IIDAI Annual Meeting

Join us for the 2025 IIDAI Annual Meeting!
April 11, 2025 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

We are excited to welcome all UIUC faculty to Day 2 (April 11) of our annual meeting. This will take place at the NCSA Auditorium and Atrium from 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. CT. You will join current IIDAI & new project PIs and their students as well as IBM researchers and steering committee members.

Please see agenda and registration link below:

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast/coffee/drinks

NCSA Atrium

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • IIDAI Co-Directors: Deming Chen, Fabio Oliveira
  • GCOE Executive Associate Dean: Philippe Geubelle
  • IBM VP, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform: Priya Nagpurkar

NCSA Auditorium

9:00 a.m.

Keynote

  • Distinguish Engineer, IBM Research: Raghu Ganti
NCSA Auditorium
9:45 a.m.

Scaling Impact through Open-Source Ecosystems

  • Business Development, IBM Research: Andrea Greggo
  • Assistant Dean, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Jed Taylor
NCSA Auditorium
10 a.m. Break NCSA Atrium
10:10 a.m.

Thrust-Level Technical Updates:

  • Hybrid Cloud & AI – Alaa Youssef, Lav Varshney
  • Quantum Computing– Ruchi Pendse, Andre Schleife
  • Materials Discovery – Teo Laino, Huimin Zhao
  • Climate & Sustainability – Hendrik Hamann, Jingrui He
NCSA Auditorium
11:20 a.m. Break NCSA Atrium
11:30 a.m. Poster Session & Best Poster Selections NCSA Atrium
12:30 p.m. Lunch NCSA Atrium
1:30 p.m. IBM Researchers are encouraged to have additional meetings with faculty and students NCSA Atrium
2:30 p.m. End of Program  

 

Registration

Please submit your registration for Day 2 of the IIDAI Annual Meeting by April 4, 2025.

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