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In this talk, I will first discuss how we are exploiting the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers to provide details on their nanoscale environment and trapping behavior. Then I will show how in situ electronic and vibrational spectroscopy of polymer electrodes can be used to track their complex nanoscale dynamics during charging, revealing insights into nanostructures that support the formation of mobile carriers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Chris Grieco is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Auburn University, where his research group develops laser spectroscopy methods to probe charge carriers in conducting polymers used in electrochemical applications ranging from bioelectronics to batteries. Prior to Auburn, Chris earned a PhD in Chemistry at Penn State University where he worked with Prof. John Asbury studying how to improve exciton and charge carrier dynamics in organic molecules and polymers for solar cells. 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In the context of tolerance, induction of regulatory T cells is critical, and antigen specificity can arise from exogenously administered antigens in the form of an inverse vaccine or from endogenous antigens in a site of inflammation. In either case, we explore methods to induce or deliver cytokines to regions of lymph nodes where immunity develops and is regulated. In recent work in allergic asthma, we developed an approach employing glycosylated polymers to deliver allergic antigens and induce regulatory cytokine expression to re-bias immunity back to tolerance, inducing allergen-specific regulatory T cells and thus preventing asthmatic responses to pulmonary antigen challenge. In work in an experimental model of autoimmune neuroinflammation, we are developing an approach to deliver the tolerogenic cytokine IL-10 to all the secondary lymphoid organs of the body from a simple subcutaneous administration. Here, antigen specific Tregs were developed in response to myelin antigens that drain from the inflammation site. In the context of aggression, we have developed an approach to deposit inflammatory cytokines in the tumor microenvironment to tip the balance between cytotoxic T lymphocytes and Tregs, whether by agonizing innate immune cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells or adaptive immune cells, in particular T cells. With regard to antigens in mounting immune aggression, we have developed cysteine-reactive polymers that bind in situ to the surfaces of tumor cells to direct the adduct to antigen-presenting cells along with polymer-conjugated adjuvant moieties to induce an anti-tumoral vaccine response. Thus, in both contexts, biological functionality can be engineered to guide immunity toward tolerance in inflammation, allergy and autoimmunity and toward aggression in cancer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBIO\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EJeffrey Hubbell is a pioneer in the field of immuno-modulatory materials whose research spans biology, chemistry, and engineering to generate novel solutions to common health problems. His work focuses on using biomaterials and engineered proteins to enhance the body\u2019s own immune system to fight inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, allergies, and disease states like cancers. With more than 400 papers and 100 issued US patents, Hubbell uses biomaterials and protein engineering approaches to investigate topics in regenerative medicine and immunotherapeutics. In regenerative medicine, he develops both materials and protein therapeutics to address issues such as chronic wound healing in diabetes and bone repair after trauma. In immunotherapeutics, he pursues nanomaterials in vaccination for infectious disease and cancer as well as targeted therapy with RNA, protein-material conjugates for inverse vaccines to induce antigen-specific tolerance in autoimmunity and allergy, and in protein therapy to tip immune balances toward aggression in immuno-oncology and toward tolerance in inflammatory disease. His interests are both basic and translational, having founded or co-founded six biomedical companies based on his technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore moving to New York University, Hubbell was at the University of Chicago in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, where he helped build its strength in immunoengineering. Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, where he served as founding Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Dean of the School of Life Sciences), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and University of Zurich, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas in Austin. He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMolecular Engineering to Tip Immune Balances Between Tolerance and Aggression\u201d - Jeffrey A. 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Despite ongoing progress, LLMs still exhibit critical safety gaps: models can be jailbroken into revealing harmful content, often overrefuse benign queries, and fail to maintain safety under adversarial scenarios. My dissertation research advances the safety alignment of generative foundation models by developing principled tools, architectures, and training methods that strengthen their robustness and reliability at scale. Specifically, this thesis focuses on three complementary thrusts: a) Understanding and shaping the safety landscape of LLMs, b) Internalizing safety in agentic reasoning intelligence, and c) Grounding safety and robustness in multimodal perception.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E: Anthony is a CS Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech working with Polo Chau. 