
Program
Research in the Age of AI Symposium Program 8:15 – 9:15 a.m. Symposium Registration 9:15 – 9:40 a.m. Welcome- VCR Roger Wakimoto
- Deanna Needell (Professor, Mathematics; Dunn Family Endowed Chair in Data Theory; Executive Director, IDRE)
- Mayank Mehta (Director, Center for Physics of Life; Professor, Departments of Physics, Neurology, and Electrical and Chemical Engineering)
- Terence Tao (Professor, Mathematics; The James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences)
- Eleazar Eskin (Department Chair and Professor, Computational Medicine; Professor of Computer Science and Human Genetics; Interim Executive Director, DataX) – Moderator
- Keith Chen (Bing and Alice Liu Yang Chair, Management and Innovation, Anderson School)
- Omolola Ogunyemi (Interim Vice President for Research and Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; and Adjunct Professor, Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine)
- Wei Wang (Leonard Kleinrock Chair, Professor, Computer Science)
- Aditya Grover (Assistant Professor, Computer Science)
- Janey Rountree (Executive Director, California Policy Lab)
- Jeff Burke (Associate Dean and Professor School of Theater, Film, and Television; Director, REMAP) – Session Chair
- Seulgi Moon (Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences)
- Oscar Leong (von Kármán Instructor, Caltech, Computing + Mathematical Sciences Department; Assistant Professor, Department Statistics and Data Science, UCLA (July 2024))
- Deanna Needell
- Alex Bui (Director, Medical & Imaging Informatics Group; Director, Medical Informatics Home Area; Professor, Departments of Radiological Sciences, Bioengineering & Bioinformatics; David Geffen Chair in Informatics, UCLA)
- Sarah Roberts (Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Department of Information Studies, Labor Studies; Associate Director of Faculty Engagement, DataX)
- Ramesh Srinivasan (Professor, Department of Information Studies and Director, UC Center for Global Digital Cultures; Assistant Director of Community Engagement, DataX) – Moderator
- Shazeda Ahmed (Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies)
- Deanna Needell
Location
The symposium will be held at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). The main entrance to the building, which is at the southwest corner of the Court of Sciences, leads directly to the lobby. This entrance, the lobby, and the auditorium are on the 3rd floor of the building. If driving to campus , you can also enter CNSI via the level of the attached parking garage—Structure 9. See this instructional map. Please also refer to the parking map and parking website for the most current information about parking at UCLA.Click the map to enlarge