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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
BUILDING A BLUEPRINT FOR BETTER LLMS
Despite this revolutionary growth, today’s LLMs remain, in many respects, virtual black boxes. Beneath the surface of rapid innovation is a parallel race: U-M researchers, such as the affiliate members of the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) featured in this story, are working to expose these models’ inner workings and hidden …
DATA BENEATH THE WAVES: PROTECTING THE NORTH AMERICAN GREAT LAKES AND A CHANGING CLIMATE
From space, western Lake Erie looks almost beautiful in mid-July, swirled with bands of bright green. Up close, the color tells a different story. The green comes from cyanobacteria, organisms that can produce toxins dangerous to people, pets, and wildlife. Water plant managers monitor forecasts that blend satellite imagery, buoy data, and computational models to …
DATA FOR DEMOCRACY: BUILDING THE SOCIAL SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE BEHIND BETTER POLICY
The index card is yellowed with age, its typed entries faded but still legible. It records a mortgage guarantee issued by the Veterans Administration in 1947, including the loan number, property location, veteran’s name and amount borrowed. One card among thousands filling boxes at the National Archives, it is a remnant of the postwar housing …
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