We are committed to creating an inclusive learning and research environment through intentional community building and targeted mentoring opportunities for our Informatics and Data Science community at Northwestern. We can only fully realize our true potential by learning from and incorporating diverse perspectives to build remarkable talent and achieve inclusive excellence.
Learn more about our commitment to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in informatics.
Events
We also seek to provide informatics students with opportunities to engage with students and researchers across the university and the Chicagoland area.
- AI@NU Lecture Series – Each Wednesday evening, a talk on a separate aspect of AI is presented. These include both internal and external speakers.
- Big Ten Augmented Intelligence Bowl – A cross-institutional competition to bring together medicine and computer science talent from the 14 institutions of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The 2021 Big Ten AI Bowl challenges students to use augmented intelligence to solve a problem that addresses health disparities.
- Biomedical Data Science Day (BDSD) – Once each year, I.AIM sponsors a full day session devoted to the unique data science challenges created by biomedicine. Historically, HBMI students have been major contributors, often leading breakout sessions. All trainees will present current work, either in poster or podium form. Visiting lecturers will provide outside perspective. This is because the event has become so popular that it is typically oversubscribed by several hundred.
- Chicago Informatics Jam – Every autumn, the informatics programs across Chicago (NU, UCI, UofC, Rush, and Loyola) have a half-day conference highlighting informatics education and research at the various sites. The hosting site rotates. Trainees from each site are highlighted for podium presentations and a poster session allow for a broad representation of BIDS research.
- Data Science/ AI Career Nights – Monthly hack nights on popular data science topics, organized by NU graduate students and scholars.
- I.AIM Lecture Series – A monthly lecture series focused on augmented intelligence in medicine. Guest speakers bring academic and industry expertise.
Informatics-focused Groups & Initiatives
- Applied Research Informatics Groups (CTSA)
- BIDS Student Group – Students in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at NU have created a university-recognized student group. They hold works-in-progress talks, social gatherings, and invite career speakers.
- Center for Engineering in Health
- Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHIP)
- Data Science Initiative
- Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM)
- Clinical Informatics Roundtable at I.AIM – The Clinical Informatics Roundtable series brings together cross-university collaborators to help identify areas of alignment and provide opportunities to share works in progress, learn about exciting new initiatives (academic and industry), present thorny challenges, and highlight clever insights.
- Galter Library DataLab – A data-support core focused on collaborative innovation, training, and development.
- Medical Student Data Science Interest Group