-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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 with Dr. Amanda Myers, Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Functional Neurogenomics, with co-appointments in the Division of Neuroscience, the Department of Human Genetics and Genomics, and the Center on Aging.
TALK TITLE: The Human Brainome: Genome, Transcriptome, Proteome and Phenome Interaction in Human Cortex
Dr. Myers’ hypothesis is that changes in gene and protein expression are crucial to the development of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Previously she examined how DNA alleles control the downstream expression of RNA transcripts and how those relationships are changed in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Myers has examined how proteins are incorporated into networks in two separate series and evaluated her outputs in two different cell lines. This lecture will present both the data pipeline as well as the outcomes from these studies. At the conclusion of this discussion, participants will be able to interpret the concepts behind expression quantitative trait loci analysis, compare the differences between single-target eQTL and network effects analysis, and describe new Alzheimer’s risk targets and the evidence for their nomination.
Register Now | Thursday, April 28, 4:00-5:00 PM via Zoom

About Meet a Data Scientist
The Meet a Data Scientist Lecture Series is a chance to get up-close and personal with top-level experts in a wide variety of fields that use data science. 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. Join us as we peer behind the curtain and meet the data scientists behind the data! This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public.

About Amanda
Dr. Amanda Myers has been studying neuroscience since 1993 and human neurogenetics since 1995.
She received her PhD (“The search for novel loci involved in late onset Alzheimer’s disease”) from Washington University in St Louis in May of 2002. While at Washington University, she won a John Merlie Fellowship, an Alzheimer’s Disease Director’s Education Award, and was a finalist for the O’Leary Prize for outstanding research in neuroscience.
She performed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institute of Health under the supervision of Dr. John Hardy and was funded by the National Academy of Sciences during that time. She was nominated for a distinguished mentor award during her postdoctoral work.
Dr. Myers has received support from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, and the State of Florida. Her current research involved looking at transcript and protein expression in the cortex and how that is potentially controlled by DNA variants both in normal and Alzheimer’s disease brains.

Disclosure: Dr. Myers has indicated that she has no relevant financial relationship with commercial interests.

Data Citizens Distinguished Lecture Series presents Anant Madabhushi 5/4
2022-05-04 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)
Join us for another “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series” talk on AI in Precision Medicine featuring Dr. Anant Madabhushi. Dr. Madabhushi is the Donnell Institute Professor, Biomedical Engineering, at Case School of Engineering, and the Director for the Center for Computational Imaging & Personalized Diagnostics at Case Western Reserve University.
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.
Register Now | Wednesday 5/4, 4:00-5:00 PM
TALK TITLE: “Artificial Intelligence Across Length Scales: Implications for Precision Medicine”
Traditional biology generally looks at only a few aspects of an organism at a time and attempts to molecularly dissect diseases and study them part by part with the hope that the sum of knowledge of parts would help explain the operation of the whole. Rarely has this been a successful strategy to understand the causes and cures for complex diseases.
The motivation for a systems-based approach to disease understanding aims to understand how large numbers of interrelated health variables, gene expression profiling, its cellular architecture and microenvironment, as seen in its histological image features, its 3-dimensional tissue architecture, and vascularization, as seen in dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI, and its metabolic features, as seen by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) or Positron Emission Tomography (PET), result in the emergence of definable phenotypes.
At the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Madabhushi has been developing computerized knowledge alignment, representation, and fusion tools for integrating and correlating heterogeneous biological data spanning different spatial and temporal scales, modalities, and functionalities. These tools include computerized feature analysis methods for extracting subvisual attributes for characterizing disease appearance and behavior on radiographic (radiomics) and digitized pathology images (pathomics).
In this talk, Dr. Madabhushi will discuss the development work in CCIPD on new radiomic and pathomic approaches for capturing intra-tumoral heterogeneity and modeling tumor appearance. He will also focus on how these radiomic and pathomic approaches can be applied to predicting disease outcome, recurrence, progression, and response to therapy in the context of prostate, brain, rectal, oropharyngeal, and lung cancers. Additionally he will also discuss some recent work on looking at use of pathomics in the context of racial health disparity and the creation of more precise and tailored prognostic and response prediction models.
About Anant Madabhushi, PhD
Anant Madabhushi, PhD, is the Donnell Institute Professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland and director of the university’s Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD). He is also a Research Scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center and has affiliate appointments both at University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic. He holds secondary appointments in the departments of Biomedical Engineering, Urology, Radiology, Pathology, Radiation Oncology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Gen Med Sciences at CWRU.
Madabhushi’s team at CCIPD is developing and applying novel Artificial Intelligence and machine learning approaches for the diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of therapy response for a variety of diseases including several different types of cancers, cardiovascular disease, kidney, and eye disease. The Center is located in Cleveland’s unique medical ecosystem, an extensive clinical network within which it boasts numerous successful collaborations including with the Cleveland Clinic and the Cole Eye Institute, University Hospitals, the VA Louis Stokes Medical Center, MetroHealth, and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at CWRU.
Madabhushi has more than 100 patents either issued or pending in the areas of medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis, and computer vision, more than 75 of which are issued. He was responsible for more than 10 percent of all patents awarded to Case Western Reserve University, every year, since 2017.
The author of more than 450 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, Madabhushi is a sought-after lecturer who has delivered more than 350 talks around the world. His efforts as a professor and researcher have gained international attention in the field of biomedical engineering, garnering him several awards. Most notably, Madabhushi is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). In 2015, he made Crain’s Cleveland Business magazine’s “Forty under 40” list. In 2019, 2020, and 2021 Madabhushi was named to The Pathologist’s Power List, a list of 100 most inspiring professionals in pathology and laboratory medicine. In 2020, he received the Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring at CWRU. In 2021 he was honored as one of Crain’s Cleveland Business Notable Entrepreneurs of the year and also was conferred a Faculty Distinguished Research Award by CWRU.
Madabhushi’s work on developing “smart computers for identifying lung cancer patients who will benefit from chemotherapy” was ranked as one of the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2018 by Prevention Magazine. In 2019, Nature Magazine called him out as one of five scientists pursuing truly offbeat and innovative approaches in cancer research. His work on using AI for addressing health disparities, especially in identifying differences in the appearance of prostate cancer between black and white men, received national attention in 2020.
Madabhushi has secured almost $80 million in grant funding and co-founded two companies, Vascuvis Inc. (now Elucid Bioimaging) and IbRiS Inc., which was acquired by Inspirata in 2015. He has been involved in several sponsored research and industry partnerships with medical imaging and pharmaceutical companies. In addition, more than 30 technologies developed by Madabhushi’s team have been l

