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Program
7:45 AM- 8:30 AM
8:30 AM- 8:35 AM
8:35 AM- 8:40 AM
8:40 AM- 9:20 AM
9:20 AM- 10:00 AM
10:00 AM- 10:25 AM
Registration & Breakfast
Conference Opening
​Yun Wang, PhD - BMES Advisor
Lin Jiang, PhD - Faculty Advisor
Aaheli Das - BMES VP of Conference
Welcome
Sheryl Ehrman, PhD, PE - SJSU Dean of Engineering
Plenary Speaker 1
Mostafa Toloui, PhD - NVIDIA
Topic: Pioneering New Horizons in Medical Devices with Physical AI
Location: Student Union Ballroom​
Startup Pitches
Eli Finn - Small Business Development Center
Break
Sponsor Exhibits and Student Poster Sessions
10:25 AM - 10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
11:25 AM - 11:55 AM
Parallel Session 1A - Biomedical Device Advancements
Location: Student Union Ballroom
Jian Cao, PhD - Medtronic
Topic: Advancing Reveal LINQ Insertable Cardiac Monitors: 20+ Years of Innovation in Miniaturization, Simplified Implantation, and AI Integration
Morgan J. Anderson, PhD - NASA
Topic: Development of a Modular, Magnetically-Enhanced Electrochemical ELISA Total Analysis System for Astronaut Health Monitoring
Kelvin Chu, MS, MBA -
Intuitive Surgical
Topic: Robotics in Surgery and Rehabilitation
Parallel Session 1B - AI involvement in Healthcare
Location: Meeting Room 3
Monique Reid, MS - Intuitive Surgical
Topic: The Power of Data in Surgical Robotics
Joe Grzywacz, PhD - San Jose State University
Topic: Data Bias & Health TechQuity
Mustafa Hajij, PhD - University of San Francisco
Topic: Topological Deep Learning Challenges and Opportunities
11:55 AM - 12:55 PM
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12:55 PM - 1:35 PM
Lunch
Sponsor Exhibits and Student Poster Sessions​​​​​​​​
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Plenary Speaker 2:
Dongli Song, MD, PhD - Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Topic: Born via Collaboration
Location: Student Union Ballroom​​​​​​​​​
1:35 PM - 2:05 PM
2:05 PM - 2:35 PM
Parallel Session 2A - Next-Gen Biomedicine
Location: Student Union Ballroom
Maryam Tarazkar, PhD - Genentech
Topic: Lab-in-the-Loop Model to Advance Safety Predictions for TCR-based Therapeutics
Alexander Nadal, MBA -
Butterfly Biosciences
Topic: Bioscience​
Parallel Session 2B - The Future of Medical AI
Location: Meeting Room 3
Joseph Cho - Stanford University
Topic: MediSyn: A Generalist Text-Guided Latent Diffusion Model For Diverse Medical Image Synthesis​
David Anastasiu, PhD - Santa Clara University
Topic: Biomedical AI in the age of ChatGPT
2:35 PM- 3:00 PM
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
5:00 PM- 5:05 PM
Break
Sponsor Exhibits and Student Poster Sessions
Industry Panel
Topic: AI and Biomedical Devices: Challenges and Opportunities
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Panelist Moderator: Joe Grzywacz, PhD - San Jose State University
Panelist: Alexander Nadal, MBA - Butterfly Biosciences
Panelist: Suresh Alla, PhD - PROCEPT BioRobotics
Panelist: Soody Tronson, JD, MS - STLG Law Firm
Panelist: Vanessa Martinez, DNP, RN - Kaiser Permanente
Panelist: Linda D. Bertrand, MSN-ADM, RN - Kaiser Permanente
Alumni Panel
Topic: From Classroom to Career
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Panelist Moderator: Aaheli Das - San Jose State University
Panelist: Chinmay Parikh - Nodexus
Panelist: Priya Sidhu - Akura Medical
Panelist: Audrey Jebasingam - Novogene America
Panelist: Britanie Butts - Boston Scientific
Conference Closing
Alessandro Bellofiore, PhD - SJSU BME Department Chair
5:05 PM- 5:30 PM
Prospective Student Poster Session