Summer Workshops on AI & Digital Health, BioML, and BridgesDH NRT Soft Skills 2024

WVAR-CRESH: 2024 Summer Workshops on AI & Digital Health, BioML, and BridgesDH NRT Soft Skills

Wednesday July 17 - Friday July 19, 2024

Location (Online via Zoom)

The program is now ended. Thank you for visiting or participating!

See below for available recorded lecture materials.

Day 1: Wednesday, July 17 (All times in EST)

8:45-9:00 am | Introductions (Video Link)

- Professor Melanie Page, PhD; Associate Vice President for Creative and Scholarly Activity, WVU Research Office Director, NASA WV Space Grant Consortium and NASA WV EPSCoR
- Professor Don Adjeroh, PhD; Associate Dept. Chair LCSEE; NSF Track-2 Project PI, NSF BridgeDH NRT Project PI

9:00-10:00am | Keynote: Medical LLMs and Multimodal LLMs (Video Link)

- Annie Hartley, PhD; Yale University

10:00 - 10:30am | Challenges of AI in Cardiology: A focus on Aortic Stenosis (Video Link)

- Dr. Partho Sengupta; Rutgers University Medical School
- Naveena Yanamala, PhD; Rutgers University Medical School

10:30 - 11:20am | Early Career Faculty

- Can ChatGPT Protect Children from Age-Inappropriate Apps? A Study on Maturity Rating with Multimodal Large Language Models; Bin Liu, PhD; WVU Chambers College of Business & Economics (Video Link)
- Robust, Trustworthy and Efficient Multimodal Video Analysis; Ngan Le, PhD; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (Video Link)

11:20 - 12:30pm | BridgesDH NRT Fellows

- Efficient Analysis of Gigapixel Histopathological Images; Mohammad Iqbal Nouyed, WVU (Video Link)
- Inferring Key Protein Impact on Cell-to-Cell Networks in Human Breast Cancer; Habibolla Latifizadeh, WVU (Video Link)
- AI in Analysis of Nucleic Acid Structure and Function; Evan Cramer, WVU (Video Link)
- Lightbox for light-induced retinal degeneration; Hunter Aliff, Alexis Crockett, and Al Zadid Sultan Bin Habib WVU (Video Link)

12:30 - 2:00pm | Lunch

2:00 - 3:30pm | Responsible AI in healthcare

- Health Disinformation and Influence in Networks;Nitin Agarwal, PhD; University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Video Link)
- Implications of Minimum Description Length for Adversarial Attach on NLP; Kshitiz Tiwari and Lu Zhang, PhD; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (Video Link)

3:30 - 5:00pm | ChatGPT/GAI in Healthcare

- GPT-4V in Image Comprehension & Diagnosis with Medical Imaging; Michael Hu, PhD; West Virginia University (Video Link)
- Classifying Bone Fracture X-ray Images via Generative AI, Jaxon Tipton (Concord University) , Justin Liang (Shepherd University), Trinity Ihekwoaba (George Washington University), Logan Zuchelli (Concord University) (Video Link)
- Using Generative AI in Analyzing Drug-Drug Interaction; Nathan Schoffstall (Frostburg State University), Ethan Board (Concord University), Madoc Lathroum (Concord University) (Video Link)
- Generative AI in Medical Image Analyis; Xinyu Pan, PhD; Frostburg State University (Video Link)

5:00 - 6:30pm | WVAR CRESH/ Track-2 General Meeting

- Project team members only

Day 2: Thursday, July 18 (All times in EST)

9:00 - 9:15am | Introduction

- Professor Ming Lei, Sr, PhD; Associate Vice President, WVU Health Sciences
- Professor Gianfranco Doretto, PhD; NSF EFRI/BRAID Project PI

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Day 3: Friday, July 19 (All times in EST)

9:00 - 9:15am | Introductions (Video Link)

- Professor Anurag Srivastava, PhD; Fellow IEEE, Professor and Raymond J. Lane Chair, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (LCSEE)
- Professor Don Adjeroh, PhD; Associate Dept. Chair LCSEE; NSF Track-2 Project PI, NSF BridgesDH NRT Project PI

9:00 - 12:00pm | NRT Essential (Soft) Skills — Communication

- Rebecca Thompson, PhD (Video Link)

12:00 - 2:00pm | Lunch

2:00 - 4:50pm | NRT Essential (Soft) Skills — Health Ethics /Policy

- Deborah Stine, PhD (Video Link)

4:50 - 5:00pm | Break

5:00 - 6:30pm | BridgesDH NRT General Meeting

- Project team members only

Targets and expected background / preparation

Summer school attendees are expected to be undergraduate seniors, graduate students, faculty, and others with appropriate background or interests.

Level of treatment will be appropriate for a senior undergraduate/first year graduate student, with a general background in science, engineering, or in the biomedical field. Others with background in business or quantitative social science, such as economics should also be able to follow most of the material.

For more information, please contact Don Adjeroh, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair of LCSEE, Project Lead PI.