Program

Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research

The Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research (CUFR) provides individualized and group mentorship to all GW students and alumni pursuing national awards, fellowships, and undergraduate research opportunities.

About the Participant(s)

Name: Jacob Alan English
Title: Director, Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research
Organization: Libraries & Academic Innovation
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Name: Kevin Walden
Title: Program Associate, Center for Undergraduate Fellowships and Research
Organization: Libraries & Academic Innovation
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Name: Ann Cautela
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador
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Name: Jaden DeGruy
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador
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Name: Josh Lipman
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador
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Name: Christian Maboko
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador
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Name: Olufemi Ogundimu
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador
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Name: Amya Payne
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador
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Name: Siyan Tekle-Habtegabir
Title: CUFR Peer Ambassador

Digital Science: Data and Connections That Advance Research [SPONSOR]

Discover how GW’s institutional access to Digital Science tools—Elements, Discovery, and Dimensions—can elevate your research. In partnership with GW’s Office for Faculty Affairs, Digital Science will demonstrate how their solutions leverage AI to help integrate our scholarly systems and make meaningful connections that showcase your scholarly output, analyze research impact, and uncover potential collaborators across disciplines and institutions.

GW Open Source Program Office

The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) coordinates and supports open-source software across the university, helping researchers and educators embrace open-source tools and practices. It aims to create a culture of open collaboration and knowledge sharing aligned with GW’s research and educational mission. We promote open-source software development, open data, and open access in research and education. We support our community in adopting open practices to grow our impact on a local and global scale. The OSPO also provides consultations, training, tools, and resources in support of open-source software, open science, and open education.

About the Participant(s)

Name: David Lippert
Title: OSPO Director
Organization: Libraries and Academic Innovation
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Name: Mia Diewald
Title: OSPO Student Ambassador
Organization: Libraries and Academic Innovation
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Name: Nouha Elyazidi
Title: OSPO Student Ambassador
Organization: Libraries and Academic Innovation
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Name: Jood Alfadhel
Title: OSPO Student Ambassador
Organization: Libraries and Academic Innovation
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Name: Sunil Shah
Title: OSPO Student Ambassadr
Organization: Libraries and Academic Innovation

GWupstart: Service and Social Innovation

Learn about GWupstart's social innovation grants, training, mentoring, and funding opportunities. The program builds on GW's strength as an institution that fosters the next generation of citizen leaders. Projects must be aimed at solving an issue, need gap or disadvantage in the community beyond GW through innovative social solutions. The Nashman Center currently has six social innovation grant programs through GWupstart that students can apply for. Ask our team about them or email [email protected].

About the Participant(s)

Name: Ayman Rahman
Title: Program Manager, Service and Social Innovation
Organization: Honey W. Nashman Center of Civic Engagement and Public Service

microCafe.ai: AI-Powered Genomics Analysis with Genomic Language Models

seqSight company presents microCafe.ai, a cloud-based SaaS platform for AI-powered genomics analysis using genomic language models (gLMs) and a guided tokenizer. Presenters will demonstrate real-time analysis of sequencing data, highlighting improvements in speed, scalability, and accuracy compared to traditional pipelines. Attendees can explore live results, benchmarking outputs, and applications in microbiome research, public health, and precision medicine.

About the Participant(s)

Name: Ali Rahnavard
Title: Associate Professor, Founder & CSTO
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
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Name: Keith A Crandall
Title: Professor, CEO & Co-Founder
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
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Name: Ajinkya Patil
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
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Name: Udbhav Kush
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
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Name: Vedant Mahangade
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
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Name: Dezhao Fu
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health
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Name: Ali Reza Taheriyoun
School: Milken Institute School of Public Health

NVIDIA / Dell Technologies / Cambridge Computer [SPONSOR]

NVIDIA engineers the most advanced chips, systems, and software for the AI factories of the future. The company's work in AI and digital twins is transforming the world's largest industries and profoundly impacting society.

Dell Technologies is a global team united under a single purpose: to drive human progress through the power of technology. The company helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play.

Patient‑Specific Tumor‑on‑Chip Platform

A patient-specific microfluidic "tumor-on-chip" platform is a miniaturized device that uses precisely controlled microchannels to perfuse living patient-derived tumor material (e.g., dissociated biopsy cells, tumor spheroids/organoids, or liquid-biopsy-derived tumor cells) together with key components of the tumor microenvironment (stromal cells, endothelial barriers/vasculature, and sometimes immune cells).

About the Participant(s)

Name: Aiste Gulla
Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Name: Tian Lan
Title: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
School: School of Engineering & Applied Science
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Name: Zhenyu Li
Title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
School: School of Engineering & Applied Science
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Name: Daniel Carrera
Title: Resident
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

PredictMod

PredictMod (https://hivelab.biochemistry.gwu.edu/predictmod) is an application designed to provide clinicians with a powerful decision making tool that enhances clinical understanding of patient-level data. Through the use of the open-source PredictMod platform, clinicians, patients, and researchers will access predictive ML models based on real-world data. The agnostic nature of the platform allows for widespread use and relevance to all fields within the scope of medicine.

About the Participant(s)

Name: Lori Krammer
Title: Research Associate
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Name: Pat McNeely
Title: Asst. Research Professor
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Name: Raja Mazumder
Title: Professor
School: School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Research Technology Services

Learn more about Research Technology Services (RTS) within GW's Division of IT and the services this team provides to researchers at GW. The RTS team will showcase a dashboard of Live Statistics for Pegasus, GW's flagship High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.

About the Participant(s)

Name: Rubeel M Iqbal
Title: Manager, Research Computing
Organization: GWIT

Tipping-Proof AI

Our physics-based research on 'Physics of AI' has solved AI's elephant-in-the-room problem: the 'silent risk' that AI output on a smartphone, etc. will tip from desirable to dangerous without the user knowing. This is now a massive concern for everyone as we move toward Edge AI (i.e., AI companions running locally on smartphones and other devices around us)—including doctors, financial traders, lawyers, medics, emergency workers, warfighters . . . and any parent.

About the Participant(s)

Name: Neil Johnson
Title: Professor
School: Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
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Name: Frank Yingjie Huo
School: Columbian College of Arts & Sciences