Event Agenda
7:30am - 8:30am | Registration & Breakfast
8:30am - 9:00am
Welcome - Kishore Ramachandran; Director, CloudHub @ GT
Introductory Remarks - Vivek Sarkar; Dean, College of Computing | Julia Kubanek, VPIR | Srinivas Aluru; Director, IDEaS
9:00am - 10:00am
Keynote Talk - The Era of Transformative AI
Allen Stewart, Director of Software Engineering in the Microsoft Strategic Missions and Technology Divisions
Learn about Microsoft’s AI strategy. Gain insight into how Microsoft is integrating Generative AI into the majority of existing and new products. Gain understanding of how Microsoft is approaching responsible AI. Learn about Microsoft's AI explorations in science and other areas.
10:00am - 10:30am | Coffee Break
10:30am - 12:00am | Invited Talks Session 1
- Yunan Lao | Designing New and Diverse Proteins with Generative AI
- Kartik Goyal & Myrsini Mamoli | Generative AI for Greco-Roman Architectural Reconstruction: From Partial Unstructured Archaeological Descriptions to Structured Architectural Plans
- Victor Fung | Intelligent LLM Agents for Materials Design and Automated Experimentation
- Noura Howell | Applying Generative AI for STEM Education: Supporting AI Literacy & Community Engagement with Marginalized Youth
- Tuo Zhao | Adaptive and Robust Alignment of LLMs with Complex Rewards
12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm | Invited Talks Session 2
- Maureen Linden | Best Practices in Generative AI Used in the Creation of Accessible Alternative Formats for People with Disabilities
- Surya Kalidindi | Accelerating Materials Development Through Generative AI Based Dimensionality Expansion Techniques
- Neha Kumar | Towards Responsible Integration of Generative AI in Creative Game Development
- Annalisa Bracco | Modeling the Dispersal and Connectivity of Marine Larvae with GenAI Agents
3:00pm - 3:30pm | Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm | Town Hall
Town hall Participants: Anna Ivanova, College of Science | Sonia Chernova, College of Computing | Sudheer Chava, Scheller College of Business | Polo Chau, College of Computing | Allen Stewart, Microsoft
4:30pm - 6:00pm | Poster Session & Reception