08:15 AM – 09:00 AM

(Breakfast will be available over the morning sessions)

08:30 AM – 09:00 AM

Opening Remarks (30 min)

09:00 AM – 09:30 AM

Keynote
Nicholas Fuller (IBM Vice President, AI and Automation)

09:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Speech

Vinod Menon (CUNY CCNY Physics Professor)

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Speech

Edward O'Brien (Pennsylvania State University Professor of Chemistry and of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Director of the NSF NCEMS (National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences))

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Speech

Stefano Martiniani (NYU Physics Assistant Professor) 

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Speech

Andrea Alù (CUNY ASRC Nanophotonics Director and CUNY CCNY Electrical Engineering Distinguished Professor)

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Speech

Thomas Yeh (NYSERDA Technical Adviser)

12:00 AM – 12:15 PM

Empire AI Speech

Alexander Tzanov (Director of CUNY HPCC and CUNY's Representative in Empire AI)

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

Lunch

Lunch Break (45 mins)

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

Poster Session

Student Showcase

CUNY/NYC Researchers

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM

Immersive

Parallel Lab Tours: Robotics, Photonics

CDI and ASRC Facility Resources

(Lab Tours will be declared by April 15 based on Professor and their Lab confirmation)

(led by CUNY ASRC Director Mark Hauber, CUNY CCNY Profs. Ronald Koder, and other Professors and Scientists)

01:00 PM – 01:30 PM

Speech

Sanjoy Banerjee (CUNY CCNY Chemical Engineering Distinguished Professor and CUNY Energy Institute Director)

01:30 PM – 02:00 PM

Keynote

Valerio De Angelis (Sandia National Laboratories Systems Integration Lead)

02:00 PM – 02:30 PM

Speech

Nathaniel Horner (US Department of Energy (DoE) Deputy Assistant Secretary, Grid Controls and Communications)

02:30 PM – 03:00 PM

Keynote

Speech

Ahmed Mohamed (CUNY CCNY Electrical Engineering Professor and Director of Graduate Studies)

03:00 PM – 03:30 PM

Keynote

Alexander Couzis (CUNY) (CUNY CCNY Grove School of Engineering Dean, Daniel and Frances Berg Professor Professor of Chemical Engineering)

03:30 PM – 03:40 PM

"Controlling biology with chemistry: Perspectives for AI-enabled discovery"

Kevin Gardner (CUNY ASRC Director of Structural Biology and CUNY CCNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

03:40 PM – 04:00 PM

"Molecular Industrial Revolution"

Mike Foley (CEO, Excelsior Sciences)

04:00 PM – 04:20 PM

"Small molecule-binding protein design using physics-informed reinforcement learning"

Ronald Koder (CUNY CCNY James Peace Chair Professor of Physics)

04:20 PM – 04:40 PM

"Deep neural networks reveal what humans cannot see: Transforming and automating magnetic resonance spectroscopy"

Flemming Hansen (Professor and Chair of NMR Spectroscopy, Francis Crick Institute & University College London)

04:40 PM – 05:00 PM

"Machine learning for biology in the age of high performance computing"

Olivia Viessmann (NVIDIA Senior Research Scientist)

05:00 PM – 05:20 PM

"Integrated Deep Learning in a GUI Application for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy"

Bruce Johnson (CUNY ASRC Senior Research Director, Computational Sciences, Structural Biology Initiative)

05:20 PM – 05:30 PM

Session Concluding Remarks

Kevin Gardner (CUNY ASRC Director of Structural Biology and CUNY CCNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

05:30 PM – 05:40 PM

Closing

Day 1 Ending Remarks (10 min)

Summit Organizers represented by General Chair: Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay

08:15 AM – 09:00 AM
(Breakfast will be available over the morning sessions)

08:40 AM – 09:00 AM
Opening Remarks (20 min)
Joshua Brumberg (CUNY GC President)
Brian Gibney (CUNY GC Dean)
Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson (CUNY GC CS EO)

Summit Organizers represented by General Chair: Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay

09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
Speech
Arundhati Banerjee (Amazon Robotics Research Scientist)

09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote
Jack Parker-Holder (Google DeepMind Research Scientist) 

(Author of the Genie World Model Paper) https://deepmind.google/models/genie/

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Keynote
Patrick Shafto (DARPA Program Manager, Rutgers University CS and Math Professor)

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Keynote
John Langford (Microsoft Research Partner Researcher)

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM
Keynote
Vint Cerf (Turing Award Laureate and Google Cloud Vice President) – Pre-Recorded

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM
Lunch

12:15 PM – 01:00 PM
Poster Session
Student Showcase
CUNY/NYC Researchers

01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Keynote
Shinjae Yoo (BNL Computational Research Division Lead)

01:30 PM – 02:00 PM
Keynote
Nagore Sabio (BNY Mellon Senior Director AI Hub)

02:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Coffee  Break

02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Keynote
Dhaval Patel (IBM Senior Technical Staff Member)

03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Break

03:30 PM – 04:00 PM
Panel
Safe Deployment of AI Agents
Patrick Shafto (DARPA, Rutgers University)
Arundhati Banerjee (Amazon Robotics)
Vishal Dey (Meta)

04:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Speech
Sanyam Kapoor (NVIDIA Research Scientist)

04:30 PM – 05:00 PM
Speech
Yilun Du (Harvard University CS Asst Professor)

05:00 PM – 05:30 PM
Speech
Aditya Mate (Microsoft Applied Scientist)

05:30 PM – 05:40 PM
Closing

Summit Organizers represented by General Chair: Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay