NIH/ODSS Cloud Supplement Program PI Meeting

January 17-18, 2024, 11am — 5pm EST

This meeting will foster the development of a cohesive NIH cloud computing community by uniting PIs (Principal Investigators) of the cloud supplement programs for a two-day gathering that will provide a platform for participants to exchange insights on their projects, celebrate accomplishments, discuss best practices, share lessons learned, and engage in collaborative discussions.

Attendees

Principal Investigators from the following cloud supplement programs have been invited:

  • HVD 20 - FY2020 Request for ODSS Funds to Catalyze Migration to the Cloud via the STRIDES Initiative (also known as FY20 High-Value Datasets program)
  • HVD 21 - FY2021 Request for ODSS Funds to Catalyze Migration to and Usage of the Cloud via the STRIDES Initiative (also known as HVD 21)
  • HVD 22 - FY2022 Funding Request Notice for ODSS High-Value Datasets Program
  • HVD 23 - FY2023 Funding Request Notice for Supporting the Exploration of Cloud in NIH Intramural Research and Contracts (also known as HVD 23)
  • NOT-OD-23-070 - Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative Supplements to Support the Exploration of Cloud in NIH-supported Research

Featured Speakers

Dr. Belinda Seto — Deputy Director, NIH/ODSS

Dr. Belinda Seto was appointed deputy director of the ODSS in January 2020. A former deputy director of the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, she brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the position. After earning her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University, Dr. Seto completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Stadtman Lab of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She researched hepatitis B and vaccine development at the FDA. She oversaw the analysis and reporting of NIH grants data and trends through the Office of Extramural Research. Her experience in database management, analysis and extramural grants policies led her to serve on the NIH Scientific Data Council and the Scientific Data Policy Council.​

Laura Biven, Ph.D. — Lead, Integrated Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, NIH/ODSS

Since joining NIH in 2020, Dr. Laura Biven has led the Integrated Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies (IIET) branch in ODSS. She is responsible for strategic planning, coordination, and oversight of programs that integrate independently managed, cloud data resources across the NIH to advance NIH’s vision for an integrated, FAIR biomedical data ecosystem. She also oversees multidisciplinary NIH-wide programs that focus on integrating computational, mathematical, and biomedical research communities around emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, (AI/ML) quantum computing, and digital twins.

Agenda

Day 1
TimeEvent
11:00-11:05am ETWELCOME Dr. Fenglou Mao, Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs, NIH/ODSS
11:05-11:30am ETNIH Data Science Strategic Plan Dr. Belinda Seto, Deputy Director, NIH/ODSS
11:30am-12:00pm ETODSS Data Infrastructure and Cloud Programs Overviews Dr. Laura Biven, Lead, Integrated Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, NIH/ODSS
12:00-12:20pm ETBEGINNING OF THE MEETING POLL Dr. Fenglou Mao, Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs, NIH/ODSS
12:20-1:20pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 1 TRACK A Dr. Joseph Marcotrigiano (Moderator), Senior Investigator, NIH/NIAID Implementation of AWS Cloud Computing for cryoEM Data Processing Dr. Qian Zhu, Team lead, NIH/NCATS Rare Disease Alert System Dr. Tieming Liu, Professor, Oklahoma State University Empowering Cloud Computing for Non-image-based Diabetic Retinopathy Screening by Designing an EHR-oriented Incremental Learning Framework Dr. Robert Schuler, Lead Scientist, USC Information Sciences Institute Hybrid- and Multi-Cloud Storage Strategies for Cost-effective Deployment of Data Resources Dr. Jack DiGiovanna, Chief Science Officer, Velsera Using Seven Bridges’ CAVATICA to Empower Use of the INCLUDE DCC Platform TRACK B Dr. Johnny Tam (Moderator), Senior Investigator, NIH/NEI, Dr. Vineeta Das, Postdoc, NEI, NIH, Dr. Jiamin Liu, Staff Scientist, Advanced Imaging and Microscopy (AIM) Resource, NIH Cloud Computing for Optical Image Restoration and Intramural Training Mr. William Longabaugh, Senior Software Engineer, Institute for Systems Biology NCI CRDC Cloud Transfer of TP53 Website and Database Dr. William Wasswa, Co-PI Admin Supplement, Mbarara University of Science and Technology MUST Data Science Research Hub (MUDSReH) - Democratized Trusted Research Environment (dTRE) Dr. Sandra Safo, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota MultiViewPortal: Towards a Scalable Web Application for Multiview Learning
1:20-1:30pm ETBREAK
1:30-2:30pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 2 TRACK A Dr. Kim Pruitt (Moderator),Acting Director, NCBI, NIH/NLM SRA RNA-seq Precomputed Alignments and Gene Expression Counts Dr. Lee Cooper, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, Dr. Andinet Enquobahrie, Senior Director of Medical Computing, Kitware Inc. Cloud Strategies for Improving Cost, Scalability, and Accessibility of a Machine Learning System for Pathology Images Ms. Kailing Chen, Cloud Architect, CBIIT DCEG Analytic Tools Suite Dr. Kelly Crotty Program Director, NCI, Ms. Kailing Chen, Cloud Architect, CBIIT COnsortium of METabolomics Studies Dr. Georgiy Bobashev, Senior Fellow, RTI International Cloud Computing in Opioid Policy Modeling TRACK B Dr. Kenneth Young (Moderator),CIO/Assistant Professor, University of South Florida - Health Informatics Institute Cloud Migration of Data and Data Analysis Platform of The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in The Young Study (TEDDY) Mr. Mark Weston,CEO, Netrias, LLC Scaling CDE Curation Model Training Dr. Salvador Dura-Bernal, PI, Assistant Professor, SUNY Downstate Dissemination of a Tool for Data-driven Multiscale Modeling of Brain Circuits (U24EB028998) Dr. Adrienne Campbell, Investigator, NIH/NHLBI Inline Image Reconstruction of Dynamic 3D Data Using a GPU-enabled Cloud Implementation Dr. Jeffrey Grethe, PI, NIDDK Information Network (dkNET), University of California, San Diego Migration of Core Applications from the NIDDK information Network (dkNET)
2:30-2:40pm ETBREAK
2:40-3:40pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 3 TRACK A Dr. Yanbin Yin (Moderator),Professor, University of Nebraska Lincoln Exploration of Cloud Computing for CAZyme Research Mr. Srinivas Chepuri, Lead Enterprise Architect, ImmPort - NIAID/NIH ImmPort - NIH STRIDES: Facilitating Access of Immunological Data in ImmPort for Analyses Dr. Pritam Mukherjee, Clinical Center, Staff Scientist, NIH Small Bowel Segmentation - Challenges and Directions Dr. Ben Heavner, Senior Research Scientist, University of Washington Building a Cross-study Data Set for the PRIMED Consortium Dr. Alton Bodley, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the West Indies Exploration of Cloud Solutions to Enhance Global Infectious Diseases Research Training Program Activities TRACK B Dr. Albert Lai (Moderator),Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Exploration of Cloud-based High Performance Computing Dr. Kirsten Herrick, Program Director; System Owner and COR for ASA24, NCI, Mr. Tom Nicholson, Senior Developer, Westat/NCI Migrating ASA24 Automated Self-Administered 24-hour Dietary Assessment Tool Dr. Alexander Welsch, Contractor Programmer/Data Manager, NCATS/IFX (Axle) Public Substance Registration Using the Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) Dr. Ariana Familiar, Senior Data Scientist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Enhancing Kids First Digital Pathology Datasets Via Scalable, Cloud-based Data Management, Processing, and Analytics Dr. Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Supervising Computer Scientist, University of Southern California ATLAS-D2K - Exploring Cloud Optimization
3:40-3:50pm ETBREAK
3:50-4:50pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 4 TRACK A Dr. Vivek Kumar (Moderator), Associate Professor, The Jackson Laboratory Google Cloud Pipeline for Mouse Behavior and Frailty Assessment for the Aging Research Community Dr. Alison Motsinger-Reif,Branch Chief, NIH/NIEHS Genome-wide Analysis Using Cloud Computing in the All of Us Researcher Workbench Dr. Davide Ortolan, Postdoc, NEI/NIH REShAPE: A Machine Learning Software for Cell Morphometry Analysis of Epithelial Monolayers Dr. Ben Hitz, MPI, Stanford University IGVF Cloud Computing TRACK B Dr. Janelle Cortner (Moderator),Director, Data Management and Analysis Program, CBIIT, NCI Leveraging Intramural Data Platforms for Accelerated Data Sharing Dr. Michael Nalls, Lead, NIH CARD Cloud Forward Data Sharing: “Limit Testing” with Long Reads at CARD Dr. Matt Howe, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Implementation of Cloud Based Computing in a Modern Systems/Behavioral-Neuroscience Laboratory Dr. Rainer Hilscher, Senior Research Data Scientist, RTI International, Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe, Director, Community Health & Implementation Research Program, RTI International Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) Treatment Simulation
4:50-5:00pm ETCLOSE Dr. Fenglou Mao, Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs, NIH/ODSS
Day 2
TimeEvent
11:00-11:10am ETINTRODUCTION Dr. Laura Biven, Lead, Integrated Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, NIH/ODSS
11:10am-12:10pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 5Professor Michael Schatz (Moderator),Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology, Johns Hopkins University “T2T-omics” at scale: Improving our understanding of human genetic variation using AnVIL Dr. Shaun Purcell, Associate Professor, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School National Sleep Research Resource Dr. Marcelo Freire, Associate Professor, J. Craig Venter Institute Cloud-Based Machine Learning and Biomarker Visual Analytics for Salivary Proteomics Dr. Daniel Veltri, Health Scientist (Data Science), NIH/NIAID PII-secured AWS Computing Environment (PACE)- Some lessons learned working with PII in the STRIDES AWS Environment
12:10-12:20pm ETBREAK
12:20-1:20pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 6Dr. Zhiyong Lu (Moderator),Deputy Director for Literature Search, NCBI; Senior Investigator, NIH/NLM Scaling Up Literature Annotations with Cloud Computing in PubTator 3.0 Dr. Christopher Zalewski, Clinical Research Audiologist, NIDCD, NIH Generation of an NIH-wide Clinical Database of Hearing and Balance Function Dr. Nathan Salomonis, Associate Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center The NHBLI LungMAP Cloud Ecosystem: Connecting Diverse Digital and Lung Biology Resources Dr. Cody Baker, Sr. Neurodata Scientist; Ms. Urjoshi Sinha, Computer Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Evaluation and Optimization of NWB Neurophysiology Software and Data in the Cloud Dr. Javed Khan, Senior Investigator, CCR, NCI Migration to Cloud of the Oncogenomics Next Generation Sequencing Pipelines & Databases for CCDI and Other Pediatric Cancers
1:20-1:30pm ETBREAK
1:30-2:30pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 7Dr. Deborah Duran (Moderator),Senior Advisor, Office of the Director, NIH/NIMHD ScHARe - Science collaborative for Health disparities and Artificial intelligence bias Reduction Dr. Govind Bhagavatheeshwaran, Staff Scientist, NINDS/NIH Medical Image Processing and Structured Storage Dr. Aparna Gullapalli, Assistant Professor, Mind Research Network Cloud Based Neuroimaging Analysis for Identifying Traumatic Brain Injuries and Related Changes Dr. Bing Yu, Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Development of a Cloud-based Analytical Tool for Polygenic Risk Score and its Implication in Heart Failure Research Dr. Keyvan Farahani, NIH/NHLBI A Sustainable Medical Imaging Challenge Cloud Infrastructure (MedICCI)
2:30-2:40pm ETBREAK
2:40-3:40pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 8During this breakout session, we will explore barriers, challenges, opportunities, including novel ideas and future directions in cloud computing for biomedical research. The session will be led by NIH program officers.TRACK A Dr. Fenglou Mao (Moderator), Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs, NIH/ODSS TRACK B Mr. Nick Weber (Moderator),Acting Director, Office of Scientific Computing, Cloud Services Program Manager, STRIDES Initiative Lead, NIH/CIT TRACK C Mr. Mike Conway (Moderator),Data Systems Architect/Engineer, Office of Data Science, NIH/NIEHS
3:40-3:50pm ETBREAK
3:50-4:30pm ETBREAKOUT SESSION 8 REPORT BACK Dr. Fenglou Mao, Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs, NIH/ODSS
4:30-4:50pm ETEND OF THE MEETING POLL Dr. Fenglou Mao, Program Officer, Cloud Computing Programs, NIH/ODSS
4:50-5:00pm ETCLOSEOUT & ADJOURN