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.

Keynote speaker bios can be found HERE.

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 presentations are extended to 01/26/2025 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 has been extended to Feb 2, 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.

Registration:
Registration form can be found HERE. Early Bird Registration Dates: 02/03/2025 at 11:59 pm

• Non-students Early Conference Registration: $40.00
• Non-students Conference Registration: $50.00
• Early Graduate Student Conference Registration: $10.00
• Graduate Student Conference Registration: $15.00
• Early Undergraduate Student Conference Registration: $10.00
• Undergraduate Student Conference Registration: $15.00

Banquet

• Non student: $30.00
• Student: $10.00

Parallel workshops: $20:00 (Select one)

• Workshop 1: Building Interdisciplinary applications using Large Language Models. Bishnu Sarker - Assistant Professor, Meharry Medical College.
• Workshop 2: Agentic AI Systems with Advanced Capabilitie. David Zeng - Associate Professor, DSU
• Workshop 3: Introduction to Quarto. Xijin Ge – Professor, SDSU

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

Contact us:

• Thomas Brandenburger - Chair: thomas.brandenburger@sdstate.edu
• Semhar Michael: semhar.michael@sdstate.edu
• Gemechis Djira: gemechis.djira@sdstate.edu
• Fred Boehm: frederick.boehm@sdstate.edu
• Eun Huei Kim: eunheui.kim@sdstate.edu