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Medical AI tool from UF, NVIDIA gets human…
A new artificial intelligence computer program created by researchers at the University of Florida and NVIDIA can generate doctors’ notes so well…

Dima Bteddini, HOBI Ph.D. Student, Receives…
Dima Bteddini, a dedicated Ph.D. student concentrating in Health Outcomes and Implementation Sciences, has been awarded a Certificate of Outstanding…

UF opens Malachowsky Hall for Data Science …
Designed to set the standard for future STEM buildings across national and international campuses and transform the artificial intelligence (AI) and…

Summer 2023
Confronting AIDS in Florida with artificial intelligence
A University of Florida research team is playing its part to stop the global HIV epidemic, applying the power of artificial intelligence to medical records to uncover patterns of risk and bias that have left some patients in Florida with poor access to today’s effective treatments — so effective that HIV infections are not sexually transmitted.

upcoming and recent EVENTs
College Calendar
Upcoming Events
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Dec 01
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HOBI Grand Rounds presents Zhongming Zhao
Cancer and Genetics Research Center, Room 451
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Dec 04
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Town Hall: UF+FSU CTSA Hub
CTRB First Floor Lobby
10:00am to 1:00pm
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Jan 10
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HOBI Grand Rounds presents Andria Eisman, Ph.D.
TBA
12:00pm to 1:00pm
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Feb 14
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HOBI Grand Rounds presents Xuhong Zhang
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Mar 20
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HOBI Grand Rounds presents Katilya Ware
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Recent Event
Artificial Intelligence Conference
September 7-8, 2023
This event addresses the intersection of Learning Health Systems and Artificial Intelligence.

Hobi @ conferences
HOBI Seminars
HOBI Seminars are presentations by visiting faculty, guest speakers, faculty candidates and graduate students. For recent and upcoming HOBI Grand Rounds speakers, please visit the HOBI Grand Rounds web page.
2023
- June 29 – Gina T. Eubanks, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Patient and Provider Characteristics Associated with Guideline-Concordant Metabolic Screening and Monitoring Among Adults Prescribed a Second-Generation Antipsychotic”
- May 24 – Xinsong Du, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Reproducible Computational Workflow for Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Data Processing”
2022
- May 26 – Tianyao Huo, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Examination of Disparities in Pediatric Lipid Screening and Management in Florida Medicaid”
- May 24 – Satish E. Viswanath, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, “Computational Imaging for Precision Medicine: A quest for generalizable AI models”
- April 12 – Rui Yin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, “Machine learning modeling to facilitate the precaution and diagnosis of diseases”
- March 31 – Richard Moffitt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, “Building the National COVID Cohort Collaborative: Investigating Acute and Long-term Outcomes of COVID-19”
- March 29 – Wei Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, “Computational Frameworks for Multi-omics Data Integration to Improve Disease Outcome Prediction”
- March 1 – Matthew Ruppert, HOBI graduate student master’s thesis defense, “Optimization of Inpatient Level of Care Through Multi-Task Learning”
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