Past Lectures

Ansu Chatterjee

Sinha Ennovate Endowed Chair Professor
University of Maryland Baltimore County

EXPLAINABLE DATA SCIENCE: A FAST AND CONSISTENT FEATURE SELECTION PROCEDURE

September 20, 2024
11am-12pm
Fintech Innovation Hub, room 501

Jeffrey Gordon

Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor
Washington University in St. Louis

Developing Microbiome-Directed Therapeutics for Treating Childhood Undernutrition

April 4, 2023
4 pm to 5 pm
Purnell Hall, Room 115

Michael Mignano

Partner at Lightspeed and Co-founder of Anchor
UD Alumnus (2005, CIS)

CIS Distinguished Lecture with Michael Mignano

October 21, 2022
1:30 – 2:30pm
100 Kirkbride Hall

Jim Hurley

Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley

A NIGHT IN THE LENTIVIRAL NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM:
HOW HIV AND SIV HIJACK HOST MEMBRANE BIOLOGY

October 14, 2022
4 – 5:00pm
131 Sharp Hall

John Younger

Vice President for Science and Technology
University City Science Center

FAST TIMES IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH:
WHAT LEAVING MY CAREER FOR A START-UP TAUGHT ME
ABOUT RESEARCH AND LIFE

January 28, 2020

Dylan Small

Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Statistics
Fellow of American Statistical Association (ASA)
Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

CAUSAL INFERENCE ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION

November 8, 2019

Eric Stahlberg

Director, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) for the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR)

FRONTIERS FOR PREDICTIVE ONCOLOGY – INTEGRATING BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS, DATA SCIENCE AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

November 4, 2019

Deborah Ehrenthal

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin

MINING THE “DATA LANDFILL”: LINKING MULTISOURCE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO STUDY THE HEALTH OF WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN

October 21, 2019

Gunaretnam (Guna) Rajagopal

VP, Global Head, Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences,
Janssen Research & Development, A Johnson & Johnson Company

TRANSLATING DATA INTO INSIGHT TO GUIDE DRUG DISCOVERY &
DEVELOPMENT

September 30, 2019

Shaowen Wang

Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science,
University of Illinois

EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF CYBERGIS AND GEOSPATIAL DATA SCIENCE

March 15, 2018

Barbara Thompson

NASA Goddard

BEYOND THE BLACK BOX: HOW DEEP LEARNING AND AI CAN DRIVE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

November 15, 2018

Kevin Montgomery

Founder, Collaborate.org

COLLABORATE.ORG – BUILDING A WORLDWIDE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EVERYONE IN THE WORLD TO WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS

Leslie Greengard

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University

ADAPTIVE METHODS FOR THE SIMULATION OF
DIFFUSION IN COMPLEX GEOMETRIES

September 28, 2018

Vasant Dhar

Professor of Information Systems and Center for Data Science,
New York University

WHEN SHOULD WE TRUST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?

September 7, 2018