The 2025 Dr. Robert Gillies Machine Learning Workshop in Cancer will be held on October 30 and 31 at Moffitt Cancer Center. It will be the third conference held in memory of Dr. Robert Gillies.
The meeting will cover the latest advances in AI/ML and their application in cancer. This year’s work will also host outstanding keynotes and invited speakers in the areas of medical imaging (radiomics), pathology (pathomics), basic science, drug discovery, clinical informatics/operations, natural language processing, generative AI, foundational models, federated learning, as well as ethics and biases, interpretable and trustworthy AI.
Workshop Themes
The Future of AI in Healthcare and Cancer
Quantitative imaging translation into clinical practice
AI genomics and Bioinformatics
Digital pathology AI in clinical operations
NLP, Language Models, Foundation Models
Ethics, biases and regulations
Causal inference and trustworthiness
Federated Learning
Key Note Speakers
Maryellen Giger, PhD, University of Chicago
Anil Parwani , MD, PhD, Ohio State University
Umit Topaloglu, PhD, NIH
Key Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline:
September 26, 2025
Registration Deadline: October 23, 2025
Poster Submissions: October 23, 2025
Hackathon: October 23, 2025
Location & Travel:
Vincent Stabile Research Building at Magnolia Campus
12902 USF Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612
Air Travel: Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Accommodations:
1. Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa USF Near Busch Gardens
2. Home2 Suites by Hilton Tampa USF Near Busch Gardens
3. Hilton Garden Inn Holiday Inn Express
Hackathon
Hackathon is designed for AI researchers, students, and developers to explore computeintensive multimodal learning approaches for medical imaging and clinical text analysis. It will be conducted on October 23, 2025.
Overview:
Participants will develop models to classify brain cancer subtypes (e.g., glioblastoma vs. lower-grade gliomas) by combining:
- Histopathology whole-slide images
- Clinical/pathology reports (structured or unstructured)
