Students in summer program develop AI tools, advance faculty research
Digital Transformation Summer Corps equips students with new AI skills, offers opportunities to work with researchers across disciplines.
‘IsolateGPT’ to make LLM-based agents more secure
Umar Iqbal, Ning Zhang and doctoral student Yuhao Wu and their collaborators have developed IsolateGPT, a method that keeps external tools isolated from each other while still running in a large language model system — mitigating security risks.
AI firm to represent St. Louis region at $1M startup competition
A company that specializes in delivering quick artificial models to businesses that was co-founded by a Washington University graduate will represent the St. Louis region’s entrepreneurship scene at the Grand Finale of the Startup World Cup this fall.
The intersection of technology and politics
Covering everything from social media to bitcoin to AI, a timely and all-too-topical political science graduate course challenges students to think differently. Social media’s rise has dramatically transformed recent elections, reshaping how citizens engage with politics, how politicians connect with constituents and how information flows through society.
UC Riverside and WashU researchers receive NSF awards to improve AI-powered imaging systems
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million to computer engineering scholars from UC Riverside and Washington University in St. Louis to advance artificial intelligence, or AI, methods for image generation systems used in science, medicine, and engineering.
AI-powered platform aims to transform social work training
A new artificial intelligence simulation platform aims to transform how social workers are trained, offering students realistic, hands-on experience with lifelike virtual clients before they ever enter the field. The platform, called Empathy Helper, was developed by a multidisciplinary team of social work educators, mental health professionals, and AI experts.
Unique chatbot is trained to help people with eating disorders
Can a chatbot for eating disorders improve access to care? This is what Dr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft is trying to achieve through a new study. She’s an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and an associate professor of psychiatry at WashU School of Medicine.
AI-based breast cancer risk technology receives FDA Breakthrough Device designation
Software developed at WashU Medicine on accelerated path to approval.
Sleep data from wearable device may help predict preterm birth
WashU interdisciplinary research uses machine learning to offer accurate prediction of preterm birth.
Brown School researchers study AI’s role in pediatric cancer care
This summer, Cindy Kang, a Ph. D student, is working under the mentorship of Brown School Professor Kim Johnson to study how AI can help predict the risk of metastasis at the time of a child’s initial cancer diagnosis. Metastases account for a large portion of cancer-related deaths in children.