Workshop on Physics, Medicine, Energy, and AI

Key Speakers

Key Speakers for the Workshop

Bonnie Fleming Professor, University of Chicago  Bonnie Fleming is a leading experimental physicist whose work spans neutrino science, instrumentation, and large-scale scientific collaboration. She has played major roles in advancing detector technologies and in building interdisciplinary research connections relevant to physics, medicine, energy, and AI.

Chin-Tu Chen Professor of Radiology Committee on Cancer Biology, University of Chicago Chin-Tu Chen is Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago whose research centers on integrative multi-modality molecular imaging. His work spans imaging physics and instrumentation, image reconstruction and processing, quantitative and intelligent image analysis, and the development of imaging tracers and probes, with applications in cancer, brain disorders, cardiopulmonary disease, and diabetes.

Carol Tamminga Lydia Bryant Test Distinguished University Chair in Psychiatric Research, UT Southwestern Carol Tamminga is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center whose research focuses on schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is widely recognized for her work on the biological basis of psychiatric illness, including mechanisms of psychosis, memory dysfunction, and psychiatric biotypes.

Chien-Min Kao Professor of Radiology Committee on Medical Physics, University of Chicago Chien-Min Kao is Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago whose research focuses on positron emission tomography (PET), molecular imaging, and tomographic image reconstruction. His work centers on developing novel detector technologies and advanced data-processing methods to build high-performance PET systems for translational and clinical imaging.

Antonio Ereditato Research Professor,University of Chicago and Associate Researcher, Fermilab Antonio Ereditato is Research Professor at the University of Chicago and an experimental physicist known for his work in neutrino physics and advanced particle detector development. His research has spanned major international programs at CERN, Fermilab, and Gran Sasso, with contributions to experiments including OPERA, T2K, ATLAS, and DUNE, as well as detector applications in medical research.

George Fleming Deputy Director, Theory Division, Fermilab George Fleming is Deputy Theory Division Director and Senior Scientist at Fermilab whose work is rooted in theoretical particle physics and scientific computing. With prior research appointments at Yale University, Jefferson Lab, and other leading institutions, his work brings strong expertise in fundamental physics, computation, and theory-driven scientific discovery.