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Alyssa Schubert, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, awarded Sustainability Catalyst Grant

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MIDAS AI in Science Fellows Receive $100K in Funding for a Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Workshop 

On April 2nd, 2025, a proposal by five AI in Science Fellows at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) was awarded by the Schmidt Sciences Community Initiative Fund. They will receive $100K in funding to organize a workshop focused on Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (KGML) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. KGML is ...

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MIDAS Data Science Fellow Elyse Thulin Awarded Best Poster by a Trainee at the UCSF Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium 

At the 2022 UCSF Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium, Elyse Thulin, a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIDAS and at the Addiction Center in the department of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine, was awarded Best Poster by a Trainee. Using traditional epidemiologic, mixed qualitative and quantitative, and computational machine learning methods, Elyse’s broad program of ...

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MIDAS Data Science Fellow Elyse Thulin awarded Best Poster by a Trainee at the UCSF Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium

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Research Spotlight: Data Science Fellows Hackathon Uses Natural Language Processing to Analyze the Past 60 Years of Pop Music

When you listen to popular music have you ever picked up on recurring themes or trends in the lyrics? Have the attitudes or feelings expressed in music changed over time or largely stayed focused on the same subjects? For example, between the 1960’s and today has popular music taken a more negative note? How do ...

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MIDAS Fellow, Arya Farahi, and affiliated faculty, Danai Koutra and Aditi Misra, contribute to the World Economic Forum’s publication “Digitizing and Transforming Mobility Systems: Lessons from the Detroit Region”

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How quickly does coronavirus spread? MIDAS Fellow, Qianying Lin, works to answer the question

Read more here: https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/how-quickly-does-coronavirus-spread To see Qianying’s presentation, “COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan, China: in Retrospect and in Prospect” please click here.  A captioned version will be available soon. Abstract: Since first confirmation in December 2019, the novel coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) infected more than 50,000 people and claimed over 2000 lives in Wuhan, China. It was ...

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MIDAS Fellow, Arya Farahi, publishes manuscript on how the age of Dark Matter halos govern their content.

Dark Matter halos are the most massive gravitationally bound objects in our Universe. These halos host the majority of baryonic matter in the Universe in the form of hot gas and cold stellar phase. Determining how baryons are partitioned into these phases is challenging and requires detailed modeling of galaxy formation and their assembly history. ...

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MDST group wins KDD best paper award

A paper by members and faculty leaders of the Michigan Data Science Team (co-authors: Jacob Abernethy, Alex Chojnacki, Arya Farahi, Eric Schwartz, and Jared Webb) won the Best Student Paper award in the Applied Data Science track at the KDD 2018 conference in August in London. The paper, ActiveRemediation: The Search for Lead Pipes in ...