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There has been a pressing need to facilitate knowledge-sharing and resource coordination in this space across research and practice and multiple disciplines. With support from the IPaT engagement grant, we launched a global, interdisciplinary Research to Impact Collaborative (RIC) on AI and global health that: 1) supports knowledge-sharing across research and practice, 2) facilitates student learning, and 3) accelerates cross-sector collaborations. To catalyze the RIC, we have been conducting a year-long virtual seminar series and multiple in-person workshops that bring together researchers, practitioners, and students. This talk will reflect on the process of building a lasting collaborative, and laying the foundation for interdisciplinary collaborations and future funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio: \u003Cstrong\u003ENaveena Karusala\u003C\/strong\u003E is an Assistant Professor in Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. 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Our talk in particular will discuss the process of designing these workshops, and the proposed outputs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio: \u003Cstrong\u003ECindy Lin \u003C\/strong\u003Eis the Stephen Fleming Early Career Assistant Professor at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She is the director of Critical Technocultures Lab. Her research interests include data politics in environmental governance in Southeast Asia and the United States, and, more recently, rentier relations in global data center infrastructures.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAllen Hyde \u003C\/strong\u003Eis an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a quantitative scholar whose main research areas are stratification and inequality, urban sociology, work and occupations, climate and disaster resilience, and immigration. 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He employs state-of-the-art techniques in neuroscience, neuroengineering, physiology, and biomechanics, including transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation. In addition, he collaborates with engineers in the fields of human-robot interaction, human augmentation, machine learning, and their application in the enhancement of physical activity, sports, health, and rehabilitation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- - - - - - - - - -\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesigning Ethical Robot Behaviors for Unforeseen Human-Robot Interactions Using LLMs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;As robots increasingly operate within public spaces and urban environments, they are frequently confronted with morally ambiguous situations that are dynamic, complex, and unpredictable. Such contexts introduce novel factors and forms of agency that may quickly exceed the scope of anticipated\u2014or pre-programmed\u2014human\u2013robot interactions (HRI). This raises a critical question: can morally appropriate robot behaviors be generated for unforeseen HRI scenarios using large language models (LLMs), and if so, how? In this talk, I present our proposed framework for generating morally appropriate robot behaviors, illustrated through the exemplar of a mobile, space-making robotic reading companion. I also briefly report on our current progress in evaluating this framework. Broadly, the framework comprises three key steps: (1) defining a library of robot behaviors; (2) training LLMs on general moral principles alongside examples of morally appropriate behaviors in predefined scenarios; and (3) leveraging the LLM to generate candidate behaviors for novel situations. The generated behaviors are subsequently evaluated by users and relevant stakeholders with respect to their perceived moral appropriateness. Through this work, we aim to offer a practical approach for designers and roboticists to develop novel robotic systems capable of behaving ethically in everyday, unforeseen contexts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio: \u003Cstrong\u003EYixiao Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E is an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Design (SID), Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His background is in Architecture (B. Arch from Hunan University and M. Arch from UC Berkeley) and Human-Centered Design (Ph.D. from Cornell University). As an interaction designer and researcher, his work focuses on the human-centered design, engineering, and evaluation of \u201cSpace Agents\u201d \u2013 physical and virtual spaces that are socially intelligent and interactive, as if they were our friends, partners, or companions. He is particularly interested in the various applications \u201cSpace Agents\u201d could have in our everyday life, together with their lasting societal, cultural, and ethical values in education, healthcare, and work life. His major research fields are Architectural Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), broadly situated within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He is the director of the \u201cRobotic Environment Lab\u201d at Georgia Tech, SID.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E---\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series is free and features guest speakers presenting on topics related to people-centered technologies and their impact on society. Lunch is provided at 12:00 p.m. (while supplies last) and the talks begin at 12:30 p.m. Join us weekly or watch video replays. 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Our generic network architecture resembles BERT: it constructs a representation for each random variable\u0027s posterior marginal distribution and iteratively refines it through attention on other random variables and entities.