Conference Schedule - Cancer Research Day

Please Note: All session times for the are U.S. Eastern Standard Time (EST).

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021 10 AM-4:15 PM EST
10 AM	Welcome Address
10:05 AM	Session I. AI in Omics
	Dr. Mihai Pop, The University of Maryland Embracing ambiguity when characterizing microbes
	Dr. Wendy A. Woodward, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
	Dr. Trey Ideker, University of California San Diego Predicting drug response and synergy using deep learning models of human cancer
	Panel Discussion: Traditionalist vs AI approaches Moderated by Dr. Jun Wan, Indiana University
	Dr. Eneida A. Mendonca, Regenstrief Institute
12:45 PM	Break
1:30 PM	Session II. Causality in Medicine
	Dr. Alan Hubbard, University of California Berkeley
	Dr. Shravan Kethireddy, The Cleveland Clinic
	Mr. Glen de Vries, Medidata Patient Equations and the Future of Life Sciences
	Panel Discussion: Ethical AI, moderated by Dr. Rebecca W. Doerge, Carnegie Mellon University
	Dr. Paul Sheehan, DARPA
4:15 PM	Closing Remarks

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2021 10 AM-4:10 PM EST
10 AM	Opening Remarks
10: 05 AM	Session III. Interpretable AI & Explainable AI
	Dr. Pratik Shah, MIT Media Lab
	Dr. Jennifer Couch, National Cancer Institute
	Dr. Cynthia Rudin, Duke University Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead
	Panel Discussion: Interpretable AI vs Explainable AI Moderated by Dr. David Basanta Gutierrez, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
	Dr. Laura Biven, NIH
12:45 PM	Break
1:00 PM	Session IV. Bringing expert care to a wider range of people with AI
	Dr. Patrick Loehrer, Indiana University
	Dr. Bin Yu, University of California Berkeley Stable Discovery of Interpretable Subgroups via Calibration in Causal Studies
	Dr. Eric Stahlberg, Frederick National Lab
	Dr. John Quackenbush, Harvard University
	Panel Discussion: Looking forward: what is needed to translate AI to the clinic? Moderated by Dr. Min Zhang, Purdue University
4:10 PM	Organizer’s Closing Remarks

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021