MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium

Monday, April 21, 2025 - Wednesday, April 23, 2025

start-time 8:30 am - 9:00 pm
end-time Executive Theater, MBZUAI Campus, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
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MBZUAI School of Digital Public Health Symposium

Prof. Eran Segal, Chair of MBZUAI's Computational Biology Department will host a symposium with internationally renowned researchers about the future of Computational Biology and how these align with global public health priorities. The symposium will cover diverse areas, including Personalized Medicine, Foundation AI Models for Biology, Multi-omics and Integrative Data Analysis, Population-level Cohort and EHR Analysis, Epidemiology, and Biomedical Imaging. We invite you to register at the link below to attend the talks and hear about cutting edge research in the field.

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Speaker List

  • Bin Zhang
    PhD Candidate Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia View Details
  • Jianpeng Zhang
    Researcher at Alibaba Postdoctoral Researcher at Zhejiang University View Details
  • Nigam H. Shah
    Professor of Medicine at Stanford University
    Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Health Care View Details
  • Renato Polimanti
    PhD. Departments of Psychiatry and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
    Yale University School of Medicine; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health View Details
  • Vijay Tiwari
    Professor and Head of Genome Biology, Institute for Molecular Medicine (IMM)
    Leader, Center for Multiomics in Precision Medicine Leader, Translational Cancer Hub Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) Chair, Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) University of Southern Denmark View Details
  • Bryan He
    Stanford University View Details
  • Tal Korem
    Program for Mathematical Genomics, Departments of Systems Biology and Ob/Gyn, Columbia University, New York, United States of America View Details
  • Hagai Rossman Pheno.AI & Weizmann Institute of Science View Details
  • Zeeshan Syed
    Health at Scale View Details
  • Jiancheng Yang
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) View Details
  • Robail Yasrab
    Senior Researcher
    University of Cambridge View Details
  • Georgios Pavlopoulos
    Director of Research
    Institute of Fundamental Biological Research, BSRC 'Alexander Fleming', Greece View Details
  • Emmanouil Dermitzakis
    CEO and Co-Founder Antithesis Therapeutics (stealth mode) View Details
  • David van Dijk
    Dept. of Internal Medicine and Dept. of Computer Science
    Yale University View Details
  • Jianing Qiu
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Chinese University of Hong Kong View Details
  • Dwarikanath Mahapatra
    Principal AI Scientist, :ocAI
    Abu Dhabi, UAE View Details
 

Day 1: 21 April, 2025

8:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Arrival and Welcome
Eran Segal
9:00 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome to MBZUAI and the School of Digital Public Health
Eric Xing
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Research at SDPH
Eran Segal
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Development and Deployment of Machine Learning in Medicine
Bryan He
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
TBA
Emmanouil Dermitzakis
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Responsible AI in a Healthcare System
Nigam Shah
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Deciphering Disease Mechanisms through Functional Genomics
Vijay Tiwari
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Processing-bias correction, domain adaptation, and implications for microbiome-based diagnostics
Tal Korem
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
"From Virtual Cells to Digital Twins: Transforming Biomedicine with Foundation Models and AI Agents
David van Dijk
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Coffee Break
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
The Human Phenotype Project - Models and Applications for Personalized Health
Hagai Rossman
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Advancing Biological and Epidemiological Research through Big Data Analytics
Renato Polimanti
04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Susan

Day 2: 22 April, 2025

8:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Arrival and Welcome
Eran Segal
9:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Launch of the School of Digital Public Health
Tim Baldwin
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Life in Abu Dhabi
Phil
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Personalized Health & Diagnostics via Multi-Omics Integration and AI
Robail Yasrab
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
TBA
Georgios Pavlopoulos
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
From omics profiling to modeling and designing biological processes
Bin Zhang
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
From Foundation Models to Foundation Agents: Shaping the Future of Digital Health
Jianing Qiu
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
From specialists to generalists: Advancing AI Technologies for Healthcare
Jianpeng Zhang
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch Break
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Structuring Spatial Intelligence for Healthcare: Geometric, Generative, and Multimodal
Jiancheng Yang
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
"Machine Intelligence for Healthcare Hyper-Personalization: Precision Medicine Meets Precision Delivery"
Zeeshan Syed
03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Active Learning For Disease Diagnosis: From Classical ML to Foundation Models
Dwarikanath Mahapatra
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Wrap Up
Eran Segal

Day 3: 23 April, 2025

09:00 AM
Guest Gathering & Briefing
Hotel Lobby
09:15 AM
Bus Pickup & Departure
Hotel Entrance
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Louvre Abu Dhabi Visit
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Gather & Board the Bus
Louvre Abu Dhabi
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Transfer to Lunch Venue
En Route
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
Soul Beach
01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Rest & Free Time
Hotel
03:00 PM
Gathering & Departure for Desert Safari
Hotel Lobby
03:15 PM - 04:00 PM
Transfer to Desert Safari Meeting Point
En Route
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Dune Bashing & Desert Adventure
Al Khatim
06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Break & Refreshments
Desert Camp
06:30 PM - 08:45 PM
Desert Safari Night Experience (Camel riding, henna painting, falcon interaction, cultural performances, BBQ dinner)
Desert Camp
09:00 PM
Departure from Desert Camp
En Route