Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., a professor of epidemiology and associate dean for AI and innovation at the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, has been selected as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, or ACMI. Prosperi is among 25 new Fellows who have attained the ACMI’s…
Representatives from academia, industry and government gathered September 8-10 for a University of Florida workshop focused on prescriptive artificial intelligence for decision making. A common application of AI research is predicting future life events, such as the risk of developing a particular health condition or the likelihood of making a…
As part of its AI Initiative, the University of Florida has expanded its AI offerings in the curriculum, increased the number of faculty members with AI expertise and made significant investments in computing infrastructure.UF is home to the HiPerGator, the nation’s most powerful supercomputer in higher education.Jason Blackburn,…
A team of researchers from the University of Florida and the University of Pavia in Italy received the Best Poster award at the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, held earlier this month in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their study focused on the COVID-19 variant, Omicron, which is…
In patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, nerve cells called motor neurons degenerate, causing muscle atrophy and eventually death. Other cells in the central nervous system are known to play a role in ALS, but scientists don’t yet have a clear picture of how they contribute to the disease.
On October 17, 2023, Inyoung Jun successfully completed her dissertation defense for “Leveraging Real World Data and Machine Learning to Improve Clinical Management of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections.” She is set to graduate in Fall 2023 and will start her career in the medical industry as a senior biostatistician from…
Inyoung Jun’s first-authored work with agriculture company Syngenta Crop Protection “Evaluating the perceptions of pesticide use, safety, and regulation and identifying common pesticide-related topics on Twitter” was published in Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ieam.4777).
Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., along with Dr. Marco Salemi, Ph.D., received the R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to build …
