Ken Kennedy Institute
AI & Computing Lecture Series

2025

• Ben Langmead, Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (December 3, 2025)
  • “Pan-genomic Advances for Fighting Reference Bias”
• Ben Busby, Global Alliances Manager for Omics, NVIDIA (August 28, 2025)
  • “Ideas for Accelerated & Integrated Compute in Imaging, Genomics, and Devices across Biobank-Scale Datasets”

2024

• Olga Troyanskaya, Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University (August 6, 2024)
  • "Decoding Human Genome with AI Models"
• Alex Lubotzky, Professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute and Weil Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (February 27, 2024)
  • "New Directions in Error Correcting Codes"

2023

• Parastou Eslami, Director of Innovation and Strategy, Clinical Partnership at Philips; Consultant Project Scientist at NASA, Human Research Program (Feb 6, 2023)
  • “Machine Learning in Healthcare”

2022

• Raymond J. Mooney, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (September 19, 2022)
  • "Dialog with Robots: Perceptually Grounded Communication with Lifelong Learning"
• Eunsol Choi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Visiting Researcher, Google AI (May 9, 2022)
  • "Machine Question Answering in the Wild"