BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU DTSTART:20070311T020000 TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU DTSTART:20071104T020000 TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:1 X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC 104141 20231026T101703Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:2 0231130T210000 URL;TYPE=URI:/news/calendar/events/beyon d-these-towers-data-science-and-ai-our-lives Beyond These Towers: Data Science and AI in Our Lives @Ease 605 605 Third Avenue New York, NY 10158 United States REGISTER WHO'S COMING?\nData science and artificial intelligence have so much potential for profound impact on the challenges of today and tomorrow, and WPI is at the forefront. WPI researchers and alumni are harnessing these critical tools to revolutionize fire behavior analysis, disrupt human and wildlife trafficking, detect wound infections, investigate declines in middle school math achievement, and so much more.\nWe invite you to join President Grace Wang, WPI faculty, alumni, and industry leaders for a reception and panel discussion on this important topic.\nNovember 30, 2023 at 6: 00 PM@Ease 605605 Third AvenueNew York, New York\nAdvanced registration is required.\nThis Event Features:\n\nGrace Wang, WPI President\nJean King, Peterson Family Dean of Arts \& Sciences\nAndreea Bodnari '10, Vice Presid ent of AI Products in Strategy \& Innovation @UnitedHealth Group\nJohn Man ning '80, Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Chief of Staff, Vanderbilt University Medical Center\nElke Rundensteiner, Professor, Computer Scienc e \& Program Head, Data Science\nFatemeh Ganji, Assistant Professor, Elect rical \& Computer Engineering\nAndrew Trapp, Associate Professor, The Busi ness School\n\nMore information on our speakers can be found below.This is an in-person only event - it will not be livestreamed or recorded.\nThis event is part of our Beyond These Towers presidential event series. For mo re information on the series, including other event locations, please clic k here.\n\nSome Highlights of WPI's Impact Using Data Science and Artifici al Intelligence\n\nExpanding access to quality care and improving healthca re outcomes\nDisrupting human and wildlife trafficking\nHelping nonprofits find resources and talent and creating community connections\nGuiding pol icymakers through contributing factors that led to a decline in middle sch ool math achievement during the pandemic\nScreening voice recordings for s igns that a speaker is depressed\n\n\nAbout Our Speakers\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nAndreea Bodnari 鈥?0, Vice President of AI Products in Strate gy \& Innovation, @UnitedHealth Group\nWith over 10 years of experience in building and leading AI products and solutions, Andreea Bodnari is the VP of AI Products in Strategy \& Innovation @UnitedHealth Group, where she l eads applied artificial intelligence and machine learning teams focused on healthcare workforce augmentation. She is passionate about AI application s to improve healthcare outcomes, quality, and affordability.\nPrior to jo ining UnitedHealth Group, Andreea was the Head of Healthcare AI Products f or Google Cloud, where she launched the first Healthcare AI solutions for Google Cloud, including Healthcare Natural Language API, AutoML Healthcare , and risk adjustment automation solutions. Andreea also has an entreprene urial background, having founded and scaled several enterprise AI companie s that integrated analytics, ML and AI algorithms into traditional healthc are, life sciences, and financial services organizations. Andreea holds a BS in computer science from WPI and a PhD and an MSc in computer science a nd artificial intelligence from MIT. She is an active member of the produc t and ML community, frequently speaking at academic and industry conferenc es.\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nFatemeh Ganji, Assistant Professor of Ele ctrical \& Computer Engineering\nFatemeh's research focuses on interdiscip linary approaches covering two main angles of hardware security, namely ma chine learning, and cryptography, for design and evaluation of security-cr itical hardware. Her research has been funded by European Union, the Germa n Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the National Science Foundat ion, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Fatemeh has s erved as a reviewer for IEEE and ACM journals as well as a technical progr am committee member of Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded S ystems (CHES, 2020-2021), Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL, 2020), Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2021), and Conference on Security, Privacy and Applied Cryptography (SPACE 2020), to name a few.\nBefore joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi neering at WPI, Fatemeh was a Post Doctoral Associate at the University of Florida (from 2018-2020) and at the Telecom Innovation Laboratories/Techn ical University of Berlin (from 2017-2018). She defended her dissertation with the title "On the Learnability of Physically Unclonable Functions" at the Technical University of Berlin. She was awarded the BIMoS Ph.D. Award in 2018 and nominated by the Technical University of Berlin for ACM Disse rtation Award. More about Fatemeh\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nJean King, Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences\nJean King is the Peterson famil y Dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at WPI. She also serves as a pro fessor of Biology and Biotechnology, affiliate professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, professor in the Neuroscience Program and directo r of the NeuroTech Suite at WPI. Prior to joining WPI, she was vice provos t for biomedical research at the University of Massachusetts Medical Schoo l; a tenured professor of psychiatry, radiology, and neurology; and direct or of the university鈥檚 Center for Comparative Neuroimaging.\nJean鈥檚 re search uses multi-modal approaches to identify and characterize neuronal p lasticity and behavioral modifications associated with stress and resilien ce 鈥?with emphasis on focus areas like mindfulness, addiction, ADHD, dep ression, fearfulness, anxiety, neurological disorders, aging, cognition, p ain and sex differences in model systems and humans with the hope of findi ng clues to help us better understand these conditions and disorders. Her lab utilizes a translational approach which incorporates both clinical res earch and pre-clinical studies. In 2018, she helped launched the Neuroscie nce Initiative at WPI, fostering the establishment of a graduate program a nd an interdisciplinary Neurotechnology Suite at PracticePoint. The long-t erm goal of Jean鈥檚 research is to provide an understanding of the unique features of central mechanisms that regulate neurobehavioral health and w ellbeing.