R+AI 2025 Program
Day 1: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
All times Eastern
| Start Time | End Time | Duration | Title of Talk | Speaker and Title (affiliation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | 10:40 AM | 40 mins | Keynote: Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research | Joe Cheng, CTO, Posit |
| 10:45 AM | 11:20 AM | 35 mins | Me, Myself, and Claude | Jasmine Daly, Principal Consultant & Founder, Daly Analytics |
| 11:20 AM | 11:55 AM | 35 mins | Reviving Forgotten Code with LLMs | Jonathan Pearce, Data Scientist, Lightspeed Commerce |
| 11:55 AM | 12:30 PM | 35 mins | Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R | Garrick Aden-Buie, Software Engineer, Posit |
| 12:30 PM | 1:05 PM | 35 mins | Building a Better R AI Assistant: A Multi-Agent Approach | Pawel Rucki, Principal Data Scientist, Roche |
| 1:05 PM | 1:40 PM | 35 mins | mini007 - A Lightweight Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration in R | Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden, Analytics Engineer, HDI Global SE |
| 1:40 PM | 2:15 PM | 35 mins | Analyzing LLM Evaluations | Max Kuhn, Software Engineer, Posit PBC |
| 2:15 PM | 2:50 PM | 35 mins | Biomedical ontology dictionary creation with embeddings and local LLMs | Thomas Charlon, Research Associate, Harvard Medical School |
| 2:50 PM | 3:25 PM | 35 mins | Brand your docs, apps, and ggplots using LLMs | Umair Durrani, PhD, Data Scientist, Presage Group Inc. |
Day 2: Thursday, November 13, 2025
All times Eastern
| Start Time | End Time | Duration | Title of Talk | Speaker and Title (affiliation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | 10:35 AM | 35 mins | Introducing geodl: An R package for geospatial semantic segmentation | Aaron Maxwell, Associate Professor, West Virginia University |
| 10:35 AM | 11:10 AM | 35 mins | How deep learning helps build results that beat prior records | Russ Conte |
| 11:10 AM | 11:45 AM | 35 mins | Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) in the Age of LLMs and ChatGPT | Szilard Pafka, PhD, Chief Scientist, Epoch |
| 11:45 AM | 12:20 PM | 35 mins | Tracking the Evolution of R and Python Tools for GenAI | Xu Fei, Senior Solutions Engineer, A2-Ai |
| 12:20 PM | 12:55 PM | 35 mins | kuzco | Computer Vision made easy | Frank Hull, Director of Data Science & Analytics |
| 12:55 PM | 1:30 PM | 35 mins | Bringing Stable Diffusion to R: An R-First Implementation of Text-to-Image Generation | Troy Hernandez, PhD, Founder, cornball.ai |
| 1:30 PM | 2:05 PM | 35 mins | CancerClarity app: Enhancing cancer data visualization with AI-generated narratives | Edgar Muñoz, Statistician, Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio |
| 2:05 PM | 2:40 PM | 35 mins | R+AI: Use RAG from your database to gain insights into the R Consortium | Mark Hornick, Senior Director, Oracle Machine Learning; Sherry LaMonica, Consulting MTS, Oracle Machine Learning |
| 3:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 2 hours | Workshop: From Prompts to Agents: Building & Evaluating R + LLM Workflows | Devin Pastoor, Chief Technology and Product Officer, A2-AI; Xu Fei, Senior Solutions Engineer, A2-AI; Aathira Anil Kumar, Software Engineer, A2-AI |