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2025 Meharry to Launch AI-Powered Learning Assistants with New MS-CC Cyberinfrastructure Grant

Meharry Medical College School of Applied Computational Sciences is proud to announce that Dr. Uttam Ghosh, professor of cybersecurity, and his team of co-investigators, Meharry SACS professors Dr. Sajid Hussain, Dr. Puspita Chatterjee, Dr. Asmah Muallem, and Dr. Lei Qian, have been awarded a significant grant through the Minority Serving...

SACS project to address healthcare delivery disruptions in Middle Tennessee

Thanks to support from NASA, a new Meharry SACS project will use advanced drone and computing technologies to address healthcare delivery disruptions in Middle Tennessee caused by natural disasters. The $742,286 grant funds CAMPUS (Community Air Mobility for Public Utilization in Support of Healthcare)....
Drone flying over flooded land mapping GIS data

Graduate Student LaChiara Landrum Co-Authors Blockchain-Based Healthcare Solution Accepted at IEEE SoutheastCon 2025

LaChiara Landrum, a graduate student and rising researcher in cybersecurity, is making waves with her most recent collaborative research paper, “Blockchain-Enabled Communication Framework for Secure and Scalable Healthcare Data Processing,” which has been officially accepted for presentation at IEEE SoutheastCon 2025. The prestigious conference, known for showcasing innovation in computing...

Graduate Student LaChiara Landrum and Team pRESENT Research at IEEE Globecom 2024

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — A noteworthy research paper spotlighting a new blockchain framework written by graduate student and primary author LaChiara Landrum and her team at Meharry SACS was presented at the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2024 (GLOBECOM).  Blockchain-based innovation Under the supervision of Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Dr....

Student Lorrayya Williams Proposes Three Novel Algorithms To Prevent Cancer

Lorrayya Williams wanted to use deep learning to help fight cancer. Alongside principal investigator and Meharry SACS professor Vibhuti Gupta, the two worked together to develop a model to do it.  From the time she was an undergraduate student at Calvin University, Williams had an interest in genomics.   “I really...

NSF Expand AI Capacity building pilot network supports Meharry research in trustworthy Ai in medical systems

Vibhuti Gupta, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and data science, is pursuing use-inspired advances in Trustworthy AI in Medical Systems through an NSF Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships grant....
data science academics and research

Drs. Sarker and Hussain to pursue semiconductor research on HBCU collaboration

Meharry SACS is participating on an innovative initiative designed to transform semiconductor research and education at HBCUs. Bishnu Sarker, Ph.D., assistant professor, computer science and data science, and Sajid Hussain, chair and professor, computer science and data science, are serving as PI and co-PI on the effort, respectively....
data science academics and research

Saha to use machine learning to address sleep apnea Across Populations

Sleep apnea is a chronic respiratory disorder that can lead to stroke, hypertension and heart disease. It's often underdiagnosed in Black communities. Shumit Saha, Ph.D., assistant professor, biomedical data science, plans to correct that health disparity by developing an explainable and race-unbiased machine learning pipeline for sleep apnea diagnosis....
data science academics and research

Dr. Ghosh’s Research Selected as Highly Cited Paper in The Web of Science

The Web of Science, a publisher-independent global citation database, has selected “Homomorphic Encryption-Based Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in IoT-Enabled Healthcare System” as a Highly Cited Paper....
data science academics and research

Ghosh receives Best Paper award and delivers workshop keynote at ICC

Uttam Ghosh, Ph.D., associate professor of cybersecurity, enjoyed a momentous IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). During the five-day event, he received a Best Paper Award, chaired a session, and delivered a workshop keynote address....
Dr. Uttam Ghosh
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Women Needed for Breast Cancer Study

The Meharry Medical College Center for Women’s Health Research is mobilizing African American women with a mother, daughter or sister who has been diagnosed with breast cancer to participate discussion groups. Did you know Black women have a 31% mortality – the highest among any U.S. racial or ethnic group?...

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What is a typical data scientist salary?

While there are a few factors that impact a data scientist salary, education and experience seem to have the biggest impact on how much you can earn as a data scientist....

What does a digital architect at Microsoft do?

Jane Yu, M.D., Ph.D., is a solution architect for Microsoft Corporation specializing in IT systems for data science, AI, and machine learning....
Jane Yu

Watch Meharry President Discuss COVID-19 Spread & Prevention

James E. K. Hildreth, Ph.D., M.D., President & CEO of Meharry Medical College, illustrates the transmission of COVID-19 and discusses prevention. Click here to see view video on Youtube  

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Watch Dr. Calvin Smith Discuss New COVID-19 Recommendations on Morning Line

Meharry’s Dr. Calvin Smith appeared recently on the News Channel 5 Plus broadcast of Morning Line to discuss the latest with the COVID-19 vaccine, including new recommendations to vaccinate children under the age of twelve. Be sure to watch to learn more. View the full video by clicking the link...

Wallace helps develop computational methods to infer structure interdependence from protein family MSAs

Dr. T.L. Wallace, professor, computational sciences, and colleagues recently co-published work on a new computational method that may help researchers studying proteins and support development of new drug treatment strategies....
data science academics and research

Wabi Tela: A Journey of Growth, Purpose, and Service

From the time he was a young boy waiting in his mother’s office at Meharry Medical College, Wabi Tela unknowingly formed a bond with the institution that would later help shape his life. For his mother, Zudi Takizala, MD, MPH, MBA, Meharry was more than just a workplace, it was...

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