Ivet Bahar & Lilianne Mujica-Parodi to Shape the Conversation on AI and Life Sciences at SUNY AI Symposium

Dr. Ivet Bahar, Director of the Laufer Center, will participate in the panel "The Multiscale Intelligence: AI's Role in Understanding Life Across Disciplines" on Tuesday, April 14th, alongside panelists Dr. Heather Lynch (ecological AI) and Dr. Joel Saltz (digital pathology), moderated by Dr. Anisha R. Kumar. The discussion will explore how AI is transforming discovery across every scale of biological inquiry — from the protein molecule to the planetary ecosystem — and what common challenges and opportunities unite researchers working at such different levels of complexity.

Dr. Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi (LC Resident Faculty) will join the Neuro-AI panel on Wednesday, April 15, moderated by Dr. Alfredo Fontanini of Stony Brook University. The session is expected to examine how AI methods are accelerating research into brain function, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and the development of computational tools that can model and predict neural circuit behavior.

Together, the two panels in which Laufer Center faculty are featured span some of the most consequential intersections between AI and biology today — from the molecular machinery of drug interactions to the neural circuits underlying human cognition and disease. Their participation reflects not only the breadth of the Laufer Center's research mission, but the growing role that physics-grounded, computationally rigorous science is playing in shaping the future of AI-driven discovery.

The full symposium program, speaker list, and registration are available at stonybrook.edu/ai_symposium.

Agenda: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/ai_symposium/agenda.php