August 18th 2025

MITHIC Datathon

At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A one-day immersive event featuring international speakers and the opportunity to explore language bias in healthcare and society through hands-on data analysis and expert discussions.

Keynotes & Panel Discussions

Interdisciplinary and collaborative work

Speakers and Mentors

Amelia Fiske

Senior Research Associate, Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich

Fr. Gregory Ramon D. Gaston

Rector, Pontifical Filipino College - Rome, Member, Center for Priestly Formation, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross - Rome

Alper Uzun

Director of Cancer Bioinformatics at Legorreta Cancer Center, Brown University, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Ece Uzun, PhD, MS, FAMIA

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Brown University Alpert Medical School, Director of Clinical Bioinformatics Brown University Health, Deputy Director Brown Center for Clinical Cancer Informatics and Data Science (CCIDS)

Per Urlaub

Professor of the Practice, German and Second Language Studies Director, Global Languages MIT

Jie Yang

Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Lead investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jiageng Wu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Bowen Gu

Research Specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Medicine

Mena Ramos, MD

Family Physician, Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI)

Leo Anthony Celi

Principal Investigator and Clinical Director at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology

Yuanchao Ma

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal in Canada, Visiting student at Laboratory for Computational Physiology, MIT

Lukas Liss

PhD Student at the Process and Data Science Chair at RWTH in Germany, MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology

Key notes

🎙️ Amelia Fiske

🎙️ Fr. Gregory Ramon D. Gaston

🎙️ Alper Uzun

🎙️ Ece Uzun

🎙️ Per Urlaub

Datathon!

📊 Data Exploration

🤖 Introduction to Machine Learning & LLMs

👥 Hands-on team activity to explore real-world data

📈 Application of concepts discussed in the workshops to solve real-world challenges

Panel Discussions

💬Role of humans in an AI era

💬Integration of linguistics in AI research

💬Evaluation methods for LLM output

💬AI's influence on future generations learning process and cognitive development

Bridge Dataset

📊 Dataset & Description

🤗 Hugging Face

📖 Related Paper

WorldMedQA Dataset

📊 Dataset & Description

🤗 Hugging Face

📖 Related Paper

Sponsor

MITHIC

Partner

MIT Critical Data

Location on the MIT Campus

MIT Room E25-111

45 Carleton Street

Cambridge, MA 02139

The event location is on the Massachuttsets Institute of Technology campus close to the red line station Kendall/MIT. We meet in room E25-111 at 8am.

Program

8:00 - 8:30 AM

Registration & Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40 AM

Welcome Address - Leo Anthony Celi and Per Urlaub

8:40 - 9:10 AM

Keynote 1 - AI, Knowledge Management, and Ethics: Improving Communication in Health Care Applied to Priestly Ministry, by Fr. Gregory Ramon D. Gaston

9:15 - 9:45 AM

Keynote 2 - Reflections on the International Comparison of Medical Licensing Exams: From the Washback Effect and the Hidden Curriculum to the Tension Between Reliability and Validity, by Per Urlaub