June 26, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration & Breakfast Networking
- Check-in, coffee, and light breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Opening Remarks
- Speakers: President (USD), Vice-President (Academic Affairs), Vice-President (Office of Research), Dean (College of Arts & Sciences), and Chair (Department of Computer Science)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Keynote Address
- Talk title: NIST GenAI: Text-to-Text Evaluation
- Speaker: Dr. George Awad, Computer Scientist/Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Break / Networking
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM: Blitz Talk I
- Speaker: Dr. Pete Doucette, Director, EROS Center
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM: Workshop
- Joseph J Schueder, Senior Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace
- Joseph Engler, Chief AI Scientist, Collins Aerospace
- Chris Reuter, Sr. Principal AI Engineer, Collins Aerospace
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch (Buffet + Networking Lounge)
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Workshop
- Title: AI in the Workplace: Productivity & Creativity – Navigating the New Era of Work with Artificial Intelligence
- Speaker: Gopi Challagolla, Software Engineer, Microsoft
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Panel: AI and Workforce Development in South Dakota
- Panelists: SD EPSCoR, Direct Companies, Collins Aerospace, EROS Center...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Evening Reception
- Light hors d’oeuvres, social hour, and sponsor booths
June 27, 2025
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Registration & Breakfast Networking
- Check-in, coffee, and light breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Opening Remarks
- Welcome session with Senator Round’s Office, USD and SDBCC leadership, and SDBCC program overview
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Keynote Address
- Title: Computational Systems Modeling of Host Immune Response to Pathogen Infection and Vaccines
- Speaker: Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger, Full Professor and Founding Chair of Dept of Biological Engineering at MIT
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Break / Networking
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM: Blitz Talk I
- Title: AI methods to uncover cell identity genes
- Speaker: Dr. Kaifu Chen, Associate Professor at Harvard Med School/Boston Children's Hospital
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM: Blitz Talk II
- Title: Accelerated and AI-Boosted Molecular Simulations and Drug Discovery
- Speaker: Dr. Yinglong Miao, Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Blitz Talk III
- Talk title: TRECVID: Video Understanding Evaluation at NIST
- Speaker: Dr. George Awad, Computer Scientist/Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM: Roundtable Lunch Discussion with Speakers
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Biomedical Computation and AI Panel Discussion (Biotech, Healthcare, Academia)
- Panelists: SDBCC, SD BioTech, Avera