AI Disruptions in Research & Innovation Ecosystems
BCoS and UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Katherine A. Yelick welcomes you to a fireside chat and discussion with her on the disruptions that AI is having on the R&D ecosystem.
AI is having an impact on nearly every field of research, from biotech and energy tech, to law and economics. This is also impacting the innovation ecosystem as startups are using — and sometimes expected to use — AI. With exciting opportunities to accelerate the pace of discovery, AI however requires new research to understand when AI works and how to adapt it to the various domains.
Learn a little more about Dr. Yelick's views and insights on this disruption, her experience and examples of the transformative impacts of AI in fundamental research to translation, and her views on how the startup ecosystem is supporting AI.
About Dr. Katherine A. Yelick
Dr. Yelick is the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in high performance computing, programming systems, parallel algorithms, and computational genomics. She is well known for her work in Partitioned Global Address Space languages, including co-inventing the Unified Parallel C (UPC) and Titanium languages. She has worked on interdisciplinary teams developing scientific applications ranging from simulations of chemistry, fusion, and blood flow in the heart to analysis problems in phylogenetics and genome assembly. She recently led the ExaBiome project on Exascale Solutions for Microbiome Analysis, part of the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project.
Note on ticket price
Please note that ticket costs include 1 non-alcoholic drink and 1 appetizer.