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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Marianne Green, MD, Feinberg School of Medicine "Precision Education: It's Time"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Marianne Green, MD, Vice Dean for Education, Chair, Department of Medical Education, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Title:
Precision Education in Medicine
Abstract:
This presentation explores the transformative potential of precision education in medicine- an innovative approach that leverages comprehensive student and trainee data to tailor educational experiences and ultimately improve patient care. By integrating diverse data sources, including academic history, assessments, and electronic health record information, precision education provides a holistic view of student and trainee performance. The presentation highlights how personalized learning pathways and predictive analytics may enhance student and trainee outcomes, enabling early interventions and continuous feedback for improvement. Discussion of early adopter use cases in medical education highlight the potential and the challenges. Data privacy, ethical considerations, and technical hurdles will be addressed. Looking ahead, emerging technologies like AI promise to revolutionize precision education, paving the way for a fully integrated, data-driven ecosystem that can empower every student and ultimately every physician to reach their full potential with better health outcomes as the primary goal.
Speaker Bio:
Marianne Green, MD is the Raymond H. Curry, MD, Professor of Medical Education at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the Vice Dean for Education, the chair of the Department of Medical Education, and Co-Director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Medical Education in Data Science and Digital Health. Clinically she is interested in the primary care of adults with acute and chronic illness. Academically she is interested in competency assessment for both undergraduate medical students and practicing physicians.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/94544365225
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network 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.
Time
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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No classes - Memorial Day - University offices are closed
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No classes - Memorial Day - University offices are closed
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Monday, May 25, 2026
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Data Science Nights - MAY 2026 - Speaker: Xudong Tang, Computer Science and NICO
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
5:30 PM
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M416, Technological Institute
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MAY MEETING: Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 5:30pm (US Central)
LOCATION:
ESAM Conference Room, Tech M416
2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
AGENDA:
5:30pm - Meet and greet with refreshments
6:00pm - Talk with Xudong Tang, PhD Student, Computer Science, NICO, and the Human-AI Collaboration Lab, Northwestern University
TALK TITLE:
Human and Machine Perception of Voice Similarity
ABSTRACT:
Modern voice cloning systems generate synthetic speech that listeners frequently cannot identify as being synthetic. But a voice can sound natural without sounding like the intended person, and what determines whether a clone is heard as a particular person is an open question. Here we report a large-scale preregistered experiment in which we collected 92,239 responses from 175 participants on their perception of pairs of real recordings, voice clones, and continuously morphed voices drawn from 100 contemporary celebrities across 20 speaker groups. We find that voice clones do not reliably preserve perceived speaker identity, reducing same-speaker judgments by 12.7 percentage points even though the clones are produced by a state-of-the-art text-to-speech model, while leaving different-speaker judgments unchanged. Using continuously morphed stimuli, we find that speakers vary substantially in how much variation their perceived identity tolerates, and that this variation is not predicted by speaker demographics. Speaker embeddings account for 58.9\% (95\% CI = [55.7, 61.9]) of variance in identity judgments, which is more than acoustic features, social attributes, and clone status combined. Once all these observed features are accounted for, clone status adds no additional predictive power. These results shows that the perceptual impact of voice cloning is positional rather than categorical: we can model how listeners judge a voice by how close it falls to the perceptual boundary that defines each speaker's recognizable voice, applying the same criterion to real and synthetic speech alike.
DATA SCIENCE NIGHTS are monthly meetings featuring presentations and discussions about data-driven science and complex systems, organized by Northwestern University graduate students and scholars. Students and researchers of all levels are welcome! For more information: http://bit.ly/nico-dsn
FUTURE DATES:
Data Science Nights will return in September!
Time
Thursday, May 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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M416, Technological Institute Map
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Spring 2026 Commencement
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Spring 2026 Commencement
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Sunday, June 14, 2026
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Juneteenth - University Closed
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Juneteenth - University Closed
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Friday, June 19, 2026
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Independence Day (observed) - University Closed
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Independence Day (observed) - University Closed
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Friday, July 3, 2026
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Fall 2026 Classes Begin
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Fall 2026 Classes Begin
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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