May 1: AI Leadership Panel and Presentations
AI Leadership Panel, AI Innovation Research Presentations and Google Workshop
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registrations and Networking
9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks
9:15 am - 10:15 am Panel Discussion: Reimagining Atlantic Canada through the Lens of AI (NS Government, NS Heath, Google, Empire and EY. Moderated by Dr. Michael Zhang)
10:30 am - 3:30 pm AI Research Presentations:
Theme A: AI and Ethics, Policy, and Human Behavior (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)
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Operationalizing AI Ethics
Stephanie Kelly (SMU) -
From Algorithms to Transparency: Ethics, Politics, and the Public Understanding of AI
Robert Thacker (SMU) -
Are LLMs a Good Model of Human Thought? The Challenge of Compositional Learning
Hassan Sajjad (Dal) -
Generative AI in Business Decision-making: Do LLMs Show Biases Similar to Human?
Xichen Zhang (SMU), Hasan Cavusoglu (UBC) -
Fact Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs through Semantic and Contextual Attention
Enayat Rajabi (CBU) -
AI Applications in Intra-Logistics and Logistics
Uday Venkatadri (Dal)
Theme B: AI for Health, Environment, and Society (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)
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Connecting the Dots: Clinical Genomics, AI, and the Future of Precision Medicine
Victor Martinez (Dal) -
AI for Sustainable Livestock Farming ~ Advancing Welfare, Efficiency, and Climate Resilience
Suresh Neethirajan (Dal) -
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning: Securing Sensitive Data in AI
Lydia Bouzar-Benlabiod (Acadia) -
Real-time REM Sleep Stage Detection using Deep Learning
Danny Silver (Acadia) -
AI in Ocean Technology
Christopher Whidden (Dal) -
Harnessing Agentic AI for Secure and Efficient Confidential Data Analytics
Yigit Aydede (SMU), Chukwuemeka Nwankwo (novastorms.ai)
Theme C: AI in Security, Systems, and Science (1:30 pm - 3:30 pm)
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Cybersecurity Gets Smart: How AI is Changing the Game
Amir Eaman (Acadia) -
The Power of Data: Fueling AI in Cybersecurity
Kwasi Boakye-Boateng (UNB) -
Paving a Foundation for Intelligence Everywhere with Beyond Explainable AI (xXAI) at the Edge
Hung Cao (UNB) -
Advancing Machine Intelligence Through Reinforcement Learning
Janarthanan Rajendran (Dal) -
AI for Autonomous Navigation
Thumeera Wassinghe (MUN) -
AI in Physics
Terrence Tricco (MUN)
Theme D: AI in Education, Learning, and Communication (1:30 pm - 3:30 pm)
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AI in Higher Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons from the Front Lines of Implementation and Research
Jason Pearson (UPEI) -
Considerations around GenAI use in Teaching, Learning, and Research
Matt McGuire (UNB) -
Investigating Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Enhance AI Model Performance in High-Level Computer Science Courses
Shadi Aljendi (UNB) -
From Paperwork to Patient Care: How can we better leverage LLMs to support occupational therapy documentation?
Kristina Kupferschmidt, Gus Skorburg, Brendan Wylie-Toal, Kieran O’Dohert (UPEI) -
Human vs. AI: The Creative Battle Transforming Marketing
Hadi Eslami (SMU) -
Robust and Effective Workflows for Machine Learning Development
Matthew Hamilton (MUN)
Networking Lunch: 12:00 pm– 1:00 pm with Keynote Speaker Chief Data Officer NSH
Afternoon Workshops:
- Google AI Research and Applications (Chief Information Security Officer Google Cloud)