Reimagining Research Frontiers with AI
Join us on Friday, Jan. 22, in the Clark-Fox Forum to spark new collaborations and project ideas as more than a dozen faculty showcase research leveraging the power of artificial intelligence. These brief presentations will provide a glimpse into the breadth of digital innovation efforts taking place across WashU and offer an ideal entry point for new transdisciplinary collaborations. Open to faculty, staff, and students. Hosted by the Office of the Vice Dean for Research in Arts & Sciences.
Agenda
9 am: Welcome from Vice Dean Deanna Barch and Dean Hu
9:10: Keynote from Mark Anastasio
Mark Anastasio is the Vice Chair of Imaging Sciences and AI Research in the McKelvey School of Engineering, the Mallinckrodt Endowed Professor in Imaging Sciences, and Director of the Center for Computational and AI-Enabled Imaging Sciences
9:50 am: AI Enhancing Research in the Physical Sciences
Henric Krawczynski (Physics); Alex Chen (Physics); Apratim Dey (Statistics & Data Science); Joe Feldman (Statistics & Data Science); Zach Zheng (Chemistry); Chenfeng Ke (Chemistry); Alex Bradley (Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences); Brett Wick (Mathematics)
12:40 pm: Lunch
1:10 pm: Keynote from Nathan Jacobs
Nathan Jacobs is Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and a Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering
1:45 pm: AI Enhancing Research in the Social Sciences
Christopher Lucas (Political Science); Xinyi Liu (Anthropology); Betsy Sinclair (Political Science); George-Levi Gayle (Economics); Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft (Psychological & Brain Science); Josh Oltmanns (Psychological & Brain Science); Talia Dan-Cohen (Anthropology)
4:20 pm: AI Enhancing Research in the Humanities
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu (History); Hyeok Hweon Kang (East Asian Languages & Cultures)