Carnegie Mellon x NVIDIA Federated Learning Hackathon for Biomedical Applications
Join us on January 7-9, 2026 for an in-person (remote for folks who can’t travel) hackathon at CMU in Pittsburgh PA, hosted by CMU Libraries in partnership with NVIDIA. This hackathon focuses on leveraging NVIDIA FLARE to enable collaborative, privacy-preserving computation across multiple biobanks for disease subtyping and genetic analysis, with an emphasis on rare diseases, cancer, and polygenic traits.
Open to graduate students and research scientists in academia, government, and industry. Please complete this brief application form to participate. A first round of successful applicants will be notified by November 15. Any later applications are due by December 7.
If you have questions, please contact Melanie Gainey (mgainey@andrew.cmu.edu).
- Date:
- Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Hunt Library, IDeATe Studio A
- Campus:
- Hunt Library
- Categories:
- Open Science Working With Data and Code
In-Person Event Information:
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Indoor meetings and university-sponsored events of up to 50 persons are permitted. Due to COVID-19 campus restrictions, in-person workshops and events are only open to current CMU affiliates at this time.
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Outdoor meetings and university-sponsored events are permitted up to 50% of outdoor facility capacity.
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For more information on in-person activities and spaces, please visit the university's COVID-19 Updates Guide
Workshops and events for Carnegie Mellon University Libraries are open to all, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, ancestry, belief, veteran status or genetic information.
If you require accessibility accommodations, please contact the event organizer.
