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Data Science Day Agenda

Join the School of Data Science and Society for a portion or the entire day, discovering data science expertise across campus.

Friday, Sept. 29, 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Innovate Carolina Junction, 136 East Rosemary Street (Where do I park? Visit parkonthehill.com for all downtown parking information, but the Wallace Parking Deck at 150 E. Rosemary St. and the Rosemary/Columbia lot at 100 E. Rosemary St. are the most proximate parking locations.)

Agenda

8:30 – 9 a.m. Check-in, Continental Breakfast, Resource Fair
9 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome from SDSS and Innovate Carolina
9:15 – 10 a.m. Faculty Talks
10 – 10:15 a.m. Networking Break, Resource Fair
10:15 – 11 a.m. Faculty Talks
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Resource Fair Open and Lunch Available
11 – 11:30 a.m. Poster Session A
11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Poster Session B
12 – 12:30 p.m. Poster Session C
12:30 – 1 p.m. Keynote Address and Awards

Keynote Speaker

Rachini Moosavi, chief analytics officer at UNC Health, will serve as keynote speaker at Data Science Day.

Faculty Talks

Eight faculty will give talks focusing on different aspects of AI and health.

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Session

  • AI Driven Decision Support for Precision Medicine at UNC: Going Beyond Prediction, Michael R. Kosorok, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health and professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Data-Driven Spatial Modeling for Improved Community Assessment, Resource Allocation, and Well-Being Outcomes, David Ansong, associate professor and Wallace Kuralt Early Career Distinguished Scholar, School of Social Work
  • Using Electronic Health Records for Cancer Drug Repurposing, Di Wu, associate professor, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health and associate professor, UNC Adams School of Dentistry
  • Advancing Health Research with AI, Ashok Krishnamurthy, director, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and research professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences

10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Session

  • Data-Driven Research for Improving Health Care Delivery, Vinayak Deshpande, The Mann Family Distinguished Professor of Operations, Kenan-Flagler Business School
  • POLARIS, A Versatile Tool for Spatial Transcriptomics Data, Yun Li, professor, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Department of Genetics, School of Medicine
  • Using High Resolution Imagery and Neural Networks to Measure Destruction and Reconstruction after a Disaster, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences and Director of the Carolina Center for Population Aging and Health
  • Robots for Health Care: From Autonomous Surgery to Accelerating Drug Discovery,” Ron Alterovitz, professor and director of graduate admissions, Department of Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences

Resource Tables

These campus units will be sharing how they can support data science research at Carolina.

Poster Judges

James Doroghazi, Head of Lab Digitalization and Genomics, Syngenta Seeds R&D

Syngenta is one of the world’s leading agriculture companies with 53,000 people in more than 100 countries and is working to transform how crops are grown. The company’s ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet by enabling millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources. James Doroghazi specializes in creating organized frameworks for the analysis of complex biological systems. Heleads the research and development IT strategy and delivery for Syngenta’s work in genotyping and genomics.

Andrew Hinton, Principal Data Scientist, Enterprise Information Security, CVS Health

CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that improves the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and over 300,000 employees – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners Andrew Hinton is passionate about using the power of mathematical models to develop diagnostics and prognostics in the biomedical setting. At CVS he uses advanced data science methods such as AI and Machine Learning to improve cybersecurity across the organization.

Raghavendran Ramakrishnan, Machine Learning Consultant, IQVIA

IQVIA is a global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. As part of the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACoE), Raghavendra Ramakrishan collaborates with external customers, such as pharmaceutical clients to design and develop customized machine learning applications for their specific business needs.

Steve Reeves, SVP, Digital Strategy, Ipsos Healthcare

With over 18,000 employees, Ipsos is the third largest market research company in the world, providing expert insights on consumers, industry dynamics and market trends, including deep expertise in healthcare. Steve Reeves leads the Digital Strategy team at Ipsos Healthcare, where he works with global biotech and pharmaceutical organizations to understand the impact that digital has on the lives of healthcare consumers, the role it plays in their disease journey and how to effectively leverage data and AI to uncover insights that identify key consumer unmet needs, decision drivers, behaviors/attitudinal trends and intervention points.

Sean Scott, Analytical Consultant, SAS

Sean Scott is an analytical consultant at SAS. SAS is a leader in analytics and specializes in helping our customers turn their data into intelligence and questions into answers.  Sean Scott provides analytical and consulting services to current and prospective customers, working directly with them throughout the entire project life cycle from requirements gathering to solution development and knowledge transfer.