Program and recordings of the UNIGE Data Science Day 2021

8h30-8h45: Welcome and introduction, by Guive Khan-Mohammad, Program Manager of the CCSD – Uni Mail, MR290.

8h45-10h00: Data Science and SDGs: Data-driven policy for public good – Uni Mail, MR290

Bertrand Loison, Vice Director General, Head of the Data Science Competence Center at Swiss Federal Statistical Office, “Data Science for Public Good & SDGs: Key Initiatives at the United Nations and in Switzerland.

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Fabrice Calame, Senior Advisor at the SDG’s Office, University of Geneva, “I believe I can fly” – building a data-driven flying policy at UNIGE”.

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10h00-10h30 : Coffee break (offered by the CCSD) – Uni Mail, Cafeteria Marx , and Stands – Uni Mail – Hall (Surface 1):

High Perfomance Computing and Scientific Computing Support – Yann Sagon, DISTIC & Jean-Luc Falcone, Faculty of Sciences
Bioinformatics Support Platform for Data Analysis – Julien Prados, Faculty of Medicine
Consulting Plateform in Applied Mathematics and Statistics – Sylvain Sardy, Faculty of Sciences, & Bart Vandereycken, Faculty of Sciences
Open Science – Data Support – Research Data’ team
Yareta – e-Research’s team
DH Portal - e-Research’s team

10h30-12h30 : Data Science and SDGs : an overview of UNIGE’s researchers contributions – Uni Mail, MR290

Anthony Lehmann, Institute for Environmental Sciences, “Describing the global socio-ecological system with essential variables”.

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Pascal Peduzzi, Institute for Environmental Sciences, “The World Environment Situation Room: a UNEP platform that aims at harnessing big data on the environment for sustainable development and humanitarian action”.

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Pierre Lacroix, Institute for Environmental Sciences, “MapX : an open geospatial platform to manage, analyze and visualize data on natural resources and the environment”.

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Gregory Giuliani, Institute for Environmental Sciences, “Monitoring SDGs from Space”.

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Jonathan Chambers, Institute for Environmental Studies, “Data-driven research in energy use in buildings: collaborative scalable computing with Python and Jupyterhub”.

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Flann Chambers, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, “Agent-based modeling of tree canopy growth in Geneva”.

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Igor Mathias Almeida, Geneva School of Economics and Management, “Co-calibrating Short Term, Mixed-Methods Based Momentary Assessments for Physical and Psychological Outcomes with Long Term Quality of Life Outcomes in Older Adults: The coQoL Method”.

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Erol Orel, Institute of Global Health, “Topic modelling of scientific articles: an example using the CORD-19 database”.

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Stefan Sperlich, Geneva School of Economics and Management, “SDG indicators – boon or bane ?”.

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Marta Pittavino, Geneva School of Economics and Management, “A Bayesian hierarchical model to integrate dietary exposure and biomarker measurements for the risk of cancer”.

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François Grey, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, “Citizen Science, Data Science and the SDGs: the case for publicly generated non-traditional data sources”.

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Gilles Falquet, Geneva School of Economics and Management, “Citizen science and SDGs: A conceptual model to facilitate project interoperation and data interchange”.

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Christian Lovis, Faculty of Medecine, “Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) national strategy for health data interoperability”.

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Volodymyr Savchenko, Faculty of Sciences, “Innovative approaches to enable astronomical tools for inclusive and equitable education”.

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Thomas Maillart, Geneva School of Economics and Management, “How AI research in autism may inspire computational diplomacy subtitle : report on the future of an interdisciplinary data science research journey”.

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Lucia Gomez Teijeiro & Giuseppe Ugazio, Geneva School of Econonomics and Management : “Mapping the Swiss Philanthropic Landscape through big-data”.

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Maxime Stauffer, Geneva Science-Policy Interface, “The empirical reality of science-policy collaborations”.

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Tommaso Venturini, Geneva School of Social Sciences, “Digital methods and quali-quantitative approaches for social sciences”.

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Minerva Rivas Velarde, Institute for Ethics, History and the Humanities, “Consent as a compositional act – a Framework that provides clarity for the retention and use of data.

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Yaniv Benhamou, Faculty of Law, “ Collective dimension of data through copyleft licenses and data trust».

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12h30-14h00 : Lunch break (offered by the CCSD) – Uni Mail, Cafeteria Marx and Stands – Uni Mail – Hall (Surface 1)

14h00-15h30 : The CCSD in 2020-21 : a hub for thriving interdisciplinary collaborations – Uni Mail, MR290

Didier Wernli, Global Studies Institute, Stephan Davidshofer, Geneva Center for Security Policy, Jean-Luc Falcone, Faculty of Sciences, Bastien Chopard, Faculty of Sciences, & Nicolas Levrat, Global Studies Institute, “Developing a multinetwork big data approach to the study of global epidemic governance: A pilot study on norm diffusion regarding antimicrobial resistance”.

Moupiya Maji, Faculty of Sciences, Anne Verhamme, Faculty of Sciences, Marta Pittavino, Geneva School of Economics and Management, & Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Geneva School of Economics and Management, “Data science in astronomy: Predicting the sources of reionization”.

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Simon Gabay, Faculty of Humanities, & Jean-Luc Falcone, Faculty of Sciences, “FoNDUE (FOrmes Numérisées et Détection Unifiée des Ecritures) : An Handwritting Text Recognition infrastructure for Geneva”.

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15h30-16h00 : Coffee break (offered by the CCSD) – Uni Mail, Cafeteria Marx and Stands – Uni Mail – Hall (Surface 1)

16h00-17h30 : Round tables

“Beyond SDGs: Measuring and Forecasting for taking action” – Uni Mail, MR160 (and MR030 if necessary), Organized by Anthony Lehmann, Institute for Environmental Sciences & Pierre Lacroix, Institute for Environmental Sciences.
“How to use copyleft licenses and collective governance of data through data trusts, in order to increase data flows” – Uni Mail MR290, Organized by Yaniv Benhamou, Faculty of Law, as part of the “AI Tech and Policy Talks”, launched by the Digital Law Center.