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EPIC Advance Fall 2024

October 8th, 2024 - Tuesday

8:30am Breakfast (Wozniak Lounge)
9am Intro
9.10 AM - 9.35 AM - J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, “Beyond Code Generation: LLM-supported Exploration of the Program Design Space”
9.35 AM - 10.00 AM - Chase Stokes, “Writing as a Tool in Visualization Design”
10:00 AM -10:50 AM - David Barstow - Keynote (on data meets journalism)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM - Sepanta Zeighami, “NUDGE: Lightweight Non-Parametric Fine-Tuning of Embeddings for Retrieval”
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM - Madelon Hulsebos, “Retrieval Systems for Structured Data: The Critical Missing Piece for Grounding LLM-Powered Query Interfaces in Domain-Specific Data”
11.50 AM - 12.15 AM - Liana Patel, “LOTUS: Enabling Bulk Semantic Processing with LLMs”

12:15 PM- 1:35 PM- Lunch (Wozniak Lounge)
1:35 PM - 2:00 PM - Eric Rawn, “Pagebreaks: Multi-Cell Scopes in Computational Notebooks”
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Joseph Gonzalez-Keynote (on the future of data-centric computation with LLMs)
3.00 PM - 3.10 PM - Break
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM - Shreya Shankar, “Complex Document Processing with DocETL: An Agent-Based Query Rewriting and Evaluation System”
* 3.35 PM - 4.00 PM - Sora Kanosue, “Building Human-In-The-Loop Data Transformation Tools”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Poster Session + light refreshments (Soda 5th floor atrium); on topics including reverse-engineering structure from PDFs, LLM-powered data discovery, demonstration/output-based program synthesis, low-resource languages, explanations for auto-generated programs.
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner at Comal Restaurant