Harvard RCD Summit
~ Enabling cutting edge research together ~
June 5th, CGIS – South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Parking is available at Broadway Garage with day passes from Harvard Parking and hourly with ZipBy
9:00 – 9:45 am — Breakfast provided by AWS (Basement level)
9:45 – 10:00 am — Welcome (Tsai Auditorium)
10:00 – 10:30 am — Building a Robust Infrastructure for Geospatial Big Data Analytics — Devika Jain, Harvard Center for Geographical Analysis
10:30 — 11:00 am — Mapping Color in History — Cole Crawford, Digital Arts & Humanities and Tracy Stuber History of Art + Architecture at FAS.
11:00 — 11:15 am — Short break.
11:15 – 12:00 pm — Keynote. Prof. Sham Kakade, Co-director of the Kempner Institute and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Statistics.
12:00 – 1:00 pm — Lunch provided by Lenovo
1:00 – 1:30 pm — Research Computing and Innovations in Neuroinformatics: A Retrospective — Tim O’Keefe, Center for Brain Science at FAS
1:30 – 2:00 pm — Glocal: A Global Development Dataset of Local Administrative Areas — Shreyas Matha, Growth Lab at HKS
2:00 – 2:30 pm — Using LLMs for Business Research — Christine Rivera, HBS Research Computing
2:30 – 3:00 pm — Networking and Coffee Break provided by Cambridge Computing
3:00 – 3:30 pm — FASRC Storage Management and Billing — Raminder Singh, FAS Research Computing
3:30 – 4:00 pm — Transforming Gigapixel Pathology Image Analyses with Scalable Artificial Intelligence — Kun-Hsing Yu, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at HMS
4:00 – 4:30 pm — Enhancing Harvard Dataverse: Modular Architecture, Large Data Support, Computing on Data, and AI Integration — Stefano Iacus, Institute of Quantitative Social Science.
4:30 – 5:30 pm Social Hour provided by DellEMC & RedRiver.
