Conference Speakers

Invited Speakers

Farshid
Farshid Alambeigi Director of Robotics, Imaging, and Autonomous Surgery,
The Bookout Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute;
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Rice University
Nancy B
Nancy Berlinger Senior Research Scholar
and Director of Visiting
Scholar Program,
The Hastings Center
Lorin
Lorin Crawford Principal Researcher,
Microsoft Research
Andrew Downing
Andrea Downing Co-Founder,
The Light Collective
Gregory Hager
Gregory D. Hager Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science,
Johns Hopkins University
Timo Minssen
Timo Minssen Professor of Law,
Founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law,
UNESCO Co-Chair
in the Right to Science,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Luay Nahkleh Profile Picture
Luay Nakhleh William and Stephanie Sick Dean, George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing,
Professor of Computer Science and of BioSciences,
Rice University
KirstenO
Kirsten Ostherr Professor of English,
Director of Medical Humanities Research Institute,
Rice University
Homer Quintana
Homer Quintana Program Director,
Center for Rapid
Device Translation,
Houston Methodist
Gerald
Gerald Quon Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology,
University of California, Davis
Rafael
Rafael Rosengarten Co-founder and CEO,
Genialis
Rohit
Rohit Singh Assistant Professor,
Biostatistics, Bioinformatics
and Cell Biology,
Duke University
Kent
Kent Snider Director of Academic Medical Centers, Healthcare
& Life Sciences,
NVIDIA
Suzanne
Suzanne Tomlinson-Mathis Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Institute of Biosciences and Technology,
Texas A&M Health Science Center; Executive Director, GCC Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub
(GCC REACH)
Treangen
Todd Treangen Associate Professor of
Computer Science,
Rice University;
Co-founder and CEO,
Train Genomics
Xiuwei
Xiuwei Zhang Associate Professor,
School of Computational Science and Engineering,
College of Computing,
Georgia Tech

The program includes thematic tracks with invited speakers, technical talks, poster presentations, networking receptions, and add-on workshops. Click here to see this year's full schedule.