Exciting Topics in STEM: Bioengineering and Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Sabia Abidi (Rice University, Bioengineering) and Dr. Soma Datta (University of Houston, Clear Lake, Software Engineering) will share specialty topics in STEM - specifically bioengineering and artificial intelligence. The talk is designed for middle and high school students to ask questions and engage.
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- Date: 21 Mar 2024
- Time: 05:15 PM to 06:15 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- Starts 21 March 2024 06:00 AM
- Ends 21 March 2024 05:11 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Sabia Abidi
Bioengineering
Sabia Abidi will be speaking about bioengineering and career trajectories.
Biography:
Sabia Abidi is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the bioengineering department at Rice University and teaches courses in Systems Physiology, Troubleshooting of Clinical Lab Equipment, and Senior Design. Abidi has a doctorate in biomedical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin and completed postdoctoral research at NYU School of Medicine and MIT. She has research
experience in stem cell differentiation methods, microbiological techniques and microfluidic technologies for hematopoietic associated disease applications such as sickle cell anemia and malaria. She is committed to mentorship and STEM outreach through her advisory and mentor roles at Rice, IEEE WIE, and serving as a judge for Rice related and Future City competitions. In her spare time, she enjoys taking things apart and keeping her boys out of trouble.
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Dr. Soma Datta
Artificial intelligence
Soma Datta will be speaking about applications in artificial intelligence.
Biography:
As an associate professor and program chair, Dr. Soma Datta specializes in applying the agile framework in software development, machine learning, and integrating games in teaching software engineering. She has developed models to identify rules for students' attrition in higher education, which has led to peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Datta actively trains graduate students in the agile framework, requirements collection, methodology, and implementation of software development. She also teaches graduate software engineering students the skill of including data science components in software development.
Dr. Datta appreciates the importance of software engineering skills in developing successful software. Hence, she mentors and encourages students to present their research at student conferences and regional and international IEEE conferences. She has mentored high school students who wanted to become software engineers and has taught data science to sixth-graders internationally. Dr. Datta was one of two faculty leads for the Code for Girls Camp (11-14 age) at UHCL.
Currently, she is working with graduate students to develop a virtual laboratory to facilitate the generation of reproducible results within the MicroCURE network. The laboratory is also being developed to provide an online alternative to traditional biology teaching laboratories when university facilities are unavailable because of extreme weather events, pandemics, and other disasters.
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