Awards & Honors
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a $50 million award to the University of North Texas Health Science Center to lead the coordinating center for the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, or AIM-AHEAD, program. Read more “NIH Funds New Consortium Aimed at Advancing Health Equity and Researcher Diversity”
News
Applications are invited for three 4-year PhD research assistantships available in the Department of Computer Science. These research assistantships are funded by the University of Miami Center for Accelerated Real-time Analytics (UM CARTA), a prestigious international research center funded by the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) program. Read more “Applications Invited for Paid UM CARTA PhD Research Assistantships”
Events
Several hundred pain clinicians, neurosurgeons, and neuromodulation industry professionals assembled in Orlando, Florida, July 15-17 for the 2021 Mid-Year meeting of NANS, the North American Neuromodulation Society. The event, which augmented the society’s January 2021 web conference, was the first in-person neuromodulation meeting for many attendees since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more “Dr. Yesha speaks at NANS Neuromodulation Society Meeting 7/15-17”
Publications
The development and implementation of clinical decision support (CDS) that trains itself and adapts its algorithms based on new data—here referred to as Adaptive CDS—present unique challenges and considerations. Although Adaptive CDS represents an expected progression from earlier work, the activities needed to appropriately manage and support the establishment and evolution of Adaptive CDS require new, coordinated initiatives and oversight that do not currently exist. Read more “Recommendations for the Safe, Effective Use of Adaptive CDS in the US Healthcare System”
Can you do UX Research on machine learning systems? Can you get feedback from real users before the AI has been built? Can you even test a machine learning system before you have a production-ready model? Read more ““ML + UX: Building Machine Learning Products for People” Lecture”
Events
Can you do UX Research on machine learning systems? Can you get feedback from real users before the AI has been built? Can you even test a machine learning system before you have a production-ready model? Read more “Lecture by Michelle Carney of Google AI 4/21”
Events
On January 27, 2021, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Dr. Yelena Yesha shared her definition of data science and addressed the current state of affairs in the field of data science. She spoke about exciting innovative projects at CARTA and IDSC that involve the data analytics, data science, and blockchain technology. And about her personal journey—how she got to be where she is and how she picked up the field of data science before it gained the prominence. Read more “Catch the Replay: Meet a Data Scientist with Yelena Yesha”
News
Offering a fascinating glimpse of the current AI and High-Performance capabilities at the University of Miami by traditional computational scientists, data scientists, or students just getting started, IDSC Advanced Computing Director Joel Zysman speaks speaks at Supercomputing 2019 on “Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Using IBM Storage Systems.” Read more “How the U is Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today With IBM”
Big Data
Big data, data analytics, advanced computing, and algorithms are rapidly and profoundly changing every sphere of human activity. Advanced computing gives us the ability to reliably and cost effectively store petabytes of data; and machine learning algorithms can crunch through massive datasets in real time to extract business intelligence and socially relevant information, giving firms new marketing tools, like mobile geo-social targeting.
Read more “Big Data, Business, and the Pandemic 12/3/2020”
Magazine-Fall 2020
Yelena Yesha, PhD, an award-winning researcher and technology industry leader, has joined IDSC as Innovation Officer and Head of International Relations. She was also named Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Read more “Yelena Yesha Joins UM as IDSC Innovation Officer”