Wes Graham Symposium | Health | University of Waterloo

The Faculty of Mathematics and the Faculty of Health invite you to join us on Saturday, October 1, at the Wes Graham Symposium, a celebration of research and innovation made possible by the legacy of James Wesley (Wes) Graham.

This complimentary event begins at 3:00 p.m. in M3 1006 with welcome addresses from:

Vivek Goel, President, University of Waterloo
Mark Giesbrecht, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics
John Hirdes, Professor, Faculty of Health

Hear about research, recognized and supported in Graham’s name, in artificial intelligence, data science, bioinformatics, health informatics, and healthcare applications:

Joanne McKinley, Director of Software Development, Google, 2020 Recipient of J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation
Edith Law, Associate Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and co-directs the Human Computer Interaction Lab
Pedro Elkind Velmovitsky, PhD student in Public Health and Health Systems

Lectures will be followed by a reception, with refreshments, to present the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation hosted in the M3 Atrium.

Schedule

Time	Room	Event
3:00 p.m.	M3 1006	Wes Graham Symposium begins
3:05 p.m.	M3 1006	Welcome and Opening Remarks Vivek Goel President, University of Waterloo
3:10 p.m.	M3 1006	Greeting from the Faculty of Mathematics Mark Giesbrecht Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo
3:15 p.m.	M3 1006	Greeting from the Faculty of Health John Hirdes Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo
3:20 p.m.	M3 1006	Greeting from the 2020 Recipient of J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation Joanne McKinley Director of Software Development, Google
3:25 p.m.	M3 1006	Crowdsourcing Medical Time Series Annotation: Expertise, Ambiguity and Human-AI Collaboration Edith Law, Wes Graham Research Fellow 2020-2021 University of Waterloo Many crowdsourcing contexts involve tasks that are short and simple, requiring little expertise or context. In this talk, I will discuss projects in which we tackle the problem of crowdsourcing medical time series annotation, addressing questions such as: To what extent can we engage non-experts to annotate medical data? What tools can we design to enable small groups of experts to collaboratively handle ambiguous edge cases? What are the various roles that AI can play in medical crowdsourcing systems? We will describe two platforms---MechanicalHeart and CrowdEEG---and findings from several studies that provide insights into how we can design systems that coordinate human and machine intelligence to tackle these difficult annotation problems.
4:15 p.m.	M3 1006	TBD Pedro Elkind Velmovitsky, PhD student in Public Health and Health Systems University of Waterloo
4:55 p.m.	M3 1006	Closing Remarks
5:00 p.m.	M3 Atrium	Wes Graham Symposium Reception Refreshments and presentation of the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation

Parking

Complimentary parking will be available on Saturday, October 1 in lot X.

For closer parking, we recommend Lot Q. Visitor parking is available by purchasing a ticket from the pay and display machine. It accepts coin, WatCard, Visa or Mastercard.

Location Information

Location Address: M3 - Mathematics 3
200 University Avenue West
Room 1003
Waterloo, ON, CA N2L 3G1

Location coordinates:

Additional Information

Cost: Free