\u0026nbsp; We find that this posterior marginal Transformer (\u0022Marformer\u0022) works much better than EM and almost as well as MCMC even when those methods know the true data generating model, and it outperforms them on naturally occurring data. We outline future methods for adaptive masking and a future design for managing data collection efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~jason\/index.html\u0022\u003EJason Eisner\u003C\/a\u003E is Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 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In particular, distributed training of deep neural networks (DNNs) relies on scalable matrix multiplication algorithms and efficient communication on high-speed interconnects. Pre-training and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters and graph neural networks (GNNs) on extremely large graphs requires hundreds to tens of thousands of GPUs. However, such training often suffers from significant scaling bottlenecks such as high communication overheads and load imbalance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will present several systems research directions that directly impact AI model training. First, I will describe my group\u0027s work in using a three-dimensional parallel algorithm for matrix multiplication in large-scale LLM training.\u0026nbsp; Second, I will demonstrate the application of the same algorithm to full-graph and mini-batch GNN training when working with extremely large graphs. 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There have been huge success stories; MEMS inertial sensors have enabled an entire market of low-cost, small-scale UAVs. However, the promise of ant-scale robots has largely failed. Ants and other small insects like mites can move at high speeds on surfaces from picnic tables to front lawns, but few small-scale robots have moved outside the lab. This talk will present themes across our work in scaling down robotics. A common thread across our work is the use of geometry, materials, and mechanisms to do part of the robot control and computation in hardware. For example, choosing the right foot geometry and size scale can result in a 3.6 cm high power autonomous biped capable of high speed locomotion at 25 cm\/s. Novel fabrication processes can be designed to tightly couple high-bandwidth actuators, sensors, and mechanisms for locomotion and manipulation tasks. 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The Shepherd Center is a top-ranked, nationally recognized rehabilitation hospital specializing in spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and other complex neurological conditions. 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Our team develops, tests, and customizes assistive technologies to support rehabilitation, empowering you to navigate life with greater ease and autonomy.\u0026nbsp;Services include the Access Technology Lab (personal devices and technologies for life), the Driving Program, and the Wheelchair Seating and Mobility Clinic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E-----\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShepherd Center\u0026nbsp;was founded in 1975 as a private, not-for-profit hospital specializing in medical treatment, research,\u0026nbsp;and rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, spine and chronic pain,\u0026nbsp;multi-trauma,\u0026nbsp;and other neurological\u0026nbsp;conditions.\u0026nbsp;Serving patients along the full continuum from the ICU through outpatient services, Shepherd Center is one of the nation\u2019s top hospitals for rehabilitation,\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewith patient rehabilitation programs\u0026nbsp;that\u0026nbsp;focus on individualized recovery and lifelong wellness.\u0026nbsp;The Virginia C. 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She oversees multidisciplinary research programs and strategic partnerships that translate discoveries into real-world solutions for people with complex neurological conditions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. John Morris\u003C\/strong\u003E is Director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshepherd.org%2Fresearch%2Fredefining-rehab%2Faurc%2F\u0026amp;data=05%7C02%7CBeth.Pharo%40shepherd.org%7C80fc108b958b47f058c008de7eb0746b%7C32ead7baba1e42d6aa674709d3e43935%7C0%7C0%7C639087493516073018%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\u0026amp;sdata=TSHN%2F5L3q3UYtpI12Sw5HVN4mvtyyvo4ci5paIC9zZA%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAccessibility User Research Collective\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(AURC) and a Senior Research Scientist in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshepherd.org%2Fresearch%2Fresearch-areas%2Fuser-experience-usability%2F\u0026amp;data=05%7C02%7CBeth.Pharo%40shepherd.org%7C80fc108b958b47f058c008de7eb0746b%7C32ead7baba1e42d6aa674709d3e43935%7C0%7C0%7C639087493516094564%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C\u0026amp;sdata=b%2Baosl%2Bkmf8o%2FynsK9%2FZ4izUB04LKTxSzuYGG84tGts%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUser Experience and Usability Research Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. 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In addition to directing the iCORD Lab at Georgia State University, she collaborates widely across clinical and academic settings to promote evidence-based practices that enhance meaningful community engagement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Brad Willingham\u003C\/strong\u003E directs Shepherd Center\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shepherd.org\/research\/research-areas\/multiple-sclerosis\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMultiple Sclerosis Research Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, where he leads a multidisciplinary team focused on improving health, function, and quality of life for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). His work spans neuromuscular physiology, neurorehabilitation, and digital health, bridging the gap between scientific discovery and clinical practice. Brad collaborates closely with clinicians and individuals with MS to design studies that generate practical, translation-ready solutions. 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Transcending traditional educational models, TrEd is a living and breathing movement striving to redefine education as a journey of exploration; it champions the belief that genuine learning blooms not in confined classrooms, but in the spaces that nurture students\u2019 confidence, adaptability, and empathy while simultaneously equipping them with the tools necessary to make meaningful contributions to society.2 At the heart of TrEd is an unwavering and resolved commitment to placing students at the very center of their own transformation, where curiosity meets courage and every challenge becomes a seed for growth. Through a wide range of experiential initiatives, TrEd empowers the next generation of changemakers by cultivating leadership skills and equipping them with the inner flame to question and uplift.