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    Predicting Individualized Rehabilitation Outcomes based on Brain and Behavioral Biomarkers

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Swathi Kiran, Associate Dean, SAR Co-PI: Margrit Betke, Professor of Computer Sciences, CAS Track: Digital Health Initiative & Artificial Intelligence Research Over 2 million people are currently living with aphasia due to a stroke, and the patients do not know whether they will ever recover to improve their communication/cognitive skills. Aphasia therapy […]
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    “Can I get that in Writing?” Lessons from a Contracting Field Experiment in Urban Malawi

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, CAS Track: HIC In some low- and middle- income countries, transactions between the buyers and the sellers are often conducted informally and are based on credibility. Formalizing contracts can be important and beneficial. The team wants to measure the potential advantages of formalizing […]

  • Adversarial Learning of MRI data for improved Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Vijaya B. Kolachalama, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MED Co-PI: Rhoda Au, Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, MED Track: Digital Health Initiative & Artificial Intelligence Research Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease that will require a high cost of care, and the total amount keeps rising. Identifying risk factors that are amenable […]
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    Novel Greenness Metrics Using Remote Sensing and Street Imagery for Climate Change Mitigation and Environmental Health Research

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: M. Patricia Fabian, Research Assistant Professor of Environment Health, SPH Co-PI: Lucy Hutyra, Associate Professor of Earth and Environment, CAS Urban green space can impact communities by mitigating the effects of heatwaves, reducing the rates of urban runoff, and moderating heat islands. Exposure to green space will also lead to various […]
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    Revolutionizing Flow, Heat and Dispersion Predictions over Complex Urban Environments

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Dan Li, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environment, CAS Co-PI: Kia Teymourian, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MET As more and more of the population lives in the city, it is more and more challenging to understand and make predictions of heat transfer and dispersion of air pollutants over urban […]
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    Multi-faceted Data Analysis of Blazars, Highly Time-Variable Cosmic Objects

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Alan Marscher, Professor OF Astronomy, CAS Co-PIs: Svetlana Jorstad, Senior Research Scientist of Institute for Astrophysical Research; Manasvita Joshi, Research Assistant of Institute for Astrophysical Research Track: HIC The team proposed to develop procedures to cross-compare astronomical time series data, obtained at different wavelengths, of highly variable cosmic objects called “blazars”. The […]
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    Hiding the State: Outsourcing Security to Avoid Transparency and Accountability

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Kaija Schilde, Assistant Professor of International Relations, CAS Track: HIC Researchers, journalists, and citizens have used the Freedom of Information (FOIA) Requests since 1965 as a proxy for transparency and democratic oversight. The researcher hypothesized that increases in transparency requests in a given area will produce increased government outsourcing in that […]
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    Using Reinforcement Learning to Rationally Reprogram Multicellular Decision Making

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Allyson Sgro, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, ENG Co-PI: Pankaj Mehta, Associate Professor of Physics, CAS Track: HIC & Artificial Intelligence Research While standard modeling techniques can describe and predict biological behaviors, they fall short of offering strategies for manipulation and reprogramming. The team hypothesizes that single cells have algorithms for […]
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    Confounder Matrix Online Tool

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Ludovic Trinquart, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, SPH Track: HIC & Digital Health Initiative Systematic reviews (SRs) are appraisals and syntheses of original studies to answer some clinical questions. It is important because they help to inform clinicians and researchers on patient-important issues. However, the validity of the SRs of observational studies […]
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    Integrated Foundations for Privacy-Protected Public Opinion Research

    September 30, 2019
    FALL 2019 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEES PI: Mayank Varia, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, CAS Co-PIs: Dino Christenson, Associate Professor of Political Science, CAS, and Mark Crovella, Professor of Computer Sciences, CAS Track: Hariri Institute & Red Hat Collaboratory Understanding public opinion dynamics is important but difficult because the polls are widely used with significant drawbacks. The team […]