Maia Jacobs
maiajacobs.bsky.social
Maia Jacobs
@maiajacobs.bsky.social
HCI + Health researcher. Assistant Professor in Comp Sci and Prev Med @ Northwestern. Director of NUPATH Lab.
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...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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)! 🎉
April 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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January 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Was a joy to work with this incredible group of AI leaders.
December 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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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.
December 18, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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...
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...
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November 22, 2024 at 3:14 PM