Fall 2026 Bioinformatics Workshops: AI for Biomedical and Life Science Research
This fall, join us for a workshop series exploring how AI is transforming biomedical and life science research. Sessions will be co-taught by NVIDIA experts and local researchers.
NVIDIA specialists will introduce the NVIDIA AI-enabled platform for healthcare and life sciences, with a focus on accelerated solutions in key areas including medical imaging, genomics, drug discovery, large language models, and AI research assistant agents for biomedical applications.
Local researchers will lead hands-on sessions showcasing their own work in AI for biomedical and life science research, while also guiding participants through using Pitt's CRCD clusters for AI research.
Open to all University of Pittsburgh students, faculty, staff, and affiliates — free of charge.
All sessions will be held virtually.
Note: The hands-on portions require access to CRCD clusters, which need an account. If you don't already have one, a temporary account will be created for you. No software installation is needed on your personal laptop.
Basic familiarity with Python and the Linux environment is helpful but not required — all scripts will be thoroughly explained so that every attendee can follow the reasoning behind them.
1. NVIDIA AI-enabled platform for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Sep. 8, Tuesday, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Presented by Ben Busby
This session provides an overview of NVIDIA AI-enabled platform for healthcare and life sciences. It will specifically highlight accelerated solutions for research areas such as medical imaging, genomics, drug discovery, LLMs and biomedical AI research assistant agents.
2. Clara Parabricks
Sep. 29, Tuesday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
3. Single-cell analysis using RAPIDS-singlecell
Oct. 6, Tuesday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Presented by Dhivyaa Rajasundaram
4. spatiAlytica, an AI assistant system for spatial omics analysis
Oct. 13, Tuesday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Presented by Yufei Huang
5. Building your own LLMs
Oct. 20, Tuesday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Presented by Dhivyaa Rajasundaram
6. Cell segmentation methods using CellPose-SAM and related techniques
Oct. 27, Tuesday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Presented by Jiebiao Wang