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Schedule of Events

Time Description
8:00 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Welcome - Taylor Eighmy, Ph.D., President of The University of Texas at San Antonio
8:45 a.m. Bold Data Science - Project oriGen
Opening speaker: Rocío Alejandra Chávez Santoscoy, Ph.D., Professor and Research Leader, Tecnológico de Monterrey
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m.

Equitable Data Science
Moderator: Adel Alaeddini, Ph.D., UTSA Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, Faculty Fellow School of Data Science

Bethany DeSalvo, Ph.D., Senior Demographic Statistician, Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau
Dashiell Young-Saver, M.S., CEO and Founder, Skew the Script and High School Math Teacher
Vanessa Sansone, Ed.D., UTSA Assistant Professor, Education Leadership and Policy, College of Education and Human Development, and Faculty Council Member, School of Data Science

11:00 a.m. Break and Tabletop Q&A
11:15 a.m.

Informed Data Science
Moderator: Jeffrey Howard, Ph.D., UTSA Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, College of Health, Community and Policy, and Faculty Council Member, School of Data Science

Kelle Cruz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College - CUNY
Jud Janak, Ph.D., Senior Epidemiologist, Merative (formally IBM Watson Health)
Marcus Hamilton, Ph.D., UTSA Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal and Fine Arts, and Faculty Council Member, School of Data Science

12:15 p.m. Break and Tabletop Q&A
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m.

Foundations of Data Science
Moderator: Nicole Beebe, Ph.D., Melvin Lachman Endowed Chair and UTSA Professor, Information Systems, and Cyber Security, Alvarez College of Business

UTSA Leaders Panel:
Juan Gutierrez, Ph.D., Professor, Chair of Mathematics, College of Sciences
Turgay Korkmaz, Ph.D., Professor, Interim Department Chair, Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences
Jianwei Niu, Ph.D., Associate Dean of University College, Professor of Computer Science, Core Faculty, School of Data Science
Wenbo Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Management of Science and Statistics, Carlos Alvarez College of Business, Core Faculty, School of Data Science

2:30 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m.

Secure Data Science
Moderator: TBD

Anthony Thrall, Ph.D., Office of the Senior Data Science Authority, National Security Agency
Edward Contreras, EVP/Chief Information Security Officer, Frost Bank
Gabriela Ciocarlie, Ph.D., UTSA Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, and Vice President for Securing Automation and Secure Manufacturing Architecture, CyManII

4:00 p.m.

Tabletop Q&A
Student demos and posters

4:30 p.m.

Reception
Music provided by the UTSA Department of Music