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Ziyuan Guan

Rashidi receives HWCOE 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership

Dr. Parisa Rashidi Dr. Parisa Rashidi, associate professor & J. Crayton Pruitt Family Term Fellow, has been selected to receive the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership. The Faculty Award for Excellence in Leadership recognizes and rewards a faculty member who has best demonstrated…

Natural Language Processing: Analyzing Clinical and Mental Health Notes

Presentation made by Dr. Parisa Rashidi In contrast to the structured clinical data typically used for administrative purposes, clinical notes are more nuanced and are primarily used by healthcare providers for detailed documentation. Each patient encounter is associated with several clinical notes. This poses many challenges for analyzing the…

Join Us! 2022 Fulbright awareness week

Fulbright Visiting Scholar Jessica Sena LECTURE TITLE:THE ADVENTURES OF A BRAZILIAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST: Artificial intelligence, Fulbright and beyondWednesday, March 23, 2022, 12:00-1:30pm Jessica Sena is…

Artificial Intelligence – Human Creativity

The University of Florida’s AI initiative will make UF a national leader in AI and have far-reaching impacts for the university and its students and faculty. Equally important, it will play a crucial role in the transformation of Florida’s economy into a diversified, technology-driven, high-wage economy. Will post on…

AI Spotlight: UF Health Colleges

Across the Health Science Center Discover how UF is prioritizing a future in AI The UF Health colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary…

Artificial intelligence learns treatment strategies for hypotension

Congratulations to Dr. Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, Dr. Crystal Johnson-Mann, and Dr. Tyler Loftus for their project “OR-DRD-AI2020: The Artificial Intelligence learns optimal treatment strategies for hypotension in surgery” being selected as an awardee from UF Research, Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund.  The Complication: Hypotension In the United States, where the average American…

Discovery and Validation of Urinary Molecular Signature of Early Sepsis

Read the research paper here.  Breaking barriers: PRISMAp researchers, in collaboration with several departments at the University of Florida including Biomedical Engineering, Surgery, UFHealth, and i-Heal, have just completed the first ever study that uses urinary cellular gene expression to examine sepsis.   Kidneys are key Kidneys clear toxins from both…

Addressing Racial Disparities in Research

UF Research has recently awarded a grant to address racial disparities in clinical trials of treatments for some of the nation’s most prevalent chronic diseases, like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart and kidney disease.  Racial Disparities in Research  “The diseases affect more than 50 million…