Dear All,
Just a kind reminder for the Risk Analysis Section July 2026 Webinar on July 24 at 2pm! The webinar fly is attached. Welcome you to register for it.
Title: AI agents for scientific discoveries and data science
Speaker: Dr. James Zou, Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University
Date: July 24, 2026
Time: 2:00PM ET
Registration: Webinar Registration - Zoom
Registration Link
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https://gsu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wzFqSQ7ERZGwCZ5hX7jaAg Webinar ID: 835 6056 1232
Passcode: 102011
Abstract:
AI agents-large language models equipped with tools and reasoning capabilities-are emerging as powerful research enablers. This talk will explore how agentic AI can accelerate scientific discoveries. I will first introduce the Virtual Biotech, a platform where tens of thousands of AI agents work together to advance drug discovery and development. As AI agents become capable of conducting end-to-end data analyses, they also introduce new challenges for scientific reliability. I will present Agentic Bootstrap, a framework that estimates the distribution of defensible analyses an AI agent could produce from the same data, and the m-value, a measure of how representative a reported finding is within that distribution.
Short Bio: Dr. James Zou is an associate professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of CS and EE at Stanford University. He works on developing cutting-edge AI for biomedical applications. His group developed many widely used innovations including EchoNet AI (FDA cleared for assessing cardiac function), Gradio (used by over a million developers), and SyntheMol (NY Times 2024 Good Tech). He has received the Overton Prize, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, two Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator Awards, a Top Ten Clinical Achievement Award, best paper awards at ICML and other AI conferences, and faculty awards from Google, Amazon, Adobe and Apple.
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Yichuan Zhao
Georgia State University
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