Past talk · AI/ML Seminar Series
Future Health: Harnessing Multimodal Data and GenAI for Health Promotion
Professor of Nursing and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
- Date & time
- Monday, November 4, 2024 · 1:00 PM
- Location
- Donald Bren Hall 4011
Abstract
Future Health emphasizes the importance of recognizing each individual's uniqueness, which arises from their specific omics, lifestyle, environmental, and socioeconomic conditions. Thanks to advancements in sensors, mobile computing, ubiquitous computing, and artificial intelligence (AI), we can now collect detailed information about individuals. This data serves as the foundation for creating personal models, offering predictive and preventive advice tailored specifically to each person. In my presentation, I will explore how AI, including generative AI, and wearable technology are revolutionizing the collection and analysis of big health data in everyday environments. I will discuss the analytics used to evaluate physical and mental health and how smart recommendations can be made objectively. Moreover, I will illustrate how leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs)-powered conversational health agents (CHAs) can integrate personal data, models, and knowledge into healthcare chatbots. Additionally, I will present our open-source initiative on developing OpenCHA.
About the speaker
Amir M. Rahmani is the founder of the Health SciTech Group at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Future Health, a campus-wide Organized Research Unit at UCI. He is also a lifetime docent (Adjunct Professor) at the University of Turku (UTU), Finland. His research includes AI in healthcare, ubiquitous computing, AI-powered bio-signal processing, health informatics, and big health data analytics. He is the co-author of more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and the associate editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. He is a distinguished member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.