Improving Acoustic and Bone Conduction Speech Enhancement
December 2024 An audio super-resolution model leverages neural networks to process speech using a head-worn accelerometer.
from Northwestern Engineering
CASMI Honored with 2024 Chicago Innovation Award
November 2024 CASMI received a Chicago Innovation Award on Nov. 14 during a ceremony at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Forum. CASMI was one of 22 organizations to be selected as a winner from a pool of 350 nominations.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
How Data-Driven Rain Garden Design Can Mitigate Climate Change Impacts
November 2024 Using machine learning, Northwestern Engineering’s Kimberly Gray is working to make sure urban green infrastructure is designed to be ecologically restorative and mitigate climate change.
from Northwestern Engineering
Northwestern Security and AI Lab Releases New Terrorism Early Warning System Forecasts
November 2024 V.S. Subrahmanian announced the reports October 17 at the annual Conference on AI & National Security.
from Northwestern Engineering
PhD Student Payal Mohapatra Selected for EECS Rising Stars Workshop
November 2024 Payal Mohapatra, a PhD candidate in computer engineering, was one of 70 invited participants in the intensive workshop designed for graduate students and postdocs of historically marginalized or underrepresented genders.
from Computer Science Department
Researchers Develop Approach to Accurately Predict Pneumonia Outcomes
October 2024 The researchers applied machine-learning algorithms to electronic health records of pneumonia patients to identify distinct clinical states.
from Northwestern Engineering
Don’t be duped: Here’s how to spot deepfakes
October 2024 AI and security expert V.S. Subrahmanian shares five tips to help avoid getting tricked by modified digital artifacts.
from Northwestern Now
Pushing the Boundaries of Cancer Care
October 2024 MSAI students collaborated with a Northwestern Medicine radiation oncology lab to use artificial intelligence to create more personalized care.
from Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI)
New app performs real-time, full-body motion capture with a mobile device
October 2024 Using a combination of sensor data, machine learning and physics, MobilePoser accurately tracks a person’s full-body pose and global translation in space in real time.
from Northwestern Now
Mark Hersam and Alessandro Rotta Loria Spotlight Sustainable AI, Urban Climate Solutions at TEDxChicago
October 2024 The two Northwestern Engineering faculty members spoke at the September 27 event.
from Northwestern Engineering
Charting the Path for Effective & Ethical AI in Journalism
September 2024 Nicholas Diakopoulos is a Professor of Communication Studies at the Northwestern School of Communication and Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy) at the McCormick School of Engineering and was a 2023–24 Buffett Faculty Fellow. He is leveraging computational journalism to explore how generative AI will transform newsrooms.
from Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Global Security: Inside the Northwestern Security & AI Lab
September 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) has generated new threats to national and global security, but a lab jointly housed in the Buffett Institute and McCormick School of Engineering is unleashing AI’s potential to combat them, advance justice-driven social movements and foster greater global peace.
from Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Putting ambition into action: Explore Northwestern’s priorities
September 2024 One of President Michael Schill's priorities includes harnessing the power of data analytics and artificial intelligence.
from Northwestern Now
Northwestern to lead $20 million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
September 2024 SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.
from Northwestern Now
5 Telltale Signs That a Photo Is AI-generated
September 2024 Matt Groh and his colleagues have identified five categories of artifacts and implausibilities to help people tell the difference between real and AI-generated images.
from Kellogg Insight
Northwestern Computer Science Launches AI Minor and Major Concentrations
September 2024 Effective fall 2024, the undergraduate CS major will offer eight optional degree concentrations and non-CS majors across Northwestern can pursue a new minor in artificial intelligence.
from Computer Science Department
hls4ml Summer School Offers Students Training in Edge-AI Hardware Accelerators
September 2024 The event was designed to introduce students to hls4ml, a Python package Ogrenci and her collaborators are developing for machine learning inference in integrated circuits called field programmable gate arrays.
from Northwestern Engineering
Safeguarding Critical Software Infrastructure through Novel AI Systems
September 2024 A Northwestern Computer Science team led by Xinyu Xing and Yan Chen are advancing to the final competition of the DARPA and ARPA-H AI Cyber Challenge.
from Computer Science Department
Grant supports Northwestern Libraries launch of generative AI-based chat search
September 2024 Developers in the Digital Products and Data Curation (DPDC) team at the Northwestern Libraries built an early prototype of a generative AI-based search tool and received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to continue the work.
from Northwestern Libraries
Northwestern faculty to speak at TEDxChicago
August 2024 An expert in nanotechnology, Mark C. Hersam will discuss his laboratory’s recent achievements in developing energy-efficient artificial intelligence systems and brain-like computing devices.
from Northwestern Now
Novel AI Model May Enhance Health Data Interoperability
August 2024 An AI model developed by Northwestern Medicine investigators improved the transformation of EHR data into standardized health resources more efficiently than current methods, according to a recent study published in the journal NEJM AI.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Andrew Crotty Receives Google Research Scholar Program Award
August 2024 The award will support research advancing deep learning algorithms for compressing large datasets.
from Computer Science Department
How Algorithms Keep Workers Under Their Control
August 2024 More than ever, even highly skilled workers find themselves being evaluated, rewarded, and punished by opaque algorithms. A new book, Inside the Invisible Cage, investigates.
from Kellogg Insight
4 Leadership Lessons from the NFL’s Chief Data Officer
July 2024 Here’s how the league is going deep on AI, from addressing player safety to fine-tuning fan marketing.
from Kellogg Insight
Northwestern University’s Ask a Wildcat Wins Silver Circle of Excellence Award
July 2024 Ask a Wildcat is an AI-powered tool that scales meaningful interactions for Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences students.
from Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Deepfake-Detection System Is Now Live
July 2024 Northwestern University researchers have launched a new, easy-to-use platform for detecting deepfakes, which now is available to a limited number of verified journalists.
from Northwestern Engineering
How to Spot Political Deepfakes
July 2024 This article provides tips on defining and identifying deepfakes, understanding their scope in the current media environment, and trusting your intuition when examining the details of media for potential signs of manipulation.
from Kellogg Insight
Gen AI Can Tailor Ads to Our Personalities—and They’re Pretty Persuasive
July 2024 Through three studies, Kellogg’s Jacob Teeny and colleagues find that generative AI is able to write messages tailored to people’s complex psychological profiles and that these messages are more persuasive than non-tailored or generic messages.
from Kellogg Insight
3 Ways AI Can Support Your Marketing Team
June 2024 Three areas where AI can be most effective are carrying out customer research, amplifying creativity around social media and brand personality, and making advertising customization easier and more efficient.
from Kellogg Insight
Joshua D'Arcy Joins Northwestern Computer Science Faculty of Instruction
June 2024 Joshua D'Arcy will instruct computer science courses as well as supporting Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program and the MBAi program offered jointly with the Kellogg School of Management.
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AI Algorithm Identifies High-Performing Electrolytes for Batteries
June 2024 Scientists at Northwestern Engineering in partnership with researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm called MolSets that could help researchers discover more efficient and longer-lasting electrolytes for batteries.
from Northwestern Engineering
Celebrating 10 Years of DTR’s Self-Directed Learning Community
June 2024 Ten years ago, Haoqi Zhang launched Design, Technology, and Research (DTR), an initiative in which undergraduate students work on independent research projects at the intersection of human-computer interaction, social and crowd computing, learning science, artificial intelligence, and design.
from Northwestern Engineering
Building Mentoring Relationships and Peer Networks at CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshops
May 2024 The annual Computing Research Association (CRA) Widening Participation (WP) Grad Cohort for Women and Grad Cohort for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Leadership Skills (IDEALS) workshops provide an opportunity for women, historically underrepresented groups, and people with disabilities in the early stages of their graduate studies in computing to build mentoring relationships and develop peer networks.
from Computer Science Department
What Google AI means for you — and your search results
May 2024 Google’s idea is a great one, but needs further validation, according to Kristian Hammond, a professor of computer science at the McCormick School of Engineering.
from Northwestern Now
AI Tool Instantly Assesses Self-Harm Risk
May 2024 A new assessment tool that leverages powerful artificial intelligence was able to predict whether participants exhibited suicidal thoughts and behaviors using a quick and simple combination of variables.
from Northwestern Engineering
Computer Scientist Shares Enlightening Journey to See the ‘Value in Expression’
May 2024 Haoqi Zhang wants other computer scientists, including researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI), to examine their thinking from a consequentialist point of view (which judges actions solely by their consequences, i.e. goal-reaching methods) to also incorporate a dialectical mindset (which emphasizes the inherent value of an activity, e.g. being a good friend).
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Activating the Potential of AI
May 2024 Three graduate-level programs in artificial intelligence and data science equip leaders to meet tomorrow’s challenges while Northwestern Engineering researchers push the technology’s boundaries across multiple fields.
from Northwestern Engineering
Professor Ken Forbus Discussed the Future of AI at National Science Board Meeting
May 2024 On May 1, Ken Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern Engineering, spoke on the National Science Board (NSB) External Panel on Artificial Intelligence for a discussion titled "The Future is Now: Harnessing AI for Good."
from Computer Science Department
Random robots are more reliable
May 2024 New AI algorithm for robots consistently outperforms state-of-the-art systems.
from Northwestern Now
The Clues to Creditworthiness Hiding in Your Grocery Cart
May 2024 Grocery habits—like buying mortadella beef or scheduling regular shopping trips—can be as useful as credit scores at predicting who will reliably repay loans.
from Kellogg Insight
Misinformation is raging. Here’s how we fight back
May 2024 David Rapp, Walter Dill Scott Professor of Psychology and Learning Sciences at the School of Education and Social Policy, provides guidance in an election year filled with deepfakes, bad actors and the hazards of AI.
from Northwestern Now
Feeding Futures: Chaku Foods’ Nikki Okrah ’11 Blends Entrepreneurship and Social Impact
April 2024 Chaku Foods is building an artificial intelligence/machine learning-based platform that maps African farmer lands and predicts crop-yields to drive collection efficiencies.
from Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Six Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
April 2024 Northwestern Engineering PhD students have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, a five-year program given to outstanding individuals pursuing a full-time, research-based graduate degree in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
from Computer Science Department
Podcast: When AI Becomes a TA
April 2024 Curious about using AI at work? On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we hear from one professor who found a fascinating, low-stakes way to bring AI into his workplace: the classroom.
from Kellogg insight
Three McCormick Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 2024 Three members of the Northwestern Engineering faculty have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
from Northwestern Engineering
Research Explores How a Wikipedia-Like Approach Could Improve AI Evaluation
April 2024 CASMI researchers developed a tool that supports community-driven data curation for AI evaluation.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Northwestern CS Announces Winter 2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Peer Mentors
April 2024 The quarterly department awards recognize exceptional service to the CS community.
from Computer Science Department
Setting International Standards for Diagnosing Pediatric Sepsis
April 2024 As part of a task force of 35 interdisciplinary pediatric experts assembled from across the world to create new standards, researchers used a machine-learning model to analyze more than 3.6 million electronic health records.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
VentureCat 2024 Semifinalists!
April 2024 Several of the 25 semifinalist teams that will be competing at VentureCat on May 22, 2024 are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems for their businesses.
from VentureCat
Pioneering an AI-driven Approach to Cybersecurity Analysis
April 2024 Professor Xinyu Xing’s team won first place in the fuzzing tool competition at the 17th International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing, outperforming widely utilized industry tools.
from Computer Science Department
A New Era of AI-Generated Content
April 2024 MSAI director Kristian Hammond discusses OpenAI's new Sora model and its ability to create realistic video.
from Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI)
Developing Tools to Explore DNA Methylation
April 2024 A Northwestern Medicine study has detailed the development of a machine learning model to predict DNA methylation status in cell-free DNA by its fragmentation patterns, according to findings published in Nature Communications.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Helping a Robot Dog Navigate Through Crowds
April 2024 Katie Hughes looks back on her capstone project and the challenges she faced helping a robot dog move through a group without any collisions.
from Master of Science in Robotics
Building Connections with San Francisco Bay Area Employers and Alumni
April 2024 Over spring break, 23 Northwestern students traveled to the Bay Area to build connections with employers and alumni as part of a Northwestern Computer Science career development pilot initiative.
from Northwestern Engineering
Jorge Nocedal Awarded John von Neumann Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
April 2024 Northwestern Engineering’s Jorge Nocedal has been awarded the 2024 John von Neumann Prize, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
from Northwestern Engineering
Northwestern launches effort to develop best practices for news organizations using generative artificial intelligence
April 2024 To help journalists and news organizations understand potential use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has granted Northwestern University $1 million from its aligned commitment through Press Forward.
from Northwestern Now
Northwestern Robotics Team Demonstrates Mocobots to Tech Leaders
April 2024 From March 24-26, researchers in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems (CRB) demonstrated their Omnid mocobots, mobile collaborative robots designed to help humans easily manipulate large, awkward payloads, at the annual invite-only Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space (MARS) Conference in Ojai, California.
from Northwestern Engineering
Sharing the News on AI
April 2024 Noah Edelman writes The Neuron, a daily newsletter that delivers information about AI trends and tools directly to subscribers' inboxes.
from Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Advancing Quantum Leadership and Community
April 2024 Harnessing the quantum mechanics of sub-atomic particles — the phenomena of superposition, measurement, and entanglement — quantum 2.0 technology has the potential to revolutionize artificial intelligence, communications, information technology, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics.
from Northwestern Engineering
Established Frameworks Tell Us How to Build a Successful AI Startup
April 2024 Himanshu Joshi, an applied AI lead from Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, spoke on March 11 during an AI@NU Graduate Student Group event entitled, “Engineering the Future: How to Build an AI Startup.”
Podcast: AI Is a Tool. How Do We Want to Use It?
April 2024 Generative AI is like “a hammer looking for a nail.” On this podcast episode of The Insightful Leader: we have to decide what the nail should be.
from Kellogg Insight
Tracking the Evolution of COVID-19
April 2024 Scientists have developed a machine-learning approach to track the evolution of SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and potentially other viruses.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Examining lunar soil for moon-based construction
April 2024 While researchers understand the general makeup of the lunar soil, Northwestern University mineralogist Steven Jacobsen has received funding from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to further unravel the mystery of the dubious dust.
from Northwestern Now
Questions about your radiation therapy? Ask Chat GPT
April 2024 A new Northwestern Medicine study tested a specially designed ChatGPT to see if it could successfully provide answers to patients’ common questions about radiation oncology.
from Northwestern Now
AI Has Entered the Court. Is This Changing Umpires’ Calls?
April 2024 New research investigates how the introduction of the Hawk-Eye review system changed umpires’ behavior in professional tennis.
from Kellogg Insight
Online Users Navigate Mental Health Information, Empowered to Help Make Changes
March 2024 Access to mental health services is limited, so people are turning to the internet to find the information they need. New research finds this information-gathering process is cyclical and involves both search engines and social media platforms. The discovery is aimed at empowering online users to help make design changes.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
An AI-Driven Design Framework for Programmable Material Systems
March 2024 A team with Northwestern Engineering’s Wei Chen has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could enhance the design and functionality of programmable material systems (PMS).
from Northwestern Engineering
Three New Affiliate Faculty Members Join Northwestern Computer Science
March 2024 Professors Nivedita Arora, Matt Groh, and Ermin Wei join the team of affiliate faculty members helping to advance the department’s multidisciplinary academic and research mission.
from Computer Science Department
Engaging with Lawmakers, Business Leaders to Promote AI Safety
March 2024 CASMI is engaging with lawmakers and business leaders as it educates the public about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
New AI Tool Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
March 2024 Researchers created a predictive model using a powerful combination of machine learning algorithms and cognitive science. The novel interpretation method, coined “Comp Cog AI” by the team, uses small variable sets as opposed to the big data traditionally associated with AI.
from Northwestern Engineering
Questions to ask about government use of deepfakes
March 2024 Two Northwestern University professors coauthored a new report examining several hypothetical scenarios in which democratic governments might consider using deepfakes to advance their foreign policy objectives and the potential harms this use might pose to democracy.
from Northwestern Now
How to Grow in a Multichannel World
March 2024 As e-commerce continues to expand, companies need to adapt their channel strategies to stay relevant. A marketing expert offers guidance for reaching customers.
from Kellogg Insight
Harnessing the Power of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
March 2024 The Office for Research has created a DS/AI Steering Committee composed of faculty and other leaders from across Northwestern’s 12 schools as well as other contributing units.
from Northwestern Leadership Notes
When New Technology Arrives, Who Wins and Who Loses?
March 2024 For tools that assist but don’t replace workers, novices benefit, while experienced employees take a hit.
from Kellogg Insight
Transfer learning paves the way for new disease treatments
March 2024 In a new study, Northwestern University researchers have developed an AI-powered transfer learning approach that repurposes publicly available data to predict combinations of gene perturbations that can transform cell type or restore diseased cells to health.
from Northwestern Now
Taylor Olson and Lixu Wang Awarded IBM PhD Fellowships
February 2024 Northwestern Engineering computer science PhD students Taylor Olson and Lixu Wang have been awarded IBM PhD Fellowships in recognition of their demonstrated academic excellence and innovative research.
from Computer Science Department
Renowned Pulmonologist and Accomplished Clinical Educator Named Inaugural Director of Center for Bedside Medicine
February 2024 Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, professor of Medicine and of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit (BCU), has been named the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine and the inaugural director of the new Center for Bedside Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
CASMI Recognizes Research Focused on Preventing, Mitigating AI Harms
February 2024 CASMI is supporting AI safety research through the AI Incidents and Best Practices track at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-24).
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
The Dos and Don’ts of Regulating AI
February 2024 How can governments capitalize on AI’s benefits while minimizing its dangers? New research examines several policies—and identifies a promising approach.
from Kellogg Insight
Calming Neurotransmitter Can Also Be Excitatory
February 2024 A neurotransmitter previously thought only to calm neurons may also play a role in waking them up. The discovery has wider implications for artificial intelligence technology, said D. James Surmeier, PhD, the Nathan Smith Davis Professor and chair of Neuroscience, who was senior author of the study.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Advancing Compiler Technology
February 2024 Six papers reflecting multidisciplinary Northwestern Computer Science collaborations in compilers have been accepted into prestigious conferences this year.
from Computer Science Department
Keeping an Eye on AI
February 2024 Oleg Evdokimov uses the lessons he learned from the MPD2 program to teach the pros and cons of artificial intelligence to Northwestern students — and his children.
from Segal Design Institute
One Northwestern Researcher’s Mission to Elevate Healthcare
February 2024 Northwestern Engineering’s Sanjay Mehrotra used machine learning to improve efficiency in the healthcare system after his own near-death experience.
from Northwestern Engineering
Feinberg Faculty Inducted into American Society for Clinical Investigation
February 2024 Four Feinberg faculty members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, including Sanjiv Shah, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and director of the Center for Deep Phenotyping and Precision Therapeutics in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Daniel W. Linna Jr. Joins Illinois Supreme Court AI Task Force
February 2024 In January, the Illinois Supreme Court selected Daniel W. Linna Jr., senior lecturer and director of law and technology initiatives at Northwestern, to serve on its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force as part of its strategic agenda, which provides a blueprint for the next three years.
from Northwestern Engineering
Eun Hee Kim and Chin-Hung Chang receive Alumnae Award for Curriculum Innovation
February 2024 Eun Hee Kim and Chin-Hung Chang plan to enhance Korean and Chinese language learning with a conversational chatbot that will help students practice outside the classroom.
from Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Helping Mold Ethical AI
February 2024 A new MSAI course coming this spring will focus on the risks and moral issues behind the development of artificial intelligence, other modern day technology and how today’s students can work to create a brighter tech-assisted future.
from Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI)
Centering Sound Artists in Generative Music
February 2024 During a symposium on January 26, researchers and sound artists discussed the implications of generative models in music, outlined the critical and cultural response to generative music, examined the human role in the co-creativity process, and highlighted the design challenges for a human-centered approach to AI design that seeks to support – rather than supplant – the creative process.
from Northwestern Engineering
Marcelo Worsley Named Jacobs Fellow
February 2024 Northwestern University’s Marcelo Worsley has been named a research fellow with the Jacobs Foundation to support his work helping students learn computer science through sports.
from Computer Science Department
Racial bias exists in photo-based medical diagnosis despite AI help
February 2024 A new Northwestern University study finds that physician-machine partnerships boost diagnostic accuracy in dermatology, but accuracy disparities across skin color persist.
from Northwestern Now
AI2: Breaking ground on artificial intelligence
February 2024 Northwestern University in Qatar has announced the launch of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (AI2), a new strategic flagship initiative focused on meeting the global challenges of artificial intelligence and making decisive contributions to research, teaching, and professional development in that area.
from Northwestern University in Qatar
What Happens When We Give Doctors an AI Assistant?
February 2024 Machine-learning systems can improve physicians’ accuracy at diagnosing dermatological diseases. But even with AI assistance, physicians struggle to close the accuracy gap between light- and dark-skinned patients.
from Kellogg Insight
How Journalists Can Use AI Technologies to ‘Speak Truth to Power’
February 2024 Aimee Rinehart, program manager for The Associated Press’ (AP) Local News Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative, was a guest speaker on Jan. 30 for the AI@NU Graduate Student Group’s “How AI Is Transforming Journalism” event.
Four Students Receive Honorable Mention in CRA Undergraduate Research Awards
January 2024 Nadharm Dhiantravan, Joel Goh, Marko Veljanovski, and Garrett Weil made significant contributions to undergraduate research projects.
from Computer Science Department
Tracking Political Deepfakes: New Database Aims to Inform, Inspire Policy Solutions
January 2024 The creators of the Political Deepfakes Incidents Database won the inaugural Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) AI Incidents and Best Practices Paper Award and will present their findings at the Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Feb. 22-24 in Vancouver, Canada.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Four Students Receive Honorable Mention in CRA Undergraduate Research Awards
January 2024 Nadharm Dhiantravan, Joel Goh, Marko Veljanovski, and Garrett Weil made significant contributions to undergraduate research projects.
from Computer Science Department
Furthering Connections at Argonne Visit Day
January 2024 On January 9, Northwestern Computer Science welcomed collaborators from Argonne National Laboratory to discuss potential research intersections.
from Computer Science Department
When lab-trained AI meets the real world, ‘mistakes can happen’
January 2024 Human pathologists are extensively trained to detect when tissue samples from one patient mistakenly end up on another patient’s microscope slides (a problem known as tissue contamination). But such contamination can easily confuse artificial intelligence (AI) models.
from Northwestern Now
Northwestern CS Announces Fall 2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Peer Mentors
January 2024 Northwestern Computer Science honors and recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in computer science mentoring and teaching with the Peter and Adrienne Barris Outstanding Teaching Assistant and Outstanding Peer Mentor awards.
from Computer Science Department
How Will AI Reshape Our World? It’s Really Up to Us.
January 2024 AI is likely to change the nature of knowledge work. However, because it takes a long time for new technology to penetrate an industry, we will have the opportunity to ensure that it supports, rather than supplants, human priorities and values.
from Kellogg Insight
COP28 Takeaways from Northwestern’s Delegation
January 2024 For a third year, Northwestern sent a delegation of 12 faculty and graduate students to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), the world’s largest annual international climate summit.
from Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Building Community Among Early-Career Researchers in Theoretical Computer Science
January 2024 Early-career researchers in theoretical computer science presented novel algorithms, techniques, and data structures at the annual Junior Theorists Workshop, co-hosted by the Northwestern CS Theory Group and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC) on November 30 and December 1.
from Computer Science Department
Can We Really Discover New Nanoporous Materials on the Computer?
January 2024 Machine learning (ML) is another technology that is starting to play a big role in sorting through which metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are best suited for an application.
from Northwestern Engineering
The AI Will See You Now
January 2024 If AI is not already in your doctor’s office, you can bet it’s coming soon — with the potential to create major improvements in our health care and well-being.
from Northwestern Magazine
New Brain-Like Transistor Mimics Human Intelligence
January 2024 Taking inspiration from the human brain, scientists have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking, according to results published in the journal Nature.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Creating Algorithms to Build International Research Teams
January 2024 McCormick Global Initiatives hosted a workshop to pair scientists from four international partner universities.
from Northwestern Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Governance and Regulation with Catherine Régis
December 2023 In this "Breaking Boundaries" podcast episode, Catherine Régis, expert in AI governance and regulation, talks about the importance of involving experts and citizens to address AI's ethical challenges, the need for international collaboration and initiatives, and the potential of AI to accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
from Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Accelerating the Accessibility and Safety of Power Wheelchairs
December 2023 A multidisciplinary team led by Professor Brenna Argall is working on Project Drive, which is accelerating the accessibility, safety, and utility of power wheelchairs.
from Northwestern Engineering
New Brain-like Transistor Mimics Human Intelligence
December 2023 Taking inspiration from the human brain, researchers have developed a new synaptic transistor capable of higher-level thinking.
from Northwestern Engineering
Strong Northwestern CS Presence at the 2023 NeurIPS Conference
December 2023 Faculty, students, postdocs, and alumni participated in the annual forum for advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
from Computer Science Department
Not Sure Where to Start with Your AI Strategy? Here Are 3 Steps
December 2023 Brian Uzzi, a professor of leadership and organizational change at the Kellogg School, offers a three-step guide for business leaders looking to plot out their companies' AI strategies.
from Kellogg Insight
Developing Deep Learning Models to Understand the Human Genome
December 2023 Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a deep learning algorithm capable of identifying the location where a genetic process called polyadenylation occurs on the genome, according to findings published in Nature Communications.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Seeking Sustainable Solutions
December 2023 Northwestern Engineering faculty member Linda Broadbelt is pursuing a new ambitious target: the global plastics crisis. Her research team is using machine learning and artificial intelligence in their work.
from Northwestern Engineering
Immersive VR goggles for mice unlock new potential for brain science
December 2023 Northwestern University researchers have developed new virtual reality (VR) goggles for mice.
from Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Smoothing the Future
December 2023 As new technologies like electric vehicles (EVs) raise both novel and longstanding questions, Northwestern Engineering Professor Q. Jane Wang is working at the forefront of the discipline's future. Her latest tool? Artificial intelligence (AI).
from Northwestern Engineering
AI and the Law: The Jury's Still Out
December 2023 In law and legal services, large language models (LLMs) — such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard — could be a game-changer. Yet these technologies pose more questions than answers.
from Northwestern Engineering
Shirley Ryan’s Learning for Life series dives into artificial intelligence
December 2023 Every year, Learning for Life focuses on various angles of an important and timely topic. This year’s series, held in October, examined artificial intelligence (AI) and its many implications.
from Northwestern Now
The Threat and Promise of Deepfakes
December 2023 V.S. Subrahmanian, a faculty fellow at Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, writes that with the clamor for AI regulation growing louder every day, it is time to reflect on the threats posed by deepfakes — as well as potential benefits.
from Northwestern Magazine
High-Tech Methods Unlock the Perplexing Structural Features of a Mineral
December 2023 Research associate professor Xiaobing Hu and Professor Vinayak Dravid used atomic resolution imaging technique to determine the accurate structural features of of vaterite CaCO3, a metastable form of calcium carbonate.
from Northwestern Engineering
Where business, law and STEM converge
December 2023 Celebrating its 10th year, Pritzker School of Law’s Master of Science in Law program prepares students for diverse roles in a myriad of fields, such as artificial intelligence.
from Northwestern Now
The Impact of AI on Consumer Decision-Making with S. Venus Jin, PhD
December 2023 In this "Breaking Boundaries" podcast episode, Venus Jin, PhD, Director of the Communication Program at Northwestern in Qatar, discusses her research in human-machine interactions and examines how AI influences and shapes individuals' choices across various industries.
from Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Women in Computing Welcomes Alumna Alisa Liu
December 2023 On November 15, Northwestern Computer Science and Women in Computing hosted “An Evening with Alisa Liu,” welcoming the alumna back to campus to meet with undergraduate students and share her path to graduate school.
from Computer Science Department
Empowering Human Knowledge for More Effective AI-Assisted Decision-Making
November 2023 CASMI researchers from Carnegie Mellon University traveled on Nov. 6-9 to Delft, Netherlands to present findings from their research project, which is exploring key differences between human and AI judgment to support more effective human-AI decision-making.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Focusing on advancing safety and sustainability, UL grows its partnership with Northwestern
November 2023 In a cooperative initiative, UL Research Institutes (ULRI) and Northwestern University are working to bring safety to the forefront of the rapidly expanding field of AI and machine learning through their leadership of the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) research hub.
from Corporate Engagement
CASMI Attends Chicago Innovation Awards as Top 100 Finalist
November 2023 For the second year in a row, CASMI attended the annual Chicago Innovation Awards as a Top 100 Finalist.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Addressing Gender and Intersectional Bias in Artificial Intelligence
November 2023 On November 10, the Gender Equity Initiative at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and the Northwestern University Law and Technology Initiative cohosted the “Gender and Intersectional Bias in Artificial Intelligence Conference” to discuss how and why AI reflects and exacerbates historical and social inequities and innovative technical and legal approaches to mitigate those biases.
from Computer Science Department
AI may spare breast cancer patients unnecessary treatments
November 2023 A new AI tool may make it possible to spare breast cancer patients unnecessary chemotherapy treatments by using a more precise method of predicting their outcomes.
from Northwestern Now
How Scenario Writing Could Help Us Build a Safer AI Future
November 2023 CASMI researchers are working to understand plausible AI risks through a unique, writing-based method.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Podcast: Using AI Comes with a Trade-off. Now Multiply That by 8 Billion.
