IDSC is pleased to announce the seven recipients of the fall 2025 “Expanding the Use of Collaborative Data Science at UM” grants program call for proposals. The response to the call was exceptionally strong, with submissions received from all three campuses: Coral Gables, Miller School of Medicine, and Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.

Congratulations Everyone!

Now in its fifth year, this grants program helps increase the use of data science to foster breakthroughs in disciplinary pursuits making the research team more competitive for external funding. In terms of this grant opportunity, data science was defined as utilizing state-of-the-art approaches such as Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable scientific discovery that is data driven. The awards include $20K in discretionary funds and 1M Service Units (SUs) to be used for high performance computing (HPC).

	Kilan C. Ashad-Bishop, PhD Associate Professor UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Department of Environmental Science and Policy “Leveraging Earth Systems Data to Advance Health System Resilience”
	Christina Cordero, PhD Research Associate Professor Co P.I. Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology “Identifying Modifiable Risk Profiles to Improve Healthcare Access and Inform Cardiometabolic Interventions in Hispanic/Latino Adults Using Machine Learning”
	Brooke M. Crawford, MD MBA Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Orthopaedic Oncology Associate Program Director, Orthopaedic Surgery Residency UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedics “Using deep-learning model to improve the accuracy of pathologic fracture prediction in breast and prostate cancer patients with metastases to bone”
	Firdaus S. Dhabhar, PhD Tenured Professor Director, Scholarly Concentrations—Advances in Mind-Body Medicine UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences “Digital Well-Being Coaching for Medical Students”
	Adam Meyers, PhD Assistant Professor UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI College of Engineering Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering “Deep Learning-Based Statistical Process Control for Improving the Efficiency of Surgical Operating Room Centers”
	Tatjana Rundek, MD PhD Professor of Neurology Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging Scientific Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute Executive Vice Chair, Research and Faculty Affairs, Dept. of Neurology Director, Clinical Translational Research Division (CTRD) Director, Master of Science in Clinical Translational Investigations UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurology | Clinical Translational Research Division (CTRD) “Clinically Interpretable AI Model for Precision Risk Stratification in Alzheimer’s Disease Progression”
	Shirin Shafazand, MD MS FABSM ATSF Professor of Clinical Medicine UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Department of Medicine | Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine “Screening Women For Obstructive Sleep Apnea Using the Electronic Health Record: A Machine Learning Approach”