3rd Biomedical STAR-AI Symposium – Student AI Data Competition

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Day 1: Event Information

Thursday April 16th, 2026 (9:00 AM – 5:30 PM EDT)
Georgia Tech Price Gilbert Library Conference Room 1280 – Scholars Event Theater, 686-704 Cherry St NW, Atlanta, GA 30332

ACTIVITY-01: Data Competition

To advance AI impact for biomedicine and healthcare with STAR principle, BME department is hosting Data Hackathon for student teams to explore different AI solutions for five real-world applications. Students can form a team from 1-5 people and join an AI Competition from until April 10th, 2026 (extended to April 13th, 2026, EOD):

April 16, 2026 Student Biomedical AI Showcase Schedule

  • 8:00am – 9:00am: Poster Setting Up
  • 9:20am – 9:30am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
  • 9:30am – 10:50am: Data Competition Session 1 – Presentations
  • 11:00am – 12:00pm: Industrial Panel
  • 12:30pm – 2:10: Data Competition Session 2 – Presentations
  • 2:10pm – 3:30pm: Poster Session
  • 3:30pm – 4:00pm: Award Announcement
  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm: Closing & Poster Take Down

Refreshments:
Coffee will be available throughout the day.
Pizza lunch will be provided.

  1. Topic-01: Multi-Agent Multimodal RAG for Radiology Decision Support
  2. Topic-02: Robust Drug-Target Affinity for Precision Drug Discovery
  3. Topic-03: Safe Clinical Reasoning Agents for EHR-Based Diagnosis
  4. Topic-04: ICU Multi-Outcome Alarms for Critical Care Monitoring
  5. Topic-05: Wearable Causal Digital Twin for Mental Health Interventions

The Data Competition will end on April 13th, 2026 (11:59 PM EST). Industrial judges will join academic judges to evaluate the submissions. There will be two winners selected for each of the five topics.

On April 16th, 2026, selected teams will present their discoveries. The winners will be invited to publish the results in peer-reviewed AI conferences.

In addition, there will be one keynote with one industrial panel to highlight the AI preparedness for the biomedical and healthcare industry.

Data Access Requirements can be found here.

ACTIVITY-02: Poster Presentation

  • Deadline: April 12th, 2026 (extended to April 14th, 2026, EOD)
  • Poster Size: 36″ height × 27″ width (larger posters may not fit on the poster boards)
  • Template: Download Poster Template (PPT)

Deadlines

April 13, 2026 Data Competition ends — final submissions due (11:59 PM EST)
April 14, 2026 Poster submission deadline (11:59 PM EST)
April 16, 2026 Selected teams present; winners announced and invited to publish in peer-reviewed AI conferences

Awards

Data Competition (10 Awards Total)

  • Each track: 🥇 1st place: $400+
  • Each track: 🥈 2nd place: $200+

Poster Presentation (3 Awards Total)

  • 🥇 1st place: $300+
  • 🥈 2nd place: $200+
  • 🥉 3rd place: $100+

Data Competition Track Description