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Maia Jacobs

@maiajacobs.bsky.social

HCI + Health researcher. Assistant Professor in Comp Sci and Prev Med @ Northwestern. Director of NUPATH Lab.

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NSF Education & Training Application | ETAP

New undergraduate research opportunity in AI (for this summer) just opened! Please apply or encourage your students to apply. I am specifically looking to mentor undergraduate students interested in working on predictive modeling of community health data: etap.nsf.gov/award/8214/o...

04.06.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It has been a much needed happy week :) First, I caught up with the amazing @profwanda.bsky.social, who spoke at NU on how informatics can support equitable healthcare. Then, my wonderful student Hannah Studd passed her dissertation defense (a first for the NU-PATH Lab)! πŸŽ‰

10.04.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump hits NIH with β€˜devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Serious for all of us. All NIH grant review panels, seminars, workshops, and communications were cut off midday. NIH personnel are instructed not to communicate with anyone: www.science.org/content/arti...

23.01.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Was a joy to work with this incredible group of AI leaders.

20.12.2024 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We have a new review on generative AI in medicine, to appear in the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science! We cover over 250 papers in the recent literature to provide an updated overview of use cases and challenges for generative AI in medicine.

18.12.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Reducing Burnout Among Anti-Violence Workers Using community-based participatory research methods, technology and social behavior PhD student Connie Chau is building a just-in-time adaptive intervention tool to reduce burnout among frontline wor...

Can't think of a better way to start this account than to share a recent writeup about my amazing PhD student, Connie Chau, and our partnership with The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence. www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/computer-sci...

22.11.2024 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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