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Mchaourab Lab: Towards Enabling AI for Spectroscopy and Protein Folding
Apr. 11, 2022—Interested in biomedicine, protein folding, protein dynamics, biological function, or spectroscopy? Want to learn more about the intersection of these topics with artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), computation, and data science? This may be the opportunity for you! The Mchaourab Lab investigates mechanisms of protein folding, and currently welcomes skilled students at all levels...
Revolutionizing Learning Engagement through Technology: Talk to Einstein
Mar. 22, 2022—Looking to work with training transformers for revolutionizing learning engagement in the humanities? Read on to learn more about a novel application by Dr. Ole Molvig – assistant professor of History and founder of the Emergent Technology Lab at the Wond’ry! About Talk To Einstein is an experiment in algorithmically generated (or “synthetic”) media based...
Classification of Drug-Related Adverse Events
Jan. 19, 2022—Our team is interested in developing natural language processing (NLP) systems using transformers to classify whether patients have drug-related adverse events from patients’ clinical notes in Vanderbilt University Medical Center electronic health records (EHRs), which could be potentially associated with a specific drug of interest. The Initial approach to this project will be binary classification,...
Evaluation of Transfer Learning Performance of Transformer-Based models in Clinical Notes
Jan. 18, 2022—Clinical notes and other free-text documents provide a breadth of clinical information that is not often available within structured data. Transformer-based natural language processing (NLP) models, such as BERT, have demonstrated great promise in using transfer learning to improve clinical text processing. However, these models are commonly trained on generic corpora, which do not necessarily reflect many of the intricacies of the...
Analyzing British Periodicals to Understand Legal Discourse
Jan. 18, 2022—As part of a larger exploration of the British Culture of Litigation (from a literary perspective), we are working on developing text-mining techniques with the corpus of Proquest British Periodicals, which contains (of its total 3.4 mil) roughly a million articles in the relevant timeframe of 1770-1850 produced in several hundred periodicals. Our goal is...
Project WISE: Wearables for Teachers, Enabling Real-Time Instructional Feedback
Jan. 18, 2022—Project WISE is working to develop a measurement tool that can measure teachers’ implementation of evidence-based behavior management practices in general and special education classrooms. Typically, researchers and school administrators will use systematic direct observation (SDO) to collect data on teacher practices; however, this can be resource intensive and requires rigorous observer training. The rapid development...