Pre-Event Program
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Registration and Check-In | 3rd Floor Lobby
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Breakfast | Main Lounge
9:30-10:15 a.m.
Welcome by the Dean | South Meeting Room
Growing Data Science at UVA | South Meeting Room
Program Agenda
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Research Lightning Talks
Data for Health Equity | Ballroom
- Examining Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations Through Analysis of Public Datasets and Medical Record Data Through the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)
Suchetha Sharma, Data Scientist, School of Data Science, UVA - The Disability Community as a Health Disparity Population: Rationales for and Approaches to Engagement
Rupa Valdez, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Engineering Systems and Environment, UVA - An International Study of the Prevalence and Structure of Neurobehavioral Symptoms in Individuals with Long COVID
Paul B. Perrin, Professor of Data Science and Psychology, UVA
Critical Data Studies | South Meeting Room
- Ethical Data Science and the Interdisciplinary Imagination
Renée Cummings, Assistant Professor of Data Science, UVA - Critical Data Studies Approaches to the Future of Money and Payment
MC Forelle, Assistant Professor of Engineering & Society, UVA - Data as Representation
Rafael Alvarado, Associate Professor of Data Science, UVA
Data in Design and Visualization | Zoom (Passcode: 116545)
- Connected Reality: Visualizing Networks with Interactivity
Alexander J. Gates, Assistant Professor of Data Science, UVA - Learning from Interaction Traces: Representations, Models, and Predictions
Alvitta Ottley, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis - Addressing Data Overload with Collaborative and Explainable AI
Sara Riggs, Associate Professor of Systems Engineering, UVA
11:30-11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Concurrent Research Lightning Talks
Data in Sports Science | Ballroom
Sponsored by the Sports Analytics Club Program
- Geometric Data Analysis in Sports
Stephen Baek, Associate Professor of Data Science, UVA - Sports & Design: Reframing Sports Science Within the 4+1 Model
Natalie Kupperman, Assistant Professor of Data Science, UVA - Lessons Learned (Again) Via Sports Analytics
William T. Scherer, Professor and Associate Chair of Engineering Systems and Environment, UVA
Data in Neuroscience | South Meeting Room
- Brain Science is a Data Science
John Darrell Van Horn, Professor of Psychology and Data Science, UVA - Interplay Between Dementia and Seizures
Ifrah Zawar, Assistant Professor of Neurology, UVA - Consequences of Network Thresholding on Graph Theoretic Summaries of Functional Connectivity Data
Teague Henry, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science, UVA
Data in Environmental Resilience | Zoom (Passcode: 782571)
- Data Science of Hyperspectral Imaging
William Basener, Professor of Data Science, UVA - Observing Air Pollution Inequalities in Cities From Space
Sally Pusede, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, UVA - Trustworthy Representation Learning for Fish Identification
Sheng Li, Assistant Professor of Data Science, UVA
12:45-1:45 p.m.
Lunch
- Roundtable Discussions | Ballroom
- MSDS Admissions Open House | South Meeting Room
- PhD Admissions Open House | Room 389
1:45-3:00 p.m.
The Future of Academic Data Science | Ballroom
Co-sponsored by the Academic Data Science Alliance
Introduction:
Jim Ryan, President, University of Virginia
Panel Discussion:
- Phil Bourne, Dean, School of Data Science UVA
- Doug Hague, Executive Director, School of Data Science, UNC-Charlotte
- H.V. Jagadish, Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science, University of Michigan
- Micaela Parker, Executive Director, Academic Data Science Alliance (moderator)
3:00-3:45 p.m.
Careers in Data Science Panel | Ballroom
- Brant Horio, Fellow, Applied Research & Partnerships, LMI
- Kelsey McDonald, Director, Ticket Analytics, Brooklyn Nets, BSE Global
- Miriam Friedel, Senior Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Capital One
- Reggie Leonard, Associate Director for Career Connections and Community Engagement, School of Data Science, UVA (moderator)
3:45-4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00-4:15 p.m.
Data Entrepreneurship Challenge Launch | Ballroom
4:15-5:00 p.m.
Closing Keynote: Cathy O'Neil | Ballroom
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Closing Reception | South Meeting Room
Keynote Speaker: Cathy O'Neil
This year's keynote speaker is Cathy O'Neil, a data scientist and mathematician who is the author of the New York Times bestseller Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. An algorithm audit consultant, O’Neil partners with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofits to determine whether the algorithms they use for data analysis and day-to-day operations are truly ethical. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and founder of the blog mathbabe.org. Her most recent book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation. As a visiting scholar with the School of Data Science, O'Neil will develop and pursue data science projects, programs, and initiatives, collaborating with students and participating in discussions with local and regional communities about her work.
