DSI Spring Symposium 2025
Join us for a day of learning, networking, and innovation
About the Symposium
The DSI Spring Research Symposium is a full-day conference featuring expert speakers, hands-on workshops, and student research presentations focused on artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning.
Connect with industry leaders, faculty, and peers while exploring the latest trends in AI. Open to students of all majors and skill levels!
Event Details
Location:
Venues:
Main Auditorium & 4 Track Session Rooms
Date: April 5, 2025
Focus: Data Science & AI
Open to: All UF Students
Event Schedule
7:30 - 8:00
Registration and Refreshments
8:00 - 9:00
Keynote Speaker: Jack Kendall, RainAI
9:15 - 10:15
Session #1
General Track
Auditorium
Michael Vega-Sanz, Gail
You Can Just Do Things
Industry Track
Room 2335
Carlos Bastos Neto, Google Cloud
Living a Life within Big Tech
Research Track
Room 2330
Dr. Aapo Hyvarinen, University of Helsinki
Painful Intelligence: What AI Can Tell Us About Human Suffering
Workshop Track
Room 2325
Jhonathan Herrera, Colorstack
Intro to State Space Models and MAMBA
10:15 - 10:30
Short Break
10:30 - 11:30
Session #2
General Track
Auditorium
Tony Barr, SAS Institute, AMOR
Developing a Model of Reality
Industry Track
Room 2335
Luciane Galuppo, Microsoft
Lessons from 30 years at Microsoft
Research Track
Room 2330
Dr. Hubert Wagner, University of Florida
Trojan horses, Pavlov's dogs and self-driving cars
Workshop Track
Room 2325
Norman Bukingolts, Association of Computing Machinery
Transforming our Humanity into Job Security
11:30 - 12:45
Lunch + Student Poster Sessions
12:45 - 1:45
Session #3
General Track
Auditorium
Dr. Jim Hoover, University of Florida
The Latest Developments in the Implementation of AI in Business
Industry Track
Room 2335
Antonio Knez, Sentient Foundation
Open and Loyal AGI for Everyone
Research Track
Room 2330
Dr. Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
Principles of Bayesian Workflow
Workshop Track
Room 2325
Raul Valle, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Introduction to Signal Processing
1:45 - 2:00
Short Break
2:00 - 3:00
Session #4
General Track
Auditorium
Dr. Sarah K Luger, ML Commons
AI: trends, data, and low-resource languages
Industry Track
Room 2335
Tyler Richards, Snowflake, Ex-Meta
Overcoming Rejection as an Aspiring Data Scientist
Research Track
Room 2330
Wesley Deng, Carnegie Mellon University
Supporting Responsible AI on the ground
Workshop Track
Room 2325
Kausthubh Konuru, American Statistical Association
Introduction to NLP: Embedding Techniques for Healthcare Applications
3:00 - 3:15
Short Break
3:15 - 4:15
Session #5
General Track
Auditorium
Dr. Megan Higgs, Critical Inference
Pausing to Take a Deeper Look at Assumptions
Industry Track
Room 2335
Dr. Olivia Dizon-Paradis, University of Florida
Intro to AI Research
Research Track
Room 2330
Stephen Wormald, University of Florida
RAPID-XAI - Toward Explainable Models with Single-Cycle Inference
Workshop Track
Room 2325
Jacques Fleischer, AI Club
Computer Vision and Data Annotation Workshop
4:15 - 4:30
Short Break
4:30 - 5:00
Closing Ceremony
Collaborators
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