Wednesday April 9, 2025
Dr. Hao Zhu
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Keynote Title: TBD
Biography: Dr. Hao Zhu is the director of the Division of Pharmacometrics at the Office of Clinical Pharmacology, Office of Translational Science, Center of Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Zhu has 20+ years of working experience in academia, industry, and regulatory agency. He is currently the co-chair for AI policy and review subcommittee for Artificial Intelligence Council at CDER. He is also a committee member for multiple programs including Quantitative Medicine Center of Excellence, Model Informed Drug Development, Complex Innovative Trial Design, and Rare Disease Endpoint Advancement programs, where innovative tools are applied to support new drug development and improve patient care.
Thursday April 10, 2025
Dr. Chris Roy
Professor, Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Virginia Tech
Keynote Title: The VT-NASA CFD Turbulence Model Validation Challenge
Biography: Dr. Chris Roy received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1998. After spending 5 years as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, he moved to academia and is currently a full professor in the Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Roy has authored or co-authored over 200 books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification. He is the co-author of the second edition book Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification in Scientific Computing published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.