Dr. Yelena Yesha Featured Speaker at FLAIRS Conference 5/15-18
2022-05-18 09:00 - 10:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa, 3793 NE Ocean Blvd, Jensen Beach, FL, 34957, United States
IDSC Innovation Officer Dr. Yelena Yesha will be a featured speaker at the 35th International FLAIRS (the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society) Conference. Her talk title, bio, and abstract are below. Co-hosted by Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences, “FLAIRS-35” continues a tradition of presenting and discussing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and related research in a sociable atmosphere in a beautiful setting. Events include invited speakers, special tracks, tutorials, and presentations of papers, posters, and awards. Traditionally, FLAIRS features not only some of the world’s leading researchers and excellent speakers, but also quality submissions from students.
FLAIRS-35 will take place at the Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa, the Treasure Coast of Florida’s new premier resort for family vacations, meetings, corporate retreats, oceanfront weddings, and spa getaways. The unique Jensen Beach hotel offers 178 oceanfront accommodations with coastal-inspired decor and private balconies, along with exceptional resort amenities including a signature spa, two outdoor pools, oceanfront dining and more. You’ll also enjoy a spectacular beachfront location perfect for soaking up the sun and cooling off in the surf, while just moments from the area’s legendary fishing and golf courses.
Registration Information
May 15-18, 2022 | Hutchinson Shores Resort & Spa, Hutchinson Island, Jensen Beach, Florida, USA
FLAIRS-35 is planned to run as a mild-hybrid conference. They will have a safe physical conference to the extent possible, but provide an option for online presentation for those who cannot attend the physical conference.
Important Dates | EVENT WEBSITE | Call For Papers | Call for Tutorials

For information about the program, contact:
Michael Franklin (dfrank15@kennesaw.edu) and Fazel Keshtkar (keshtkaf@stjohns.edu)
For Special Tracks and Tutorials Proposals, contact:
Soon Ae Chun (soon.chun@csi.cuny.edu)
For general information about the conference, contact:
Roman Barták (bartak@ktiml.mff.cuni.cz) and Milena Zeithamlová (milena@action-m.com)

Dr. Yelena Yesha’s talk will be on Wed. 5/18 9:00 – 10:00 AM (TBC)
TALK TITLE: Towards a novel ecosystem for transparent integration of Artificial Intelligence in clinical flow
Yelena Yesha, University of Miami, Institute for Data Science & Computing
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine learning (ML)-based technologies have the potential to transform healthcare by deriving new and essential insights from the vast amount of data generated during the delivery of healthcare every day. Example high-value applications include earlier disease detection, more accurate diagnosis, identification of new observations or patterns on human physiology, and development of personalized diagnostics and therapeutics. One of the most significant benefits of AI/ML in software resides in its ability to learn from real-world use and experience and its capability to improve its performance. The ability for AI/ML software to learn from real-world feedback (training) and improve its performance (adaptation) makes these technologies uniquely situated among software as a medical device (SaMD) and a rapidly expanding area of research and development. While the FDA has made significant strides in developing appropriately tailored policies for SaMD to ensure the safe and effective technologies reach users, we believe that the next paradigm for device regulation needs to be ready for adaptive AI/ML technologies, which have the potential to adapt and optimize device performance in real-time to improve healthcare for patients continuously. Such change requires an approach based on a new technological ecosystem allowing for continuous testing and following of AI-based devices that facilitates a rapid product improvement cycle and allows these devices to improve continually while providing adequate safeguards. We present here the basis of a novel ecosystem developed between the WVU, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and the UMiami Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC). This Consortium brings together multidisciplinary expertise in large radiology systems, medical imaging analytics, large clinical data management, ML/AI, radiomics, real-world evidence collection, and regulatory and access to extensive clinical flow and data. The framework is based on three pillars: 1) seamless access of de-identified clinical data from radiology and medical records allowing for preliminary training of novel analytics models, 2) low footprint compliant integration of AI models in the radiological clinical flow, 3) gathering of information and monitoring of performances in conjunction with radiologists and clinical professionals. We conclude with the presentation of opportunities of such systems to support continuous and AI-based regulatory frameworks.
About Dr. Yesha
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.

