SDSU Data Science Symposium 2025

The 2025 SDSU Data Science symposium will be hosted at the SDSU campus on Thursday-Friday, February 6-7, 2025. The symposium will include pre-conference workshops, oral presentations, poster presentations, keynote addresses, and a career fair.


This year's program includes:
Parallel workshops: Feb 6: 1:00 - 5:00 pm @ Student Union
Banquet: Feb 6: 6:00 - 9:00 pm @ McCrory Gardens
Symposium: Feb 7: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm @ Student Union
Career fair: Feb 7, 1:00 - 2:30 pm@ Student Union


Call for content:
The Symposium welcomes oral or poster presentations on topics such as:
    • Applications of data science to Healthcare, Finance/insurance, Agriculture, Sciences etc…
    • Methodology
    • Tools
    Abstract submission for oral or poster presentations can be submitted HERE. The deadline to submit abstracts for oral presentations 01/01/2025 and for poster presentation is on 01/15/2025 by 11:59 pm CT

    Travel reimbursement:
    Limited travel reimbursements of at most $250 per person are available to students and faculty to attend the symposium. A faculty advisor/mentor should complete the form HERE. Please contact Dr. Semhar Michael (semhar.michael@sdstate.edu) for any questions. The due date for application is on Jan 15, 2025, by 11:59 pm. Priority will be given to students. The eligibility criteria are
    1. Undergraduate student attendees or
    2. Graduate student/faculty attendees presenting a poster/oral. The abstract must be submitted before the deadline and accepted.

    Hotel group rate:
    Hotel group rates can be found HERE. All rooms MUST be booked before Friday, Jan 31, 2025. The daily rate rooms with the group rate are $75 + tax on Thursday, Feb 6, 2025, and $95 + tax on Friday, Feb 7, 2025.

    Scientific committee:
    • Dr. Michael Puthawala, SDSU- Mathematics in Machine Learning
    • Dr. Yana Melnykov, University of Alabama - Models for Unsupervised Learning
    • Dr.s Xijin Ge and Fred Boehm - SDSU - Bioinformatics and LLMS
    • Dr. Christopher Saunders, SDSU- Forensic Statistics
    • Dr. Christine Hockett, Avera Research Institute and Dr. Brandon Varilek, University of Nebraska Medical Center - Data Science in Healthcare


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