{"670881":{"#nid":"670881","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Yuanda Zhu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETitle\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDeveloping Novel NLP-Enabled Timely and Accurate Decision Making for Precision Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDr. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMay Dongmei Wang, BME, Chair\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Advisor\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDr. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDavid Anderson, ECE\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDr. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFaramarz Fekri, ECE\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDr. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBlake Anderson, Emory\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDr. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDavid Wright, Emory\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will report my PhD research in developing novel Natural Language Processing (NLP)-enabled accurate and timely decision-making systems for Precision Medicine. Precision medicine uses big data capturing \u201cindividual differences in patients\u2019 genes, environments, and lifestyles focuses\u201d to make prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis of diseases and treatment therapies. NLP uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make sense of large volumes of language or time-series data. I have not only investigated how NLP can extract precise information from electronic health records (EHRs) and free-text clinical notes, but also examined how NLP models such as transformers can be used for analyzing human physiological Electroencephalography (EEG) data for accurate clinical decision making. Specifically, on EHRs, I have shown how NLP is able to decipher and sequentially report death events for individual patients; on free-text clinical notes, I have shown how the pretrained transformer-based NLP model BERT can precisely discern long COVID-19 patients from the rest; and on time-series EEG data, I have illustrated how Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and transformer architectures, when combing with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), can extract both spatial and temporal features for accurate seizure detection. My PhD research aims to provide a foundation for advancing NLP for personalized patient care in modern Precision Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Developing Novel NLP-Enabled Timely and Accurate Decision Making for Precision Medicine"}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2023-11-03 20:05:36","changed_gmt":"2023-11-07 06:26:00","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-11-08T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-11-08T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-11-08T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-11-08 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-11-08 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-11-08 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Online","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/3992022181","title":"Zoom link"}],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}