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
4/2024
Professor Santillana participates in the Insight Net Annual Meeting held at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from April 15th to 18th. Insight Net aims to provide better forecasting data and analytics to public health decision-makers, enabling them to make informed decisions to protect their communities and families during public health emergencies.. 4/2024
Professor Santillana and members of the MIGHTE team will participate in the AI In Action event held at Northeastern University in Boston on April 4th. Throughout the event, the team will showcase their research posters and take part in the session 'Beating the Next Epidemic with AI'. 3/2024
Team members Nicole Kogan and Mauricio Santillana presented their research and perspectives at the Workshop to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health on March 5. The event was organized by the CCDD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the MIDAS Network Coordination Center. 2/2024 Professor Santillana and members of the MIGHTE team participated in the inaugural in-person Epistorm general meeting held in Boston on February 28-29. Throughout the event, the team showcased their research posters and exchanged diverse perspectives on infectious diseases. |