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Doctoral graduate Mohammad Kibria received the Best Student Paper Award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics! The title of his paper is Assessing AI Explainability: A Usability Study Using a Novel Framework Involving Clinicians arxiv.org/abs/2503.16920. Congrats!
07.07.2025 13:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are excited to share that master's student, Suguna Kotte, had her abstract accepted for poster presentation at the AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium! Her abstract is titled, The Impact of Patient Portals on Medication Adherence in the Elderly. Congratulations Suguna!!
20.06.2025 16:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CHIP student, Mohammad Golam Kibria successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled, “Explainability for AI-driven Clinical Decision Support Systems: A User-centered Study with Clinicians." Dr. Kibria’s research focused on advancing explainability of AI tools in healthcare. Congratulations!
18.06.2025 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jenny Hong reflects on her work with the UNC Health Sciences Library's Impact Measurement & Visualization (IMV) team where she developed and evaluated a machine learning-powered topic modeling tool to help streamline literature screening.
Congratulations, Jenny!
CHIP Student Internship Spotlight!
MPS Student Paul Greenwood is an intern for GENYSIS Core. "During my internship with the GENYSIS Core, I developed a machine learning pipeline that automates quality control (QC) monitoring for genomic sequencing data."
Great work Paul!
Last week was graduate student appreciation week where two of our PhD students were granted awards.
Liz Kwong won the 2025 Impact Award.
Kibria Golam won a travel grant to attend the 87th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Congratulations Liza and Kibria!
Congratulations to CHIP PhD student Liz Kwong for being recognized by the UNC Grad School with a 2024-2025 Impact award! Liz has been recognized for her research in addressing burnout among North Carolina healthcare professionals.
08.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CHIP is proud to announce that doctoral students Amy Cole and Ashlyn Zebrowski will be defending their dissertations in the coming weeks! Congratulations to these amazingly accomplished CHIP students! All are invited to attend their defense.
19.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join CHIP for a talk led by Dr. Rishi Kamaleswaran, an Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine.
Title: Every breath, every beat: Integrating multi-modal Real-Time data streams for explainable clinical prediction systems in the ICU
Last week, CHIP hosted a student networking event for our MPS and PhD students to meet industry professionals, CHIP alumni, and faculty.
Thank you to all of our Health IT Advisory board members and alumni for attending and meeting our students!
Congratulations to CHIP PhD Student, Amy Cole, on her first author publication, "Addressing the Need for a Specialized Disconnection Device in Catheter Connection Management: A Case Study of User-Centered Medical Device Innovation".
Read Amy's publication here: doi.org/10.3390/nurs...
We are excited to announce that our student application for RAPID 2025 is open!
This program is an immersive experience for undergraduate students with a focus on acquiring introductory skills and knowledge in Data Science, health equity, and Generative AI.
Learn more at chip.unc.edu/rapid
Congratulations to CHIP PhD student, Abhishek Bhatia, for publishing a first author article in PLOS Medicine!
We are so proud of you Abhi!! 🎉
Read more here: journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
CHIP PhD student, Vibhor Gupta, recently attended BioHackathon Europe! BioHackathon Europe is an annual event that brings together life scientists from around the world. It offers an intense week of hacking, with over 160 participants. BioHackathon was hosted near Barcelona
Congratulations Vibhor!
CHIP students laughing and painting
students painting together
Fall 2024 recap! 🍂 This semester, our student alliance, HISA, hosted several events for our students, including the one pictured here: pizza, painting, and relaxation!
We want to wish our students the best of luck with the end of finals! Enjoy your break!
Today, CHIP PhD student, Ashlyn Zebrowski presented about her dissertation work on leveraging digital tools to help improve how we care for people. Her focuses on virtual reality and exploring behaviors and implementation system requirements to answer "how" to prescribe and deliver treatment.
19.11.2024 21:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
