Monday
Kun-Hsing Yu – Harvard Medical School
AI Distinguishes Glioblastoma from Look-Like Cancers
Kun-Hsing “Kun” Yu, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He pioneered the first fully automated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm capable of extracting thousands of features from whole-slide pathology images. His research has uncovered molecular mechanisms driving the microscopic phenotypes of tumor cells and identified novel cellular morphologies that predict patient prognosis.
Tuesday
Nabil Alshurafa – Northwestern University
Wearable Sensors Could Reshape Obesity Treatment
Dr. Nabil Alshurafa is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the McCormick School of Engineering, known for his work in mobile and wireless health (mHealth). He directs The HABits Lab, where he develops data analytics and sensing systems to monitor, predict, and prevent behavioral health risks such as obesity, poor diet, physical inactivity, smoking and lung cancer, and UV-induced melanoma cancer.
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Putu Agus Khorisantono – Karolinska Institutet
Tasting Odours
I am a cognitive and behavioural neuroscientist based in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience (Psychology Division) of Karolinska Institutet, with a background in statistics, functional neuroimaging and neuroeconomics. My main research interest is in food perception and dietary choices, focusing on nutrient-specific sensation and perception as well as reward integration.
Thursday
Ashli Stokes – University of North Carolina Charlotte
Thanksgiving Food and Gratitude
Dr. Ashli Quesinberry Stokes is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of the New South at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Stokes teaches a variety of public relations courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and directs the Department’s Honors Program. Her courses include principles of public relations, public relations strategy & campaigns, issues management, and health communication campaigns. Her award-winning research specializes in using rhetorical approaches to analyze public relations and public communication controversies, often concerning activism and corporate advocacy. Along with co-authoring Consuming Identity: The Role of Food in Redefining the South (with Wendy Atkins-Sayre) and Global Public Relations: Spanning Borders, Spanning Cultures(with Alan R. Freitag) Stokes has published in the Journal of Public Relations Research, Journal of Communication Management, Public Relations Review, the Southern Communication Journal, Studies in Communication Sciences, and theEncyclopedia of Public Relations, among others. Upon the completion of her master’s degree at Wake Forest University, she worked in public relations. Stokes then returned to academia and completed her doctorate at the University of Georgia in 2004.
Friday
Jose Holguin-Veras – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Reducing E-Commerce Emissions
Dr. José Holguín-Veras is the William H. Hart Professor, and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment; and the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1981; his M.Sc. from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1984; and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He has been a faculty at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, City College of New York (1997-2002), and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2002-present). His work has received numerous awards, including the 2013 White House Champion of Change Award for his contributions to freight transportation and disaster response.
