ICME's 20th Anniversary Research Symposium

OPENING REMARKS & WELCOME 

• Eric Darve Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME)
   

FACULTY VISION TALKS

• Computational Mathematics for Natural Hazards Modeling 
  Eric M. Dunham, Professor of Geophysics
• Neural Approaches for 3D Understanding and Generation 
  Leonidas Guibas, Paul Pigott Professor of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering 
• Digital Twins for Cardiovascular Treatment Planning  
  Alison Marsden, Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering
    

STANFORD PLENARY

• Statistical Methods for Assessing the Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models
  Emmanuel Candès, Barnum-Simons Chair of Mathematics and Statistics, and Professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering

PHD LIGHTNING TALKS

• Can Transformers Solve Least Squares to High Precision?
  Jerry Liu
• Efficient Optimization and Simulation Procedures for Rare Event Probabilities in Power Systems
  Anish Senapati
• Evaluating Genetic Engineering Trade-Offs through Whole-Cell Modeling of Escherichia coli
  Riley Juenemann
• LABOR-LLM: Language-Based Occupational Representations with Large Language Models
  Tianyu Du
   

INDUSTRY PLENARY 

• Navigating Generative AI Challenges and Harnessing Potential: Insights from NVIDIA’s Enterprise Deployments
  Rama Akkiraju, Vice President of AI/ML for IT, NVIDIA   
   

FACULTY PRESENTATIONS

• Leverage Deep Learning to Advance Climate Science and Mathematical Sciences 
  Ching-Yao Lai, Assistant Professor of Geophysics 
• Genomics as a Statistical Signal, Featurized for Biological Discovery With Deep Learning
  Julia Salzman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, of Biochemistry and, by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biology
• Causal Machine Learning 
  Vasilis Syrgkanis, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
• AI and the Future of Optimization   
  Madeleine Udell, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
      

INDUSTRY CLOSING KEYNOTE 

• Frank Ham, Vice President Cascade R&D, Cadence Design Systems

CLOSING REMARKS 

• Eric Darve Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME)