Case Western Reserve University to lead team including Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland State in exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to better predict pandemic risks
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is leading a local team of scientists and medical professionals to map out details of how to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent future pandemics.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the interdisciplinary effort includes faculty from such fields as computer science, medicine law and management, all focused on ways of gathering and using data to improve pandemic prediction-while also maintaining individuals' privacy.
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown that in our globally integrated society, a highly infectious pathogen can rapidly and pervasively ignite an evolving public health crisis at a global scale," said Jing Li, the Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Computer and Data Sciences at the Case School of Engineering, who is leading the work. "The traditional passive and retrospective data analytics that we presently rely on do not meet the needs of today's highly interconnected communities."