Smart Cities MIAMI 2022 5th annual Conference 5/19-20
2022-05-19 13:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, 1223 Theo Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
The University of Miami School of Architecture and Institute for Data Science and Computing present the 5th annual Smart Cities MIAMI Conference on Thursday and Friday, May 19-20, 2022.

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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.
The theme for the 2022 edition is The Post-Pandemic Smart City: Automation, Decentralization, Virtualization focusing on technology and innovation in the post-pandemic city, providing opportunities to explore questions such as:

How the pandemic intensified smart city infrastructure and practices.
How the pandemic response accelerated the adoption of automation and robotics.
Will work-at-home and decentralization be lasting consequences of the pandemic, given the leap in telepresence and conferencing technology?
How the pandemic renewed the interest and investment in Virtual Reality. Is the rapid development of the “Metaverse” a consequence of COVID-19?
How will the new transformative technology and practices impact individual rights and privacy?

Day One | 5/19 1:30-5:00 PM followed by networking reception 5:00-6:30 PM
Day Two | 5/20 8:30 AM-12:15 PM (Closed Session immediately follows 12:15-3:00 PM. THEME: Where are we going?)
Platinum Sponsor
Conconcreto

Bronze Sponsors
W. Robert “Bob” Miller
Digital Drafting Systems

Register Now
All-inclusive $50 admission fee covers both days of the Conference and parking. University of Miami Faculty, Staff, and Students may apply for a discounted rate. Please email idscengagement@miami.edu for PROMO CODE.
Parking
The Parking Portal is open now through 5/20/22 at 5:30 p.m. | Click Here to Register Your Vehicle.
Your Parking session is valid both days but only from 5/19/22 at 8:00 a.m. through 5/20/22 at 8:00 p.m.
Approved parking location: Yellow zone lots (Smart Cities will be in the building just north of Lot #436 on the map)
Important: All parkers are required to register their vehicle’s license plate with the University to avoid issuance of a parking citation. Park head-in only.

DAY 1 AGENDA | Glasgow Auditorium

DAY 2 AGENDA | Glasgow Auditorium

1:30
Welcome + Introductions | Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury8
8:30
Registration Opens | Light Breakfast

1:35
Keynote Speaker | Skylar Tibbits
9:05
PANEL 1 | Smart Construction for Smart Cities
MODERATOR Ines Muñoz

2:00
PANEL 1 | The Post-Pandemic Smart City: Challenges + Opportunities
MODERATOR Ingrid Vasilu-Fleites
10:05
PANEL 2 | Multimodel Simulation for Smart Infrastructure
MODERATOR Catalina Cabral-Framinan

2:45
BREAK (:10 minutes)
11:05
BREAK (:10 minutes)

2:55
PANEL 2 | From Zoom to Extended Reality
MODERATOR Nick Tsinoremas
11:15
PANEL 3 | How digitalization can promote sustainability in one of the least eco-friendly sectors
MODERATOR Reid Yenor

3:40
BREAK (:10 minutes)
12:15
Closing Remarks

3:50
PANEL 3 | Disrupting the Building Industry
12:20
Day 2 Ends

4:35
Plenary Speaker | Margaret Brisbane

CLOSED SESSION | Korach Gallery

5:00
Closing Remarks | Dean Rodolphe el-Khoury
12:20
“Where are we going?” Expert Discussion (by invitation)

5:05
NETWORKING RECEPTION (until 6:30 PM)
3:00
Closed Session Ends

6:30
Day 1 Ends

Day 1

The Day 1 theme for the 2022 edition is The Post-Pandemic Smart City: Automation, Decentralization, Virtualization focusing on technology and innovation in the post-pandemic city, providing opportunities to explore questions such as:

How the pandemic intensified smart city infrastructure and practices.
How the pandemic response accelerated the adoption of automation and robotics.
Will work-at-home and decentralization be lasting consequences of the pandemic, given the leap in tele-presence and conferencing technology?
How the pandemic renewed the interest and investment in Virtual Reality. Is the rapid development of the “Metaverse” a consequence of COVID-19?
How will the new transformative technology and practices impact individual rights and privacy?

