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5th Annual Big Data Conference Agenda

8:50 AM – 9:00 AMWelcome Remarks
Hongzhe Li, Enrique Schisterman
9:00 AM – 9:50 AMKeynote Address
Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD
Yale University
Title, TBD
9:50 AM – 10:40 AMSession 1: LLM in EHR and Imaging
Zhi Huang, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Pathology and DBEI
Talk Title: Human-AI collaboration for pathology image analysis and clinical decision-making

Degui Zhi, MS, PhD
University of Texas at Houston
Talk Title: Clinical Foundation Models for Structured Clinical Data
10:40 AM – 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AM – 11:50 AMSession 2: Predictive Health Systems
Mark Yatskar, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, CIS
Talk Title: From Papers to Predictions: Making PubMed Actionable for Medical AI Systems

Pratik Chaudhari, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, CIS and ESE
Talk Title: Learning From Small Data
11:50 AM – 1:00 PMLunch Break
1:00 PM – 1:50 PMSession 3: Beyond Simple Prediction: AI/ML
Zhimei Ren, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Statistics and Data Science
Talk Title: ACS: An interactive framework for conformal selection

Xiaotian Hou, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, DBEI
Talk Title: FactTest: Factuality Testing in Large Language Models
1:50 PM – 2:40 PMSession 4: ML/AI in Medicine and Public Health
Hamsa Bastani, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Talk Title: Improving Public Health Outcomes via Machine Learning

Qi Long, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, DBEI
Talk Title: Responsible Agentic AI for Medicine?
2:40 PM – 3:00 PMCoffee Break
3:00 PM – 3:50 PMSession 5: Genomics and Genetics
Pablo Gonzalez-Cámara, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Genetics
Talk Title: Geometric and topological methods for cancer genomics

Dokyoom Kim, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, DBEI
Talk Title: Advancing Precision Medicine: Polygenic Risk Scores and Beyond
3:50 PM – 5:00 PMPoster Session and Reception