OCT 29: Focused Research Program Symposium
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
11:30am-4:00pm
BU Center for Computing & Data Sciences Boston University
665 Commonwealth Ave, 17th Floor
Registration is now closed.
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of death, with disparities in outcomes across populations. This symposium brings together experts in AI, medical imaging, clinical medicine, and public health to share advances in AI-driven early detection and equitable care.
Learn how collaborations between clinicians and AI researchers are helping to identify and mitigate bias, improve predictive accuracy, and ensure tools work effectively across diverse patient populations. The symposium will also explore the use of large language models and other innovative approaches to generate hypotheses about sources of underperformance and hidden bias in AI models.
Confirmed Speakers:
Imon Banerjee, PhD, faculty member at Mayo Clinic, Arizona, and the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) at the Arizona State University
Kayhan Batmanghelich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering
Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, cancer epidemiologist in the Slone Epidemiology Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Alaina Geary, MD MHPE, breast surgical oncologist and attending surgeon of surgical oncology at Boston Medical Center
Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine
Clare Poynton, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Adam Yala, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computational Precision Health, Statistics, and Computer Science (EECS), at University of California, San Francisco
Organized by:
Kayhan Batmanghelich, PhD
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering
Clare Poynton, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
This event is part of Hariri Institute’s Focused Research Programs (FRPs) and is co-sponsored by the Digital Health Initiative at the Hariri Institute for Computing, theSchool of Public Center for Health Data Science, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and theEvans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research.
FRPs support intensive, faculty-driven efforts in large, multi-disciplinary teams. The FRP mission is to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing, computational, and data-driven science and engineering around areas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity. The programs are designed to facilitate research convergence by providing ‘scaffolding’ for groups to coalesce in sustainable ways, with the goal of accelerating research for future funding and broader impact.