AI + Healthcare and Medicine
Healthcare and AI Research Projects for High School Students
Artificial intelligence is transforming how we diagnose and treat disease, develop new treatments and medications, and understand overall health and medicine. In the AI Scholars program, high school students can work on a project at the intersection of AI + healthcare and medicine.
Sample AI + Healthcare and Medicine Projects from Past AI Scholars Students
AI + Pneumonia Detection
Improving medical diagnosis by using computer vision systems to detect Pneumonia from chest X-rays.
Developed by:
John Cocjin
Stanford University
AI + COVID-19 Genomics
Improving public health by predicting a SARS-CoV-2 lineage's country of origin using its genome.
Developed by:
Brianna Chrisman
Stanford University
AI + Mental Health
Applying knowledge of rule-based chatbots and more sophisticated RNN methods to deploy chatbot technologies to answer queries about mental health.
Developed by:
Mark Torres
Yale University
Meet Our AI + Healthcare and Medicine Curriculum Advisors
Peter Washington
PhD in Bioengineering, Master’s in Computer Science | Stanford University
Developing AI-powered mobile therapies for children with autism, using machine learning and crowdsourcing for automatic video-powered diagnosis of complex neuropsychiatric conditions, and using bioinformatics to determine the genetic causes of complex polygenic conditions.
Sharon Newman
PhD in Electrical Engineering | Stanford University
Increasing access to medical technologies in low resource settings, as well as working on biosensor devices for early detection of diseases using AI. As an instructor, she is always exploring new ways to reach out and impact more students, and loves to discuss new ideas with young and curious kids!
Sehj Kashyap
M.D. Candidate | Duke | Master’s in Biomedical Informatics | Stanford
Using data science to support innovations in public health. Sehj has also led health outcomes research and helped build Noora Health's technological and research infrastructure to remotely monitor its services and families’ health outcomes across India.
AI Scholars Program Overview
AI Scholars Live Online is a 10 session (25-hour) artificial intelligence bootcamp that exposes high school students to fundamental AI concepts and guides them to build a socially impactful project. Taught by our team of graduate students from Stanford, MIT, and more, students receive a personalized learning experience in small groups with a student-teacher ratio of 5:1.
