- Published on September 26, 2023
- In AI Features
Meet the Researcher Curing the Healthcare System with ML
Ziad Obermeyer is bringing the long-delayed impact of ML in healthcare
- By Tasmia Ansari
Modern technology is omnipresent in our lives, yet its application remains long delayed in healthcare. Among the global healthcare research community is Ziad Obermeyer, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been focused on the intersection of machine learning and health since 2017.
There are a number of moonshots -- large-scale government or conglomerates-backed initiatives -- promising to revolutionise the sector but haven’t been able to come up with a pocket-friendly solution. Obermeyer, who made it to the TIME AI 100 list, has managed to chart a different course. He is working on a research project with MIT researchers to build AI-based diagnostics that can run on wearable devices.
“Given how cheap and reliable technology is for acquiring data for
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Tasmia Ansari
Tasmia is a tech journalist at AIM, looking to bring a fresh perspective to emerging technologies and trends in data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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