2026 | Concluding Symposium & Professional Development Day
Deadline to Register: July 6, 2026
July 23 - 24, 2026
The Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale (BDSY) Program’s Concluding Symposium and Professional Development Day, taking place on July 23 and 24, 2026, serve as capstone events for the program. The concluding symposium is open to the University.
Concluding Symposium
Thursday, July 23, 2026 | Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room (120 High Street)
Featured Keynote Speakers
Rahul Ladhania, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Informatics
University of Michigan
Rohan Khera, MD, MS
Associate Professor Term of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Yale University
Kara Rudolph, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
Symposium Schedule
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Program Reflections
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
BDSY Program Director
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Keynote Lecture
Moving Beyond 'Does it Work': Heterogeneity, Mechanisms, and Bias in AI for Public Health
Rahul Ladhania, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Informatics
University of Michigan
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Keynote Lecture
Intelligence to Impact: Agentic, Multimodal AI for Cardiovascular Care
Rohan Khera, MD, MS
Associate Professor Term of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Yale University
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM
BDSY Student Poster Session
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM
BDSY Student Presentations
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Keynote Lecture
Using Data Science to Inform the Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Kara Rudolph, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dinner & Celebration (by invitation only)
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall
Professional Development Day
Friday, July 24, 2026 | Winslow Auditorium (60 College Street)
Featured Speakers
Rahul Ladhania, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Informatics
University of Michigan
Harsh Parikh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Yale School of Public Health
Kara Rudolph, PhD, MHS
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
Professional Development Day Schedule
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Breakfast Career Chat
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
LinkedIn Profiles and Networking
Jackson Higginbottom, MPH
BDSY Program Manager
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Biostatistics Graduate Student Panel
Waveley Qiu & Hao Wang
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Statistics Admissions Panel
Max Lovig & Zhenia Rudyk
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Health Informatics and Computational Biology & BiomedicalInformatics (CBB) Admissions Panel
Terika McCall and Robert McDougal
Health Informatics: Caroline Gheen, Caprice Culkin
CBB: Varada Khanna, Inna Cohen
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Epidemiology Admissions Panel
Stark Huang & Reed Mszar
The remainder of the program is for BDSY Students and Staff only. Thank you for joining our programming!
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Program Evaluations
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Concluding Ceremony, Presentation of
Certificate of Completion & Journey Lecture
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
BDSY Director
