BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Computing Day 2025 X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260515T052305Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_49030412238137 DTSTART:20250425T140000Z DTEND:20250425T210000Z DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the Keynote Speaker of the third ann ual Computing Day is one of the top ten women in the Robotics Industry\, D r. Madeline Gannon of ATONATON. UM faculty\, graduate and undergraduate st udents\, postdoctoral fellows\, and staff are invited to submit posters an d /or demos for presentation (scroll down for instructions).\n\n \n\nCompu ting Day showcases the vast array of interdisciplinary research and schola rship in computing at the University of Miami. Join us at the Lakeside Vil lage Expo Center on Friday\, April 25\, 2025. Computing Day convenes facul ty and student scholars\, corporate and government professionals\, and oth er audiences engaged in computing to design the future and foster interdis ciplinary collaboration and innovation. This event is free and open to the public.\n\n \n\nKeynote Speaker | Madeline Gannon\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nATONAT ON is led by Dr. Madeline Gannon\, a multidisciplinary designer and invent or forging new futures for human-robot relations. Also known as “The Rob ot Whisperer”\, Gannon blends techniques in art\, design\, computer scie nce\, and robotics to convince robots to do things they were never intende d to do: from transforming giant industrial robots into living\, breathing mechanical creatures\, to taming hordes of autonomous machines to behave like a pack of animals.\n\n \n\nGannon believes that technology is a cultu ral medium\, and tunes her work to engage communities across science and s ociety. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Copernicus Science Centre\, and has been exhibited at international cultural institutions\, p ublished at academic conferences\, and profiled at global media outlets\, such as the BBC\, the Guardian\, FT\, the Science Channel\, WIRED\, FastCo mpany\, Dezeen\, and The Verge.\n\n \n\nDr. Gannon has been a Knight Found ation Awardee\, a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader\, a Robotics & AI R esearcher at NVIDIA\, and an artist in residence at ETH Zurich\, Autodesk Pier 9\, and the Carnegie Mellon STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. She is known as one of the ‘Top 10 Women in Robotics Industry‘ and ‘World’s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics’ according to Analytics Insight. Gannon holds a M.Arch from Florida International University\, and a Ph.D. in Com putational Design from Carnegie Mellon University.\n\n \n\nPanelists\n\n \ n\n\n\nVanessa Aguiar-Pulido\, PhD\n\nASSISTANT PROFESSOR\, Department of Computer Science\, College of Arts and Sciences\n\nADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFE SSOR\, Weill Cornell Medicine Neuroscience\n\nPI\, Data Science and Comput ational Biology Lab (vaguiarpulido.github.io)\n\nDr. Aguiar-Pulido is pass ionate about problem solving in biomedical research\, with a focus on deve loping tools and algorithms that will impact diagnosis and therapeutics of rare and complex genetic disorders. Her background and interests include big data analytics\, machine learning\, AI\, bioinformatics\, neuroscience \, data mining\, ontologies\, biomedical data integration\, health informa tics\, epigenetics\, and omics in general.\n\nHer DSaCB Lab is at the inte rface of Computer Science and Biomedical Sciences\, and her research focus es on understanding the underlying genetic causes of monogenic and complex disorders\, how these causes can be influenced by environmental factors\, and how these findings can be applied to clinical practice.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nMingzhe Chen\, PhD\n\nKNIGHT FOUNDATION CHAIR IN DATA SCIENCE AND AI\n \nASSISTANT PROFESSOR\, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\ , College of Engineering\n\nCORE FACULTY MEMBER\, AI + Machine Learning\, Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)\n\nDr. Chen received his PhD from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in Be ijing\, China (2019). From 2016-19\, he was a Visiting Researcher at the V irginia Tech Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2019- 21\, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Princeton’s Departmen t of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2022\, he worked as an AI Res earcher at Ericsson Research\, USA. His research interests include federat ed learning\, reinforcement learning\, virtual reality\, unmanned aerial v ehicles\, and the Internet of Things.\n\nDr. Chen received two IEEE Commun ication Society paper awards including the 2021 Young Author Best Paper Aw ard\, the 2022 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Award\, and three conference best p aper awards at IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM (2020)\, and IEEE WCNC (2021).\n \nDr. Chen currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Wireless Commun ications Letters\, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networkin g\, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networ king. Previously\, he guest edited a special issue on Distributed Learning over Wireless Edge Networks for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communi cations (JSAC).\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nClay Ewing\, MFA\n\nASSOCIATE PROFESSOR\, Department of Computer Science\, College of Arts and Sciences\n\nDIRECTOR \, NERDLab.miami\n\nCREATOR\, Queso—a classroom management system for ed ucators who want to run a gameful course.\n\nProf. Ewing is a creative tec hnologist with a focus on serious games\, on implementing game mechanics i nto real-world applications\, and on social justice. As an award-winning g ame designer and developer\, his games have tackled issues such as vector- borne diseases\, the cost of health care\, social safety nets\, and labor practices. His most recent game\, “Unsavory\,” was the winner of a spe cial emphasis award at the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge for its us e of social media crowdsourcing for peer learning.\n\nProf. Ewing has work ed with numerous nonprofits including Red Cross Red Crescent\, Open Societ y Foundations\, ROC United\, Oxfam\, and the AIDS & Rights Alliance for So uthern Africa. His projects have been covered by The Huffington Post\, NPR \, Forbes\, and The Consumerist.