{"id":3285,"date":"2020-10-16T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/eight-penn-state-faculty-teams-awarded-seed-grants-for-ai-research\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T23:28:11","slug":"eight-penn-state-faculty-teams-awarded-seed-grants-for-ai-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/16\/eight-penn-state-faculty-teams-awarded-seed-grants-for-ai-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Penn State faculty teams awarded seed grants for AI research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&#038;sa=t&#038;url=https:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/635905\/2020\/10\/16\/research\/eight-penn-state-faculty-teams-awarded-seed-grants-ai-research&#038;ct=ga&#038;cd=CAIyHDkyYmU1MGQ5NjY1NjYxZTA6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I&#038;usg=AFQjCNFQTWCDegqXqsvsLHkeApXkwtlvDg\">Eight Penn State faculty teams awarded seed grants for AI research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/9Aolws.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"region-inner region-content-inner\" readability=\"31.634930512342\">\n<div class=\"block block-system block-main block-system-main odd block-without-title\" id=\"block-system-main\">\n<div class=\"block-inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<article about=\"\/story\/635905\/2020\/10\/16\/research\/eight-penn-state-faculty-teams-awarded-seed-grants-ai-research\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\" class=\"node node-article node-full node-full node-article-full node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-slb5308 odd clearfix\" id=\"node-article-635905\" readability=\"26.193416070677\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\" readability=\"32.618216238957\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\" readability=\"24.78369024443\">\n<div readability=\"12.572368421053\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"1323847987\">UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014&nbsp;Multi-Disciplinary Research Grants were recently awarded to eight research groups&nbsp;from across Penn State\u2019s colleges and campuses&nbsp;conducting research related to artificial intelligence (AI)&nbsp;and machine learning (ML).&nbsp;In collaboration with&nbsp;numerous&nbsp;research institutes and colleges, these grants are&nbsp;funded&nbsp;in concert with&nbsp;the 2020&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.psu.edu\/industryxchange2020\/index.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">industryXchange<\/a>, an annual University-wide event hosted by the College of Engineering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"13\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"1795541595\">\u201cThe collaborative nature of these research projects is truly inspiring,\u201d said Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering. \u201cWe had an astounding number of high-quality submissions, and we&nbsp;are confident that these interdisciplinary teams will make an impact by further advancing applications of AI and machine learning.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"12\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"1568023490\">These one-year seed grants will support research on application-specific development in AI and ML in the areas of cybersecurity, energy, health&nbsp;care, manufacturing and transportation.&nbsp;Please note that the announcement of these grant awardees&nbsp;was&nbsp;delayed due to COVID-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"2039839827\">With the principal investigators listed first, the grants were awarded to the following teams:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul role=\"list\" readability=\"19.5\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"8\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"327459999\">Youakim&nbsp;Badr,&nbsp;associate professor of&nbsp;data analytics;&nbsp;Partha&nbsp;Mukherjee,&nbsp;assistant professor of&nbsp;data analytics;&nbsp;Raghu Sangwan,&nbsp;associate professor of software engineering; and&nbsp;Satish Srinivasan,&nbsp;assistant professor of information sciences,&nbsp;all at Penn State Great Valley,&nbsp;for \u201cManaging Risks in AI Systems:\u202fMitigating Vulnerabilities and Threats Using Design Tactics and Patterns.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"5\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"705389820\">Rebecca Napolitano,&nbsp;assistant professor of architectural engineering,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Wesley Reinhart,&nbsp;assistant professor of materials science&nbsp;and&nbsp;engineering,&nbsp;for \u201cEnabling Energy-Efficient Building Envelopes: Artificial Intelligence for Nondestructive Evaluation.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"6\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"239149186\">Ankit Maheshwari,&nbsp;staff physician of PSHHVI electrophysiology at&nbsp;Penn State Health&nbsp;Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vasant&nbsp;Honavar, professor and Edward&nbsp;Frymoyer&nbsp;Chair of Information Sciences and Technology,&nbsp;for \u201cPrediction of Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Cryptogenic Stroke using Point of Care Artificial Intelligence Guided Interpretation of Sinus Rhythm Electrocardiograms.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"6\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"1862840247\">Tarasankar&nbsp;Debroy,&nbsp;professor of materials science and engineering,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Todd Palmer, professor&nbsp;of engineering science and mechanics and&nbsp;materials science and engineering&nbsp;and director of Center for Innovative Sintered Products,&nbsp;for \u201cMachine learning based quality improvement of additively manufactured metallic components.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"5\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"229899443\">Yiqi&nbsp;Zhang,&nbsp;assistant professor of&nbsp;industrial engineering,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Fenglong&nbsp;Ma,&nbsp;assistant professor of information sciences and technology,&nbsp;for \u201cModeling of Driver Performance in Connected Vehicle Systems with Machine Learning Algorithms.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"7.5\">\n<div>\n<ul role=\"list\" readability=\"10\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"5\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"699519419\">Jinchao&nbsp;Xu,&nbsp;Verne M.&nbsp;Willaman&nbsp;Professor of Science,&nbsp;and&nbsp;John Yilin Wang,&nbsp;associate professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering,&nbsp;for \u201cAdvanced and fast simulation technologies for modeling shale gas wells.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"5\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"2062413085\">Michael&nbsp;Lanagan,&nbsp;professor of engineering science and mechanics;&nbsp;Prasenjit Mitra,&nbsp;professor of information sciences and technology; and&nbsp;Ram Narayanan,&nbsp;professor of electrical engineering,&nbsp;for \u201c5G Infrastructure and Materials Optimization Through Artificial Intelligence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-level=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-listid=\"1\" role=\"listitem\" readability=\"7\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"1189393734\">Penelope Kay Morrison,&nbsp;assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State New Kensington;&nbsp;Kristin&nbsp;Sznajder,&nbsp;assistant professor of public health sciences at&nbsp;Penn State Health&nbsp;Milton S. Hershey Medical Center;&nbsp;Esther&nbsp;Obonyo,&nbsp;associate professor of engineering design&nbsp;and&nbsp;architectural engineering and director of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Global Building Network; and&nbsp;Soundar&nbsp;Kumara,&nbsp;Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering,&nbsp;for \u201cHealthy Residents 2.0: An exploratory pilot study of air quality and psychosocial well-being.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"660255309\">The 2020&nbsp;industryXchange, originally scheduled for this past spring but&nbsp;postponed due to COVID-19,&nbsp;has been rescheduled for Dec. 7-8.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"12\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"807644422\">\u201cWe encourage faculty to attend this year\u2019s event to develop new collaborations with federal program directors, national lab leaders and industry attendees,\u201d said Priya Baboo, interim senior director of corporate and industry engagement.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"7.2131147540984\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"1732966916\">Faculty that plan on attending this year\u2019s event should submit a quad blocker for their research to Priya Baboo at\u202f<a href=\"mailto:pzb104@psu.edu\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pzb104@psu.edu<\/a>\u202fby Oct.&nbsp;30. The template is available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pennstateoffice365-my.sharepoint.com\/:p:\/g\/personal\/pzb104_psu_edu\/EdlZt-phdqVEuKpJ_SSASnQBrG8uvMjcnM23qNkDkufIfA?e=Z9NRjL\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"8.4424778761062\">\n<p paraeid=\"\" paraid=\"643942410\">Please&nbsp;visit&nbsp;the&nbsp;industryXchange&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engr.psu.edu\/industryxchange2020\/index.aspx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">webpage<\/a>&nbsp;for updates, registration&nbsp;and more information on&nbsp;the&nbsp;event.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-story-contacts field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h3>\n<p><span class=\"contacts-prefix\">(<\/span>Media Contacts<span class=\"contacts-sufix\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<article about=\"\/node\/501670\" typeof=\"sioc:Item foaf:Document\" class=\"node node-contact node-teaser node-teaser node-teaser node-contact-teaser node-published node-not-promoted node-not-sticky author-cvc6 even clearfix\" id=\"node-contact-501670\">\n<div class=\"content clearfix\">\n<h2 class=\"node-title\">Megan Lakatos<\/h2>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-work-phone field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix\">\n<p>Work Phone:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<p>814-865-5544<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Megan Lakatos\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"><\/span>  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last Updated October 16, 2020<\/p>\n<p><span property=\"dc:title\" content=\"Eight Penn State faculty teams awarded seed grants for AI research\" class=\"rdf-meta element-hidden\"><\/span>  <\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:00:00 +0000<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&#038;sa=t&#038;url=https:\/\/www.radiologybusiness.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence\/ai-rads-bolster-radiologists-artificial-intelligence&#038;ct=ga&#038;cd=CAIyHDkyYmU1MGQ5NjY1NjYxZTA6Y28udWs6ZW46R0I&#038;usg=AFQjCNF4IoNKnGEfQUhBndAEbpYmrCJM4g\">Experts introduce AI-RADS to help bolster radiologists&#8217; proficiency in artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.radiologybusiness.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/facebook\/public\/2018-07\/istock-851956216_super.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/div>\n<p><span><span><span>Artificial intelligence is poised to have a monumental impact on the future of medicine and imaging in particular. And yet, many medical schools pay little mind to this burgeoning piece of the healthcare delivery system. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Wanting to close the knowledge gap, experts with Dartmouth College have developed a novel curriculum to bolster physicians\u2019 know-how in this space. AI-RADs, as it\u2019s called, has shown early promise, with residents rating it as a 9.8 out of 10 and significant gains in comprehension when reading AI articles after lectures, experts reported Friday in <em>Academic Radiology<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>\u201cAI-RADS was well-received amongst trainees at our institution,\u201d Alexander Lindqwister, with the New Hampshire-based college\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote Oct. 16. \u201cFrom our metrics of quality, trainees overwhelmingly feel that the content depth of the AI-RADS lecture series is ideal, and the examples used are helpful vehicles to understand key concepts in artificial intelligence.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Lindqwister et. al built their course around a sequence of foundational algorithms, presented as logical extensions of each other and based around familiar examples, such as movie recommendations. They also incorporated secondary lessons on topics such as pixel mathematics, since most residents have little to no computational background. They further built out the program with a journal club, exploring the algorithm discussed in the most recent lecture, along with study guides that helped cut through \u201cintimidating technical descriptions.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Published at Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:48:45 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Penn State faculty teams awarded seed grants for AI research UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014&nbsp;Multi-Disciplinary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techclot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/9Aolws.png?fit=1378%2C631&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3orZX-QZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techclot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}