Data Science, AI & Machine Learning
Data Science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning involve making accurate predictions, data mining, machine learning, and more to guide business decisions. Research areas include: bio inspired control using data from animals, computational biology, computational imaging, cyber security, medical informatics, simulation, and video analytics.
Francesco Orabona Wins NSF CAREER Award
CISE Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor Francesco Orabona (ECE, SE, CS) recently received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on new, more automated, machine learning algorithms. Machine learning has begun to take over our digital lives. It can be found in automatic text suggestions […]
Machine, Meet Stem Cells
Model organs grown from patients’ own cells may one day revolutionize how diseases are treated. A person’s cells, coaxed into heart, lung, liver, or kidney in the lab, could be used to better understand their disease or test whether drugs are likely to help them. But this future relies on scientists’ ability to form complex […]
CAREER: Parameter-free Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning
Machine Learning (ML) has been described as the fuel of the next industrial revolution. Yet, current state-of-the-art ML algorithms still heavily rely on having a human in the loop in order to work properly. Indeed, the training process of a ML algorithm requires significant human intervention through twisting and tuning of the many knobs of […]
Accessible autonomous vehicle system wins semifinalist position in DOT competition
As the promise of self-driving cars inches closer to reality for the general public, how do we ensure this technology is accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired? That’s the question that ECE Assistant Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar and his team seek to answer with their OpenGuide project. The project has been selected as a semifinalist […]
Collaborative Research: A Workshop on Pre-emergence and the Predictions of Rare Events in Multiscale, Complex, Dynamical Systems
Although pandemics have threatened human civilization since ancient times, how to predict and prevent them remains one of the most pressing challenges, calling out for innovative insights and practices. Pandemics emerge through incidental ‘perfect storms’: molecular changes in pathogens, gradual trends in climate, subtle shifts in ecological interactions among potential hosts, and even individual behavioral […]
What Makes Someone Narcissistic?
Andrew Cutler Shows How Social Media Use Reveals Human Traits Have you ever wondered what exactly your personality traits are? Are you a narcissist? What can Facebook predict about you? Andrew Cutler, a PhD candidate (ECE) interested in inferring human traits from social media use, is conducting research on all of those topics under advisor, […]
Advancing COVID-19 Drug Development via Network Analysis
CISE Faculty Affiliate Mark Crovella (Prof., CS, Bioinformatics) has teamed up with Simon Kasif (Prof., BME, CS, Bioinformatics) and other CS researchers from across the U.S. to advance COVID-19 drug development via Network Analysis. The researchers are co-developing a machine learning methodology to analyze viral and human protein-protein interaction networks. Through this work, the researchers […]
Three Papers Detail New Computational Models to Predict Severe Illness from COVID-19
Data Science and AI Methods Offer Predictive Systems to Aid Healthcare Policy Management and Level-of-Care Requirements Data science and AI methods have evolved to become a powerful tool in developing strong predictive models to help improve our understanding and treatment of COVID-19. “Given ample data, and assuming that the future is not completely random (like […]
NRI: FND: A Formal Methods Approach to Safe, Composable, and Distributed Reinforcement Learning for co-Robots
Many applications require heterogeneous teams of robots to collaborate with each other and with humans to accomplish complex tasks. Consider, for example, a futuristic robotic restaurant, in which the goal is to make hotdogs and serve them together with drinks to incoming customers. A couple of robotic manipulators have sensors and actuators allowing them to […]
New COVID-19 research focuses on Latin America
Informing Policy, Resource Allocation and Workplace Adjustment Policies COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, placing significant pressures on healthcare systems. Particularly in countries with limited testing resources and capacity-constrained health care systems, it is essential to determine who is at most risk for developing COVID-19. Knowing who may or may not need medical attention, and […]