📢 ASA SSGG Webinar Announcement
The Membership Engagement Committee of the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistical Genomics and Genetics (ASA SSGG) is pleased to invite you to an exciting webinar:
AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery
🧠 Speaker: Dr. James Zou, Associate Professor, Stanford University
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00–3:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM–12:00 PM PST
📍 Location: Virtual (via Zoom)
🔗 Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W484MxDnQYOuOy4b0Ws4HQ
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Abstract:
AI agents-large language models equipped with tools-are transforming biomedical research by autonomously tackling complex scientific challenges. In this talk, Dr. Zou will introduce the Virtual Lab, a collaborative team of AI scientist agents that conducts in silico research meetings to address open-ended R&D problems. As a case study, the Virtual Lab designed new nanobody binders to emerging COVID variants that were experimentally validated. He will also discuss CellVoyager, a computational biology agent that analyzes complex genomics data to uncover new biological insights.
About the Speaker:
Dr. James Zou is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research develops cutting-edge AI tools for biomedicine, including EchoNet AI (FDA-cleared for cardiac assessment), Gradio (used by over a million developers), and SyntheMol (featured in The New York Times "Good Tech 2024"). He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sloan Fellowship, the Overton Prize, an NSF CAREER Award, two Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator Awards, and multiple faculty awards from Google, Amazon, Adobe, and Apple.
Link to the flyer: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/c4u9jfbk8i1w33undyype/SSGG-Flyer_Oct2025_JamesZou-Read-Only.pdf?rlkey=t2ype29vf3u1o1fb7lqnoikk7&e=1&st=b10fpqto&dl=0
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Himel Mallick, PhD, FASA
Principal Investigator (Tenure-track Faculty)
Cornell University
New York, New York 10065
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