Annual Meeting and Student Research Conference Speakers

October 25–28, 2018
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, California

Plenary Session Speakers

Jeff Dean

Senior Fellow in the Research Group, Leader of the Google Brain Project, and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Unit at Google
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Steve Ritz

Subsystem Scientist for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's Camera, Professor of Physics at University of California Santa Cruz, Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
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Award Winner Speakers

Timothy A. Davis

Recipient of the 2018 Sigma Xi Walston Chubb Award for Innovation; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University
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David Flannigan

Recipient of the 2018 Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award; Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Minnesota
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Daniel Rubenstein

Recipient of the 2018 Sigma Xi John P. McGovern Science and Society Award; Professor of Zoology and Director of the Program in Environmental Studies at Princeton University
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Anna Marie (Ann) Skalka

Recipient of the 2018 Sigma Xi William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement; Professor Emerita at Fox Chase Cancer Center
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Big Data in Biology and Medicine Symposium Speakers

Dana Crawford

Assistant Director for Population and Diversity Research at the Institute for Computational Biology and Genetic Epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve University
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Mark B. Gerstein

Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and of Computer Science at Yale University; Co-director of the Yale Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Ben Langmead

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University
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Big Data in Physics and Astronomy Symposium Speakers

Fred Adams

Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professor of Physics at University of Michigan
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Frank Summers

Outreach Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute; Host, Hubble's Universe Unfiltered Video Podcast
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Risa Wechsler

Cosmologist; Associate Professor of Physics at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Big Data in Climate, Energy, and the Environment Symposium Speakers

William (Bill) Collins

Director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); Professor in Residence in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at University of California, Berkeley; and Director of the Climate Readiness Institute
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David Reidmiller

Director of the National Climate Assessment by the U.S. Global Change Research Program
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