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
10/2024
Prof. Santillana will visit South Dakota Mines, an esteemed engineering, science, and technology university, on October 2nd to give a seminar. 9/2024
Prof. Santillana is part of the Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic and Latino Scientists at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. This grassroots effort was developed to showcase Hispanic and Latino scientific personnel's expertise, talents, and diversity. Congratulations, Prof. Santillana! 9/2024
Professors Santillana, Vespignani, and Chinazzi will be participating in the AI In Action event at Northeastern University in Boston, on September 19th. The event focused on the topic 'AI in Public Health: From Mechanistic and Surrogate Models to Data-Driven Models'. 8/2024
Professor Santillana participates as a speaker at the esteemed ISI Foundation in the seminar titled "Using Artificial Intelligence and Novel Internet-based Data Sources to Anticipate Disease Outbreaks: Lessons Learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic" on August 27, 2024, in Torino, Italy. 8/2024 Ang Barrett, our co-op student, will be attending the GROW 2024 conference at Columbia University from September 27th to 29th. Congratulations, Ang! |