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
5/2025
Professor Santillana attended the Insight Net Annual Meeting 2025, held from May 6th to 8th at the Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House in Salt Lake City, Utah. The meeting aims to bring together the network’s centers to highlight their work, facilitate discussion, and create connections among centers and key external partners. 4/2025
The American Association for Public Opinion Research presents the 2025 Mitofsky Innovators Award to the Civic Health and Institutions Project, a 50 States Survey (CHIP50). Congratulations to David Lazer, Mauricio Santillana, and the amazing team at NetSI. 2/2025
Prof Santillana is among the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with a single-year impact in various disciplines, top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University. 2/2025 Prof. Santillana gave a seminar on February 24th during the CSTE/CDC VBD Forecasting Call, focusing on the topic ‘Ensemble forecasting approaches to anticipate Dengue outbreaks, aiming to support resource allocation for clinical trials: A case study in over 180 locations worldwide.’ |