SD Biomedical Computation Consortium

Join us for the University of South Dakota’s the inaugural South Dakota Biomedical Computation Consortium (SDBCC), held in conjunction with the 7th Annual Artificial Intelligence Symposium. This event brings together thought leaders from academia, industry and government to explore the areas of artificial intelligence, data engineering, healthcare and biomedical computing. 

SDBCC and AI Symposium Registration

Schedule of Events

8:30 – 9 a.m. Morning Networking Session (coffee/refreshments)

9 – 9:30 a.m. Welcome session with Senator Round’s Office, USD and SDBCC leadership, and SDBCC program overview

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.  Keynote talk: Douglas Lauffenburger, Ph.D., Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT | Computational Systems Modeling of Host Immune Response to Pathogen Infection and Vaccines

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.  Invited talks (30 min each)

Kaifu Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital | AI Methods To Uncover Cell Identity Genes

Yinglong Miao, Ph.D., Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Accelerated and AI-Boosted Molecular Simulations and Drug Discovery

George Awad, Ph.D., Computer Scientist/Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | TRECVID : Video Understanding Evaluation at NIST

12:15 – 2 p.m.  Roundtable Lunch Discussion with Speakers

2 – 4 p.m.  Biomed Computation and AI Panel Discussion (biotech, healthcare and academia)