KEYNOTE SPEAKER | 1:40-2:00
Skylar Tibbits is a co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab housed at MIT’s International Design Center. The Self-Assembly Lab focuses on self-assembly and programmable material technologies for novel manufacturing, products and construction processes. Skylar is an Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture where he teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios and coordinate’s MIT’s Design Minor and Design Major programs. Skylar was recently named R&D Magazine’s 2015 Innovator of the Year, 2015 National Geographic Emerging Explorer, 2014 Inaugural WIRED Fellow, 2014 Gifted Citizen, 2013 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award, 2013 Architectural League Prize, The Next Idea Award at Ars Electronica 2013, Visionary Innovation Award at the Manufacturing Leadership Summit, 2012 TED Senior Fellow and was named a Revolutionary Mind in SEED Magazine’s 2008 Design Issue.
Previously, he has worked at a number of renowned design offices including: Zaha Hadid Architects, Asymptote Architecture and Point b Design. He has designed and built large-scale installations at galleries around the world, has been published extensively in outlets such as the New York Times, Wired, Nature, Fast Company as well as various peer-reviewed journals and books.
Skylar has a Professional Degree in Architecture and minor in experimental computation from Philadelphia University. Continuing his education at MIT, he received a Master of Science in Design Computation and a Master of Science in Computer Science under the guidance of; Patrick Winston, Terry Knight, Erik Demaine and Neil Gershenfeld.
Initiated in 2007, Skylar Tibbits is also the founder and principal of a multidisciplinary design practice, SJET LLC.

PLENARY SPEAKER | 4:35-5:00
Margaret Brisbane is the Director of the Information Technology Department for Miami Dade County. In her current role she is responsible for leading a team of IT professionals in servicing the technology needs of the County. The primary IT pillars are Security, Platforms, and Applications along with Administration to support all operations. The team provides support to all County Departments including enterprise solution for Financial, Payroll, Human Resources, Public Safety, Legislative, Commerce and the PeopleSoft systems. The team also supports document and asset management and geospatial systems as well as major technology projects, to include, but not limited to Criminal Justice, Permitting and Code Enforcement, Radio and INFORMS. Prior to joining the County, Margaret served as Director of Service Delivery for Burger King Corporation. During her 20-year career she led the Telecommunications Center of Excellence for various Diageo brands, worked on restaurant systems support as well as Point of Sales system implementation for various domestic and international locations.

PANELS

PANEL 1: The Post-Pandemic Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities | 2:00-2:45
This panel examines how technological breakthroughs accelerated by the pandemic intensifies infrastructural investment in smart cities while prompting new legal and ethical questions. Moderator: TBA

MODERATOR
Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes
CEO
Softhread
Softhread is an information technology company that uses Chios™—a patent-pending, blockchain-and-AI-enabled platform that preserves confidentiality and optimizes network security while enhancing operational efficiency. Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes currently serves as the Chief of Clinical Compliance and Quality Assurance at the UM Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as Director of the Clinical Research Trials Program. She is a Deep Tech, Web 3.0, and Precision Health executive, an innovator, investor, strategist, ethicist, globalist, and futurist. Dr. Vasiliu-Fetes also serves as an SDG (sustainable development goals) Advocate, Board Advisor, TV/Media Consultant, and Author.

Laercio Albuquerque
Vice President
Cisco Latam
Laercio leads the strategy to foster innovation and digitization across the region. Supported by a local team and the Cisco Partner Ecosystem, he delivers positive outcomes for customers, government, and society, helping to solve problems, improve productivity, and empower a more inclusive world through the use of technology. He has a degree in Systems Engineering and Management Analysis by Faculdades Associadas de São Paulo (FASP), and has an Executive MBA from Insper. He started his career as an office-boy at BCN when he was just 14 years old, followed by jobs at Duratex, Pirelli, and CA Technologies. Under his leadership, Cisco has been recognized as the best company to work for in many countries. such as Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Costa Rica.

Eumar Dias de Assis
Managing Technical Director
Microsoft
Eumar is a managing technical director at Microsoft leading a team focused on the Internet of Things (IoT). His team works with partners and customers to build innovative solutions on the Microsoft Cloud. Eumar has worked with software development for 18 years; he has been with Microsoft for 10 years, and is also a startup owner. Outside work, Eumar is a lifelong learner and Martial artist, currently a graduate student and Harvard University and Jiu-Jitsu black belt. Eumar is passionate about giving back to the community and inspiring minorities to pursue a career in technology.

David Kelly
Professor of Economics
Miami Herbert Business School
University of Miami
Co-chair of the Sustainable Business Research Cluster and Academic Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Business at UM’s Miami Herbert Business School, Dr. Kelly previously served as chair of the Economics Department (2005-2008), and held positions at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and Carnegie Mellon. He has published widely on optimal climate change policy, design of environmental regulation, adaptation to climate change, economic growth and the environment, and the economics of natural disasters. His research has been funded by NSF, DOE, and other Federal agencies. Dr. Kelly is an award-winning teacher at the undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D. levels.

Daniel Messinger
Director
Early Play and Development Lab
University of Miami
Dr. Messinger is a Professor at the University of Miami in the departments of Psychology, Pediatrics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well the Linda Ray Intervention Center Research Director. He is also the Director of Social Systems Informatics program at the UM Institute for Data Science + Computing. Dr. Messinger is an interdisciplinary developmental psychologist, and the author of over 120 scientific publications appearing in journals such as Science Reports, Developmental Science, and Molecular Autism. He uses big behavioral data to understand social, language, and emotional development. His research has been continuously funded by the federal government for 20 years.

BREAK 2:45-2:55 PM

PANEL 2: From Zoom to XR Virtualization | 2:55-3:40
The pandemic intensified the use of digital media for teleconferencing and remote work/learning, renewing interest and investment in XR technology. This panel examines the gamut of rapidly evolving technologies that are reshaping and extending reality, gaging their impact on the city.

MODERATOR
Nick Tsinoremas
Founding Director
University of Miami | IDSC
Dr. Tsinoremas is the Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data, and the Founding Director of the Institute for Data Science + Computing (IDSC). He holds faculty appointments in the School of Medicine and College of Arts & Sciences. He received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Athens, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from the University of Leeds. Before joining UM, he was Head of Informatics and Chemoinformatics at The Scripps Research Institute—Florida. Prior to that, he was Director of Computational Genomics & Genomic Discovery at Rosetta/Merck where he worked to discover, prioritize, and define new drug targets and novel therapeutics. Prior to Merck he led a team at DoubleTwist Inc. that developed the first annotation of the Human Genome.

Kim Grinfeder
Director, Creative Computing, UM IDSC
Director, Interactive Media Department
University of Miami | School of Communication
Kim is Department Chair/Associate Professor of the UM Interactive Media program; Director, XR Initiative, UM School of Communication; and Director, Creative Computing program, UM IDSC. His production skill set wavers between design, film, and code, with a strong focus on user experience. As an entrepreneur, Kim has successfully established and sold two companies. He holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU, and a B.A. in History from UM. His work often explores new media tech across the spectrum including immersive storytelling, interactive installations, UI Design, branching narratives & emerging communication technologies. His current research and creative work interests are in producing 360° films, immersive storytelling, and non-linear narratives.

Denise Mendez
Principal Software Engineer, Data AI and Understanding Mixed Reality
Microsoft/HoloLens
Denise Mendez is currently a Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft’s Mixed Reality group making science fiction real by building ground truth systems for data science and telemetry to support Environmental Understanding runtimes for the Hololens and digital twins. From her years with Motorola she built manufacturing systems to ship millions of smartphones.  She worked at Magic Leap, the largest privately funded startup in history, and helped launch their first Spatial Computing headset, owns a small business teaching the art of ceramics and has ambitions to create a revolution in education by bringing Mixed Reality holograms into South Florida schools.

Ruth Ron
Lecturer
University of Miami | School of Architecture
Ruth Ron is an architect whose work explores multiple aspects of digital design, focusing on the borders between architecture and technology, form and media. Ruth received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, a Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, and a Master’s Degree in Interactive Telecommunication from NYU. She worked for cutting-edge architectural firms in New York, including Asymptote and LOT-EK, and taught at Arizona State and the University of Florida. She exhibited her work in New York, Seattle, Boston, Jerusalem, Florence, Paris, and Tel-Aviv.

BREAK 3:40-3:50 PM

PANEL 3: Disrupting the Building Industry | 3:50-4:35 PM
Labor and supply-chain shortages during the pandemic prompted and accelerated technology-driven solutions. The panel discusses how intensified deployments of prefabrication, automation, robotics, and additive manufacturing are disrupting the building industry.

MODERATOR
Max Jarosz
Director of Fabrication + Lecturer
School of Architecture
University of Miami
Max oversees the fabrication facilities and operations at the SoA Miller Fab Lab. He teaches courses on robotics, digital fabrication techniques, and emerging technology in the field of Architecture. Max also serves on the Digital Fabrication and Technology committee, D.E.I. committee, and the Construction Technology sub-committee. He has been included in variety of publications such as Architect Magazine and MAS Context, and has presented at conferences including the 2019 AIA Conference. Max holds a Master of Architecture from MIT, and is a licensed architect in Massachusetts and Florida. Additionally, he holds an MBA from UM. Prior to joining UM, he was a project architect and worked at internationally recognized architecture firms in Boston and New York.

Gregory Coleman
Design Engineer
CW Keller & Associates, Inc.
C.W. Keller & Associates is an engineering and fabrication firm specializing in custom woodwork. Taking on projects nationwide from decorative wood interiors to custom concrete forms, they are a collaborative team of designers, engineers, and craftsmen. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Greg is interested in the automation and analysis techniques required to make complex projects a reality. As architectural software and designs continue to progress, custom fabrication teams are continuously developing tools and workflows that deliver extraordinary projects cost effectively.