\nShe has published over 100 original scientific publications inc luding papers, book chapters and review articles in highly respected inter national scientific journals. She also served as an editor of New York Aca demy of Sciences Publication-Roots of Mental Illness in Children. She has been a scientific consultant for the National Science Foundation and Natio nal Institutes of Health, as well as the Veterans Administration. More abo ut Jean\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nJohn Manning, Jr. 鈥?0, Chief Operat ing Officer and Corporate Chief of Staff, Vanderbilt University Medical Ce nter\nJohn Manning holds a BS in Life Sciences from WPI. After receiving a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Notre Dame, John was a research fellow at Harvard University School of Public Health focused on bioremediation of h azardous waste. He then joined the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham as an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health where he led the development of a graduate program in Hazardous Waste Managemen t and conducted laboratory research.\nIn 1990, John moved to Argonne Natio nal Laboratory where for six years he led a group developing solutions to bioremediate sites of explosives and petroleum contamination. After comple ting his MBA in 1997, he moved to the Directors office at Argonne to focus on strategic planning and budgeting. He joined the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 2000 to develop a centralized institutional appro ach to scientific core facility management.\nIn his current role, he overs ees administrative activities throughout VUMC and is responsible for the o perations and business activities of the academic enterprise. He has direc t responsibility for all Information Technology activities including infra structure, software, and cybersecurity. He is also responsible for all cen tralized analytics support for the enterprise, executive project managemen t services, space and facilities planning, construction, and maintenance, environmental health and safety, pre-award grants activity, animal care, a nd community relations at the local, state and federal levels.\nDr. Mannin g also provided day-to-day leadership in VUMC鈥檚 efforts to reduce expens es by $230 million (over a two-year period beginning in June 2013). In 201 5, Dr. Manning led the efforts in all administrative activities related to the reorganization of VUMC into a separate legal entity.\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nElke Rundensteiner, The William Smith Dean's Professor in Com puter Science \& Founding Program Head, Data Science\nElke Rundensteiner i s the founding program head of the interdisciplinary Data Science program at WPI.\nElke鈥檚 research focuses on how to make use of data and informat ion effectively, towards achieving goals in business, scientific discovery , and digital health. With interconnectivity of the internet, the availabi lity of computing power, and digital data everywhere, access to the right piece of information at the right moment, possibly fused together from num erous information sources, remains one of the most critical capabilities t hat can set you apart from others. Together with undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and other faculty, I strive to develop intelligent sy stems solutions leveraging AI, machine learning, big data, and data visual ization technologies to discover and explore important nuggets and pattern s in massive data sets in near real-time in applications from fraud detect ion, digital health, emergency management, business intelligence, to event analytics.\nElke holds a BS in Computer Science from J.W. Goethe Universi ty, Frankfurt, Germany, an MS in Computer Science Computer Science from Fl orida State University, Tallahassee, and a PhD in Computer Science Univers ity of California, Irvine. More about Elke\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nAn drew Trapp, Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, The Business School\nAndrew 鈥淎ndy鈥?Trapp鈥檚 objective is to use scien ce and technology to assist real human need by improving systems that serv e vulnerable peoples, such as refugees and asylum seekers, survivors of hu man trafficking, and children in the foster care system. He believes that the convergence of novel analytical technologies and open-source software can create solutions that improve quality of life, increase fairness, rest ore dignity, and generate significant societal impact. His research focuse s on using prescriptive (integer optimization) and predictive (machine lea rning) analytics, together with algorithms, to effectively allocate scarce resources.\nUnder his mentorship, Andy鈥檚 team employs mathematical mode ling and develops methods and tools to benefit vulnerable and marginalized individuals, groups, and populations. His research is supported by the Na tional Science Foundation, the Ragnar S枚derberg Foundation, and other org anizations. More about Andy\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nGrace Wang, Presi dent, WPI\nA materials scientist and highly accomplished and collaborative leader in higher education, government, and industry, Grace Wang, PhD, be gan her term as the 17th president of WPI in April of 2023. She is also a professor in the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WPI .\nGrace comes to WPI from The Ohio State University (OSU) where she serve d as executive vice president for research, innovation, and knowledge, and as a professor in Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to her term at OSU, she served in a variety of leadership roles at the State University of New York (SUNY). Before SUNY, Grace was the deputy assistant director f or engineering, and later acting assistant director for engineering, at th e National Science Foundation (NSF). She began her career at IBM/Hitachi G lobal Storage Technologies where she focused on research and development o f thin-film magnetic recording media and carbon overcoat for data storage. She holds seven U.S. patents.\nIn 2022, Grace was appointed by the White House to serve on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. She is a council member of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundta ble (GUIRR) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medici ne. She is a member of the Board of Governors for the New York Academy of Sciences. She also serves on the Board of Massachusetts High Technology Co uncil (MHTC).\nGrace earned a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. More about Grace\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR