Program

Agenda

8:00 – 9:00: Welcoming breakfast
9:00 – 10:45: Session 1 – Fundamentals of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- “Language Models: Past, Present, and Future” – Prof. André Martins (Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon)
11:00 – 11:45: “Towards a System for Rational Drug Design with AI”, by Vincent Stimper (Isomorphic labs)
11:45 – 13:15: Lunch break
13:15 – 16:00: Session 2 – LLMs in biomedicine
- “Bringing AI to the clinic: from predictive AI to LLMs” – Prof. Jean-Louis Raisaro (CHUV/UNIL)
- “Towards tool-augmented medical reasoning models” – Prof. Michael Moor (ETH Zurich)
  30 min break
- “Causality – Exploiting multi-modal data” – Prof. Caroline Uhler (MIT)
17:30: Pitch & Pizza: The 180-Second Challenge (Room ELA 2)

9:00 – 10:45: Session 1 – Fundamentals of Computer Vision
- “Computer Vision: From Classical Methods to Transformers and back” – Prof. Pascal Fua (EPFL)
11:00 – 11:45: “Intelligent Agents in Medical AI: from Radiology to Multimodal Mastery”, by Prof. Daniel Truhn, University Hospital Aachen
11:45 – 13:15: Lunch break
13:15 – 16:00: Session 2 – Computer vision for biomedical imaging
- “Enhancing stroke management with AI for acute imaging: from model development to clinical validation” – Dr. Jonas Richiardi (CHUV/UNIL)
- “Foundation Models and Beyond for Multiplex Imaging in Biomedical Research” – Prof. Charlotte Bunne (EPFL)
  30 min break
- “Virtual Stains, Real Illusions: accelerating histopathology with virtually multiplexed staining” – Prof. Marianna Rapsomaniki (UNIL/CHUV)
16:00 – 17:00: Networking session
17:00: Social activity

9:00 – 11:45: Session 1 – Workshop on Advanced LLM applications and Agentic Systems – by the Swiss Data Science Center (Valerio Rossetti, Ivan Sieverin, Thibaut Loiseau & Andrea Spinella)

11:45 – 13:15: Lunch break
13:15 – 16:00: Session 2 – Generative AI for Science
- - “Tissue reassembly with generative AI” – Prof. Maria Brbic (EPFL)
  - Prof. Bruno Correia (EPFL)
    30 min break
  - “Generative modeling to predict cellular responses to perturbations” – Dr. Mo Lotfollahi (Wellcome Sanger Institute) – Online
16:00 – 17:00: Networking session

9:00 – 10:45: Session 1 – Fundamentals of causality
- “The basics of causality: applications in health and medicine” – Prof. Miquel Serra-Burriel (University of Zürich)
11:00 – 11:45: “AI enhances value generation in ecosystems around the drug” – by Dr. Fulvio Michelis (Merck Group)
11:45 – 13:15: Lunch break
13:15 – 14:00: Session 2 – Causality in biomedicine
- “Reasoning and Generative Modeling in Single-Cell Genomics for Disease Study” – Dr. Hana Aliee (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute)
14:00 – 14:45: Perspective Talk
- “Paragliding with AI: Multimodal Adventures in RNA Biology and Digital Pathology” – Prof. Raphaëlle Luisier (University of Bern)
14:45 – 15:30: Networking session
16:00: Social activity

9:00 – 11:45: Session 1 – Fundamentals of graph AI
- “A short introduction to graph machine learning” – Prof. Xiaowen Dong (University of Oxford)
- Prof. Pietro Lio (University of Cambridge)

12:00 – 14:00: Barbecue & Grill lunch
14:00 – 15:30: Session 2 – Graphs in biomedicine
- “Geometric optimal transport: Applications to single-cell and protein backbone generation” – Prof. Alex Tong (Québec AI Institute)
- “Where structure meets biology: Graph AI for biomedicine” – Dr. Dorina Thanou (EPFL)
15:30: Concluding the week: insights and farewell