Tick Talk, the crowdsourcing tick collection project conducted last year at Michigan Tech, will run for a second year in 2024. Tick collection will start early this year due to warm weather.
From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine A glycobiologist and a computer scientist join forces to find protein-bound glycans faster—a major advance in the understanding of human health and disease. Shortly after Dukka KC arrived on campus in fall 2021, the new professor of computer science emailed Michigan Tech glycobiologist Tarun Dam. The note, as Dam remembers it, said in essence, . . .
From the 2024 Michigan Tech Magazine The College of Computing and the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems (ICC) collaborated to present Showcase [AI] at Michigan Tech in October. The showcase explored the excitement and controversy surrounding the intuitive automated systems affecting more and more aspects of daily life, including health, communications, and computing.
Department of Applied Computing tenure-track faculty candidate Keith Feldman will give a research presentation on Friday, March 15, 2024, at 2 pm in Rekhi 214. The title of Feldman’s presentation is, “Beyond Modeling: Contextualizing Data and Improving Patient Representations in the Context of Learning Health Systems.”
Department of Computer Science tenure-track faculty candidate Qi Li will give a research presentation on Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 1-2 p.m. in Rekhi 214. The title of Li’s talk is, “Data Driven Cyber-Physical Energy Systems.”
Associate professor Guy Hembroff, Applied Computing, was recently awarded and began a 6-month research project sponsored by Henry Ford Health to develop a deep-learning model to identify low bone mass from radiographic knee images. The model will aim to detect low bone mass early on, reducing imaging costs and expediting treatment.