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAmong its most treasured offerings are the Mentoring Talks,3 where luminaries from around the world candidly share transformative moments from their professional journeys, fostering a growth mindset and an appreciation of perseverance among students. Over the years, these inspiring talks have shown the voices of the world\u2019s most distinguished minds, including Nobel Laureates, offering students a path paved with determination and a North Star to guide their aspirations. At the same time, the Medical Research Volunteer Program (MRVP)4 and the International Medical Research Volunteer Program (MRVP-Int\u2019l) both create valuable pathways for undergraduate explorers by drawing them into the process of hands-on research, developing their scientific rigor and curiosity while also providing them with precious networking opportunities with researchers and research institutions early on. On top of that, the ChemCarnival brings chemistry to life in a whirlwind of color and celebration.5 As the largest STEM event in the MENA region, ChemCarnival exemplifies TrEd\u2019s mission to break down barriers in STEM by highlighting science as a creative and joyful pursuit where formulas are turned into fireworks, encouraging the next generation to see science as a festival to join, not a mountain to climb in fear. In addition, spirited STEM competitions6 and the Makhlouf Haddadin Lectureship7 engage both the AUB community and the broader public, promoting a culture of lifelong learning and intellectual exploration.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn an age marked by rapid change, TrEd\u2019s mission is to train a generation of transformative leaders who possess the courage and critical thinking required to challenge the status quo, adapt to crises, and inspire positive change within their communities. This movement of metamorphosis that is continuously responding to societal challenges \u2014 such as public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 proves that transformative education is a powerful catalyst for resilience, personal fulfilment, renewal, and collective progress.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EDr. Kaafarani\u2019s research spans the fields of supramolecular chemistry, organic electronics, reticular chemistry, sensors, and education. He has received numerous awards including the Best Paper Research Award from the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (2011), the Research Excellence Award from the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (2012), the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Arab Fund Fellowship Program (2014), the AUB Teaching Excellence Award (2016), and the Abdul Hamid Hallab REP Service Excellence Award (2018). 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Human isoprenoids derive from the mevalonic acid (MVA) pathway, whereas many other organisms utilize the methyl erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway. The MVA and MEP pathways both converge on the same two isomeric C5 metabolites, isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP). Therefore, IPP and DMAPP are the central five-carbon precursors for all isoprenoids in all organisms. Despite their importance, there are relatively few chemical and biological tools to directly study IPP and DMAPP and little is understood about their independent biological activity, and metabolic fate beyond incorporation into longer chain isoprenoids. Similarly, chemical tools developed for studying prenylation via the long-chain isoprenoids farnesyl pyrophosphate (C15) and geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (C20) are well-established, but tools and approaches for interrogating C5 prenylation are lacking. 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After his Ph.D, Josh went across the country to do postdoctoral research in Prof. David Tirrell\u2019s lab at Caltech in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. His postdoctoral research was focused on the development of artificial protein force sensors in hydrogels. 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Their rapid clearance is enabled by their ultrasmall hydrodynamic dimensions (\u0026lt;3nm) in circulation, which allow them to traverse the glomerular filtration barrier (6-8nm) and achieve near-complete urinary excretion following intravenous administration. Beyond their favorable pharmacokinetics and safety profile, these AuNPs are intrinsically fluorescent and highly electron-dense2, enabling multimodal imaging of renal transport processes across fluorescence, electron, and bright-field microscopies. In this talk, I will demonstrate how renal-clearable AuNPs serve as discovery tools that reveal previously unrecognized physiological principles at the nanoscale, including size- 3and charge-dependent renal clearance of engineered nanoparticles4 and membrane-extrusion\u2013mediated organelle elimination and regeneration in healthy kidneys5. In disease states, these nanoparticles uncover characteristic disruptions in renal handling\u2014such as reduced glomerular filtration, prolonged tubular retention, and diminished cellular uptake\u2014providing sensitive responses of dysfunction that precede conventional clinical markers6. Leveraging these mechanistic insights7, we are translating renal-clearable AuNPs into clinical applications as first-in-class contrast agents for imaging-guided cancer surgery8, sensitive blood and urinary biomarkers for early kidney injury detection9, 10, and precision delivery vehicles that enhance therapeutic specificity while minimizing off-target toxicity11. 