NSF ECR WORKSHOP 2026
DATE OF WORKSHOP: APRIL 7, 2026 (8AM to 5PM)

ECR Training Workshop Topics:
- Morning Session: 9.30AM- 12PM (HPC):
- Topic: Introduction to High Performance Computing:
- Accessing the TAMU HPRC Launch Computing Resource, Introduction to the JupyterLab interface, Python on HPC.
- Topic: Introduction to High Performance Computing:
- Afternoon Session A: 1PM-4PM (Health Sciences) :
- Topic: Applications of AI/ML in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences:
- Protein Structure Prediction with AlphaFold 3, Genomic Variant Calling with Google's DeepVariant, Single-cell Omics Data Analysis with scci-tools, Data Mining with BioBERT
- Topic: Applications of AI/ML in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences:
- Afternoon Session B: 1PM-4PM (Computer Science) :
- NLP and Large Language Models: A Hands-on Introduction with Transformers:
- Tokenization, Converting text to numerical IDs, Generating embeddings with BERT, Sentiment analysis, Question answering
- NLP and Large Language Models: A Hands-on Introduction with Transformers:
*Note: Afternoon sessions run concurrently.*