November 2023 On this episode of The Insightful Leader podcast: what happens when everyone uses the same generative AI tools?
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Examining Trust and Reliability at the Intersection of Computer Science and Law
November 2023 During a two-day workshop in October, the Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL) explored reliability and trust in machine learning and artificial intelligence systems through the lens of computer science, law, and policy.
from Computer Science Department
Student Investigates AI Solutions to Medical ‘Loose Ends’
November 2023 Roger Smith, an eighth-year student in Feinberg’s Medical Scientist Training Program, is developing an artificial intelligence tool to tie up medical loose ends identified in electronic health records.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Flexing the Lifespan of AI-Enabled Electronic Devices
November 2023 A team led by Professor Qi Zhu received an NSF Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing award to extend hardware life and reduce waste and emissions.
from Computer Science Department
Are consumers ready for robots at their doorstep?
November 2023 A study from Northwestern University’s Mobility and Behavior Lab found consumers are more prepared for automated vehicle delivery than drones or robots.
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Pioneering Automated Proteoform Imaging
November 2023 Investigators led by Neil Kelleher, PhD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, have developed an automated technique for imaging and identifying proteoforms in ovarian cancer tissue.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Capturing Quantum Optical Information with Atomic Memories
November 2023 In a new review paper, a team led by Northwestern Engineering’s Mahdi Hosseini evaluated the rapid and broad advances in quantum memory development over the past decade.
from Northwestern Engineering
New Book Addresses Android Security Threat Landscape
November 2023 Northwestern Engineering’s V.S. Subrahmanian is a co-author of a new book called The Android Malware Handbook: Detection and Analysis by Human and Machine.
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Developing Custom AI Language Models to Interpret Chest X-Rays
November 2023 Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can interpret chest X-rays with accuracy rivaling that of a human radiologist for some conditions, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Building an Impactful Open-Source Ecosystem for Machine Learning Prototyping
November 2023 A multi-institution team led by Professor Seda Ogrenci received a Phase 2 NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems award.
from Computer Science Department
Nature, nurture, or both? The scientists behind AI-made robots
November 2023 McCormick Prof. Sam Kriegman and his lab assistant David Matthews recently developed a one-of-a-kind artificial intelligence program that builds a robot in seconds.
from The Daily Northwestern
The Big Trade-off at the Heart of Generative AI
November 2023 When individuals use generative AI to create content, they accept a trade-off between efficiency and “fidelity”—how faithfully the content matches what they would have produced themselves.
from Kellogg Insight
Designing AI Tools for Underserved Populations from the Ground Up
October 2023 The Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) supported a special interest group (SIG) event on Oct. 17 in Minneapolis called “Purposeful AI.”
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
CASMI, TRAILS and FAS Collaborating with Federal Standards Body to Assess AI Impacts and Risks
October 2023 CASMI designed and led a workshop to support the expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) guidance from a sociotechnical lens.
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Advancing AI Systems in Cybersecurity, Counterterrorism, and International Security
October 2023 The Northwestern Security and AI Lab (NSAIL) team is one of the leaders of a growing multidisciplinary community developing and deploying AI technologies to address global threats and protect against malicious actors around the world.
from Northwestern Engineering
Researchers Working to Translate Human Experiences for AI Tools
October 2023 CASMI research is aimed at helping designers form rich and accurate descriptions of real-life situations so that they can create context-aware responsible tools.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
New Northwestern AI Club Wants to Help Launch Startups
October 2023 There’s a new artificial intelligence (AI) club on campus, and it’s open to anyone interested in entrepreneurship and technical discussions.
Feinberg Classmates Reconnect at Alumni Weekend 2023
October 2023 The weekend’s activities included educational forums and lectures led by Feinberg faculty who discussed topics ranging from pathogen genomics and the biology of aging to the latest developments in artificial intelligence and digital technology in medicine.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
First supernova detected, confirmed, classified and shared by AI
October 2023 A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova.
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AI Just Got 100-Fold More Energy Efficient
October 2023 Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a new nanoelectronic device that can perform accurate machine-learning classification tasks in the most energy-efficient manner yet.
from Northwestern Engineering
Showcase Highlights Undergraduate Student Summer Research Projects
October 2023 Over the summer, a cohort of 22 second- and third-year Northwestern Computer Science (CS) students conducted practical, immersive research in labs alongside graduate students and faculty members.
from Computer Science Department
RISE Program Empowers Medical Students Pursuing Research
October 2023 Tyler Smith, a third-year medical student and a current RISE scholar, is exploring how machine learning models can help better determine the physiology of patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Big Tech Takes the Stand
October 2023 Google may look like a monopoly, but is its power actually hurting consumers? A legal expert weighs in.
from Kellogg Insight
Instant evolution: AI designs new robot from scratch in seconds
October 2023 A team led by Northwestern University researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch.
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Workshop to Explore Sociotechnical Standards to Better Manage AI Risks
September 2023 CASMI is co-hosting a workshop on Oct. 16-17 in Washington, D.C. to test and evaluate sociotechnical approaches for AI systems, focusing specifically on expanding the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF).
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Advancing Trustworthy and Reliable Data Science
September 2023 As data science and machine learning are increasingly deployed across the decision-making pipeline, designing provably reliable and trustworthy methods and systems is imperative.
from Computer Science Department
How a Cheek Swab Could Help Fight Lung Cancer
September 2023 Recent research from Professor Vadim Backman and the Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering (CPGE) could one day help doctors make that crucial discovery earlier and save more lives.
from Northwestern Engineering
Academia, Industry Unite to Showcase AI in Healthcare
September 2023 Northwestern University and the University of Chicago teamed up on Sept. 14 for a discussion about AI’s potential and limitations. The Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM) event, “Crosstown Showcase: AI in Healthcare,” took place in Chicago at DLA Piper, a business law firm, and included participants from industry and academia.
Small, implantable device could sense and treat cancer
September 2023 A multi-institutional team of researchers, including Northwestern University scientists, has received $45 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fast-track the development of a first-of-its-kind implant to sense and treat cancer.
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Researchers Investigating Popular Predictor Tool, Working to Mitigate Bias in Data
September 2023 CASMI researchers are working to understand what is causing bias in a popular predictor tool that is quick to train.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Could Generative AI Out-Entrepreneur Humans? Maybe, but Here’s What Matters More
September 2023 We can all probably agree that generative AI has the algorithm thing down better than we humans do—and as a bonus, AI-based technologies can theoretically perform each of those business-building steps while considering more novel creative possibilities than we could and avoiding bias.
from Kellogg Insight
Patient-Focused AI System Seeks to Reduce Stress during Pregnancy
September 2023 CASMI researchers are studying expectant mothers’ stress levels to combat them in real time and even prevent them.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Northwestern Engineering Names Winners of 2023 Cole-Higgins Awards
September 2023 Five members of the Northwestern Engineering community have received the school’s annual awards for outstanding teaching and advising.
from Northwestern Engineering
Pioneering a New Virtual Reality Course
September 2023 Merging the digital and physical worlds, the technologies of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) offer immersive ways of experiencing and interacting with digital content.
from Computer Science Department
Ask a Wildcat: New AI-powered tool from Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program fosters ‘unique, customized’ experiences between Wildcats alumni and students
September 2023 An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool from Weinberg College’s Waldron Student-Alumni Connections Program, Ask a Wildcat aims to connect students seeking thoughtful advice on college and career matters with alumni who can dispense wisdom, viewpoints, and counsel to help shape students’ experiences at – and beyond – Northwestern.
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International Institute for Nanotechnology announces distinguished Kabiller Prize winners
September 2023 Renowned researcher Jeffrey A. Hubbell has received the 2023 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, a biennial award given by Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) to one scientist for outstanding achievements in the field.
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Holmes Named Associate Dean for Knowledge Management and Strategy
August 2023 Kristi Holmes, PhD, professor of Preventive Medicine, director of Northwestern’s Galter Health Sciences Library and chief of knowledge management for the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), has been named the new associate dean for knowledge management and strategy at Feinberg.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Ethical Framework Aims to Reduce Bias in Data-Driven Policing
August 2023 Law enforcement agencies are using machine learning technologies to forecast where crime might occur. CASMI has supported newly published research that is aimed at mitigating the risks in data-driven policing.
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Award-Winning Research Highlights Challenges and Opportunities for More Reliable Human-AI Decision-Making
August 2023 CASMI researchers have investigated threats to validity and reliability in human-AI decision-making and have demonstrated how new methods may help address these challenges.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Social-Media Algorithms Have Hijacked “Social Learning”
August 2023 Social media represents a new frontier for social learning. What happens when all-important observing and mimicking of others is mediated by algorithms controlled by tech companies whose goals are to keep people’s attention on platforms?
from Kellogg Insight
Advancing our Understanding Behind the Mechanisms of Pain
August 2023 A recent study led by Apkar Apkarian, PhD, professor of Neuroscience, of Anesthesiology and of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Paulo Branco, PhD, assistant professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Medicine, used machine learning to predict acute pain after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Building STEAM Knowledge at Northwestern CS Summer Camp
August 2023 Ninety-three STEAM Scholars2 students — ranging from third grade to high school — participated in computer science project workshops, toured the Segal Design Institute’s Ford Prototyping Lab, and played a chess tournament during the third-annual Northwestern Computer Science (CS) Summer Camp.
from Northwestern Engineering
Podcast: Platforms Are Experimenting on Their Users…a Lot. Is That Okay?
August 2023 On this episode of The Insightful Leader: Opaque algorithms on platforms like LinkedIn, Uber, and TaskRabbit have more power than ever. It’s starting to impact livelihoods.
from Kellogg Insight
Watch an exoplanet’s 17-year journey around its star
August 2023 The longest time-lapse footage of an exoplanet to date was assembled from real data.
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Measuring Safety in Artificial Intelligence: ‘Positionality Matters’
August 2023 On July 18 and 19, CASMI hosted 32 interdisciplinary scholars from academia, industry, and government for its workshop, “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI," to discuss how to meaningfully operationalize safe, functional AI systems.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Sam Kriegman Named Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellow
August 2023 Northwestern Engineering’s Sam Kriegman is among the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellows, selected to solve hard problems in artificial intelligence (AI) through bold and ambitious multidisciplinary research.
from Northwestern Engineering
Social media algorithms exploit how we learn from our peers
August 2023 In a review published Aug. 3 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, social scientists from Northwestern University describe how the misalignment between the objective of social media algorithms, designed to boost user engagement, and functions of human psychology can lead to increased polarization and misinformation.
from Northwestern Now
On a Mission to Optimize Networks
August 2023 Supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Northwestern Engineering's Simge Küçükyavuz is tackling the issue of social media misinformation, an accelerating global problem the World Economic Forum and others have cited as one of the main threats to well-functioning societies.
from Northwestern Engineering
Why Machine Learning Could Change Experimental Solid Mechanics
August 2023 A new review paper from a team led by Northwestern Engineering’s Horacio Espinosa highlights how applying machine learning (ML) to the field of experimental solid mechanics is producing promising results.
from Northwestern Engineering
As Data Privacy Improves, Small Advertisers Could Get Squeezed
August 2023 Lauded as a win for consumers, new protections could have unintended consequences. “There’s no privacy ‘free lunch’ here.”
from Kellogg Insight
Gravity Spy research paper wins prestigious Spanish data science award
July 2023 On July 3, 2023, the BBVA Foundation’s Statistics and Operations Research Society awarded Northwestern researchers “Best Applied Contribution in Statistics” for their paper “Scalable Variational Gaussian Processes for Crowdsourcing: Glitch Detection in LIGO“.
from Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
ChatGPT Has Arrived. What’s a Manager to Do?
July 2023 ChatGPT and other large-scale language models are clearly here to stay. But how should managers adapt their roles to embrace these technologies?
from Kellogg Insight
Resilience in the Face of War: Ukrainian Researchers Investigate AI Fairness
July 2023 Air raid sirens sound off on a weekly basis. Sporadic missile attacks strike residential buildings, killing innocent civilians. These are the grim conditions under which researchers at the Ukrainian Catholic University are working – at all hours of the day – as they investigate fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Doctoral Student Chenkai Weng Receives J.P. Morgan AI Research Fellowship
July 2023 Northwestern Engineering computer science PhD student Chenkai Weng has received a J.P. Morgan AI Research PhD Fellowship in recognition of his work advancing cutting-edge research in cryptography.
from Computer Science Department
Pioneering New Methods to Understand Protein Folding
July 2023 Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new technique for measuring protein folding stability on an unprecedented scale, findings detailed in a new study published in Nature.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Uncovering Why Some Cells Become Resistant to Anti-cancer Therapies
July 2023 A research team led by Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania scientists has created a new synthetic biology approach, a “QR code for cancer cells,” to follow tumor cells over time, finding there are meaningful differences in why a cancer cell dies or survives in response to anti-cancer therapies.
from Northwestern Engineering
Rediscovering Childhood at the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
July 2023 Exploring the theme of reemergence, reengagement, and reconnection after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 22nd annual ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’23) Conference brought together researchers, educators, and practitioners to “rediscover childhood” and question what adults can do to ensure a sustainable and equitable future for the next generation.
from Northwestern Engineering
New Book Examines How AI Can Accelerate Scientific Productivity
July 2023 Northwestern Engineering’s Ken Forbus authored a chapter in the new book Artificial Intelligence in Science: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of Research (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Publishing, 2023) that explores the current and emerging applications of AI and examines public policy implications.
from Northwestern Computer Science Department
Study Finds Simple Method Can Improve Safety for Language Models
July 2023 Researchers with the Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) have found a simple and effective way to identify unknown and anomalous data for language models, which improves safety and reliability.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
How AI Can Help Researchers Navigate the “Replication Crisis”
July 2023 A new tool predicts whether a specific study is likely to replicate, building confidence in the findings among scientists, funding agencies, and the public.
from Kellogg Insight
How to Prepare for AI-Generated Misinformation
July 2023 Thanks to the proliferation of large-language-model (LLM) generative AI tools like ChatGPT-4 and Bard, it’s now easier to create texts, images, and videos that are often indistinguishable from those produced by people.
from Kellogg Insight
Unveiling the origins of merging black holes in galaxies like our own
June 2023 Northwestern University astrophysicists are part of an international team of scientists using advanced simulation tools that has predicted the existence of merging massive, 30 solar mass black hole binaries in Milky Way-like galaxies, challenging previous theories.
from Northwestern Now
AI Ethics Debate at Chicago Conference, Precursor to CASMI’s Next Workshop
June 2023 Several CASMI researchers attended the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), an event that is closely aligned with the focus of CASMI's next workshop, “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI.”
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Receives $18 Million NSF Grant
June 2023 Northwestern University’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NU-MRSEC), which is among the longest continually funded materials research centers in the country, has received a six-year, $18 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Study Finds Eye Gaze Signals Provide Key Answers in Assistive Device Control
June 2023 Using eye-tracking technology, CASMI researchers gathered data about eye gaze signals, with help from 11 people with disabilities, and concluded that it’s likely assistive devices can be designed to allow for smoother control.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Moving Closer to Efficiently Using Earth’s Power
June 2023 Using AI, Chris Wolverton proposed a method that unifies different kinds of heat carriers to estimate the lower limit of lattice thermal conductivity and applies it to thousands of inorganic compounds.
from Northwestern Engineering
At this year’s TEACHx, keeping the student experience front and center
June 2023 Northwestern’s annual TEACHx conference, a celebration of teaching and learning innovation, last month welcomed more than 300 faculty, students, learning designers and education technology specialists to learn from guest speakers and their peers. Topics ranged from artificial intelligence and alternative grading to data integrity and diversifying curricula.
from Northwestern Now
Encouraging Undergraduate Students to Pursue Data Science Research
June 2023 IDEAL hosted a career development workshop for 30 undergraduate students interested in pursuing research in computer science, data science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and statistics.
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Designing Computing Education for Everyone
June 2023 On June 8, the Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design hosted a thought leader panel to explore thoughtful design approaches to broadening participation and recognizing computing’s value for all learners.
from Northwestern Engineering
Using AI, ChatGPT to Augment the Future of Healthcare
June 2023 Large language models (LLMs) were the focus June 7 of the AI@NU, Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), and McCormick School of Engineering event, "Exploring Opportunities at the Intersection of Healthcare and AI."
Podcast: How to Prepare for Your New Algorithmic Coworker
June 2023 On this episode of The Insightful Leader, we talk about how large-scale language models work and what leaders should make of them.
from Kellogg Insight
Largest Cell Map of Human Lung Reveals Insights Into Disease
June 2023 To develop the Human Lung Cell Atlas, a large team of investigators successfully combined 49 lung datasets from nearly 40 separate studies into a single integrated atlas using advanced machine learning.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Newly Discovered Mechanisms Increase Chemotherapy Resistance in Breast Cancer
June 2023 Next steps include using artificial intelligence, such as machine learning and deep learning approaches, to enhance triple-negative breast cancer drug development.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Xiao Wang Receives Google Research Scholar Program Award
June 2023 Northwestern Engineering’s Xiao Wang has received a 2023 Google Research Scholar Program Award for his work developing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), which allow a party to verify a statement without revealing the underlying information that “proves” the data.
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Northwestern poised to lead on diversity, ‘engagement across difference’ and academic strength
June 2023 Looking to the future, President Michael Schill said that Northwestern is poised to become a leader in research areas that can address some of the most pressing challenges facing our society, including data science and artificial intelligence.
from Northwestern Now
Study Finds Machine Learning Technique May Worsen Fairness
May 2023 Researchers with the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) have found that a commonly used technique in machine learning (ML), which is meant to improve accuracy, is more likely to worsen fairness for historically disadvantaged groups.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
What does the new frontier in biomedicine look like?
May 2023 As part of presidential inauguration week, an expert panel explored hot topics of longevity, AI, regenerative medicine, bioelectronics and new approaches to cancer treatment.
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Will AI Kill Human Creativity?
May 2023 Brian Uzzi, professor of management and organizations at Kellogg, considers implications of AI-generated music for what he sees as the inevitable creative class wars against AI, and what it means for us all.
from Kellogg Insight
New Book Introduces the AI Technologies Leading to Transformational Scientific Discovery
May 2023 Northwestern Engineering’s Alok Choudhary is a co-editor of a new book called Artificial Intelligence for Science: A Deep Learning Revolution (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2023) that introduces the AI, machine learning (ML), and deep neural network technologies leading to revolutionary scientific discoveries.
from Northwestern Engineering
Personalizing the News: Does It Work?
May 2023 Research is underway to develop an experimental platform for testing news recommender systems. The system will expose people to news stories on topics that interest them and measure outcomes such as clicks, reader retention, and reading diversity.
Understanding How Aggressive Thyroid Cancer Evolves
May 2023 Researchers utilized a machine learning algorithm to shed new light on how the deadliest form of thyroid cancer transforms from slow-growing to aggressive, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Gravity Spy 2.0 gears up for the next gravitational wave observing run
May 2023 As gravitational wave scientists prepared to turn their detectors back on in mid-May, the Gravity Spy Citizen Science team expanded the scope of their project to further refine the data generated by LIGO‘s detectors.
from Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
Inauguration week panels will highlight biomedical science, free expression
May 2023 Two academic panels composed of Northwestern University faculty will convene to discuss contemporary topics of importance in higher education: biomedical science and engineering and freedom of expression.
from Northwestern Now
How Researchers are Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Low Literacy Patients Understand Their Health
May 2023 CASMI visiting researcher Francisco Iacobelli and his research team are creating an intelligent tutoring system for low-literacy Latina breast cancer survivors.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Artificial intelligence helps Northwestern Medicine gastroenterologists detect, remove 13% more colorectal polyps
May 2023 Physicians who performed colonoscopies assisted by artificial intelligence achieved a 13 percent increase in the detection and removal of colorectal polyps, according to new research by Northwestern Medicine shared May 9 at the Digestive Diseases Week conference in Chicago.
from Northwestern Medicine
How AI and Data Keep Changing the Transportation Industry
May 2023 Echo CEO Doug Waggoner spoke at the 41st Annual William A. Patterson Transportation Lecture April 26 at the Walter Athletics Center Auditorium.
from Northwestern Engineering
Student-Designed Avatar Makes Public Debut at Panel, Theatrical Production Is Next
May 2023 Northwestern University students designed a digital avatar that made its debut April 26 during a Chicago Innovation event. The plan is to use the avatar for an improv show in Chicago.
Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths
May 2023 Machine learning finds no evidence of cytokine storm in critically ill patients with COVID-19.
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Simpson Querrey Lung Institute for Translational Science Launches
May 2023 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has launched the new Simpson Querrey Lung Institute for Translational Science (SQLIFTS), ushering in a new era of lung research, education, and patient care at Northwestern Medicine.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
2 Factors Will Determine How Much AI Transforms Our Economy
May 2023 The latest artificial intelligence tools, including language models like ChatGPT-4 and image generators like Stable Diffusion, have the world riveted. It’s clear that AI could be on the verge of disrupting a lot of knowledge work—and indeed the broader economy.
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CS+Law Innovation Lab Teams Demo Client-Focused Technology Solutions
April 2023 On April 11, eight Innovation Lab teams presented live project demos during a virtual event, the culmination of their entrepreneurial process of understanding stakeholder needs, conducting market research, brainstorming ideas, testing solutions, and prototyping tools.
from Northwestern Engineering
What Should Leaders Make of the Latest AI?
April 2023 The latest artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are already capable of developing a travel itinerary, generating a simple business plan, and writing marketing copy—and the technology is getting better.
from Kellogg Insight
Workshop to Explore Safety Measurement in Artificial Intelligence
April 2023 The Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) is hosting a workshop on July 18-19 entitled, “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI.”
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Medical Student Receives Soros Fellowship for New Americans
April 2023 Zhanlin Chen, a first-year medical student at Feinberg, has been awarded the 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He hopes to use his Feinberg education to provide personalized healthcare which incorporates machine learning, genomics and data science.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Feinberg Faculty Inducted into Prominent Medical Societies
April 2023 Five Feinberg faculty members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, including Huiping Liu, MD, PhD, whose laboratory studies include the use of machine learning.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
As technology like ChatGPT evolves, considering the implications for Northwestern
April 2023 Northwestern community members gathered recently for the winter faculty webinar to discuss generative artificial intelligence — specifically ChatGPT — its growing popularity and its potential impact on University culture.
from Northwestern Now
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Literacy: ‘AI Is for Everyone’
April 2023 The Northwestern University Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design (HCI+D) hosted a virtual panel on April 7 entitled, “Thought Leaders on AI Education.” The discussion focused on what curriculums are available for students and teachers in all grade levels and how adults can also learn about AI systems and tools.
Are People on Social Media Actually That Outraged?
April 2023 The study finds that people perceive greater moral outrage in political posts than authors felt when writing them.
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People online might not be as outraged as you think
April 2023 Researchers used machine learning to identify people who were tweeting about American politics with either high or low levels of outrage.
from Northwestern Now
Fluency vs. Fact: How Industries and Researchers are Navigating Generative AI
April 2023 CASMI hosted a virtual panel Monday, April 3 entitled, "The Harms and Benefits of Generative AI: Exploring the Differences Between Fluency and Fact."
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
AI algorithm unblurs the cosmos
March 2023 Researchers at Northwestern University and Tsinghua University in Beijing adapted a well-known computer-vision algorithm used for sharpening photos and, for the first time, applied it to astronomical images from ground-based telescopes.
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Two Faculty Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows
March 2023 Northwestern Engineering’s Brenna Argall and Danielle Tullman-Ercek have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
from Northwestern Engineering
How ChatGPT Has, and Will Continue to, Transform Scientific Research
March 2023 ChatGPT has also caught the attention of professionals across fields, including academia, healthcare and scientific research. In an anonymous Twitter poll administered to Feinberg faculty, staff and students on February 13, almost 50 percent of respondents said that ChatGPT could “prove useful” in their own work and lives.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Celebrating Feinberg’s 2023 Match Day
March 2023 Residency matches are made by the National Resident Matching Program, which utilizes an algorithm to pair graduating medical students with open training positions at teaching hospitals across the U.S.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Reducing Harm in Artificial Intelligence Requires Policies for Safer Algorithmic Systems
March 2023 Ben Shneiderman’s four-page TechBrief was published with the hope of convincing the government and policy communities to make safer algorithmic systems a priority.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Tracking AI Failures: Understanding the Past to Engineer a Better Future
March 2023 Anyone can go to the AI Incident Database to report AI harms or near harms, which are then classified as AI incidents. The database currently has more than 2,400 reports of AI harms, resulting in more than 400 incidents.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Future Directions in Continuing Medical Education
March 2023 Melissa Bregger, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine, has been named assistant medical director for continuing medical education at Feinberg. She discussed how the use of artificial intelligence fascinates her.
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AI in the Newsroom: Professor Studying Responsible Uses
March 2023 The explosion of generative AI has brought one pressing question to the forefront: how can the industry use these tools responsibly? Nick Diakopoulos, associate professor of communication studies in Northwestern’s School of Communication and (by courtesy) associate professor of computer science in Northwestern Engineering, is studying this issue through his “Generative AI in the Newsroom Project.”
Marketers, Don’t Be Too Hasty to Act on Data
March 2023 The CEO at Gap Inc. fired all creatives and, copying his competitors, turned his efforts toward big data instead. As history revealed, simply turning toward big data and AI would not solve the problem.
from Kellogg Insight
Optimizing the Delivery of Proteins
March 2023 A new method allows for the continuous imaging of cells and their morphological analysis using machine learning algorithms for further assessing efficiency and efficacy.
from Northwestern Engineering
Two students receive new scholarship to spur innovation in science and technology
March 2023 The Quad Fellowship, an initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan and the United States, is designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists.
from Northwestern Now
At Their Best, Self-Learning Algorithms Can Be a “Win-Win-Win”
March 2023 Lyft is using ”reinforcement learning” to match customers to drivers—leading to higher profits for the company, more work for drivers, and happier customers.
from Kellogg Insight
Funding New Research to Operationalize Safety in Artificial Intelligence
February 2023 The Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) at Northwestern University, a collaboration with the UL Research Institutes' Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI), is providing $2.2 million in funding for eight new projects across seven institutions.
from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Two Northwestern professors named Sloan Research Fellows
February 2023 The new Northwestern fellows are chemist Todd Gingrich of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and neuroscientist Ann Kennedy of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Promising young faculty receive prestigious NSF CAREER award
February 2023 Four Northwestern University assistant professors, including Hatim Rahman, have received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. Rahman’s research examines how new technology, such as artificial intelligence, is changing the way people work.
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Defining Safety in Artificial Intelligence: ‘We Need to Have a Community’
February 2023 The Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) at Northwestern University hosted a workshop on Jan. 19 and 20 entitled, “Toward a Safety Science of AI.” Interdisciplinary thought leaders attended to share ideas on how we can define, measure, and anticipate safety in AI.
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Competition Aims to Find AI Solutions to Healthcare Disparities
February 2023 The Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM) is hosting the 3rd Coast Augmented Intelligence for Health Bowl in its second year. This year’s theme is for teams to create an AI-based product to address health disparity issues.
Will AI Eventually Replace Doctors?
February 2023 In a recent paper, David Dranove and Craig Garthwaite, professors of strategy at Kellogg, explored the implications of incorporating AI into healthcare—in particular, how such software would affect the central role of the physician.
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Daniel Abrams Named NICO Codirector
January 2023 This transformation was possible due to $3.8 million in university funds made available for the Northwestern Data Science Initiative, $5.5 million in philanthropic giving toward projects in synthetic biology, sustainability, and studies of innovation and team science, and $13 million from federal funding agencies.
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Changes in Medical School Leadership
January 2023 Feinberg has named two new associate deans: Linda Suleiman, MD, and Kathryn Hufmeyer, MD. Hufmeyer, ’11, ’14 GME, said she hopes to help adapt Feinberg education to meet the modern challenges of medical education, including incorporating artificial intelligence.
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Kristian Hammond Elected 2023 AAAI Fellow
January 2023 The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has elected Northwestern Engineering’s Kristian Hammond as one of its 2023 Fellows.
from Northwestern Engineering
How ChatGPT Could Impact Law and Legal Services Delivery
January 2023 Panelists considered the potential and limitations of ChatGPT in the legal sphere.
from Northwestern Engineering
Deepfake challenges ‘will only grow’
January 2023 According to a new report by artificial intelligence (AI) and foreign policy experts at Northwestern University and the Brookings Institution, the researchers predict the technology is on the brink of being used much more widely, including in targeted military and intelligence operations.
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ChatGPT writes convincing fake scientific abstracts that fool reviewers in study
January 2023 Blinded human reviewers — when given a mix real and falsely generated abstracts — could only spot ChatGPT generated abstracts 68% of the time.
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Chad Mirkin receives King Faisal Prize for work in chemistry
January 2023 The King Faisal Foundation has awarded Northwestern University professor Chad A. Mirkin the 2023 King Faisal Prize (KFP) in Medicine and Science for his work in chemistry.
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Who Does a Better Job with ESG Ratings, Global or Local Research Firms?
January 2023 To establish which ESG researcher produced better ratings, researchers drew data from RepRisk, using machine learning to power a daily review of 100,000 multilanguage information sources.
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In a World of Widespread Video Sharing, What’s Real and What’s Not?
December 2022 Today, people around the world have unprecedented ability to capture and disseminate everything from children’s dance recitals to police violence or war crimes. But technological advances in AI have also encouraged the proliferation of deepfakes: seemingly realistic videos that contain inauthentic elements.
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Accelerating the Accessibility and Utility of Power Wheelchairs
December 2022 A multidisciplinary team of academic, industry, and non-profit partners led by Professor Brenna Argall aims to enhance safety and facilitate independent wheelchair operation.
from Northwestern Engineering
Investigating Disparities in Machine Learning Algorithms
December 2022 Integrating social determinants of health into machine learning models helped mitigate bias when predicting long-term outcomes for heart failure patients, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Circulation: Heart Failure.
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Aging is driven by unbalanced genes
December 2022 In a new study, researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze data from a wide variety of tissues, collected from humans, mice, rats and killifish. They discovered that the length of genes can explain most molecular-level changes that occur during aging.
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Which Workers Suffer Most When New Technology Arrives?
December 2022 On the one hand, new technologies can make people more productive. On the other hand, some forms of automation can also make workers obsolete.
from Kellogg Insight
Applying AI Techniques in Cybersecurity, Counterterrorism, and International Security
December 2022 In October, Northwestern Engineering and the Buffett Institute hosted the “Conference on AI and National Security” to mark the launch of the joint Northwestern Security and AI Lab.
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Atomistic Experiments and Machine-Learning-Inspired Modeling Lead to Better Understanding of 2D Materials
November 2022 A team of investigators highlighted advances in atomic-scale experimentation.
from McCormick School of Engineering
Novel Deep Learning Method May Help Predict Cognitive Function
November 2022 Northwestern investigators have developed a deep learning-based method that can predict cognitive function capacity based on brain shape and structure, detailed in a study published in Scientific Reports.
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Exploring the Intersection of Computer Science and Law
September 2022 The emerging field of CS+Law is exploring the common foundations and bidirectional relationship between CS and law.
from McCormick School of Engineering
Northwestern and Toyota Research Institute Join Forces to Find Materials to Drive Clean Energy Transition
August 2022 Teams use AI to design and synthesize next-generation materials to help reduce carbon emissions.
from Northwestern Now
Climate Change Could Have Negative Effect on Great Lakes Travel
August 2022 A team in Professor Luís A. Nunes Amaral's lab simulated the impact of losing 67 percent of direct air routes.
from McCormick School of Engineering
Advancing the Theoretical Foundations of Data Science
July 2022 The Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL) received a five-year, $10 million Phase II award from NSF.
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Platform Leverages AI to Manipulate Cells at Scale
July 2022 Localized electroporation device could support pivotal cellular engineering processes
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Answering How to Collect Data for Machine Learning
July 2022 Recent work from Northwestern Engineering researchers could provide answers to how most data used by AI and ML is collected by the public and how much data the scientific community actually has.
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Podcast: What One School District’s Fiasco Says About the Strengths and Limits of AI
June 2022 On this episode of The Insightful Leader: When Boston Public Schools looked to algorithms to solve equity issues and save money, it ran into a roadblock—the complicated lives of parents and students.
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AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages
June 2022 NU researchers used machine learning to identify speech patterns in children with autism that were consistent across languages
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Multimillion-Dollar Gift to Advance Study of Human-Computer Interaction
June 2022 Patricia Bao’s commitment is largest ever for Northwestern’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction and Design
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Pushing Boundaries with Generative Artmaking
May 2022 Panelists discussed the implications of artificial intelligence for artistic creation
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Annie Liang Receives NSF CAREER Award
May 2022 The award will support research at the intersection of economic theory and computer science
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Innovation Lab Demos Spotlight “Technology for Law”
May 2022 Teams of computer science and law students developed computational solutions to improve legal services delivery
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CASMI Celebrates Launch with Ribbon Cutting, Panel Discussion
April 2022 Ceremony featured remarks from Northwestern, Underwriters Laboratories leaders
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Teaching AI to Read Fetal Ultrasound in Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Identify High-Risk Patients
March 2022 'We want to make fetal monitoring as easy as taking your temperature'
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Leveraging AI to Work with Cells
March 2022 Nanofountain Probe Electroporation system enables efficient engineering of stem cells
from Northwestern Engineering
Exploring the Reliability of Machine Learning Models in Healthcare
March 2022 MS student Karina Zadorozhny presented research she conducted during an internship at Amsterdam-based Pacmed during the 6th International Workshop on Health Intelligence
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Textbook Introduces Students to Mechanistic Data Science
March 2022 The book introduces a methodology for combining data science tools with mathematical scientific principles
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Northwestern launches research hub for AI safety, equity
February 2022 In collaboration with Underwriters Laboratories, new center will foster research that integrates safety into AI design and development
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Assessing the Admissibility of Artificial Intelligence Evidence
February 2022 Speakers introduced the fundamentals of AI and explained the evidentiary principles governing AI evidence in civil and criminal cases
from McCormick School of Engineering
Connecting Institutions to Build Flagship Dataset for Healthcare AI
January 2022 With support from a recent National Institutes of Health U01 grant, principal investigator Yuan Luo, PhD looks to further integrate artificial intelligence with clinical medical practice.
from Feinberg School of Medicine
Medical School Introduces Digital Health and Data Science Curriculum
January 2022 Feinberg curriculum will prepare students to utilize and to evaluate data science and machine learning in healthcare
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Exploring New Directions on Robustness in Machine Learning
January 2022 On November 16, IDEAL hosted a workshop focused on new directions on robustness in machine learning as part of the fall 2021 special quarter.
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Machine Learning Used to Predict Synthesis of Complex Novel Materials
January 2022 AI presents a roadmap to define new materials for any need, with uses in green energy and waste reduction
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Industrial Engineering: Leading Decision-Making in the Age of Machine Learning
December 2021 As artificial intelligence and machine learning become more integrated into daily lives, IEMS faculty members are improving decision-making and addressing societal challenges across industries, businesses, and disciplines.
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Podcast: Why You Need a Working Knowledge of AI
December 2021 Business leaders can’t rely solely on data scientists to get the job done.
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Policymakers are ‘way behind the curve’ on AI threats, expert warns
November 2021 V.S. Subrahmanian explains how artificial intelligence is used for both good and bad
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IBM honors Ginni Rometty with $5 million gift to her alma mater
November 2021 Two computer science professorships named for IBM’s retired chairman and CEO will bolster Northwestern Engineering’s artificial intelligence and machine learning programs
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4 Phases of Analytics Evolution: From Spreadsheets to AI Workbenches
November 2021 What lies ahead for business leaders looking to incorporate data analytics?
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Panel Explores How to Maximize AI’s Scientific Benefits and Social Value
October 2021 Presented by AI@NU, the event featured leaders in AI from Northwestern, academia, and industry
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What Was Really the Secret Behind Van Gogh's Success?
September 2021 Creative exploration followed by exploitation can lead to a career’s greatest hits
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Marketers: Stop Dragging Your Feet and Start Using AI
September 2021 Speed is a competitive advantage. A coauthor of the new book “The AI Marketing Canvas” explains why—and how—to get started.
from Kellogg Insight
3 Ways AI Can Help You Improve Diversity
August 2021 Your company already holds the data that can lead to sustainable change.
from Kellogg Insight
Gig Workers Are Increasingly Rated by Opaque Algorithms. It’s Making Them Paranoid.
August 2021 These systems can create an “invisible cage” for freelancers.
from Kellogg Insight
Scientists Release New AI-based Tools to Accelerate Functional Electronic Materials Discovery
July 2021 The work could allow scientists to accelerate the discovery of materials showing a metal-insulator transition
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New Framework Applies Machine Learning to Atomistic Modeling
July 2021 Method could lead to more accurate predictions of how new materials behave at the atomic scale
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Novel Method Enables Enormous Datasets of Mechanical Properties in the Era of AI and Machine Learning
July 2021 Technique enables rapid development of stronger and more robust adhesives
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NU lecturer-founded startup Taelor addresses style and sustainability with artificial intelligence
June 2021 NU lecturer-founded startup Taelor addresses style and sustainability with artificial intelligence
from The Daily Northwestern
A More Robust Memory Device for AI Systems
June 2021 Antiferromagnetic-based memory device could bolster computing applications and answers fundamental questions
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Marcelo Worsley Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
June 2021 The work will support athletics-centered learning experiences that connect computer science and sports
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Interdisciplinary Teams Present New Solutions in Computational Journalism
June 2021 Ten teams presented their final projects that explored collaboration between reporting and computer science
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New brain-like computing device simulates human learning
April 2021 'Synaptic transistors’ mimic brain’s plasticity by simultaneously processing, storing data
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Human-Machine Collaboration Visualizes Music
April 2021 PhD student Andrew Paley blends his two passions—artificial intelligence and music—to add a unique dimension to his compositions and performances.
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The Optimizer
April 2021 Optimization and machine learning expert Jorge Nocedal believes that human connections are integral to learning and discovery.
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Understanding fruit fly behavior may be next step toward autonomous vehicles
April 2021 Could the way drosophila use antennae to sense heat help us teach self-driving cars to make decisions?
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Open Quantum Materials Database Celebrates Milestone
April 2021 One millionth compound incorporated in database with Northwestern roots
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Algorithm Could Allow Faster Adoption of Versatile Materials
April 2021 A machine-learning algorithm instantly predicts electronic properties in metal-organic frameworks
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What if we could check Big Tech?
March 2021 The collective voice of millions of users could be as effective as regulation
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So Your Company Isn't Getting the Most out of Analytics and AI. Here's What to Do.
March 2021 These tools have the possibility to transform your business. If you know how to harness them.
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The Insightful Leader Live: What Can AI Do for Your Business?
March 2021 Emerging research shows that artificial intelligence has far more practical implications than business leaders might imagine. In this webinar, Professor and MBAi Program Director Eric Anderson will share the art of what’s possible.
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The Pandemic Could Accelerate Job Automation—and Inequality
March 2021 Consequences for workers and cities could be bleak.
from Kellogg Insight
Pain Hides in Our Data
March 2021 First study to use AI to find indicators of pain in patients’ vital signs data
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Novel System Improves AI Testing
March 2021 New method for generating additional training data for commonsense models developed
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AI shows attitude toward COVID-19 is more ‘infectious’ than the disease itself
March 2021 The more retweets, the more people believe it — even if it’s not true
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Humans Have the Power to Decode Bias in AI
February 2021 During a Q&A with filmmaker Shalini Kantayya, faculty, students, and the community examined the bias in algorithms that impact us all.
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Can AI reduce time to breast cancer diagnosis?
February 2021 New research study will explore how AI models could help guide radiologist’s review of mammograms with higher likelihood of cancer
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String of stars in Milky Way are related
January 2021 Examination of Theia 456 finds its nearly 500 stars were born at same time
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Scientists Use Machine Learning to Accelerate Discovery of Materials for use in Industrial Processes
January 2021 Platform aims to minimize resources required in the development of new materials for use in targeted applications
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Zhaoran Wang Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
January 2021 He will use the award to advance the field of principled deep reinforcement learning
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Using A.I., Northwestern researchers seek to improve legal practice, administration of justice
December 2020 Recent bipartisan legislation to make public court records more accessible encouraging sign to Northwestern team.
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Six professors named AAAS fellows
November 2020 AAAS recognizes faculty who have made significant contributions to science and its applications
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Universities worldwide call on government leaders to think beyond short-term election cycles
November 2020 This year’s virtual U7+ Alliance of World Universities Presidential Summit brought together nearly 100 university leaders from six continents for a series of dialogues on intergenerational justice as students worldwide call on higher education institutions to play an active role in addressing the global challenges they will inherit.
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AI Detects COVID-19 on Chest X-rays with Accuracy and Speed
November 2020 Algorithm outperformed thoracic radiologists in new study
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Who is Responsible When Autonomous Systems Fail?
November 2020 A panel of experts including Northwestern Engineering’s Todd Murphey explored the legal, technological, and societal implications of assigning responsibility
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Meet Adam, the “Scientist” Who Never Sleeps
November 2020 An excerpt from the book The Science of Science shows how robots may soon be able to run their own experiments—from start to finish.
from Kellogg Insight
Bringing Human-Machine Collaboration to Music Videos
November 2020 New platform Pixie syncs AI-generated images to music
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Optimizing the Design of New Materials
November 2020 New approach determines optimal materials designs with minimal data
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Video: How Bias Creeps into AI when Businesses Aren’t Looking
November 2020 A quick explainer on what happens if you aren’t thoughtful about the data you use.
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Northwestern, Accenture receive Gold Award for virtual learning partnership
October 2020 The virtual program “Leading with Analytics and Artificial Intelligence” was honored for “Best Use of Video Learning” by Brandon Hall Group
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McCormick, School of Communication Launch Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design
September 2020 Center to develop the future of human and computer interaction
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Kellogg, McCormick Announce MBAi Joint Degree Program
August 2020 Kellogg and McCormick announced the MBAi joint degree program, a 5-quarter program to address the intersection of business and technology management.
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Artificial Intelligence Tool Lays Groundwork for Autism Early Diagnosis and Intervention
August 2020 AI-enhanced precision medicine identifies novel autism subtype.
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How AI Can Help Weed Out Faulty Scientific Research
August 2020 Solid science is more important than ever, yet experts often struggle to predict which studies will replicate. Artificial intelligence could do the job better.
from Kellogg Insight
COVID-19 Risk Model Uses Hospital Data to Guide Decisions on Social Distancing
July 2020 General framework has led to policy changes in Austin, could help other communities.
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Northwestern joins Illinois universities to establish $15.5 million math and statistics institute
July 2020 Regional institute will address major societal challenges with math-based solutions
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Fair justice systems need open data access
July 2020 Making court records publicly available will enable statistical analysis
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Is Now the Time to Transition to Personalized Marketing?
July 2020 Budgets are strapped. There are a million other things to do. But the risk of ignoring AI-powered modern marketing is dire.
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New A.I. tool is a potential timesaver for COVID-19 researchers
June 2020 CAVIDOTS provides easy-to-skim summaries of academic papers
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Hunting in savanna-like landscapes may have poured jet fuel on brain evolution
June 2020 Rife with obstacles and occlusions, terrestrial environments may have helped give rise to planning circuits in the brain
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Wearable COVID-19 sensor receives NSF RAPID grant
June 2020 Device monitors early signs, disease progression and response to treatment
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Workshop Explores Potential of ‘Smart Sensors’ for Environmental Monitoring
May 2020 More than 90 researchers and scientists took part in the virtual event on May 11-12
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Monitoring COVID-19 from hospital to home: First wearable device continuously tracks key symptoms
May 2020 Wireless sensor gently sits on throat to monitor coughs, fever and respiratory activity
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AI speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines
May 2020 Researchers develop machine model that exponentially shortens expert review period
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ERx connects healthcare providers with COVID-19 medical supplies
April 2020 New platform connects Illinois organizations with supplies to help combat the pandemic
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New Transistors Spike Like Neurons
March 2020 Made from nanomaterials, device can perform several different classes of spiking
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Wireless, skin-mounted sensors monitor babies, pregnant women in the developing world
March 2020 An interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University researchers has developed a new wireless, battery-charged, affordable monitoring system for newborn babies that can easily be implemented to provide clinical-grade care in nearly any setting.
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People-Driven, Data Powered: Feinberg Launches New Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine
March 2020 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has established a new Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine (I.AIM), with the goal of augmenting human expertise with computational methods to advance the science of human health.
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Data centers use less energy than you think
February 2020 New, comprehensive analysis presents a more nuanced picture of global energy use
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Podcast: When AI Leaves the Lab
February 2020 AI is now being used to serve customers. On this episode of The Insightful leader, we discuss trends and potential pitfalls that should be on companies’ radars.
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Swarming robots avoid collisions, traffic jams
February 2020 New algorithm could help control driverless cars, automated warehouses
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New Technology Could Help Solve AI's 'Memory Bottleneck'
February 2020 Magnetic memory device is smallest demonstrated, uses record-low current
from McCormick School of Engineering
Hammond Discusses Chicago Police's Controversial Facial Recognition Tool
January 2020 The Chicago Police Department recently started working with a controversial facial recognition tool called Clearview AI.
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Decoding Hidden Brain Conversations to Advance Neuroprostheses
January 2020 Reconstructing the stable information from neurons driving skills like tying sneakers can aid paralyzed patients
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Artificial intelligence improves breast cancer detection on mammograms in early research
January 2020 AI has potential to reduce false positives, negatives
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Inaugural Deep Learning Symposium Looks to Future of Artificial Intelligence
November 2019 Industry partners, researchers, and students discussed future of field
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Workshop Explores Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Radiology
September 2019 More than 150 radiologists, engineers, and computer scientists discussed innovative approaches to using AI in radiology.
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Where Tech Crosses Paths With the Law
September 2019 Northwestern's schools of engineering and law join forces to refine and preserve the rule of law worldwide.
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Chicago Police: Facial Recognition Software is ‘Seldom Used’
May 2019 As police departments across the U.S. weigh the use of facial recognition software, several communities are raising privacy concerns over the technology, which can identify people in real time through a combination of artificial intelligence, surveillance cameras and a database of photos for comparison.
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Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern: A View from Computer Science
May 2019 There is a tremendous amount of activity in Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern. There is a globally recognized depth of AI expertise within Computer Science and the applied work in AI all across the University is impressive. The challenge is to harness this work to expand on the core research expertise to both support and amplify the impact of the applied work while keeping a policy eye on the implications of the new technologies as they emerge.
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Approaching AI with Common Sense in Mind
March 2019 Ken Forbus’s new book and work highlight the importance of practical reasoning in understanding, designing intelligent systems
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How to Build Artificial Intelligence that Everyone Can Trust
March 2019 Experts from IBM Watson and Kellogg discuss how to remove bias and increase transparency in machine-learning algorithms.
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