Join us for an in-person Distinguished Panel event featuring Sean Mooney, Director of the Center for Information Technology at NIH, moderated by Kristi Holmes.
Title: "AI and Modern Cyberinfrastructure: Enabling the Next Wave of Interdisciplinary Discovery"
This panel bring together Dr. Sean Mooney, Director of the NIH Center for Information Technology, Dr. Abel Kho, co-director of the Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence and Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and Joe Paris, Associate Vice President, Northwestern University IT Services and Support, to examine how advances in artificial intelligence and modern cyberinfrastructure are transforming a broad range of scientific and technological domains. Drawing on themes such as AI‑driven analytics, modular data platforms, secure cloud services, and integrated high‑performance computing environments, the discussion will consider how these capabilities now underpin interdisciplinary work across computing, engineering, public health, and more. Considering infrastructure that includes enterprise‑scale networks, cloud resources, and research computing services, the panel will explore how AI encourages new forms of collaboration, enabling multimodal data integration and responsible, scalable analytics across sectors. The session will highlight how AI‑enabled approaches are reshaping discovery and innovation, and fostering the shared environments, data frameworks, and cross‑disciplinary partnerships needed to solve complex scientific and societal challenges.
Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.
Sean Mooney, PhD
Director of the Center for Information Technology
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Sean Mooney, Ph.D., serves as the Director of the NIH Center for Information Technology and the NIH Associate Director for Information Technology, Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity (AD ITCC). As the Director of CIT, he is responsible for providing leadership, vision, and direction for CIT. This includes overseeing an approximately $400 million portfolio that includes a world-renowned supercomputer that allows researchers to conduct large-scale data analyses; a state-of-the-art network that enables research across NIH and around the world; cloud-based services that give researchers a cost-effective way to access datasets and advanced computational tools and services; and the latest collaboration tools to promote flexibility and productivity.
Before joining CIT, Dr. Mooney served as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. He also served as Chief Research Information Officer of UW Medicine, Interim Director for the UW Institute for Medical Data Science, Associate Director of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and Director of Informatics for the UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences. Dr. Mooney holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, San Francisco, a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and he was an American Cancer Society John Peter Hoffman Fellow in the Department of Genetics and Stanford Medical Informatics at Stanford University. Dr. Mooney is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
