Principal Investigator Mauricio Santillana, Ph.D. Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering Network Science Institute, Northeastern University |
The Machine Intelligence Group for the betterment of Health and the Environment (MIGHTE), now based at the Network Science Institute, at Northeastern University and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (from 2017 to 2022, our research lab, the Machine Intelligence Lab, was based at Boston Children’s Hospital) has a multidisciplinary research agenda. Our research involves the conception and implementation of machine intelligence analytics tools, capable of predicting unobserved events in epidemiology and healthcare in the immediate or near future. Our work ranges from tracking disease outbreaks around the Globe, leveraging information from big data sets from Internet-based services (such as Google search activity, Twitter microblogs, Weather, Human Mobility, Electronic Health Records), to bed-side patient-centered monitoring approaches aimed at improving care in clinical settings. We also focus on the use of mathematical approaches to discover relationships between relevant outcomes in the health, physical and environmental sciences. For example we have studied the influence of climate change on the prevalence of antibiotic resistant infections, or the role of socio-economic factors and political leaning and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Generally speaking, our approaches use machine learning techniques to identify patterns that have occurred historically that may be predictive of specific and future events of interest, for example:
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Latest news
7/2024
Professor Santillana and members of the MIGHTE Lab participate in the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) at Emory University from July 15-31, 2024. SISMID is designed to introduce infectious disease researchers to modern methods of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling. 6/2024
Professor Santillana participates as a moderator at Northeastern University's Summit on "Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Innovation in Public Health Technology" on June 18, 2024. 5/2024
On May 16th, George Dewey, a new member of the MIGHTE lab, successfully defended his PhD thesis at UCLA, his previous institution. Congratulations, George, for this remarkable achievement! 5/2024 The Beatson Foundation funding a joint initiative between MIGHTE and the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) to "Leverage Artificial Intelligence Modeling to Predict Retinopathy Development and Progression". This reflects the dedication and hard work of our team members, especially Xiyu Yang, and our collaborators Paolo S. Silva (Harvard) and Leo A. Celi (MIT) |