In an effort to promote research relationships between the School of Science (SOS) and Luddy School of Informatics on the IU campus, the Artificial Intelligence & Informatics (AI2) consortium and the IU research office of Indy are holding a research day titled
“Accelerating Scientific Research with AI: AI Summit to Spark New Collaboration”
It will be held on April 24th within the IO building 105 & 102 from 9.30-3pm. More details to come.
During the day, there will be some time dedicated to hearing success stories where ‘bench-top’ scientists have integrated AI and/or informatics to further their current research and how they began this process, in addition to the resources the campus offers.
Aside from those short presentations however, our main focus for this summit is to make time available for discussions over coffee and lunch, with sections of the room dedicated to potential areas of overlap for SOS and Luddy researchers that one can simply visit.
Sections may include –
- Image processing assistance, from MRI to Microscopy automation and AI integration for analysis.
- Informatics related research questions – finding trends in your biological data using computational approaches, from cellular mechanisms to phenotypic variation.
- Prediction or analysis integrating Large Language Models (LLM) with genetic function.
These are just some of the areas in which AI and informatics integration can further basic science research.
More importantly, the consortium wishes to make this summit different, we wish it to be a day where you interact and speak to specific researchers to discuss similar research questions, but maybe through a different lens. You can come for part or all the day depending on how helpful you find the presentations/time to network.
In order for this summit to be successful and to think ahead for the needs of all who attend the day, we are requesting researchers to
“Present Your Research Question”
to us to see if we can find you a partner that knows how to tackle the problem. We imagine that SOS researchers have a biological question they wish to address with AI using computational resources and tools, but we also imagine that there may be computational scientists that need biological verification in mouse or fish models, or even cells to confirm their computational hits - we want research in both directions to connect.
I am hoping we can ‘spark’ the conversation ahead of time by asking several researchers to think about their niche aims with a research question and present it to get the session underway, and in turn have the right people there prepared to provide answers/suggestions to your research question sparking others into the discussion.
You should include some images or a verbal description of the proposed cellular/mechanistic function you are testing, they can also include descriptions of the data they have collected which may also be phenotypic imagery. Basically, just try to include anything that may aid in describing your research question. This information shall stay internally and only be used to connect you to a specific researcher, your idea will not be scooped!
The AI2 consortium is focused on increasing AI/I integrated research across the campus, please let us help you write that extra aim for your grant proposal.