MIDAS faculty Yuanfang Guan and GuanLab member Xianghao Chen won first prize in the 2019 DDI National Data Science Challenge

The 2019 Discover Innovate Impact (DII) National Data Science Challenge winning teams were recently announced and the GuanLab Team (Yuanfang Guan and Xianghao Chen) won the Task 1, Sepsis Onset Prediction prize.  This was a national data science challenge established to advance human health through machine learning hosted by The University of Texas (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics, sponsored by Cerner Corporation, and powered by AWS.  Congratulations to GuanLab Team!