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

12:55 PM - 1:35 PM

Lunch

Sponsor Exhibits and Student Poster Sessions

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

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

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