Cancer Research Day Purdue University Center for Cancer Research

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