Previous Seminars

FALL

September 11, 2024 - Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA, Professor and Chief, Division of Computational Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, "Artificial Intelligence for Advancing Cancer, Nutrition and Aging Research" - - Hosted by IBI & DBEI - invited by Li Shen

September 18, 2024 - Zhongming Zhao, MD, PhD, Professor, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, "The Road to Precision Health: Harnessing Big Genomic Data" - - Hosted by PNGC & IBI - invited by Li-San Wang

October 2, 2024 - Julia Wrobel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Emory University, "A robust, scalable K-statistic for quantifying immune cell clustering in spatial proteomics data" - - Hosted by AI2D, Russell "Taki" Shinohara

October 9, 2024 - Andrew J. King, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, "The Intensive Care Unit as Told by Data" - - Hosted by DBEI / IBI - invited by Danielle Mowery

October 30, 2024 - Zhi Huang, PhD, Instructor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, "Visual-language model for digital pathology and clinical decision-making" - - Hosted by DBEI / IBI - invited by Li Shen

November 6, 2024 - Li Shen, PhD, Professor of Informatics and Radiology, Deputy Director, Division of Informatics, Dept of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Associate Director for Bioinformatics, Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI), Co-Director, Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics University of Pennsylvania, "Enhancing Alzheimer’s Research with AI and Informatics: Strategies for Mining Brain Imaging Genomics Data" - - This week Hosted by AI2D - invited by Christos Davatzikos

November 13, 2024 - Bratislav Misic, PhD, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, "Biologically annotated connectomes" - - This week Hosted by AI2D - invited by Ted Satterthwaite

November 20, 2024 - Ken Lau, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology & Professor of Surgery, Vanderbilt University, "Biologically annotated connectomes" - - This week Hosted by DBEI - invited by Mingyao Li

December 4, 2024 - Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD, Professor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, "Leveraging ML/AI to identify undiagnosed rare disease patients from EHR data" - - This week Hosted by DBEI/IBI - invited by Li Shen

December 11, 2024 - Brielin Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor of Informatics and Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, "Opportunities and challenges for large-scale causal discovery in genomics" - - This week Hosted by DBEI/IBI - invited by Marylyn Ritchie

Spring

January 15, 2025 - Zhimei Ren, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, "Conformal Alignment: Knowing When to Trust Foundation Models with Guarantees" - - Hosted by CCDS- invited by Qi Long

January 29, 2025 - Kun-Hsing "Kun" Yu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital , "Advancing Cancer Diagnostics with AI Foundation Models: Innovations, Applications, and Challenges" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by MacLean Nasrallah

February 5, 2025 - Bingxin Zhao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania, "Multi-organ imaging proteomics and applications in aging research" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by Christos Davatzikos

February 12, 2025 - Anurag Verma, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics), Associate Director, Clinical Informatics and Genomics for Penn Medicine BioBank, University of Pennsylvania "Diversity and Discovery in Biobank-Scale Genomics" - - Hosted by DBEI - invited by Dokyoon Kim

February 26, 2025 - Dana Silverbush, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania, "Multi-omic approaches for deciphering cellular heterogeneity and plasticity in glioma" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by Christos Davatzikos

March 5, 2025 - Shefali Setia Verma, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania "Bridging Women's Health and Genomics in EHR Biobanks" - - Hosted by DBEI - invited by Danielle Mowery

March 12, 2025 - Xihong Lin, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Coordinating Director, Program in Quantitative Genomics, Harvard University "Navigate the Crossroad of Statistics, ML/AI and Genomic Health Science" - - Hosted by DBEI - invited by Li-San Wang and Mingyao Li

March 19, 2025 - Jennifer Yokoyama, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, SF "Immune Contributions to Neurodegenerative Disease" - - Hosted by PNGC - invited by Li-San Wang

April 2, 2025 - Adrian Vasile Dalca, PhD, Assistant Professor, A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, "Adaptable AI Frameworks for Biomedical Image Analysis" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by Christos Davatzikos

April 9, 2025 - Walter R. Witschey, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, "The Penn Medicine Biobank (PMBB) Vision Initiative: A Penn Medicine Resource for Development of AI Vision-Language Models, Multiorgan Image Traits and Translational Infrastructure" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by Christos Davatzikos

April 16, 2025 - ZJimeng Sun, PhD, Professor, Computer Science Department, Carle's Illinois College of Medicine at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Large language models for clinical trial design, execution, and analysis" - - Hosted by CCDS- invited by Qi Long

April 23, 2025 - Pablo Gonzalez-Camara, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, "Dissecting the mesenchymal transformation of glioma through single-cell multi-omics and novel computational deconvolution approaches" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by Christos Davatzikos

April 30, 2025 - Judy Wawira Gichoya, MD, MS, Interventional Radiology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, "Shortcut learning for medical AI: Opportunity or threat?" - - Hosted by AI2D- invited by Gary Weissman

FALL

September 13, 2023 - Huiwen Ju, PhD, Solutions Architect, Higher Education & Research, NVIDIA, "Fast medical imaging deep learning training with MONAI Core" - - Hosted by AI2D - invited by Christos Davatzikos

September 20, 2023 - Gary Weissman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, "AI-based Clinical Decision Support Systems in the Real World: From in silico to the bedside and beyond" - - Hosted by DBEI Informatics - invited by Li Shen

September 27, 2023 - Hongfang Liu, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Director, Center for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine, Vice President of Learning Health System, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, "Real-world Data for Clinical and Translational Research – Opportunities and Challenges" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Qi Long

October 10, 2023 - Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD, Director, Medical Imaging Informatics + AI, Professor, UCSF, "Integrating Computational Approaches to Unravel Alzheimer's Disease and Co-Pathologies: Unleashing the Potential of Biomarkers" - - Radiology Grand Rounds - invited by Christos Davatzikos (AI2D)

October 18, 2023 - Yoav Gilad, PhD, Professor, Human Genetics, University of Chicago, "No cell left behind: Using new in vitro system to study dynamic eQTLs in all cell types" - - Hosted by DBEI - invited by Mingyao Li

October 25, 2023 - Aaron Newman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, "Decoding cellular plasticity and spatial phenotypes in cancer" - - Hosted by Statistical Center for Single-Cell and Spatial Genomics - invited by Mingyao Li

November 1, 2023 - Bruno Jedynak, PhD, Professor, Fariborz Maseeh Mathematics and Statistics, Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Portland, "Learning Differential Equations from Data and the Progression of Neurodegenerative Diseases"  - invited by Christos Davatzikos (AI2D)

November 29, 2023 - Towfique Raj, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Using Integrative Functional Genomics to Decode the Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration" - - Radiology Grand Rounds - invited by Li-San Wang (PNGC)

December 6, 2023 - Sindhuja Tirumalai Govindarajan, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, AIBIL, University of Pennsylvania, "Personalized Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Insights into Neuropathology and Potential for Precision Medicine" - invited by Christos Davatzikos (AI2D)

December 13, 2023 - Robert "Alex" Becker, Postdoctoral student, Vanderbilt University , University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, "Evaluating an existing suicide risk prediction tool in Transgender patients" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Kevin Johnson

SPRING

January 10, 2024 - Ravi K. Madduri, PhD, Computer Scientist, Data Science and Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory, "Leveraging High Performance Computing and AI to advance biomedical discovery: Case studies from MVP-CHAMPION project (A collaborative effort between Departments of Veterans Affairs and Energy)" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Anurag Verma

January 17, 2024 - Zhiyong Lu, PhD FACMI FIAHSI, Senior Investigator, Deputy Director for Literature Search, National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Intramural Research Program, NCIB. "The Future of Healthcare: How AI and ChatGPT are Changing the Game in Medicine" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Li Shen

January 31, 2024 - Pratik Chaudhari, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering and Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania "A Picture of the Prediction Space of Deep Networks" - - invited by Christos Davatzikos (AI2D)

February 21, 2024 - Nikolaos Koutsouleris, MD, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Fellow Group for Precision, MPI of Psychiatry Senior Physician, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU Munich "Resolving heterogeneity in the early stages of affective and psychotic disorders: findings from the PRONIA study" - Hosted by AI2D - invited by Christos Davatzikos (AI2D) - Recording has been removed per request of speaker after 3mon posting

March 20, 2024 - Saima Rathore, PhD, Eli Lilly and Company "Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s: A Paradigm Shift Towards Biological Understanding and Clinical Applications" -  Hosted by AI2D - invited by Christos Davatzikos (AI2D)

March 27, 2024 - Tianlong Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "What is Missing in Medical Foundation Models? Biology Prior Knowledge, Multi-modal Capability, Interpretability, Metacognitive, Data Scarcity, etc." - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Qi Long

April 03, 2024 - Yun Li, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics, UNC, "Investigating dynamics in spatial omics data with StarTrail" - - Hosted by DBEI - invited by Mingyao Li

April 10, 2024 - Neil Davies, PhD, Professor of Medical Statistics, University College London. "How to improve the use of instrumental variable analysis in pharmacoepidemiology" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Anurag Verma

April 17, 2024 - Jonathan H. Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford University. "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Real Magic or Technological Illusions?" - - Hosted by CATI - invited by Dokyoon Kim

April 24, 2024 - Amelia LM Tan, PhD, Lab Director, Staff scientist, Harvard. "Advancing Clinical Note Analysis with GPT-4: From Extracting Data to Making Medical Inferences and Enhancing Patient Selection" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Qi Long & Danielle Mowery

May 1, 2024 - Boris Bernhardt, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill "Multiscale studies of human cognitive systems" -  Hosted by AI2D - invited by Ted Satterthwaite (AI2D)

May 15, 2024 - Kin Fai Au, Ph.D., Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan. "Bioinformatics of long-read RNA-seq" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Nancy Zhang

May 22, 2024 - Bradley Malin, PhD, Accenture Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University. "How To Build Responsible AI Lifecycles in Biomedicine" - - Hosted by PennCIL - invited by Yong Chen

May 29, 2024 - Seunggeun (Shawn) Lee, PhD, Professor, Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University. "Rare variant association analysis" - - Hosted by CATI - invited by Dokyoon Kim

June 5, 2024 - Marinka Zitnik, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University. "Molecular discovery and drug design in the age of AI" - - Hosted by CATI - invited by Dokyoon Kim

FALL

September 7, 2022 - James Zou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, "Making clinical trials and precision medicine more effective and diverse with real-world clinico-genomics data" - - Hosted by IBI - invited by Junhyong Kim

September 14, 2022 - Bingxin Zhao, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wharton Statistics and Data Science Department , University of Pennsylvania, "Biobank-scale imaging genetics for human health: findings, perspectives, and resources" - - Hosted by - AI2D - Christos Davatzikos, PhD & Jinbo Chen, PhD

September 21, 2022 - Shefali Setia Verma, PhD, Instructor, Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, "Groundwork for precision medicine: The role of electronic health records in discoveries and clinical implementation" - - Hosted by - IBI - invited by Marylyn Ritchie, PhD

September 28, 2022 - Xia Ning, PhD, Associate Professor, Ohio State University, "Generative AI for Drug Discovery" - - Hosted by - DBEI Informatics Division - invited by Li Shen, PhD

October 5, 2022 - Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, "Precision medicine research dimensions made accessible by electronic health records" - - Hosted by - IBI 

October 12, 2022 - Nancy Zhang, PhD, Ge Li and Ning Zhao Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, University of Pennsylvania. "Tumor subclone detection and niche differential expression analysis on spatial transcriptomics data" - - Hosted by - CCDS

October 19, 2022 - Jian Ma, PhD, Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University. "Machine learning for spatial genomics" - - Hosted by - IBI

October 26, 2022 - Anahita Fathi Kazerooni, PhD, Instructor, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b), Division of Neurosurgery, CHOP. "Computational Neuroradiology in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology; The Hopes for Advancing Precision Medicine in Children with Brain Tumors" - - Hosted by - AI2D

