NICO is hosting another round of research lightning talks as a part of our Wednesdays@NICO seminar series. Open to Northwestern graduate student or postdoctoral fellows! If you are interested in giving a lightning talk (12 minutes with questions) to the broader NICO audience, please sign up here: bit.ly/lightning-nico

February 7th Speakers, Talk Titles and Abstracts:

Taekyun Kim - Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, and NICO

Legal Systems are Becoming Less Disruptive Over Time
It has been found that science and technology has become less disruptive over time. There is reason to believe legal system has to keep up with scientific and technological advances. Therefore, we investigate the evolution of laws over time through citation network.

Feihong Xu – PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and the Amaral Lab

Robust Extraction of Pneumonia-Associated Clinical States from Electronic Health Records
Mining of electronic health records (EHR) promises to automate the identification of comprehensive disease phenotypes. However, the realization of this promise is hindered by both the unavailability of generalizable ground-truth information and data incompleteness and heterogeneity. We present here a data-driven approach to identify clinical states that we implement for 600 critical care patients recruited by the SCRIPT study.

Kumar Utkarsh – PhD Candidate, Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics, and the MMCS Lab

Pain Begets More Pain: A Self-Exciting Model for Pain Caused by Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease is a disorder that affects red blood cells and is associated with chronic pain as well as acute pain crises that often result in hospitalization. Our ongoing study is an effort to better understand pain events in sickle cell patients. We build on the theory of self-exciting point process, specifically Hawkes process, to develop a mathematical model that relies only on patient pain history. Our model is then fitted to data collected from 39 patients at the Duke University Sickle Cell Center and compared to simplistic yet plausible null models.

Location:

In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/94379798895
Passcode: NICO2024

About the Speaker Series:

Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems and data science. 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.

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