Seminars

EDIT AI Seminar Series

Students interface with clinical faculty.



Over the summer, students attend weekly one and a half hour EDIT AI seminar sessions. This provides the opportunity for students to hear from and interface with domain experts. Over this past summer, students listened to over 20 half-hour seminars, featuring the following speakers:

Week Speaker 1 Talk 1 Speaker 2 Talk 2
1 Onboarding, Responsible Conduct of Research Training, Form Team, Draft Design Document
2 Joshua Levy Program Overview Louis Vaickus Intro: Pathology + ML
3 Zarif Azher Multimodal Modeling + Perspectives on Research and Entrepreneurship Sean Gordon ctDNA detection in cancer
4 Hideki Furuya How AI Helps Doctors Predict and Treat Bladder Cancer Marietta DNA Methylation Field Effect in Melanogenesis
5 Monica Dimambro Use of NLP in addressing Veteran suicide Joshua Levy Computational Pathology
6 Paul Pharoah Polygenic risk models in cancer Ken Lau The Hallmarks of Precancer
7 Nathan Buchbinder Rewiring Pathology for Precision Medicine Harsimran Kaur Mapping stromal morphologies molecularly in Colorectal Cancer
8 Dennis Hazelett Writing is the most important thing you do Louis Vaickus Presentation, manuscript preparation for end of summer
9 Rishy D. & Vismay R. Investigating the Role of Neurotoxic Metals in ALS Pathogenesis Kyle Coleman Applications of AI in spatial omics
10 Indrani Bhattacharya Detection and Segmentation for Medical Images Kevin Cornell Environmental Risk Factors of ALS: Using Spatial-omics to Uncover Toxicant-associated Focal Pathways
11 Vivek Pujara Deep Learning Spatial Analyses in Cancer Research Office hours End of Summer Prep
12 Intern Presentation/Poster Day/Virtual Conference

We have also included a few example seminars below to illustrate the students' learning experiences:


Program Overview & Pathology

Machine Learning & Computing

Manuscript/Talk Prep & Epigenetics