Friday, November 7, 2025
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
IT building at Indiana University Indianapolis
Accelerating Momentum: Luddy's Impact on Healthcare and Medicine
Join us for a dynamic research symposium showcasing the transformative contributions of the Luddy School in revolutionizing healthcare and medical innovation. This event brings together leading researchers and students to explore cutting-edge advancements across bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, health informatics, and biomedical engineering.
Through interdisciplinary collaboration and forward-thinking research, the symposium highlights how Luddy’s work is accelerating progress in diagnostics, treatment, and healthcare delivery—driving real-world impact and shaping the future of medicine.
Research symposium schedule
Registration and breakfast (9 a.m.)
Opening and welcome (9:30 a.m.)
Joanna Millunchick
Dean, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Session 1: Bioinformatics (9:40 – 10:40 a.m.)
- Sarath Janga: Simultaneous mapping of multiple RNA modifications at a single molecule resolution and their applications in RNA therapeutics
- Jingwen Yan: Deep fusion of incomplete multi-omic data for molecular mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease
- Yijie Wang: Leveraging transcription factor physical proximity for enhancing gene regulation inference
- Xuhong Zhang: PhyloEvolve: LLM Agent-based Pipeline for Algorithm Evolution
- Juexin Wang: Exploring spatial omics with efficient machine learning
Break and networking (10:40 – 11 a.m.)
Session 2: AI and Data Science (11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.)
- Mohammed Hasan: Tissue Cytometry with Machine Learning in Kidney
- Sunandan Chakraborty: Causal-CoDe-KG: End-to-End Causal Knowledge Extraction and LLM Benchmarking for Pairwise Causal Discovery
- Hyeju Jang: Multimodal Signals for Dementia Detection: Language, Eye-Tracking, and Facial Cues
- Lu Zhang: Multimodal Large Language Models for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
- Jiangpeng He: Advancing Computer Vision for m-Health Assessment
- Arjan Durresi: Trustworthy Causal AI in Medicine
Lunch and networking (12:15 – 1:15 p.m.)
Session 3: Health Informatics (1:15 – 2:30 p.m.)
- Saptarshi Purkayastha: Teaching-learning infrastructures for health applications – case studies in EHR, mHealth and Radiology
- Hee-Tae Jung: Virtual Reality: Achieving Engagement and Translation in Rehabilitation Therapies
- Aqueasha Martin-Hammond: Designing Intelligent Tools to Support Older Adults Health and Well-being
- Xukai Zou: Creating resilient and privacy-preserving cyberinfrastructures for health care
- Yan Zhuang: Building interoperable health data by aligning clinical text to standards with LLMs
- Eketerina Muraveyskai: VR + games: transforming mental health and social-emotional learning
Poster session and networking (2:30 – 3:15 p.m.)
Graduate students from the Luddy School.
Session 4: Biomedical Engineering and Infrastructures (3:15 – 4:30 p.m.)
- Mangilal Agarwal: Transforming Healthcare: Innovations in Point-of-Care and Non-Invasive Diagnostic Technologies
- Yao Liang: Robust Deep Learning for Image Recognition and Informatics
- Mark Cheng: Finding Microplastic: Management of Emerging Pollutions in the Environment
- James Glazier: Multiscale Computer Simulation of Development and Disease
- Paul Macklin: Next-generation "virtual laboratories" for cancer immunology and digital twins
- Rakesh Shiradkar: Artificial Intelligence driven multi-modal medical imaging biomarker discovery for precision medicine
Closing summary (4:30 p.m.)
Shiaofen Fang
Associate Dean of Research, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
Parking
Informatics and Communications Technology Complex/IT Building
535 W. Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Please park in the Gateway Garage, across from the school on Michigan Street. The garage is just to the north and west of the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex/IT Building.
Register
Registration is closed.