Waterloo AI and WIN Joint Workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for Science & Engineering”

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Waterloo.AI and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) are co-hosting an “AI for Science & Engineering Workshop” with over 20 speakers sharing highlights on how they are using AI to generate new insights for potential breakthroughs. The talks will range from new materials discovery at micro and nano-scale, unconventional computing and quantum computers to applications for environment, water, biosensors and biomedical. The event will be three half-days with all the sessions recorded and shared thereafter on Waterloo.AI and WIN websites.

DATES & TIMES:
Day 1: Tuesday, January 18th | 8:45 AM - 12:40 PM
Day 2: Wednesday, January 19th | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Day 3: Thursday, January 20th | 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Agenda

Day 1: Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Opening Remarks and Welcome | 8:45 - 9:00am
Keynote Industry Speaker 1 - Jill Becker, Kebotix Inc | 9:00 - 9:45am

Technical Talk Session 1: AI for Security and Public Health Monitoring

Monitoring of Frail Subjects for Risk Situation Detection with AI Tools - Jenny Benois-Pineau, University of Bordeaux | 9:45 - 10:05am
ML models for distance optimization for infectious disease-tracing (including Covid-19) using Bluetooth enabled device - Patricia Nieva or William Mallek | 10:05 - 10:25am
Data and Knowledge Integration for Digital Public Health - Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux | 10:25 - 10:45am

Technical Talks Session 2: AI for New Materials Discovery

AI - a potentially powerful tool for nano-material characterization - Peyton Shi | 10:45 - 11:05am
Empowering Spectroscopic Analysis Using the Interpretive Capabilities of ML - Rod Smith | 11:05 - 11:20am
ML molecular properties from mass spectrometry data - Scott Hopkins | 11:20 - 11:40am
Break | 11:40am - 12:20pm
Machine Learning Assisted Design and Development of High-entropy Alloys - Stephane Gorsse, University of Bordeaux | 12:20 - 12:40pm
DIADEM Project: Towards AI in Materials Science - Mario Maglione, University of Bordeaux | 12:40 - 1:00pm

Day 2: Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Keynote Speaker 2 - Sylvain Saïghi, University of Bordeaux | 9:00 – 9:45am

Technical Talks Session 3: AI for Medical Applications and Diagnoses

AI for biomedical data - Mohammad Kohandel | 9:45 – 10:05am
Using AI to enable the eye as a window on neurodegenerative diseases of the brain - Melanie Campbell | 10:05 - 10:25am
Test tube evolution of DNA aptamers as biosensors - Juewen Liu | 10:25 - 10:45am
Break | 10:45 - 11:00am

Technical Talks Session 4: AI for Water Quality and Environment

Deep learning for automatic microplastic recognition in water via FT-IR Spectroscopy - Frank Zhu | 11:00 - 11:20am
Applications of Artificial Intelligence (and related topics) in Micro and Nano for Water and Health (pre-recorded) - Vassili Karanassios | 11:20 - 11:40am
Predictive capability of water quality monitoring sensors: Need for machine learning - Sushanta Mitra | 11:40am - 12:00pm

Day 3: Thursday, January 20, 2022

Keynote Speaker 3 - Wilfred van der Wiel, NanoElectronics Group, Director BRAINS Centre for Brain-Inspired Nano Systems | 10:00 - 10:45am

Technical Talks Session 5: AI for Improved Manufacturing and Industry Applications

Boosting Manufacturing through Virtualization and Intelligence - Kaan Erkorkmaz | 10:45 - 11:05am
ML tools for predicting maintenance requirements on a distant remote-controlled facility - Michel Fich | 11:05 - 11:25am
Dynamic Latent Variable Analytics for Inferential Sensor Modeling and Supervised Monitoring - Qinqin Zhu | 11:25 - 11:45am
AI for Critical Systems: Progresses and Limits - Laurent Simon, University of Bordeaux | 11:45am - 12:05pm
Break for lunch | 12:05 - 1:00pm

Technical Talks Session 6: Foundational AI

Logic Guided Machine Learning - Vijay Ganesh | 1:00 - 1:20pm
AI-powered Radar Sensing - George Shaker | 1:20 - 1:40pm
Generative models and quantum computers - Roger Melko | 1:40 - 2:00pm
Brain Inspired Computing for Artificial Intelligence - Yimin Wu | 2:00 - 2:20pm
Closing remarks and next steps | 2:20 - 2:30pm