Agenda

Friday, November 30, 2018

09:00 am - 09:20 am EST
Registration and Check-in
09:20 am - 09:30 am EST
Welcome Remarks

Glen Merlino, Ph.D.

Scientific Director for Basic Research, CCR 

Session 1: Computational Biology                    

Chair: Eytan Ruppin, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, NCI

09:30 am - 10:00 am EST
Computational Challenges of Characterizing Mutations in Cancer

Max Leiserson, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

10:00 am - 10:20 am EST
Remote Control of Gene Activity

Sridhar Hannenhalli, Ph.D.

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, *UMIACS, UMD

10:20 am - 10:40 am EST
Methods for Identifying Patterns of Somatic Mutations in Large Cancer Datasets

Max Leiserson, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD\

10:40 am - 11:00 am EST
Coffee Break

Session 2: Data Analysis Approaches I           

Chair: Samir Khuller, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

11:00 am - 11:20 am EST
Beyond Integration of Visual and Computational Interactive Data Analysis

Hector Corrada Bravo, Ph.D.

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, *UMIACS, UMD

11:20 am - 11:40 am EST
Can Data Science Generalists Help Cancer Data Science Research?

Uzi Vishkin, D.Sc

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, *UMIACS, UMD

11:40 am - 12:00 pm EST
Algorithmic Tools for Data Analysis

Samir Khuller, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm EST
Lunch

Session 3: Data Analysis Approaches II

Chair:  Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

01:30 pm - 01:50 pm EST
Operations Research and Cancer Research

Margrét Bjarnadóttir, Ph.D.

Robert H. Smith School of Business, UMD

01:50 pm - 02:10 pm EST
Provenance for Collaborative Analysis Workflows

Amol Deshpande, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

02:10 pm - 02:30 pm EST
Validating Profiles Inferred from Phenotypes and Drug Mechanisms with Electronic Health Record Data

Louiqa Raschid, Ph.D.

Robert H. Smith School of Business, *UMIACS, UMD

02:30 pm - 02:50 pm EST
A Characterization Study of Exploratory Analysis Behaviors in Tableau

Leilani Battle, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

02:50 pm - 03:15 pm EST
Coffee Break

Session 4:  Machine Learning 

Chair: Uzi Vishkin, D.Sc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, *UMIACS, UMD

03:15 pm - 03:50 pm EST
Generative Models: Formulations, Computation and Biological Applications

Soheil Feizi, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

03:50 pm - 04:10 pm EST
Stochastic Clustering

Aravind Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

04:10 pm - 04:30 pm EST
Algorithms for Massive Networks: Streaming and MapReduce

Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

04:30 pm - 04:50 pm EST
What do Neural Net Loss Functions Look Like?

Tom Goldstein, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

04:50 pm - 05:10 pm EST
Discovering Latent Factors in High-Dimensional Data in Brain, Gene and Healthcare Analytics

Furong Huang, Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science, *UMIACS, UMD

05:10 pm - 05:30 pm EST
Coffee Break

Session 5:  Open Questions and Comments

Chair: Eytan Ruppin, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, NCI
Chair: Uzi Vishkin, D.Sc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, *UMIACS, UMD

05:30 pm - 06:00 pm EST
Questions and Comments

Invite questions and comments by cancer researchers towards the second meeting of this initiative scheduled for February 1, 2019 at University of Maryland.


Adjourn

* The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies