WVAR-CRESH: 2025 WVU Summer Workshop on AI, Digital Health & BioML, and NSF BridgesDH NRT Mini-Workshop Series

Monday July 21 - Wednesday July 23, 2025

Evansdale Campus, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, USA (and Online via Zoom)
Registration is required
Register here for the workshops
(Limited slots available)
Day 1: Monday, July 21 (All times in EST)

9:00-9:15 am | Introductions

- Professor Ming Lei, PhD (Cornell); Sr. Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Education, WVU HSC Vice Dean for Research, WVU School of Medicine  Interim Vice President, WVU Research Office.

9:15-10:15 am | Day 1 Keynote


10:15-12:00 am | WVAR-CRESH Research Presentations

- Long-term Fair Decision-Making, Lu Zhang, PhD,; University of Arkansas (UARK)
- AI + Social Computing for Mitigating Cognitive Threats, Nitin Agarwal, PhD; Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, (UALR)
- Thi Hoang Ngan Le, PhD; University of Arkansas (UARK)
- Bin Liu, PhD; West Virginia University

12:00 - 1:30pm | Lunch


1:30 - 3:15pm | Plenary Presentation: AI in Cardiovascular Health

- Partho Sengupta, MD; Chief of Cardiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Naveena Yanamala, PhD; Rutgers Robert Wood JohnsonMedical School

2:15-3:30 pm | ChatGPT and LLMs

- ChatGPT in Dermatology, Dr. Michael Hu; WVU School of Medicine
- ChatGPT in Healthcare, Xinyu Pan, PhD; Frostburg State University
- Analyzing Medical Errors with LLMs; William L Pariseau, Frostburg State University; Zackery Coleman, Concord University; Chloe Reed, Concord University; Adeeb, West Virginia University
- Investigating Bias in LLMs for Healthcare; Jacob S Brashear, Frostburg State University; Trinity Ihekwoaba, George Washington University; Reese Hickey, Concord University; Adeeb, West Virginia University

3:30 - 3:40pm | Break


3:40-4:50 pm | NRT Presentations

- NRT-1: Zadid Habib (Multimodal Learning for Image and Tabular Data)
- NRT-2: Rachel Aman (LLMs in Medical Diagnosis)
- NRT-3: Kaitlyn Heintzelman (AI-Guided Identification of Neuronal Targets for Antibody-Based Delivery in Alzheimer's Disease)
- NRT-4: Alexa Sowers (Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Multi-Functional Peptide Design to Address the Global Thread of Antibiotic Resistance)
- NRT-5: Raphael Oladokun (AI/ML-Enhanced Dielectrophoretic Profiling for Early Detection of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma)

4:50 - 5:00pm | Break


5:00 - 6:0pm | NSF Track-2 CRESH General Meeting

- Team members only

Day 2: BioML: Tuesday, July 22 (All times in EST)

9:00 - 9:15am | Introduction

- Professor Randy Nelson, PhD (UC Berkeley); Hazel Ruby McQuain Chair for Neurological Research Director, WVU Center for Foundational Neuroscience Research & Education Executive Director of Basic & Foundational Neuroscience Research, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
- Professor Gianfranco Doretto, PhD; NSF EFRI/BRAID Project PI, LCSEE, West Virginia University

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Day 3: Wednesday, July 23 (All times in EST)

9:00 - 9:10am | Introductions

- Professor Anurag Srivastava, PhD; Fellow IEEE, Professor and Raymond J. Lane Chair, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (LCSEE)

9:10 - 11:00am | NRT Mini-Workshop 1: Entrepreneurship

- Tara St. Clair; Program Director, Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Erienne Olesh, PhD, Executive Director; WVU Office of Innovation & Commercialization WVU Chambers School of Business and Economics

11:00 - 12:15pm | NRT Mini-Workshop 2: AI Law, Regulation, & AI Policy

- Amy Cyphert; Associate Professor, WVU School of Law

12:15 - 1:30pm | Lunch


1:30 - 2:30pm | Day 3 Keynote

- Professor Armarda Shehu, PhD; Inaugural VP and Chief AI Officer, Associate Dean for Research in the CEC, Professor, Department of Computer Science George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2:30 - 3:30pm | Session on AI/Data Science and LLM Literacy (Part 1)

- Prashnna Gyawali, PhD; LCSEE, West Virginia University

3:30 - 3:40pm | Break


3:40 - 4:50pm | Session on AI/Data Science and LLM Literacy (Part 2)

- Prashnna Gyawali, PhD; LCSEE, West Virginia University

4:50 - 5:00pm | Break


5:00 - 6:30pm | General Meeting – NRT Project

- NRT 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.

Registration is required
Register here for the workshops
(Limited slots available)

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

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