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.
The Michigan Tech Health Informatics master’s program will host guest speaker Matt Nash, CEO of Kairos Technologies, on Thursday, March 14, 2024, from 10-10:45 am in Rekhi G009 and via Zoom. Nash’s talk is titled, “Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare and Medical Fields.”
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.”
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.
Yu Cai, professor and associate chair in the Department of Applied Computing, and Guy Hembroff, associate professor in the Department of Applied Computing, are recipients of this year’s Provost’s Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence (PASTE). This award provides special recognition to instructors who have been nominated as finalists for the Distinguished Teaching Awards four or more times.