George Franco
CEO TRIVIA TECH
Director of Building Technology
Moss & Associates
George Franco is the founder and CEO of TRIVA, Inc. A company specialized in productivity and risk management technologies using the latest innovations. After spending over a decade working in the construction industry with billions of dollars of project management experience and gained expertise in the development and implementation of innovative technology solutions, George knows the real risks and challenges that the industry is facing and the vast opportunities available for improving a massive sector of the economy and workers lives. George has a deep belief that technology should be respectful, purposeful, and be able to connect and empower people. George is a lifelong learner and has studied at prestigious institutions including MIT and Stanford.

Olivia Ramos
FOUNDER + CEO
Deep Blocks
Olivia is spearheading Deep Blocks’ effort to leverage machine learning to streamline the entire process of real estate analysis. She applies her market expertise to turn a process of 3-6 weeks into 15-20 minutes. Olivia was accepted to Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program where she discovered that her wholistic knowledge of developing buildings would be better fit for an AI System. Olivia was also the only female participant in the DARPA Innovation house, where she designed Big Data navigation software. She has also worked under Real Estate Developers, Architects, Brokers, and Contractors and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia, a Master of Real Estate Development from UM, and a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the University of Florida.

Matt Trimble
Director of Product Development
Branch Technology
Matt has a diverse range of experience working and consulting in the fields of architecture, engineering, and construction for organizations that include Neil M. Denari Architects, Behnisch, Behnisch and Partner, Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., dECOi, IDEO, and Nike. Trimble was the Founder and principal of Radlab, an experimental design and fabrication firm based in Boston. He has previously taught seminars, workshops, and studios for both graduate and undergraduate students at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, the Boston Architectural College, the Wentworth Institute of Technology, and MIT. Matt has received a range of grants and awards for design research in robotics, computational design, and experimental construction.

Luisel Zayas
Founder
FORMATERIA
Luisel received a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Puerto Rico. He holds a Master’s of Architecture from MIT, where he developed Robotic Form-work systems as part of his thesis research, receiving The Bill Mitchell Fund ++ Award and the Arthur Rotch Prize. He has built large-scale installations in cities around the world, and worked in multiple firms, more recently as a project manager and NADLab director at NADAAA. In 2018-19, he co-led an MIT IAP workshop in PR as a visiting lecturer, and served as a visiting lecturer at RISD where he taught digital fabrication courses. In 2020, Luisel founded FORMATERIA (an atypical design studio focused on experimental and geometrically complex construction methodologies) and he began first robotics lab in Puerto Rico.

Day 2 Sponsored by Conconcreto

The Day 2 theme is centered around BIM (Building Information Modelling) and is sponsored by Conconcreto.
Join us for coffee and light breakfast at 8:30 AM. Day 2 opens at 9:00 AM and ends at 12:15 PM.
(Closed session immediately follows 12:15-3:00 PM. THEME: Where are we going?)
PANELS

PANEL 1: Smart Construction for Smart Cities | 9:05-10:05

Autodesk Through visualization tools it is possible to overlay sensor data with 3D BIM digital twins for historical and real-time remote monitoring of building data in context.
Conconcreto BIMBAU, data and its role in the procurement and construction of buildings from models. BIM families as a way to communicate the construction value chain.

MODERATOR
Ines Muñoz
Master of Construction

Ines Muñoz de Cote is from Mexico City. She graduated from Miami University of Ohio with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and then moved to Miami to pursue her Master’s degree in Construction Management. She graduated from the University of Miami School of Architecture in the summer of 2021, and is currently working at Coastal Construction—one of the largest general contractors in South Florida.

Julio Palma
Senior Technical Sales Specialist
Autodesk Inc.
Julio is a Civil Engineer with 13 years of professional experience; he belongs to the group of Autodesk technical sales specialists for the Latin American region. He works closely with AEC companies (design/engineering firms, GC’s/subcontractors, owners, and government agencies), advising them on implementing BIM methodology and mandates, efficient and connected workflows, and the digitization of construction sites. Julio supports the Autodesk GOAL program to evangelize companies on sustainability workflows through technology to achieve sustainable development goals while doing business and ensuring impact on the environment and communities.

Cesar Rodriguez
BIM Director
Conconcreto
Cesar is the Building Information Modeling (BIM) Director at Conconcreto. He is an architect with a specialization in interior architecture. Cesar has a Master’s degree in building information modeling. He specializes in project management, leadership, and direction. He has more than twenty years of experience in office design, great scale construction, and, as an independent professional.

