Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Research Day, March 7, 2024

Google Cloud provides access to cutting-edge machine learning and AI tools, making it easy to apply advanced techniques for deeper insights and accelerated discovery. Researchers are using Google Cloud to predict sepsis in intensive care patients, analyze medical images faster and more easily, and advance research in climate change.

At the GCP Research Day, there will be presentations from Google about accelerating your research and AI in bioinformatics. UW researchers will present their work on using LLM in the GCP environment. UW–‍Madison will provide details about how these and similar tools are used and how you can get started using them. You will also learn about two UW–‍Madison initiatives designed to help reduce the cost of cloud computing: the NIH STRIDES program for biomedical researchers and the UW–‍Madison F&A pilot reduction for cloud computing costs.

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Union South

University of Wisconsin–‍Madison

Registration 

In person

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Agenda

Time Topic Presenter(s)
8:30 AM – 9:00AM Registration and Light Breakfast UW DoIT, Google
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Welcome and Opening Keynote Jan Cheetham, Chris Daugherty, Zekai Otles
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Google Cloud for Research Chris Daugherty – Google
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break and Discussions
11:00 AM – 12:00 AM UW Madison Researcher Presentation

Hard and Soft Prompt Engineering for Diagnosis Generation with Large Language Models: Evaluation on the Problem Summarization Shared Task from the Electronic Health Record

Dr. Majid Afshar – UW Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH)

 

Lunch Break – 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM   

Catered for in-person attendees 

 

Afternoon 

 

Time Topic Presenter(s)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM UW Madison Researcher Presentation

GCP-Empowered Research at UW–‍Madison Computer Sciences

Prof. Ming Liu- UW Madison Computer Sciences (CS)
2:00 PM – 2:10 PM Short Break
2:10 PM – 3:10 PM How AI is Revolutionizing Bioinformatics Charles Elliott – Google
3:10 PM – 3:30 PM Break and Discussions
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Hands on workshop – AI Labs with Cloud Skills Boost (Credits provided by Google) Kendra Ramick – Google
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Closing Remarks UW DoIT, Google