Data Driven Biomedical Applications of AI
Events are open to industry, faculty and post docs - please register to attend to ensure there is enough pizza for everyone!
The goals of the events are to:
Connect researchers to promote interdisciplinary research team building and be proactive for major grant opportunities.
Provide a venue to highlight Waterloo’s research and understand the challenges faced and being pursued by industry.
How can AI can be used to support patient care and system improvements?
Theme applications include:
Intelligent telemetry for improving monitoring and home care support for patients and families and healthcare providers
Natural language processing of medical records to identify probability of cancer recurrence
Personalized transfer learning
Computational models of emotional alignment between older adults with dementia, care partners, and technological assistants
Multi-sensor integration and IoT for community health
Keynote speaker:
Yuri Quintana, Ph.D., Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School
University of Waterloo Speakers
Mohammad Kohandel, Applied Mathematics
Helen Chen, School of Public Health and Health Systems
Pascal Poupart, Computer Science
Plinio Morita, School of Public Health and Health Systems
Moojan Ghafurian, Post-doc, Computer Science
Industry Speakers
Baozhen Shan,
Bioinformatics Solutions
Colin Phipps -
AbbVie
Fernando Suarez –
IBM (Watson Health)
Agenda and more details can be found on our Faculty Research Networking Events page.