

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour:  Romain Lopez
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Learning from Millions of Cells with Deep Generative ModelsAbout this EventThe ML in NYC Speaker Series + Happy Hour is excited to host Professor Romain Lopez of NYU as our February speaker! His talk will take place Wednesday, February 11 at 4pm at the Flatiron Institute. As always, there will be a reception afterward for all attendees.Title: Learning from Millions of Cells with Deep Generative ModelsAbstract: Biology is emerging as a highly sought-after application for the deployment of AI tools, and interest has only accelerated since the impact of AlphaFold on protein folding. This talk is specifically focused on deep generative models and their applications to the field of cellular and molecular biology. I will explain how profiling of RNA at scale enables the systematic mapping of cellular states in both healthy and disease contexts, and how ML plays a central role in denoising and interpreting the underlying data. I will discuss a few key challenges including (1) processing data at scale to discover new biology from large-scale collaborative efforts to map all cell types in the human body, (2) mapping variation in cellular states across modalities, and (3) modeling data from large-scale perturbation studies (e.g., for drug discovery applications).Bio: Romain Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biology at New York University. He received his MSc in Applied Mathematics from École polytechnique and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, advised by Professors Michael I. Jordan and Nir Yosef. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Genentech and Stanford University, hosted by Professors Aviv Regev and Jonathan Pritchard. He has received Best Paper honors at leading AI and computational biology venues as well as a STAT Wunderkind Award (2024), recognizing North America’s most promising early-career scientists. His research develops probabilistic and causal machine learning methods to uncover the mechanisms that govern cellular behavior and disease, including the scVI framework and the scvi-tools ecosystem for deep generative modeling of single-cell omics data.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/ml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour-romain-lopez/100001981873359569
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour-romain-lopez-tickets-1981873359569
- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Flatiron Institute
- **lat**: 40.7404614
- **long**: -73.99071289999999
- **full address**: Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 10
- **organizer**: ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour (https://allevents.in/org/ml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour/20617999)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/1908af3d9b7799ca4df4446ebbee3fc852e634aeaf0e6ea097df7c02dfc8b12a-rimg-w958-h591-dccfe2f3-gmir.jpg?v=1769799122
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/79796cae06f2b3d1ccc550c62c5a198812869b9204c613b6a08759939c1223f3-rimg-w400-h400-dccfe2f3-gmir.jpg?v=1769799122

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour:  Romain Lopez ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

## Structured Data (JSON-LD)

```json
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Event",
        "name": "ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour:  Romain Lopez",
        "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/1908af3d9b7799ca4df4446ebbee3fc852e634aeaf0e6ea097df7c02dfc8b12a-rimg-w958-h591-dccfe2f3-gmir.jpg?v=1769799122",
        "startDate": "2026-02-11",
        "endDate": "2026-02-11",
        "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/ml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour-romain-lopez/100001981873359569",
        "location": {
            "@type": "Place",
            "name": "Flatiron Institute",
            "address": {
                "@type": "PostalAddress",
                "streetAddress": "162 5th Avenue",
                "postalCode": "10010",
                "addressLocality": "New York",
                "addressRegion": "NY",
                "addressCountry": "US"
            },
            "geo": {
                "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
                "latitude": "40.7404614",
                "longitude": "-73.99071289999999"
            }
        },
        "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
        "description": "Learning from Millions of Cells with Deep Generative Models",
        "offers": [
            {
                "@type": "AggregateOffer",
                "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock",
                "priceCurrency": "USD",
                "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30",
                "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-11",
                "validFrom": "2026-03-30",
                "lowPrice": "0.00",
                "highPrice": "0.00",
                "price": "0.00",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/ml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour-romain-lopez/100001981873359569"
            },
            {
                "@type": "Offer",
                "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock",
                "priceCurrency": "USD",
                "availabilityStarts": "2026-03-30",
                "availabilityEnds": "",
                "validFrom": "2026-03-30",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/ml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour-romain-lopez/100001981873359569",
                "price": 0,
                "name": "General Admission"
            }
        ],
        "organizer": [
            {
                "@type": "Organization",
                "name": "ML-NYC Speaker Series and Happy Hour",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ml-nyc-speaker-series-and-happy-hour/20617999"
            }
        ]
    }
]
```