November 2, 2022 - Hani Goodarzi, PhD, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco. "Translational reprogramming in metastatic breast cancer" - - Hosted by - IBI

November 16, 2022 - Sean L. Simpson, PhD, Professor, Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University. "Analytical tools for whole-brain networks: fusing statistics and network science to understand brain function" - - Hosted by -DBEI (PennSIVE)

December 7, 2022 - Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh. "Molecular Mechanisms of Evolutionary Innovation" - - Hosted by - IBI

December 14, 2022 - Elizabeth Sweeney, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania. "Treatment Effect Analysis with Quantitative Susceptibility Maps in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions" - - Hosted by - (PennSIVE)

Spring

January 11, 2023 - Armin Raznahan, MD, PhD, NIH, Chief of the Section on Developmental Neurogenomics (SDN). "Multiscale Neurogenomics : Mapping Gene Dosage Disorders Across Phenotypic Layers" - - Hosted by - the Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D)

January 18, 2023 - Faisal Mahmood, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Computational Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. "AI-driven Multimodal Computational Pathology" - - Hosted by -the Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D)

January 25, 2023 - Jeffrey Moffitt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School. "Imaging the transcriptome: Creating tissue atlases with MERFISH" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)

February 1, 2023 - Alistair Boettiger, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. "Untangling genetic puzzles with spatial genome imaging" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)

February 15, 2023 - Ferhat Ay, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute Leadership Asst. Prof. of Computational Biology, Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, La Jolla Institute for Immunology. "Computational methods for studying the 3D organization of the human genome" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)

February 22, 2023 - Christos Davatzikos, PhD, Professor, Radiology, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Director, Center For AI And Data Science For Integrated Diagnostics (AI²D), Director, Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging Laboratory (AIBIL), University of Pennsylvania. "Machine Learning in Neuroimaging at the AIBIL Laboratory: Applications to Clinical Neuroscience and to Neurooncology" - - Hosted by - the Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D)

March 1, 2023 - Gao Wang, PhD,  Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center), Colombia University "Statistical methods for fine-mapping and multivariate analysis of molecular phenotype quantitative trait loci" - - Hosted by - the Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D)

April 5, 2023 - Ken Chen, PhD,  Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center "Scalable Integrative Analysis of Large Biobank and Population-Based Whole Genome Sequencing Studies with Multi-Omics Data" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)

April 12, 2023 -Xihong Lin, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University "Revealing cellular-molecular signatures associated with cancer development and treatment" - - Hosted by CCDS

April 26, 2023 - Lyle Ungar, PhD,  Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Computer & Information Science, The University of Pennsylvania "Understanding well-being using social media language" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)

May 3, 2023 - Gyungah Jun, PhD - Biomedical Genetics Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine "Novel Genetic Subtyping and Drug Repositioning Framework for Alzheimer’s Disease using Graph and Clustering Approaches" - - Hosted by - the Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D)

May 10, 2023 - Sharath Chandra Guntuku, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, The University of Pennsylvania "Computational Social Listening for Public Health" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI)

May 17, 2023 - Kun Huang, PhD, MS, Chair, Department of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, Indiana University (IUPUI), School of Medicine, "Computational Pathology and Integrative Genomics for Human Diseases" - - Hosted by - DBEI Informatics Division - invited by Mingyao Li, PhD

May 24, 2023 - Sarthak Pati, MS, - Software Architect, Center for Biomedical Image Computing & Analytics (CBICA), University of Pennsylvania "GaNDLF: The Generally Nuanced Deep Learning Framework for Scalable End-to-End Clinical Workflows" - - Hosted by - the Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics (AI2D)- invited by Spyros Bakas, PhD

May 31, 2023 - Firooz Aflatouni, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Deans' Distinguished Visiting Professorship, The University of Pennsylvania "Electronic-photonic chips: from sensing and imaging to implantable devices" - - Hosted by - the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI) - Recording will be deleted June 28, 2023 for this talk