Jaime Rosales D.
Forge Senior Developer Advocate
Autodesk Inc.
Jaime is a dynamic, accomplished, Senior Developer Advocate highly regarded for his 10+ years of progressive experience in Software Development, Customer Engagement, and Relationship Building for industry leaders. Jaime has a proven track record of communicating the value and application of company products and services to meet unique client requirements and drive sales in competitive markets. He is respected as a proactive, detail-oriented leader and collaborator who guides team members in achieving reliable on-time, under-budget project completion. Jaime builds and maintains lasting relationships with customers, driving company and service objectives through a people-focused approach. His exemplary educational qualifications include a Scrum Master Certification from Scrum Alliance and Autodesk Cloud Engineering Bootcamp Certification from Hack Reactor. An out-of-the-box thinker, Jaime is committed to making continuous software, customer communication, and process improvements to enable growth.

Andres Rojas
Chief Technology Officer
BIMBAU
Andres is a Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building tech-based products for multiple markets like Asia, Europe, and the Americas. He specializes in Product Development for Startups, Growth Hacking, and Tech Team Building for compelling Startups. Andres worked with First Rock Capital for five years as Head of Engineering, helping Startups overcome technical challenges and Product/Market fit challenges.

PANEL 2: Multimodel Simulation for Smart Infrastructure | 10:05-11:05

Autodesk The city’s digital twins are used to analyze the level of service or the performance of new projects (transportation, airports, or highways) using mobility simulations and Autodesk traffic models.
Conconcreto Case of BIM implementation in massive transportation infrastructure projects (Transmilenio Av 68- Bogota). Show BIM implementation as part of the vision of building smart cities.

MODERATOR
Catalina-Cabral Framinan
Bachelor of Architecture program
Catalina is a rising third year architecture student at the University of Miami School of Architecture on a dual degree track for a Bachelor of Architecture and a BA in History. She holds a deep interest in digital fabrication and methods of digitizing construction, and is a lab assistant at the USoA Fabrication Lab and a research assistant at the ConConcreto Research Unit.

Daniel Cremades
Managing Director
Conconcreto
Daniel is a Civil Engineer with 15+ years of experience leading major international projects in Europe, ex-URSS, and Latin American countries. He is now based in Miami as the USA Country Manager of Conconcreto, a top-notch Latin-American construction company (with more than 2,800 direct jobs) focused on infrastructure, engineering, and innovation, with $1B in long-term-own asset investments. A high-performance leader, Daniel is committed to solving projects and dealing with organizational challenges. He has successfully led large business launches for several companies in more than ten countries over three continents.

Edmundo Herrera
BIM/Senior Transportation Engineer
Autodesk Inc.
Edmundo is a Civil Engineer licensed in the State of Florida working for Autodesk as an Infrastructure Technical Specialist Engineer for Major, Mid-market, Federal Accounts and Departments of Transportation in the United States. He is a BIM/Senior Technical Engineer for Autodesk’s civil engineering applications, including Civil 3D, Infraworks (Structural Modeling & Traffic, Mobility Simulations), Inventor (Structural Modeling Parts Creation), Revit Structural (Rebar Layout, Creation & Scheduling), Navisworks (Structures Construction Simulation, Rebar Clashing) and Recap providing specialized engineering functionality and improving customer’s workflows. Edmundo is responsible for demonstrating, teaching, and deploying bridge solutions to customers in the United States and Europe, including recent acquisitions and implementations of Autodesk’s bridge suite of products for the Montana Department of Transportation. He is also responsible for Autodesk’s traffic/mobility simulation solutions in North America, Argentina and the Middle East with graduate studies in MicroSimulation Traffic Engineering at the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Edmundo constantly develops specialized techniques and solutions for the bridge, construction, maintenance, and planning sections at the Departments of Transportation in order to expand Autodesk’s presence beyond the traditional design engineering division.
Highlight of qualifications

Twenty years of experience with Civil Engineering Projects including software implementations, support, consulting, training and deployment for worldwide customers.
International speaker on Infrastructure Projects in countries including: United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico, Chile, Sweden, Spain, Germany, UAE, Denmark, Ghana, Turkey and France.
Consulting for a variety of customers of the transportation and mining industries during all phases of the project.

PANEL 3: How Digitization can Promote Sustainability in one of the Least Eco-Friendly Sectors | 11:15-12:15

BIMBAU When connection all crucial actors (suppliers, constructors, and designers) from early stages, resource efficiency is generated and therefore less waste is produced. Also, using BIM standard you have the sustainability information of each object in the building, which means you can choose objects with a better sustainability index.

MODERATOR
Reid Yenor
Bachelor of Architecture program
Reid Yenor is Spring 2022 graduate from the University of Miami undergraduate school of architecture. Currently working with Miami-based design firm Atelier Mey on developing the agenda of mass timber building strategies for South Florida.

Juan Luis Aristizábal
CEO + Founder
Conconcreto
For more than 20 years, Juan Luis has been the CEO of Conconcreto, a leading construction and project management company, with more than 2,800 direct jobs, focused on infrastructure, engineering, and innovation, and with $1B in long-term-own asset investments. Juan Luis is a Civil Engineer focused on building a more sustainable future by transforming the industry with technology. He led Conconcreto through an IPO and a partnership with one of the world’s biggest construction companies. He’s currently entering the startup world leading BIMBAU, a platform that improves productivity in the construction sector and spreads the importance of the BIM methodology to transform the industry.

Jane Lanahan Decker
Building Department Director
City of Doral
Jane Decker is currently the Building Department Director for the City of Doral, one of the fastest growing cities in Florida according to Time magazine. She joined Doral in 2012 and found a love and passion for public service and the ability to bridge the gap between AEC professionals and the municipality in which they build. Jane is a licensed code official and floodplain manager. She is the Immediate Past President of the local chapter of the South Florida Building Officials Association. Jane was also recently appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the Building code Administrators & Inspectors Board (BCAIB). In 2019, she completed a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration and is a 2022 Candidate for the Emerging Leaders Development Program with ICMA.

Philip Lund-Nielsen
Co-Founder
COBOD International
Philip Lund-Nielsen is Co-founder of COBOD International, the global leader in 3D construction printers, with investors GE Renewable Energy and PERI Group. After building up experience as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., he re-joined COBOD in 2021 to assume his current role as Head of the Americas. Philip will move to the US in 2022 to establish COBOD’s satellite offices for sales, service, and manufacturing.

Shawna Meyer
Founding Principal
Atelier Mey
Shawna Meyer is a founding principal of Atelier Mey architecture practice based in Miami, FL and a faculty member at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The work of Atelier Mey acknowledges an obligation to confront the blasé attitude towards architectural decision making, responsible for shaping the natural and built environments. Her work in practice, teaching and research exists at the confluence of social, cultural, economic and environmental forces. The overarching trajectory of Shawna’s career has been in pursuit of architectural attunement through the lens of energetics, matter, and the craft in their assembly. As principals of Atelier Mey, Shawna and Christopher received a 2021 AIA Honor Award for Sustainable Architects of the Year from Miami AIA chapter. Through her practicing role as a principal of Atelier Mey and academic role as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Miami School of Architecture Littoral Urbanism Lab , she explores design as an act of questioning-without perceived bias. The work of Atelier Mey is rooted in innovation and design excellence with recognition of local, national and global awards. Atelier Mey are the authors (with Daniel Hemmindinger) of Buoyant Clarity Pamphlet Architecture 36 and responsible for the design and construction of the first mass timber structure in Miami-Dade County.

Juan Saldarriaga
CEO + Founder
BIMBAU
Juan is a Civil Engineer with a title of program management. He has an MBA from Hult International Business School, Cambridge. For his MBA, he focused on disruptive business, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Currently he is the CEO of BIMBAU, a platform that improves productivity in the construction sector, and spreads the importance of the BIM methodology to transform the construction industry worldwide.

Closed Session | Expert Discussion “Where are we going?” follows 12:20-3:00 PM | Korach Gallery (by invitation only).

In-Person Scientific Computing with R Workshop at Medical Campus 6/23-24
2022-06-23 09:00 - 2022-06-24 16:30 (America/New_York) | Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
SoftwareCarpentry.org’s Scientific Computing training courses help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on Scientific Computing with R 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. For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper “Best Practices for Scientific Computing“.
Thursday + Friday 6/23-24 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Course Hours, Both Days
Register Now | Syllabus | Pre-workshop Survey

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 This training will take place in-person at the University of Miami Medical Campus, Don Soffer CRC Building, 7th Floor CTSI Research Training Center (Room),1120 NW 14th Street, Miami FL 33136. (Map | Directions)
When June 23-24, 2022 | 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Add to your Google Calendar.

Instructors

Paul Clough MSLIS, Digital Architect and Infrastructure Librarian, U Miami Libraries
Tim Norris PhD, Data Scientist, U Miami Libraries | UM Institute for Data Science and Computing
Gabriel Odom PhD, Assistant Professor, Chen Lab, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, UM Miller School of Medicine
Cameron Riopelle PhD, Head, Data & Visualization Services, U Miami Libraries

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 under Setup).
Accessibility We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. 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 Tim Norris tnorris@miami.edu for more information.
Roles To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to the Workshop FAQ.
Syllabus
The syllabus is available offering Day 1 and Day 2 SCHEDULE, preparation instructions, code of conduct, and pre-event survey.

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

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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | Zoom (online)

Magic Leap 2 Developer Event at UM Lakeside Village 9/20
2022-09-20 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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.
How to use PayByPhone
1. Create a PayByPhone account at paybyphone.com, or call 1-877-885-8899. You will need to
provide an email address, mobile phone number, vehicle’s license plate, and a credit card.
2. Using a smartphone, download PayByPhone app from the Blackberry, Google Play, or iOS App Store.
3. Enter the location code posted in the parking area signage.
4. Enter parking duration.
5. Extend parking time from your smart phone, visit paybyphone.com, or call 1-877-885-8899.

Meet a Data Scientist Lecture Series presents Joseph Avery 9/28
2022-09-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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
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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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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)
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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 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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]
