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The Chinese Association for Science and Technology, Greater New York is proud to host the 2023 CAST-GNY Annual Convention

Time：12:00 PM -6:00 PM Oct. 6, 2023(Sat.)

Location：Steinman Hall, City College of New York

AGENDA

12:30-12:40 pm Welcome Remarks
President of CAST GNY
Session I: AI Technology Advancement and Impacts
12:40-1:20 pm Keynote Speech: The Next AI
Dr. Hod Lipson
Professor of Engineering and Data Science at Columbia University US National Academy of Engineering Annual Gilbreth Lecturer
Forbes “Top 7 Data Scientists in The World”
1:20-1:50 pm AI Applications with Demos of Smart Cashier
Dr. Ching-Yung Lin
Founder and CEO of Graphen, Inc.
Ex-Chief Scientist for Graph Computing at IBM
Adjunct Professor at Columbia University
1:50-2:20 pm AI in Investment Trends and Cases
Dr. Kevin Chen
Chief Economist for Horizon Financial
Chairman and CEO of
Edoc Acquisition Corp.
Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University
2:20 -2:50 pm Coffee Break + Posters & Smart Robots Showcase
Session II: Clean Energy and Sustainability
2:50 -3:20 pm Research, Education, and Innovation to Foster a Clean and Resilient Energy Economy
Dr. Pankaj Lal
Professor of Earth and Environmental Studies at Montclair State U.
Founding Dir. of Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center
Received Early Career Awards from President Obama and NSF
3:20 -3:50 pm Transforming CO2into Aviation Fuel and Industrial Alcohols
Dr. LuboZhou
VP of Research, Development, & Engineering at Air Company
Ex-VP and Ex-CTO of Honeywell PMT APAC
Ex-Director of Honeywell China Sustainability Research Institute
3:50 -4:20 pm Challenges & Opportunities in Clean Energy R&D
Representative from Attentive Energy LLC
Attentive Energy offers renewables and is committed to providing wind energy opportunities to develop new industries. They primarily serve the fishing industry and sea consumers.
Session III: AI Tools for Teaching and Experiential Learning
4:20 -5:00 pm Keynote Speech: AI-Enhanced Learning Technology and
Potential Impactson Mental Health and Higher Education
Dr. XiangenHu
Full Professor at the U. of Memphis jointly appointed by three Departments –Psychology, Elec. and Comp. Engineering, and CS
Long collaboration with the U.S. Dept. of Defense on info systems
5:00 -5:30 pmAI in Ed. -LLMs, Agents, and Solution Architecture
Mr. Richard Tong
Chair of The IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee
Principal Architect at Carnegie Learning
Worked for Amplify Education, Knewton, & Squirrel AI
5:30 -6:00 pm AI and Experiential Learning
Ms. Angelene Huang
Superintendent of New York Military Academy (NYMA)
BoDMember of Yale International Alliance
Founder of Alliance for Impact (AFI)
Isaac Wiggins, STEM Instructor
Andrew Donnan, Robotics Technology Instructor
Patrick Xia, Student Inter

 

 

Advance Science and Technology for the Benefit of Humanity

27th CAST-USA

ANNUAL CONVENTION

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The Chinese Association for Science and Technology USA, Greater New York Chapter (CASTUSA-GNY) is proud to host the 27th CAST-USA Annual Convention, it aims to

  1. Bring science and technology communities across different disciplines together to exchange ideas and brainstorm for solutions to challenging problems that benefit humanity.
  2. Encourage younger generation of students and scholars to pursue their dreams in science and technology careers
  3. Help technology professionals to navigate and develop their careers
  4. Foster cooperation that may lead to successful startup ventures
  5. Match investors and entrepreneurs for mutual benefits
  6. Promote exchange and cooperation between science and technology communities in the US and China

The theme of the conference is: “Advance Science and Technology for the Benefit of Humanity”

Time

9:00 AM-9:00 PM Oct. 5, 2019(Sat.)

Location

Columbia University / International House (I-House)
500 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027

Agenda

2019 Annual Convention of Chinese Association of Science and Technology, USA (CAST-USA)

27th CAST-USA Annual Convention — Advance Science and Technology for the Benefit of Humanity

Title Sponsored by HOMNICEN EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY GROUP

9:00 AM- 9:00 PM

Oct.5,2019

 Columbia University, International House (I-House)
500 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027
9:00 AM~10:00 AM Registration
10.00 AM-10:15 AM Welcome Remarks
10:15 AM-11:00 AM

Keynote 1 :Nobel Laurate Eric Richard Kandel

Memory and Age-Related Memory Loss
11:00 AM-11:30 PM

Keynote 2: David D. Ho, M.D.

The development of drugs and vaccines to prevent HIV   
11:30 AM-12:00 PM Group Photo
12:15 PM-13:15 PM Lunch
13:30 PM-14: 00 PM

Keynote 3: Haifan Lin

 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Progress and Prospect
14:00 PM-14:45 PM

Keynote 4:Nobel Laureate Dr. Martin Chalfie

GFP: lighting up life
14:45 PM-15:15 PM

Meet with Nobel Laureates and Distinguished Scientists (in Home Room)
14:45 PM-15:00 PM

Coffee Break
15:00 PM -15:30 PM

Keynote5: Andrea Alu

Molding Light and Sound with Metamaterials
15:30 PM-16:00 PM

Keynote6: Jijun Xiong

Across Stack AI Systems Research – in an era of Cloud, Mobile and IoT
16:00 PM -17:00 PM Panel discussion
17:00 PM-18:00PM Networking

18:00 PM-21:00 PM

Award Dinner 

at I-House

 Speech from VIPs 

Keynote 7: Yaqin Zhang

Advances in Autonomous Driving
CAST-USA Awards Ceremony/CAST Young Elite Award (YEA)/CAST College Student Poster （CSP）Competition/CAST Young Eagles Cup (YEC) STEM Project Contest
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