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  • AI Agents for Biomedical Discoveries

    Talk Summary: AI agents are transforming how we do science. In this talk, Dr. James Zou will showcase how intelligent, tool-using language models are accelerating discovery and improving peer review. He’ll introduce Virtual Lab, where AI scientist agents collaborate to solve research problems—like designing nanobody treatments for COVID-19 variants. He’ll also demo CellVoyager, which uncovers…

  • FDS Colloquium: Bhramar Mukherjee (Yale), “Analysis of “Big” Real-World Health Care Data: Promises and Perils”

    Speaker: Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D.Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data EquityAnna M.R Lauder Professor of BiostatisticsProfessor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Statistics and Data ScienceYale University Optional Zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/j/94323793445 Analysis of “Big” Real-World Health Care Data: Promises and Perils Abstract: Using administrative patient-care data such as Electronic Health Records and…

  • Computational Biology & Biomedical Informatics (CBB) and Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) Project Match

    Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (CBB) and Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) faculty will give 5–7-minute presentations on their research to recruit MS/PhD students into their labs. *This event is for first-year students searching for research lab rotations* Speakers: Corey O’Hern, PhD: “Computational studies of protein-protein interactions” Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering…

  • Harnessing AI to transform healthcare diagnosis and treatment

    The research of Institute members Smita Krishnaswamy and Arman Cohen are featured in Yale Engineering Magazine, the annual publication of Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science.

  • Roy Lederman receives 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship

    Congratulations to our member Roy Lederman, Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science, on receiving the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship, an award that recognizes outstanding early-career scientists and scholars. Three Yale scholars win prestigious Sloan fellowships Yale’s Roy Lederman, Lidya Tarhan, and Jing Yan have received 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding early-career scientists…

  • Yale’s new Institute for Foundations of Data Science will help faculty across dozens of disciplines infuse their research with next-generation insights.

    Institute for Foundations of Data Science debuts with interdisciplinary vision

    Yale’s new Institute for Foundations of Data Science will help faculty across dozens of disciplines infuse their research with next-generation insights. by Jim Shelton, YaleNews The future of data science at Yale will reside on one of the top floors of a re-imagined Kline Tower on Science Hill, starting in 2023 — but the university,…