The Machine Intelligence Group for the betterment of Health and the Environment (MIGHTE), now based at the Network Science Institute, at Northeastern University (from 2017 to 2022, our research lab, the Machine Intelligence Lab, was based at Boston Children’s Hospital) and the Center fo Communicable Disease Dynamics, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has a multidisciplinary research agenda. Our research involves the conception and implementation of machine intelligence analytics tools, capable of predicting unobserved events in public health and healthcare in the immediate or near future. Our work ranges from tracking disease outbreaks around the Globe, leveraging information from big data sets from Internet-based services (such as Google, Twitter, Weather, Human Mobility, Electronic Health Records), to bed-side patient-centered monitoring approaches aimed at improving care in clinical settings.
Generally speaking, our approaches use machine learning techniques to identify patterns that have occurred historically that may be predictive of specific and future events of interest, for example:
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Can we characterize the time evolution of a disease outbreak in a population by analyzing:
- disease-related search activity on Internet search engines?
- the local air temperature/humidity in their location?
- human mobility patterns?
- multiple disparate Internet-based data sources ?
- Can we identify real-time vital signs patterns in a patient's hospital visit that may suggest the need to intervene or change care plans, hours (or days) before this happens?
Our team consist of applied mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, public health experts, and clinicians.
Current Team Members:
Mauricio Santillana, PhD. Physics and Computational and Applied Mathematics
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Nicole Kogan, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences, Team member: 2020 - present |
Cesar Leonardo Clemente, M.S. Applied Math and Physics, Team member: 2017 -present |
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Gemma Llano, MIGHTE Lab Operations Manager Team member: 2023 - present |
Tamanna Urmi, Ph.D. Student in Network Science Team member: 2022 - present |
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Anjalika Nande, PhD Physics,
Team member: 2021 - present |
Xiyu Yang, M.S. in Data Science, Harvard Team member: 2023 - present |
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Raul Garrido, PhD Student in Physics Team member: 2023 - present |
Yash Bhora, Undergraduate student, Physics Team member: 2023 - present |
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Ang Barrett, Mathematics and Physics Student Team member: 2024 - present |
Jinho Park, Undergraduate Student, Mathematics Team member: 2023 - present |
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Fred Lu, PhD Student in Computer Science, Team Member: 2016 - present |
Austin Meyer, M.D. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Team member: 2021 - present |
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Leonardo Cázares, Undergraduate Student, Physics Team member: 2022 - present |
Matthew Levine, PhD in Computing + Mathematical Science, Team member: 2023 - present |
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Canelle Poirier, PhD Applied Statistics, Team member: 2019 - present |
Dianbo Liu, PhD Mathematical Modelling, Team member: 2019-present
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Skyler Wu, Undergraduate student, Statistics Team member: 2020 - present |
Iris Lang, Undergraduate Student, Applied Math Team member: 2022 - present |
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Tigist Menkir, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences, Team member: 2019 - present |
Lucas Stolerman, PhD, PhD Mathematics National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Brazil Team member: 2020-present |
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Nick Link, PhD Student in Biostatistics, Team member: 2019 - present |
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Paola Calvachi, MD MSc, MBI-Candidate, Harvard Medical School Team member: 2020-present |
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Justin Kaashoek, Undergraduate student, Harvard College Team member: 2020 - present |
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Taylor Chin, PhD Student in Population Health Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Team member: 2018 - present |
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Xincheng Tan, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student, Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences Team member: 2021 - present |
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Lin Zhu, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student, Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences Team member: 2020 - present |
Past Team Members
Derek MacFadden, Medical Doctor and Ph.D Candidate, Harvard School of Public Health Collaboration: 2017- 2019 |
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Mohammad W. Hattab, Ph.D. Biostatistics, Wyss Institute, Harvard University Collaboration: 2018 - 2019 |
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Shihao Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Collaboration: 2015 - 2017 |
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Maia Majumder, Ph.D. Engineering Systems, Harvard University’s Health Policy Data Science lab Collaboration: 2014 - 2021 |
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Yuval Barak-Corren, M.D., Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital Collaboration: 2016 - 2019 |
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Kristin Baltrusaitis, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health Collaboration: 2015 - 2020 |
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Prof. Won-Yong Shin, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dankook University, Korea Collboration: 2018 - 2021 |
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Vivek Sharma, PhD Team member: 2019 - 2020 Now: Postoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Team member: 2019 - 2020 |
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Wei Luo, PhD in Geographic Information Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow at HMS Team member: 2019-2020 Now: Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
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Bhaven Patel, Master in Computational Science & Engineering Student, Harvard Institute of Applied and Computational Sciences Team member: 2019 - 2020 Now: Personal Capital |
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Mathieu Molina, M.S. Engineering and Data Science, Mines ParisTech; Intern, Boston Childrens Hospital/Harvard Medical School Team member: 2019 - 2020 Now: Amazon Inc |
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Emily Aiken, B.S. Computer Science, Harvard University Team member: 2018 - 2019 Now: PhD student, University of California, Berkeley |
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Sarah McGough, PhD, Candidate Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health Team member: 2016 - 2019 Now: Data Scientist at Genentech |
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Gal Koplewitz, B.S. Computer Science, Harvard University Team member: 2018 - 2019 Now: Data Scientist, Quantum Black; and Independent Scientific Writer, (The Economist, New Yorker, etc) |
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Karla Mejía, M.S. in Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health Team member: 2018 - 2019 Now: Associate Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
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Fred Lu, B.S Computational Biology, Harvard University Team member: 2016 - 2018 Now: Graduate student, Stanford University |
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David Castiñeira, PhD. Chemical Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Team member: 2016 - 2017 Now: Chief Technology Officer, Quantum Reservoir Impact |
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Gaston Fiore, M.S. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Team member: 2016 - 2017 Now: Entrepreneur |
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Kaycie Schlosser, Medical Doctor, Chief Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital Team member: 2016 - 2017 Now: Pediatric Intensivist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center |
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Gal Wachtel, B.S. Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University Team member: 2017 Now: Data Scientist, Palantir |
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Sam Tideman, M.S. Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health Team member: 2017 Now: Data Scientist, Northshore University Healthsystem |
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Nick Generous, M.S. Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health Team member: 2017 Now: Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Suqin Hou, M.S. Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Team member: 2016 Now: Data Scientist, KAYAK |
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Andre Nguyen, B.S. Applied Math, Harvard University Team member: 2014 - 2016 Now: Senior Data Scientist, at Booz Allen Hamilton |