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They are interested in the related areas of stem cell bioengineering, gene delivery systems, and molecular virology, with applications in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. One their our major research aims is dedicated to understanding the biology and exploring the therapeutic potential of gene delivery, which serves as an effective means to control stem cells. Gene therapy can be defined as the introduction of genetic material to the cells of an individual for therapeutic benefit. A variety of approaches are under development to use gene therapy for treating cancer, AIDS, and a number of inherited genetic disorders. For example, gene therapy could be used to replace the genes hemophilia patients are missing, to bolster the immune system to recognize and combat tumors, or to inhibit the replication of HIV virus. However, significant progress must still be made before these developing strategies become therapeutic realities. 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It is widely acknowledged that their large model sizes lead to high computational costs (storage, inference latency, memory, etc) making serving and deployment expensive especially in low-resource environments. LLM pruning or more generally model compression is a line of work where LLM model parameters are compressed to reduce model footprint. For example, post-training model pruning aims to achieve model compression by removing less-important parameters while retaining model utility as much as possible. Depending upon available hardware, different types of model compression methods can be useful (eg, sparsity, sparse plus low-rank, quantization, etc). These problems can be formulated as large-scale discrete optimization problems posing interesting algorithmic research questions. 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Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science at MIT, speaks on the history of Black communities\u0027 self-provisioning in Washington, DC.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn Washington, DC, congressional leaders in the 1920s pushed Black residents out of the central city to areas East of the Anacostia River. Their city leaders provided no infrastructure. Neighborhoods had no sewers, no piped water, no garbage pick-up, or paved surfaces. Residents made the most of structural racism. Where streets would be, they lined paths with fruit and nut trees. They kept chickens and pigs, feeding them organic garbage. They surrounded their houses with vegetable gardens, fertilized with composted kitchen scraps and night soil from backyard privies. They collected rainwater and filtered household water to keep their gardens hydrated. They set up their own shops, ran their own bus service, and created cooperatives to provide jobs for men and women. Pursuing this market-shy activity, Black neighborhoods East of the River thrived until the bulldozers arrived in the 1960s. Brown tells the story of the power of urban self-provisioning and the sustained attack to replace it with monocrop agriculture in the form of turf grass.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sts-program.mit.edu\/people\/sts-faculty\/kate-brown\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/sts-program.mit.edu\/people\/sts-faculty\/kate-brown\/\u0022\u003EAbout Professor Kate Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(MIT)\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EAward-winning author of \u003Cem\u003ETiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Norton 2026), \u003Cem\u003EManual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future \u003C\/em\u003E(Norton 2019), and \u003Cem\u003EPlutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Oxford 2013).\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EOrganized by the Metro Atlanta Science Studies Seminar.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EFor more information, contact Helen Anne Curry at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hacurry@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehacurry@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca id=\u0022pdfjs_internal_id_4R\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer nofollow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Kate Brown (MIT) speaks on the history of Black communities\u0027 self-provisioning in Washington, DC.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Kate Brown (MIT) speaks on the history of Black communities\u0027 self-provisioning in Washington, DC."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2026-02-24 19:12:51","changed_gmt":"2026-02-24 22:36:34","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-04-09T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2026-04-09T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-04-09T17:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-04-09 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-04-09 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-04-09 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Scholars Event Theater, Room 1280, Price Gilbert Memorial Library","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHelen Anne Curry\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hacurry@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehacurry@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688372":{"#nid":"688372","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Micro-physiological Systems (uPS) x Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems (M-CELS) Student\/Postdoc Seminar ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar\u0026nbsp;Speakers\/Abstracts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdriana Blazeski, Ph.D.\u0026nbsp; (Kamm Lab, MIT)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;Coupled Cardiac and Vascular Responses to Nanoplastic Exposure in a Human Heart-on-a-Chip\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Engineered \u003Cem\u003Ein vitro\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;cardiovascular systems offer powerful new ways to study human cardiac physiology and development, model disease, and screen drugs. 