Ottley appointed to UN panel on artificial intelligence
Alvitta Ottley, a computer science researcher at WashU, was appointed to a United Nations panel on artificial intelligence.
New WashU Medicine program to train data specialists
The master’s program in biomedical data science and artificial intelligence is one of few such programs in the U.S. It offers a flexible curriculum, part-time enrollment and evening classes to accommodate working students.
Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction
Machine learning researchers at Washington University in St. Louis used artificial intelligence to help with early detection of spinal cord disease.
Courtship is complicated, even in fruit flies
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a new model for understanding fruit fly courtship behavior, which can help with other sensory models in neuroscience research.
Payne elected president of medical informatics organization
Philip Payne, vice chancellor for biomedical informatics and data science at WashU Medicine and chief health AI officer for BJC Health and WashU Medicine, will lead the American Medical Informatics Association.
Light gives boost to image processing, optical systems
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a way to use light to boost the efficiency of image processing and optical neural networks.
Reinforcement learning for arbitrarily large systems is possible
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing mathematically rigorous and computationally efficient techniques to transform extremely complex reinforcement learning problems into a manageable domain.
Imaging technique can reduce benign breast biopsies by 25%
Ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography reduces breast biopsies by 25% in a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.
Submissions sought for data competition
The second annual WashU Data Viz competition is now open and accepting submissions until Jan. 25. Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate.
Model developed in Zhang lab recognized by Mozilla
Mozilla AI recently highlighted the PIGuard model developed in the lab of Ning Zhang, a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. The model was among the best at protecting LLMs from prompt injection attacks.
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