Research Impacts

Postdoc Accomplishments / Research Impacts

AI and Open Data Redesign Urban Transit: A Blueprint for Equity and Efficiency

Author: Yonas Minalu Emagnu, Schmidt Science African Faculty Fellow How do you design a public transport system for a city growing faster than its infrastructure? In two interconnected studies using Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as a case study, Dr. Yonas Minalu Emagnu, in collaboration with Tayo Fabusuyi, has developed a scalable, data-driven framework that answers this ...

News / Research Impacts

AI model helps predict heat risk in Kenya’s informal settlements

News / Research Impacts

Scientists develop AI model that can read MRI scans in seconds

News / Research Impacts

How A.I-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s Youtube Feed

News / Research Impacts

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Eytan Adar a 2025 ACM Fellow

News / Research Impacts

New research suggests the microplastics health risk may not be as bad as we thought

News / Research Impacts

TRUSTWORTHY BY DESIGN: HOW MIDAS IS SHAPING RESPONSIBLE AI

In a 2021 study of nearly 40,000 hospitalizations, the model missed 67% of sepsis cases. It flagged only 7 percent of patients that clinicians had not already identified as high risk, while generating alerts for nearly one in five hospitalized patients, which overwhelmed staff with alarm fatigue. A follow-up study spanning more than 800,000 patient ...

News / Research Impacts

WHEN THE WORLD CHANGED OVERNIGHT: HOW MIDAS HELPED MICHIGAN RESPOND TO COVID-19

Zelner and his colleagues showed COVID-19 spreading across Michigan counties in alarming waves. Another visualization, created using anonymized WiFi data, traced how students moved through campus building (where they clustered and how long they stayed), trying to predict which spaces posed the highest risk for transmission.  The data were imperfect. Testing was scarce and uneven ...

News / Research Impacts

ALGORITHMS IN THE CLINIC AND THE LAB: CLINICAL AI AND A NEW MODEL FOR DRUG DISCOVERY

It is not a diagnosis. But it is enough to prompt a closer look, additional tests, or earlier antibiotics if theA clinical picture supports it. In emergency medicine, where minutes matter, that early warning can make the difference between a short hospital stay and weeks in intensive care. “The hard part about sepsis is that ...