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NSs play a critical role in spatially and temporally regulation of those functional molecules at speckle-proximal active gene loci, thereby enhancing transcription levels and splicing efficiency. While NS dynamics have primarily been studied in terms of molecular exchange between NSs and their surroundings, little is known about the dynamics of connections and trafficking between NSs, which together may form a nuclear speckle network spanning the nucleus. Using live-cell and super-resolution imaging, we identified connections between specific speckles that are composed of multiple speckle proteins. Through photoactivation experiments, we observed directional transfer of speckle proteins from one speckle to another along these connections. Comparison of the dynamics of multiple speckle proteins within these connections revealed that, despite exhibiting distinct behaviors, they collectively formed stable bridges between adjacent speckles. We found that these multiphase structures depend on ongoing transcription and ATP, with the core proteins transferring along the connections. Together, our findings suggest that multiphase speckle connections facilitate component exchange between specific speckles, contributing to the formation and maintenance of the nuclear speckle network within the interchromatin space.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnderson Cerqueira, Ph.D. (Panitch Lab, Georgia Tech)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle: \u003C\/strong\u003ETargeting Endothelial Adhesion Molecules with Glycosaminoglycan-Peptide Conjugates to Reduce Leukocyte Aggregation\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003EIn sickle cell disease (SCD) patients vaso-occlusion contributes to chronic pain, organ damage, and increased infection rates. 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CBPR demands a shift from traditional researcher\u2011driven approaches toward long\u2011term, equitable partnerships in which communities engage in all processes. Effectively \u0022doing\u0022 CBPR involves a substantial time commitment, often requiring researchers to spend years building the rapport and trust necessary for a mutually beneficial relationship. This collaborative process frequently encounters tensions rooted in mismatches between academic expectations, research ideals, institutional requirements, and community needs. Drawing on three case studies from vulnerable groups, I illustrate the evolving interpersonal, ethical, and sociotechnical challenges researchers encounter and highlight opportunities to co\u2011create practices that empower underserved populations to design systems for the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO: Katie Siek is a professor at Indiana University. Her primary research interests are in human computer interaction, health informatics, and ubiquitous computing. More specifically, she is interested in how sociotechnical interventions affect personal health and wellbeing. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Science Foundation including a five-year NSF CAREER award. She has been awarded with the IU Trustees Teaching Award (2022), FACET\u0027s Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award (2021), NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award (2019), a CRA-W Borg Early Career Award (2012), and Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance Distinguished Visiting Fellowships (2010 \u0026amp; 2015). Dr. Siek currently serves as an elected member of the Computing Research Association Board and appointed member of the Association of Computing Machinery Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council. Prior to returning to her alma mater, she was a professor for 7 years at the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned her PhD and MS at Indiana University Bloomington in computer science and her BS in computer science at Eckerd College.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E---\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IPaT: GVU Lunch Lecture Series is free and features guest speakers presenting on topics related to people-centered technologies and their impact on society. Lunch is provided at 12:00 p.m. (while supplies last) and the talks begin at 12:30 p.m. Join us weekly or watch video replays. 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She delivered 380+ invited keynotes and lectures, and published 360+ peer reviewed articles over 19,000 Google Scholar citations. Dr. Wang received Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Undergrad Research, and Emory University MilliPub Award for a high-impact paper cited over 1,000 times. Current, Dr. Wang is the Senior Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on BME, and IEEE Reviews in BME. She has been a panelist for NIH (e.g. BDMA, CDMA, MSB) Study Sections, NSF (e.g. Smart and Connect Health, SBIB), and Brain Canada for over 15 years. She chairs Biomedical and Health Informatics Technical Community Steering Committee in IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society and leads ACM Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics. 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To realize this promise, however, these models must recapitulate key features of the heart, including its heterocellular composition and dense, functional microvasculature. I will present our work on vascularizing cardiac spheroids within microfluidic devices to create a fully perfusable heart-on-a-chip platform. This integrated system enables measurement of both cardiac contraction and vascular barrier function, while allowing drugs to be delivered through the vasculature in a physiologically-relevant manner. Using this platform, we examine the impact of environmental nanoplastics exposure, revealing deleterious effects on cardiovascular function. These studies highlight the heart-on-a-chip system as a versatile tool for interrogating coupled cardiac and vascular function in contexts relevant to human health, including environmental toxicity.