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Franklin Ph.D. student’s summer pivot wins $100,000 prize for AI startup MyFixam

Jane Odum developed MyFixam through the inaugural Franklin CREATE! Summer Startup Academy  Three months after Jane Odum earned just $9 from the first product she tried to sell, the University of Georgia computer science Ph.D. candidate stood on a Los Angeles stage to accept a $100,000 prize.  Odum won third prize in the Google XPRIZE Build with Gemini Competition for MyFixam, a marketplace where people in Nigeria can find verified…
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UGA, Vietnam deepen partnership to recover missing war dead

When a government delegation from Vietnam visited the University of Georgia Aug. 12, members weren’t coming to see a single laboratory or one breakthrough technology.  Instead, they visited a university where historians, archaeologists, geographers, geologists, chemists, engineers, biologists, geneticists, and computer scientists are working together to solve one of the most difficult legacies of war: locating and identifying service…
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The first signs of schizophrenia may appear years before psychosis

Most people associate schizophrenia with hallucinations and delusions. Gregory Strauss, professor of psychology in UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, studies symptoms that often precede both. People in the early stages of schizophrenia may gradually lose motivation, withdraw from friends, and stop enjoying activities they once loved. These changes, known as negative symptoms, often have a greater impact on daily life than…
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New book links philosophy of play to AI questions

When AI changes the rules  This story is part of Humanities in Practice, a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences series exploring the value of the humanities in work and everyday life.  Long before ChatGPT, philosopher Bernard Suits posed a question that has become increasingly relevant in the age of artificial intelligence: What makes a life meaningful when work and effort are no longer necessities?  For Alex Asay, the rise of…
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Franklin College of Arts and Sciences researcher Rongjie (RJ) Liu earns NSF CAREER Award

Franklin researcher Rongjie (RJ) Liu has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to advance artificial intelligence tools for understanding neurological disease. The NSF CAREER Award is among the most competitive honors for early-career researchers in the United States, recognizing faculty who demonstrate strong potential as both researchers and educators. At the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences,…
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When people become data points: A Ph.D. candidate’s call for ethical guardrails in biotech and AI

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate Blessing Temitope Adewuyi has built her academic journey around perseverance and faith. Raised in southwestern Nigeria, she became the first in her family to earn a college degree. In May, she will again make family history as the first to earn a Ph.D. Adewuyi’s work sits at the intersection of ethics, religion, and biomedical science. Focusing on bioethics, she examines how advances in…
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UGA School of Computing research day underscores growing ties between AI and health care

“As UGA continues to grow its efforts in health-related fields, the integration of computing, engineering, AI, and biomedical research will be essential; I believe the future of healthcare depends on it," said College of Engineering Dean Alex Orso in his opening remarks at UGA's School of Computing annual Research Day—a tradition that began in 2010 under its predecessor, the Department of Computer Science.” Jointly sponsored by the Franklin…
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The “last 10 feet of healthcare”: students step into patients’ shoes in hands-on workshop, use extended reality and AI to solve common problems

When a patient leaves a hospital – prescriptions in hand and instructions fresh in mind – they cross an invisible threshold. It’s only a few steps, but in those “last 10 feet,” the controlled world of healthcare meets the unpredictable realities of everyday life. It’s here, in this overlooked space, that even the best medical plans can falter. At UGA’s recent Healthcare 5.0 conference, students from across disciplines were challenged to rethink…
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Franklin School of Computing researcher secures international honor for AI Innovation in public health

Jane Odum, a Ph.D. candidate in Franklin’s School of Computing (SOC), has earned international recognition after winning first place and a $30,000 prize in the Google-sponsored MedGemma Impact Challenge. Her mobile-first AI platform, EpiCast, was designed to strengthen disease surveillance in low-resource settings by enabling community health workers to report symptoms in their native languages and convert them instantly into structured clinical…
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New study details open-source vision-language model for biomedical applications

The potential of applications using Artificial Intelligence is quickly venturing into the medical field, with implications for patients and practitioners. A new study published in Nature Medicine presents an open-source multimodal vision-language foundation model, BiomedGPT, for various biomedical applications. AI techniques have also demonstrated potential in solving a wide range of biomedical tasks, including radiology interpretation…
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New UGA study maps the structural diversity of sugar building enzymes using AI

Sugars in our bodies, and in nearly all living organisms, are synthesized and built by a large family of proteins called Glycosyltransferases (GTs) that adopt unique three-dimensional structures and folds to perform a diverse array of cellular functions. Understanding the structure and fold of these proteins is an important first step towards characterizing their functions, which is critical for developing effective glycovaccines and for…
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Angela Tsao named 2020 Udall Scholar

UGA junior Angela Tsao is working to advance research at the intersection of computer science and sustainability, and her focus has earned her national recognition as a 2020 Udall Scholar: She was one of 55 undergraduates selected from across the nation and U.S. territories for the scholarship, which is awarded to sophomores and juniors on the basis of their commitment to careers in the environment, Native health care or Tribal…
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AI researchers tackle the 'curse of dimensionality' with new algorithm

In the context of dynamic programming, the curse of dimensionality refers to various phenomena that arise when analyzing and organizing data with hundreds or thousands of dimensions. In order to obtain a statistically sound and reliable result, the amount of data needed to support the result often grows exponentially with the dimensionality. In a recent paper published in the proceedings of the prestigious machine learning and…
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