The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) has announced six one-year awards of $50,000 through a new AI and health seed funding program. Focused on strengthening interdisciplinary connections between schools and colleges on the Davis campus and schools of health on the Sacramento campus, the awards aim to position UC Davis as a leader in interdisciplinary AI-enabled health care technology research.
The recipients include:
- AI-powered Speech Restoration
Sergey Stavisky, assistant professor of neurological surgery, and Lee Miller, professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior and otolaryngology - CARE-COMPASS: Community Assistance and Resource Engagement – Chatbot-orchestrated Mental, Physical and Social Supports for Survivors
Jessica Draughon Moret, associate professor of clinical nursing, and Joshua McCoy, associate professor of computer science and cinema and digital media - Cornea AI: Boosting Transplant Success and Future Corneal Care
Mark Mannis, Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, and Hamed Pirsiavash, associate professor of computer science - Gait Evaluation Algorithm Development for STRIDE-AI
Erik Henricson, associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, and Kuan-Hua Chen, assistant professor of human development & family studies - Interpretable Acoustic and LLM-based Cognitive Impairment Detection in Older Adults
Michelle Cohn, assistant project scientist in linguistics, and Chen-Nee Chuah, Child Family Professor in Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering - Precision Genomics for Autism
Gerald Quon, associate professor of molecular and cellular biology, and Suma Shankar, professor of pediatrics and ophthalmology