Intelligent Biology and Medicine in 2023: Advancing Interdisciplinary Education, Collaboration, and Innovation in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

由于生物技术和计算能力的进步，生物信息学、基因组学、系统生物学和智能计算领域在过去二十年中得到了快速发展。这些领域的研究需要跨学科的训练和合作，这对学生和初级研究者来说都是具有挑战性的。国际智能生物与医学会议（ICIBM）成立于2012年，其目标是向各种各样的学员和年轻研究者（包括学员、教师、教师、科学家和工程师）推广信息科学、技术和教育，并为这些领域的思想交流和合作提供一个论坛。该奖项为20名学生和4名主讲人提供资金，参加将于2022年7月在佛罗里达州坦帕举行的智能生物学和医学国际会议（CBM）。学员将参加几项活动，包括：i)教程和研讨会，ii)海报会议，iii)与主讲人的2小时会议，iii)与主讲人和组织者的交流晚宴。ICIBM 2023的成功举办将帮助这些学员和初级研究人员从杰出的演讲者、教程和研讨会中学习尖端技术，分享他们令人兴奋的研究成果，建立合作关系，从其他同行那里获得建议，并在快速发展的数据科学和人工智能领域建立更好的职业生涯。该奖项将为ICIBM 2023的一系列跨学科、教育和科学活动提供支持，特别关注数据科学和人工智能。会议将包括4位主题演讲者和4位知名学者的8场杰出演讲、4场辅导课和研讨会、1场技术创新会议、1场海报展示会议和1场“大数据下的人工智能：早期学员的承诺”会议。与以往一样，会议将提供丰富的合作和互动机会，并鼓励初级和成熟的研究人员开展教育和互动活动。ICIBM将制定项目和活动，支持有才华的学员和年轻科学家的职业发展，包括未被充分代表的少数民族、妇女和残疾人。这笔资金将用于支付4位主题演讲者的费用，并允许组织者通过旅行资助支持20名学员积极参加ICIBM 2023的所有科学和技术会议。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The fields of bioinformatics, genomics, systems biology, and intelligent computing have been under rapid growth during the past two decades, thanks to the advances in biotechnologies and computing power. Research in these fields requires interdisciplinary training and collaboration, which is challenging for both students and junior investigators. The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) was developed in 2012, with its goal to promote information science, technology, and education to a great variety of trainees and young investigators, including trainees, faculty, teachers, scientists, and engineers, and to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas and collaboration in these areas. This award provides funding for 20 students and four keynote speakers to attend the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (CBM) to be held in July 2022 in Tampa, FL. The trainees will participate in several activites including: i) tutorials and workshops, ii) poster session, iii) a 2 hour session with keynote speakers, iii) networking dinner with keynote speakers and the organizers. The successful completion of ICIBM 2023 will help these trainees and junior investigators learn cutting-edge technologies from distinguished speakers and tutorials and workshops, share their exciting research works, build collaborations, gain advice from other peers, and build better careers in the rapidly evolving data science and artificial intelligence fields. This award will provide support to develop and provide a series of interdisciplinary, educational and scientific events in ICIBM 2023, with a specific focus on data science and artificial intelligence. The conference program will include eight distinguished lectures from four keynote speakers and four eminent scholars, four tutorials and workshops, a technology innovation session, a poster presentation session, and an Artificial Intelligence on Big Data: Promise for Early-stage Trainees session. As before, the conference will provide abundant collaborative and interactive opportunities, and encourage educational and interactive initiatives for both junior and established researchers. ICIBM will develop program and events to support the career development of talented trainees and young scientists, including underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. The financial support will cover the expenses for 4 keynote speakers, as well as allow the organizers to support 20 trainees to actively participate in all scientific and technical sessions at ICIBM 2023 through travel grants.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.