Organizers:
1. Bishnu Sarker
Bishnu Sarker is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA. His research focus is on applying AI, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and graph-based reasoning approaches to effectively describe proteins numerically and to infer their functional characteristics from complex, heterogeneous, and interconnected biomedical data. He received his BS from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh; MS from Sorbonne University, France; and PhD from INRIA, France. During his PhD he spent a winter at MILA - Quebec AI Institute and University of Montreal, Canada, as a visiting researcher with the DrEAM mobility grant from University of Lorraine.
2. Sayane Shome
Sayane Shome is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, USA, as a joint appointment between Dr. Nima Aghaeepour and Dr. Lawrence S. Prince's labs. She completed her PhD. in Bioinformatics from Iowa State University, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Robert L. Jernigan. Her Ph.D. dissertation involved studying various membrane protein systems using computational biophysical methods. Under her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford, she has been working with computational analysis of different omics datasets and developing AI models using biomedical data focussed on understanding the progression of Bronchopulmonary dysplasia in newborn babies. In addition, she has strong interests in outreach, science communication, and STEM awareness amongst underrepresented groups and has volunteered with various non-profit organizations. She has also been associated with the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)-Student Council at leadership levels for several years.
3. Farzana Rahman
Farzana Rahman is a Lecturer ( USA Level: Assistant Professor) of Computer Science at Kingston University London, UK. Her research focuses on evolutionary genomics, proteomics and natural crisis modelling using ML, deep learning, and cloud computing. She is actively involved in improving computational pedagogy utilising Wikipedia knowledge base. She is an open-source science advocate and an experienced international STEM conference organizer. She is a co-chair of the International Society for Computational Biology's (ISCB) Wikipedia Committee and Editing Competition. She is also a founding member of the ISCB publication committee. As part of her leadership role, Farzana served a 3-year term as an elected Board of Director at the ISCB.
4. Nima Aghaeepour
Nima Aghaeepour is an Associate Professor at Stanford University. His laboratory develops ML and AI methods to study clinical and biological modalities in translational settings. He is primarily interested in leveraging multi-omics studies, wearable devices, and electronic health records to address global health challenges. His work is recognized by awards from numerous national and international organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Alfred E. Mann Foundation, the March of Dimes Foundation, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
