Teams
Five teams advanced from the Big Ten Augmented Intelligence Bowl Semifinals event. They will compete in the Finals event on Friday, October 22nd.
Northwestern University
Yikuan Li is a PhD student in the Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program at Northwestern University. His research focuses on integrating informatics into healthcare to deliver better treatment and improve population outcomes. His is working on applying natural language processing and machine learning to build predictive models with electronic health record data.
Adovich Rivera is a PhD candidate in the Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program at Northwestern University. He researches the role of social determinants of health on cardiovascular risk in people with HIV. He collaborates with clinician-researchers using real-world data to investigate predictors of clinical outcomes and compare treatment effectiveness.
Hanyin Wang is a PhD candidate in the Driskill Graduate Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She researches biomedical informatics with concentrations in natural language processing and image processing. Her thesis work focuses on using computer vision and deep learning to detect critical findings in head CTs for intracerebral hemorrhage. She is also working on integrating social media data for healthcare research.
Yuyang Yang is an MD/PhD student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, focusing on health informatics. His research interest is in using electronic health record data to build creative tools to improve patient safety and clinical contact tracing. He has worked on translational projects and has a background in basic science research.
Jingzhi Yu is a PhD student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His research interests are cardiovascular disease risk prediction using machine learning, and mobile health interventions to improve cardiovascular health. He has worked as a data analyst, focusing on health informatics studies of cardiovascular disease outcomes in underserved communities, supporting several large research networks.
Lindsay Zimmerman is a recent PhD from Northwestern University. She has collaborated on developing informatics strategies to improve equity, including engaging patients to become partners, building informatics tools for efficient research and data visualization, and designing methods to understand the relationship between social determinants and health outcomes.
Yuan Luo, Primary Faculty Advisor, is a data scientist at Northwestern University. His research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, time series analysis, integrative genomic analysis, and big data analytics, with a focus on medical and clinical applications. He is an Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics) and McCormick School of Engineering, and Chief AI Officer, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and I.AIM.
Faraz Ahmad, Faculty Advisor, is assistant professor of medicine-cardiology and faculty member, Center for Health Information Partnerships, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He researches the development of technologies to collect, analyze, and apply electronic health data to improve clinical care, conduct trials, and generate real-world evidence.
Ike Okwuosa, Faculty Advisor, is assistant professor of medicine-cardiology and assistant dean of medical education at Feinberg School of Medicine. His research interests are in heart failure, pregnancy and cardiovascular disease, and chemotherapy-induced heart failure. He has published on disparities in cardiovascular disease and depression and cardiovascular outcomes.
Penn State
Alyssa Tuan is a medical student at Penn State College of Medicine. She previously worked at the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Research Program establishing a virtual tissue repository linked to SEER data. She is involved in health policy with the Pennsylvania Medical Society Medical Student Section, and previously worked in the US Congress.
Neha Gupta is a medical student at Penn State College of Medicine. She co-founded State of Youth in 2019, along with Kids Rights and Facebook, a platform for young changemakers and social entrepreneurs to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Her research focus is on the utilization of innovative technologies such as Project ECHO, telehealth, and AI to address healthcare disparities.
Christian Park is a diagnostic radiology/nuclear medicine resident in the Department of Radiology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, where he is Head of AI for the Clinical Radiology Research Group. He is an MBA candidate at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, and is a member of the Trainee Editorial Board for Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include AI, nanoparticle imaging, and data analytics.
David Foley is a PhD candidate at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology and has been a member of the AI Research Laboratory for three years. He has collaborated on cross-disciplinary research projects, including applying machine learning to cancer prognosis, and using causal analysis to assess algorithmic fairness. He has been a trainee in Penn State’s interdisciplinary Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge program for three years.
Nathan Cannon is a medical student at the Penn State College of Medicine. His research interests include intraocular lens power calculation formulas for cataract surgery, organ-on-a-chip engineering, and quality improvement in international pharmaceutical regulation. He is passionate about meeting needs and eliminating disparities for underserved populations.
Ravi Shah is a cardiovascular disease fellow at the Penn State College of Medicine. He is co-founder of the Health Policy Fellowship Initiative and the AMA-Medical Student Section Public Health Case Competition. His research focuses on using neural networks to predict cardiovascular disease outcomes. He is an MBA candidate at the UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management.
Jennifer Kraschnewski, Faculty Advisor, is Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health Sciences. She researches behavioral interventions to promote healthy lifestyles in clinical and community settings. She is principal investigator for CDC REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health), which provides Hispanic communities in Central Pennsylvania with tools to improve health, prevent diseases, and reduce disparities. She directs Penn State’s Project ECHO.
University of Illinois-UC
Chaoqi Yang is a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research goal is to build interpretable models for extracting information from large (unlabeled) health data. His recent work includes tensor completion for spatio-temporal COVID data, self-supervised learning on EEG signals, and deep learning for drug recommendations.
Yaroslav Daniel Bodnar, graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine in 2017. He specializes in internal medicine and internal medicine/pediatrics, and is affiliated with OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.
Junyi Gao is a PhD student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on developing machine learning and deep learning models for real-world healthcare challenges. His primary research interest is deep computational phenotyping for electronic health records, clinical trials, and population-level disease prediction.
Jimeng Sun, Faculty Advisor, is a Health Innovation Professor at the Computer Science Department and the Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on AI for healthcare, including deep learning for drug discovery, clinical trial optimization, computational phenotyping, clinical predictive modeling, treatment recommendation, and health monitoring.
Mary Stapel, Faculty Advisor, is Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria. She is the Course Director for the Global Rural Med-Peds Residency Track and is Co-Director of the Innovation Rural Global Medicine Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria. She is Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, with a focus on global, rural, community, and population health.
Adam Cross, Faculty Advisor, is a pediatrician, pediatric hospitalist, and clinical informaticist who was recently appointed as the leader of the new Maximizing Opportunities for Children’s Healthcare Innovation (MOCHI) Lab at the Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center at OSF Healthcare. Over the past four years, he has provided care to underserved populations in New Mexico and Arizona, including Indigenous populations, refugees, and immigrants.
Scott Barrows, Faculty Advisor, is Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, and Biomedical Visualization, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the director of Design Lab at Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center at OSF Healthcare.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Josiah Hanna, Faculty Advisor, is assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studies a branch of machine learning called reinforcement learning (RL). The goal of the research is to develop and apply reinforcement learning algorithms that are effective with a limited amount of time interacting with a task.
Rufus Sweeney is a medical student at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He is Oklahoma Choctaw and is interested in solving difficult problems in Indian territory, such as diabetes and alcoholism. His background includes a year of diabetes basic science research that culminated in publication in Science magazine, as well as work in several startups.
Miriam Sweeney is a software product manager with experience in interface and experience design and UX research. She has experience in venture capital and product management and has successfully launched and grown companies from zero revenue to profitability.
Cassie Vanderwall is a clinical dietician and the manager of nutrition and health education programming at UW Health. She is an instructor and researcher with a passion for disease prevention, wellness, and empowering individuals for better health. She founded the Lifestyle Change Program at UW-Madison, which helps patients modify their lifestyle to treat diabetes and prediabetes.
Sam Pabich is a faculty member in the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on obesity and diabetes. She is involved in projects assessing the efficacy of weight loss strategies, particularly psychological motivators, low-carbohydrate dietary interventions, and effective pharmaceuticals. She is interested in factors that affect patient adherence to therapeutic strategy and dietary control of diabetes.
Jonathan Lifferth is a researcher and software engineer.
Indiana University
Indiana University has withdrawn from the competition.