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiah Kim, Ph.D. (Belmont Lab, UIUC)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Directional interchromatin trafficking through dynamic multiphase speckle networks\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Nuclear speckles (NSs) are nuclear bodies that reside in the interchromatin space and concentrate more than a hundred components, including transcription and RNA processing factors as well as various RNAs. NSs play a critical role in spatially and temporally regulation of those functional molecules at speckle-proximal active gene loci, thereby enhancing transcription levels and splicing efficiency. While NS dynamics have primarily been studied in terms of molecular exchange between NSs and their surroundings, little is known about the dynamics of connections and trafficking between NSs, which together may form a nuclear speckle network spanning the nucleus. Using live-cell and super-resolution imaging, we identified connections between specific speckles that are composed of multiple speckle proteins. Through photoactivation experiments, we observed directional transfer of speckle proteins from one speckle to another along these connections. Comparison of the dynamics of multiple speckle proteins within these connections revealed that, despite exhibiting distinct behaviors, they collectively formed stable bridges between adjacent speckles. We found that these multiphase structures depend on ongoing transcription and ATP, with the core proteins transferring along the connections. Together, our findings suggest that multiphase speckle connections facilitate component exchange between specific speckles, contributing to the formation and maintenance of the nuclear speckle network within the interchromatin space.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnderson Cerqueira, Ph.D. (Panitch Lab, Gatech)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle: \u003C\/strong\u003ETargeting Endothelial Adhesion Molecules with Glycosaminoglycan-Peptide Conjugates to Reduce Leukocyte Aggregation\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003EIn sickle cell disease (SCD) patients vaso-occlusion contributes to chronic pain, organ damage, and increased infection rates. In these patients, endothelial activation and the upregulation of adhesion molecules such as E-selectin and VCAM-1 mediate leukocyte recruitment and increase tissue damage. Current therapeutic strategies, including monoclonal antibodies, face limitations such as systemic immunosuppression and high cost. Here, we present the design and in vitro evaluation of glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-peptide conjugates engineered to selectively bind endothelial adhesion molecules and attenuate leukocyte adhesion under flow. Using solid-phase peptide synthesis and carbodiimide-mediated conjugation to dermatan sulfate, we generated constructs targeting key adhesion molecules. Biochemical characterization confirmed conjugation efficiency and binding specificity. Static and flow-based assays showed that the conjugates impacted leukocyte\u2013endothelium interactions. 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Particularly useful have been advances in generating nanoscale lipoprotein particles. With the ability to self-assemble integral membrane targets into native-like bilayer structures these approaches have revolutionized the study of structural and functional properties of pharmacologically significant targets such as receptors, transporters, enzymes, and viral antigens. The membrane scaffold protein (MSP) based amphipathic polymers have also proven useful in providing a membrane surface of defined area and composition in order to reveal the structure and function of multi-component protein complexes that operate at the membrane surface. These include the blood coagulation cascade, integrin activation and cancer signaling cascades. In my presentation I will present an overview of MSP-based Nanodiscs and discuss the recruitment, activation and trafficking of the oncoprotein KRas4b to a MSP-based Nanodisc surface of defined composition, efforts to understand the detailed mechanisms of human drug metabolism and steroid biosynthesis as well as progress toward affecting the immune response via control of oligomeric viral antigen assembly. Supported by NIH MIRA GM118145.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EBIO\u003Cbr\u003EStephen G. Sligar received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1975. Dr. Sligar served on the faculty in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and returned to the University of Illinois in 1982 where he was the I. C. Gunsalus Professor of Biochemistry. He now holds the University of Illinois Swanlund Endowed Chair and is Director of the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology. 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Existing approaches show promises in combining LLMs and KGs to enhance each other, but they do not study the techniques in real healthcare contexts and scenarios. In this talk, I will introduce our research vision and agenda towards KG-LLM co-learning for healthcare, followed by success examples from our recent exploration on LLM-aided KG construction, KG-guided LLM enhancement, and federated multi-agent systems. I will conclude the talk with discussions on future directions that can benefit from further collaborations with researchers interested in data mining or biomedical informatics in general.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Carl Yang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Emory University, jointly appointed in the Rollins School of Public Health and Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2020, and B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2014. His research areas span data mining, deep learning, multimodality foundation models and trustworthy AI, with applications in graph analytics, neuroscience, biomedicine and healthcare. Carl\u0027s research results have led to 250+ peer-reviewed publications in top venues across AI\/ML and medicine\/healthcare. He serves as the Organizer of Health Day and Inaugural Program Chair of AI4Sciences in KDD, and the Chair-Elect of AMIA KDDM Working Group. 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