Sept. 12 Cyberinfrastructure Symposium to feature addresses from DDN, NVIDIA executives
Please join us on Sept. 12, 2023 in Fowler Hall for the Annual Cyberinfrastructure Symposium, CI + AI 2023. Learn about cutting edge research and development in computing and artificial intelligence.
There will be a keynote address by DataDirect Networks (DDN) co-founder and president, Paul Bloch, as well as plenary sessions with NVIDIA senior vice president (and Purdue alum) Emmett Kilgariff and Beth Plale, the executive director of Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute.
Bloch co-founded DDN, and brings over twenty five years of experience in starting, growing and successfully managing technology businesses, including serving as the president of DDN, Personal Writer, Inc., and MegaDrive Systems, Inc. Previously, Mr. Bloch enjoyed a successful tenure as a director for Hi-Tech Consulting Group, a European management consulting firm based in the United States. Mr. Bloch graduated with an Engineering degree from National Superior School of Telecommunications (ENST) in France and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
Kilgariff is the vice president of GPU architecture at NVIDIA, where he’s contributed to every GPU developed in the last 22 years by Nvidia. A 1980 graduate of Purdue, he spent the first 19 years of his career working in many different areas including satellite ground stations, power supplies, image processing and networked servers, along with computer graphics. In 1987 he worked on his first 3-D graphics project, and caught the graphics bug, and has had an exciting career in the field ever since. In the past decade, AI has changed all industries, and made working in technology continually exciting.
Plale has had a long career studying issues of trust in the products of scientific research, and how that trust can be strengthened through technology. Her specific research and policy interests are in AI research infrastructure, AI accountability and open science and reproducibility. She has served in a principal investigator (PI/PD) or co-principal investigator (co-PI) role on 62 external grant funded awards totaling just under $50 million. Plale’s postdoctoral studies were carried out at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her PhD in computer science is from the Watson School of Engineering at the State University of New York Binghamton.
The full conference agenda is below.
- 9:00-9:10 Welcome and Introductions, Preston Smith, executive director of RCAC
- 9:10-9:35 The State of the Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CI), Preston Smith, executive director of RCAC
- 9:35-9:55 Plenary Presentation: AI Research Infrastructure: its Equitable Creation and Use, Beth Plale, executive director of Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute and Michael A and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering
- 10:00-11:00 Keynote Presentation: Addressing the Data Challenges of AI, Paul Bloch, co-founder and president, DDN
- 11:00-12:00 Plenary Presentation: Supercomputers, Simulation, and AI, Emmett Kilgariff, senior vice president of GPU architecture, NVIDIA
- 12:00-1:00 Student Poster Session with refreshments in Stewart 214 A&B
- 1:00-1:30 Recent Advances in Large-Scale Computational Genomics, Robbee Wedow, assistant professor of sociology and data science, Purdue, adjunct assistant professor of medical and molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine
- 1:30-2:00 Towards An Emerging Integrative Platform for Urban Computing, Daniel Aliaga, associate professor of computer science, Purdue
- 2:15-3:00 Innovations in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at RCAC – Computing & People, Carol Song, chief scientist for RCAC
- 3:00-3:30 AI for Social Good, Alex Psomas, assistant professor of computer science, Purdue
- 3:30-3:45 Envision Center XR Labs, George Takahashi, lead visualization scientist, Envision Center
- 3:45-4:15 Mobility Digital Twin with Big Data and Cloud Computing, Ziran Wang, assistant professor of civil engineering, Purdue
- 4:15 Closing, Preston Smith, executive director of RCAC
- 4:15-5:30, Networking Reception, Purdue Memorial Union, East Terrace, basement level. Please RSVP to rcac@purdue.edu for the reception.
Free event t-shirts will be provided (while supplies last).
