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WED@NICO SEMINAR: William Schnaper, Feinberg School of Medicine "Lurie Children's Hospital and NICO: What do we have in common?"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
William Schnaper, MD - Professor of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.
Talk Abstract:
William Schnaper, Lauren Marsillio and Michael Kelleher
Recently, the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute received a TL1 training grant from the National Institutes of Health. We chose a novel task of training postdoctoral fellows (either clinical fellows in pediatrics or basic research fellows in engineering) to apply engineering solutions to problems in pediatric and adolescent health. Each fellow would have a mentor in both science and clinical pediatrics, and receive a salary stipend to protect their research time. We now have nine fellows who are addressing such problems as: How can natural language processing be used on the electronic health record help us optimize discharge planning? Can a servomechanism be developed for for delivering regional anesthesia to infants and young children? What is the best way to deliver antisense oligonucleotides to brain tumors? Can advanced data extraction methods be used to improve the recruitment of children for clinical trials? The long-term goal of this training program is to nucleate further collaboration among these disparate disciplines in order to develop a unique and nationally recognized program for innovative health research. The speakers will review potential projects that have been proposed, and describe a specific initiative in the pediatric intensive care unit at Lurie Children's that combines real-time analysis of high-resolution, physiologic data with data extracted from the electronic medical record and other medical devices in order to assess risk of morbidity and mortality in critically ill pediatric patients.
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Time
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Mayank Agrawal, Proof of Human "The Invisible Turing Test for the Internet"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Mayank Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO, Proof of Human
Title:
Proof of Human: the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet
Abstract:
This presentation introduces the Process Turing Test, a new framework for distinguishing humans from AI that goes beyond linguistic output to analyze behavioral dynamics. As LLMs routinely pass text-based Turing Tests, we need methods that probe the underlying architecture of intelligence through perception, control, and decision-making patterns. Using process tracing data from canonical cognitive tasks, we demonstrate how behavioral embeddings capture computational signatures unique to human cognition. This provides robust proof-of-personhood that resists adversarial attacks while revealing fundamental principles about how humans and machines process information differently.
Speaker Bio:
Mayank Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Proof of Human, a research and deployment company building the proof-of-human layer in digital identity. The company develops high-impact research and translates that work into systems for bot detection, fraud prevention, and continuous authentication. Mayank’s work focuses on new approaches to distinguishing humans from AI through behavioral and cognitive signals. He earned his PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University, where he studied computational models of human decision-making with Jonathan Cohen, Tom Griffiths, and Nathaniel Daw. His research spans cognitive science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, with work published in Science, PNAS, and Psychological Review. He previously studied Computer Science and Philosophy at Swarthmore College.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/96392420891
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, networks, and artificial intelligence. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
Contact
Calendar
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)