Detailed Program
Workshop Time: Sunday, Aug 3, 2025, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Workshop Room: 703
Workshop Host: Jake Chen (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Opening, Keynote and Paper Session I (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
| 1:00 PM - 1:10 PM | Opening Remarks by Dr. Jake Chen |
| 1:10 PM - 2:00 PM |
Keynote: AI in Health and Healthcare Dr. Peter Elkin |
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM |
4. Beyond Ambient Noise: A Robust Spatial Analysis of Single Cell Images with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) So Won Jeong and Claire Donnat |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
7. Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning in Augmented Biomedical Knowledge Graphs Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen, Tien Dang, Minh Tuan Le and Truong-Son Hy |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM |
14. Interpreting Biomedical VLMs on High-Imbalance Out-of-Distributions: An Insight into BiomedCLIP on Radiology Nafiz Sadman, Farhana Zulkernine, and Benjamin Kwan |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM |
9. Mem-GAN: A Pseudo Membrane Generator for Single-cell Imaging in Fluorescent Microscopy Yixin Wang, Jiayuan Ding, Lidan Wu, Aster Wardhani, Patrick Danaher, Wenzhuo Tang, Hongzhi Wen, Yu Leo Lei, Jiliang Tang and Yuying Xie |
Coffee Break & Posters (3:00 PM - 3:30 PM)
Paper Session II, Posters and Closing Remarks (3:30 PM - 5:00 PM)
| 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM |
16. Informed, but Not Always Improved: Challenging the Benefit of Background Knowledge in GNNs Kutalmış Coşkun, Ivo Kavisanczki, Amin Amin, Tom Siegl, Bjarne C. Hiller, Stefan Lüdtke and Martin Becker |
| 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM |
19. Deep Generative Models of Evolution: SNP-level Population Adaptation by Genomic Linkage Incorporation Julia Siekiera, Christian Schlötterer and Stefan Kramer |
| 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM |
24. ToxiTenCompl: Completion of the DrugMatrix Toxicogenomics Database using 3-Dimensional Tensors Tan Nguyen and Guojing Congy |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM |
25. Hypergraph Neural Networks Reveal Spatial Domains from Single-cell Transcriptomics Data Mehrad Soltani and Luis Rueda |
| 4:30 PM - 4:35 PM | Closing Remarks by Dr. Jake Chen |
| 4:35 PM - 5:00 PM | Poster Session |