Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Challenges, and Multidisciplinary Collaboration

University of Illinois System, I-MMÁS Founder & Executive Director; Director of Institutional Relations-Mexico; Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.

Talk: I-MMÁS overview and introduction

Associate Vice President for Corporate and International Relations in the University of Illinois System.

Talk: Welcome remarks

Department of Computer Science, Researcher Professor, Level 3F, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CINVESTAV- IPN, México.

Email: ccoello@cs.cinvestav.mx

Talk: Artificial intelligence: where we stand and what is next

Associate Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business and Management, University of Illinois at Springfield.

Email: nsing2@uis.edu

Talk: Tactical decisions using actionable intelligence and advanced analytics

Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, National Center for Supercomputing Applications; Research Associate Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Email: kindrtnk@illinois.edu

Talk: From Chatbots to Scientific Discovery with Large Language Models

Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko is the Director for the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Research Associate Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science. His research interests lie at the intersection of AI systems and applications, with a focus on generative AI solutions for science and education. His team is developing the chat.illinois.edu chatbot platform, which facilitates rapid knowledge distillation.

Tenured Researcher, Level B, Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), México.

Email: GSierraM@iingen.unam.mx

Talk: Role of language engineering in social media

Research Professor, SNI Level 3, Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Member, Department of Computer Science, University Center of Exact Sciences and Engineering, University of Guadalajara, México.

Email: nancy.arana@academicos.udg.mx

Talk: Enhancing Smart Agriculture with Deep Learning

Dr. Nancy Arana-Daniel received her M. Sc. And Ph.D. degrees in electric engineering with the special field in computer science for the Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), México in 2003 and 2007 respectively. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Guadalajara, in the Department of Computer Science México, where she is working at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and the Research Center for Control Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

She is IEEE Senior member, also is member of National System of Researchers-México (SNI- level 3), member of International Association of Pattern Recognition and member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

She is Associated Editor of the Journal of Franklin Institute, Franklin Open (Elsevier) and IEEE Latin America Transactions. Her research interests focus on Machine Learning, Geometric Algebra to Geometric computing, bio-inspired optimization, pattern recognition, robot navigation and smart agriculture.

Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago.

Email: ctejadal@uic.edu

Talk: "The Use of Al to Assess the Way People and Goods Travel in Cities"

Professor-Researcher, Coordinator of the Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Querétaro, México.

Email: saul.tovar@uaq.mx

Talk: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Dr. Saul Tovar Arriaga received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, his MSc in Mechatronics from the University of Siegen, Germany, and is an Electronics Engineer from the Queretaro Institute of Technology. He is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Querétaro and currently serves as the coordinator of the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program. His research interests include automatic illness diagnosis, surgical robotics, and machine learning applications. He is a member of the National System of Researchers and a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Computing (AMEXCOMP). He has served as president of the IEEE Queretaro Section and the IEEE Computational Intelligence chapter.

Research Professor Titular "C", Department of Information and Knowledge-Based Innovation, Universidad de Guadalajara, México.

Email: alma.alanis@academicos.udg.mx

Talk: Simulation and real-time implementations for modelling, prediction, and classification of diabetes mellitus

Executive Director, Center for Digital Agriculture, Research Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, National Academy of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Talk: (Related to Digital Agriculture/AI)