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nAndres Sawicki\, JD\n\nP ROFESSOR OF LAW\, School of Law\n\nDIRECTOR\, Business of Innovation\, Law \, and Technology Concentration\n\nCO-DIRECTOR\, Data Ethics + Society\, F rost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)\n\nProf. Sawicki teac hes in the area of intellectual property. His primary research projects ex plore the extent to which IP can help solve problems in the production of inventions and expressive works. He’s particularly interested in the com plex psychology of creativity and in the difficulty of coordinating multip le creative collaborators. His research also examines the interaction amon g distinct patent doctrines. His work has been published by leading journa ls\, including Cornell Law Review\, William & Mary Law Review\, and The Un iversity of Chicago Law Review\, among others. Prof. Sawicki graduated fro m MIT with S.B. degrees in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Science\, Techno logy\, & Society. He then earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago L aw School (2006)\, where he was an Articles Editor for the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.\n\nAfter graduation\, he clerked for th e Honorable Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Cir cuit. From 2007-10\, he worked as an associate in the NY office of Kirklan d & Ellis\, LLP. His practice focused on intellectual property litigation\ , especially Hatch-Waxman Act pharmaceutical patent cases. Prior to his ap pointment at UM\, he was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\nZheng Wang\, PhD\n\ nASSOCIATE PROFESSOR\, Department of Computer Science\, Department of Biol ogy\n\nSylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center | Z. Wang Lab\n\nDr. Wang’s research expertise is in 3D genome structure reconstruction and analysis (since 2010)\, protein structure prediction (since 2006)\, protein functio n prediction (since 2010)\, and complex biological network analysis (since 2010). His Lab has experience in analyzing various biological and next-ge neration sequencing data and applying machine learning algorithms and othe r algorithms or software to biomedical data. For example\, they developed deep learning algorithms to forecast the Hi-C profiles at future time poin ts based on the past and current Hi-C profiles\, predict bp-specific singl e-cell DNA methylation status based on single-cell Hi-C data\, predict ChI A-PET contacts from Hi-C data\, predict protein functions in terms of GO t erms solely based on amino acid sequence\, reconstruct the whole-genome 3D structures of single-cells\, and predict the qualities of predicted prote in structures. Moreover\, the lab has collaborated with neuroscientists\, cancer biologists\, and other bioinformatics scientists on high-impact res earch.\n\n \n\n \n\nModerator\n\n\n\nNick Tsinoremas\, PhD\n\nVICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH COMPUTING AND DATA\n\nFOUNDING DIRECTOR\, Frost Institute fo r Data Science and Computing (IDSC)\n\nPROFESSOR\, Departments of Biochemi stry and Molecular Biology\, Computer Science\, Health Informatics and Dat a Science\, and Orthopaedics\n\nAt the University of Miami\, Dr. Tsinorema s is the Vice Provost for Research Computing and Data and the Founding Dir ector of the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC)\, which was established to catalyze data-intensive research in fields ranging fro m medicine to earth sciences\, urban planning\, digital humanities\, and b usiness. Before joining UM\, he served as Head of Informatics and Cheminfo rmatics at The Scripps Research Institute—Florida. In the past\, he was the Director of Computational Genomics and Genomic Discovery at Rosetta/Me rck where he directed the project that combined data science and computati onal approaches with gene expression profiling\, high-throughput screening \, and genetics to discover\, prioritize\, and define new drug targets and novel therapeutics.\n\nPrior to working for Merck Research Laboratories ( MRL)/Rosetta\, Dr. Tsinoremas was the Vice-President of Genomics at Double Twist Inc.\, where he determined the scientific direction and development of DoubleTwist’s bioinformatics applications and databases. At that time \, he also led a team that developed the first annotation of the Human Gen ome.\n\nDr. Tsinoremas received his B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Athens\, Greece\, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology f rom the University of Leeds\, U.K. His research focus includes projects th at combine data science and computational approaches\; informatics\, digit al health\, clinical genomics\, molecular biology\, computational biology\ , and drug discovery.\n\n \n\nFriday April 25\, 2025 | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM E T\n\nUniversity of Miami Coral Gables campus\nLakeside Village EXPO CENTER \n1280 Stanford Drive\, Coral Gables\, FL 33146 | (Directions)\n\n \n\nCom plimentary Parking\n\nLocation: Pavia Garage-1st floor Visitor Area | You will need to enter your License Plate Number\n\nDate: April 25\, 2025 Tim e: 7:00am-6:00pm\n\nLink: https://www.offstreet.io/events/L5Z3AB7R Regist ration Code: 10820\n\n\n\n \n\nAgenda\n\n 9:00 AM Poster + Demo Check-in \n10:00 AM Registration Opens | Poster Review Session\n10:55 AM Welcome Remarks\n11:00 AM Keynote Speaker| Dr. Madeline Ganon\, ATONATON\n12:00 P M Lunch | Posters + Demos | Networking\n 2:00 PM Panel Discussion\n 3: 05 PM Closing Remarks\n3:15-5:00 PM Posters + Demos | Networking Happy H our\n\n \n\nPoster + Demo Submission Form\n\nPoster and Demo submissions a re limited to University of Miami faculty\, staff\, researchers\, and stud ents only.\n\nPoster Dimensions: 48″ wide x 36" high (or 36" wide x 48 " high) maximum. Information on how to design an academic poster (with tem plates): Click here.\n\nPoster Printing: The event will cover the cost o f posters printed in house through the School of Architecture Computing La b\, Building 49. Please email idsc@miami.edu for the billable account numb er. (The Richter Library Creative Studio large format printer is currently down.)\n\nThe submission deadline is Friday\, April 18\, 2025. If you hav e any questions and/or require additional information concerning posters o r demos\, please email idsc@miami.edu.\n\nBefore you enter your submission \, please make sure that you have the following ready:\n\nPresentation Tit lePrincipal Investigator/Author name(s) and Affiliations350-word (maximum) Abstract LOCATION:Lakeside Village\, Expo Center SUMMARY:Computing Day 2025 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.miami.edu/event/computing-day-2025 CATEGORIES:Lecture/Conference END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR