Previous Events

• [October 29, 2025] DePaul is partnering to leverage AI and community health workers to predict and prevent hospital readmissions, offering a glimpse into the future of personalized and proactive healthcare.
• [July 1, 2025] Congratulations to Drs. Raicu, Furst, and Tchoua on receiving a $406,204 NIH award for their project VS-EDGE: Visual-Semantic Explanations for Diagnostic GuidancE.
• [June 9, 2025] Congratulations to Drs. Tchoua and Ramaraj on their appointment to tenure-track faculty positions.
• [May 29, 2025] Congratulations to Charmi Patel on the acceptance of their paper in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine.
• [April 11, 2025] Hiring Postdoctoral Researcher to join the collaborative, supportive VIDA Group for the NSF-funded SCHOLAR Project, focused on human-centered AI in healthcare — an exciting role at the intersection of AI, health, and community impact in collaboration with DePaul University and Sinai Health.
• [January 14, 2025] Congratulations to Dr. Thiru Ramaraj on receiving the National Center for Genome Resources/National Science Foundation award to support his research titled, "Collaborative Research: TRTech-PGR: Functional Pangenomic and Machine Learning Tools for Exploring Genetic Diversity in Plants".
• [November 13, 2024] Congratulations to Jennifer Piane, PhD candidate, who defended her PhD dissertation titled "Video label refinement and temporal localization using motion signal patterns".
• [October 28, 2024] Congratulations to Nandhini Gulasingam and Charmi Patel on acceptance of their paper by Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) .
• [September 24, 2024] Congratulations to Amal Almansour, PhD candidate, who defended her PhD dissertation titled "Exploring how uncertain labels from non-consensus panels affect machine learning" .
• [August 26, 2024] Congratulations to Drs. Tchoua, Furst and Raicu for being awarded $1.5 million by the NSF to support DePaul and Sinai Chicago researchers in reducing hospital re-admissions.
• [June 5, 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Jacob Furst for being named to the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition's prestigious "Researchers to know" list for 2024
• [Feb. 2, 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Thiru Ramaraj on receiving DePaul and Rosalind Franklin award 2024 funding his research "Using Machine Learning to Enhance Anti-Malarial Immune Response"
• [Jan. 26, 2024] Charmi Patel presented research project at DePaul Innovation Day titled "From Pixels to Diagnosis: Artificial Intelligence’s Impact in Medical Imaging"
• [October 2, 2023] Congratulations to Adrianna Pinzariu, a junior undergraduate researcher working with Dr. Tchoua, who earned a $50k scholarship for Innovation in Artificial Intelligence, Safety.
• [May 30, 2023] Congratulations to Yiyang Wang, PhD candidate, who defended his PhD dissertation titled "Towards Generalizable Machine Learning Models for Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Medicine".
• [Jan. 27, 2023] Dr.Tchoua and Ian Wang presented their research projects at DePaul Innovation Day titled "Sinai-DePaul Partnership for Community Health and Research" and "Towards Generalizable Machine Learning Models for Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Medicine"
• [Jan. 27, 2023] Congratulations to Drs. Furst, Ramaraj, and Ustun on their DePaul-RFU research grants
• [Jan. 1, 2023] 2023 MedIX REU Important Dates Announced
• [May. 27, 2022] Congratulations to Abigail Keller, who defended her Master’s Thesis titled "Text Summarization Towards Scientific Information Extraction"
• [Apr. 9, 2022] Congratulations to undergraduate student Maria Alexandra (Ally) Theodorescu for earning 3rd place at The Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium (CAURS)
• [Dec. 30, 2021] 2022 MedIX REU Important Dates
• [Oct. 1, 2021] NSF REU 2021 Fall Reunion
• [Jul. 27, 2021] Congratulations to Priya Deshpande, PhD candidate, who defended her PhD dissertation titled “Domain-driven Heterogeneous Biomedical Data Categorization and Integration”
• [Jul. 8, 2021] VIDA group’s COVID-19 research is featured in the DePaul Magazine
• [Apr. 5, 2021] Congratulations to undergraduate student Maria Alexandra (Ally) Theodorescu for her paper acceptance and presentation at NCUR 2021
• [Oct. 29 2020] Congratulations to PhD. student Mirtha Lucas for receiving the best paper award at 2020 IEEE BIBE
• [Oct. 28 2020] Data scientists fill in gaps on race, ethnicity in COVID-19 testing
• [Oct. 27 2020] Congratulations to 2018 MedIx REU student Eura Shin for receiving a 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)
• [Oct. 1 2020] Congratulations to PhD. students Yiyang Wang and Mirtha Lucas, Master in Data Science student Tianyi Tan for their paper acceptance and presentation at  2020 IEEE BIBE
• [May. 1 2020] Staying connected through research!
• [Feb. 12 2020] VIDA Group will co-host NSF CISE REU Site PI Meeting.
• Congratulations to PhD. student Yiyang Wang and 2019 REU student Jorie Budzikowski for their paper acceptance and presentation at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
• [Jan. 10 2020] 2019 MedIX REU program featured in DePaul’s “In the Loop” magazine.
• [Jan. 9 2020] Congratulations to MS. in Data Science student Arun Gopal and MS. in Computer Science student Wahhaj Farooq for their paper acceptance and presentation at BICOB 2020.
• [Jan. 19 2020] Our NSF REU CISE MedIX Program featured in the College Alumni Newsletter: “Healthy Outlook: A unique medical informatics partnership opens students’ eyes to research-intensive graduate programs and careers”.
• [Nov. 15 2019] Congratulations to MS. in Data Science student Daniel Gutstein for his master thesis defense “Information Extraction from Primary Care Visits to Support Patient-Provider Interactions”.
• VIDA Group will be part of the IEEE BHI 2019 organizing committee with Dr. Raicu being a member of the organizing committee and Priya, Wahhaj, Yiyang and Yan will be volunteers and help with the conference.
• Congratulations to 2018 REU Student Eura Shin for receiving the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship.
• [March 26 2019] Congratulations to Jennifer Piane and Yiyang Wang for the paper acceptance and presentation at IEEE BHI 2019
• [Oct. 15 2018] Three papers co-authored by NSF REU participants 2018 have been accepted for oral presentations at SPIE MI Conference, February 16-21, 2019
• [Jun. 2 2018] DePaul VIDA Group will co-organize the Sixth Workshop on Data Mining in Biomedical Informatics and Healthcare (DMBIH 2018)
• [Feb. 14 2018]  Natalie Jenuwine and Jake Sauter, 2017 REU students, participated in SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium to present papers on computer-aided detection and diagnosis.
• [January 11 2018] Congratulations to 2017 REU student, Amber Salome, for her senior thesis Computational assessment of X-ray digital subtraction angiography to assess balloon test occlusion in watershed stroke risk patients
• [November 18 2017] The 5th IEEE ICDM DMBIH Workshop, in conjunction with the IEEE ICDM 2017, New Orleans.
• [August 14 2017] The 1st ACM KDD MIH Workshop, in conjunction with ACM KDD 2017, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• [May 12 2017] Biomedical and Healthcare Informatics Workshop.