Congratulations, Ehsan! Your @mit MIT Media Lab family is so proud of the great work you and the teams you've led have done!

Apart from every nitty-gritty detail of research, I know few people who can drive impact and Ehsan Hoque is one of them. Wish you all the best.

One of the most important skills I teach my students&postdocs is how to communicate their research. Last week at NSF, I gave a keynote to (mostly) junior faculty on how to pitch their work. The talk resonated with many folks, so I'm sharing it publicly: mit.edu/~fadel/papers/…

Ran the Riyadh marathon for 2nd year in a row, cherishing the memories of Abie, our spin instructor who left us too soon. #RiyadhMarathon2025

This spring I am teaching a new class at MIT called **How to AI (Almost) Anything** Its name is a play on 2 seminal MIT Media Lab courses: how to make almost anything (on design & fabrication) and how to grow almost anything (on synthetic biology) We are now in the AI age, and

Wonderful to cheer on my PhD students, Md. Saiful Islam and Tariq Adnan at #AAAI in Philadelphia today. The work demonstrates the real-world impact of multimodal AI via Parkinson’s disease. FYI: the yearly economic burden for Parkinson’s disease in the US is $50B (and projected

Sporting my AAAS T-shirt at the #RamadanRun 5K race organized by Race Arabia in Riyadh. During Ramadan, work hours reduce to 6 hours in Saudi Arabia, creating time to prioritize health, family, and spiritual reflection—widely considered the region's most cherished season,

Disappointed U.S. National Science Foundation isn't funding REU programs this year due to budget uncertainty. I (and many others) relied on these programs to mentor talented US undergrads into CS research and PhD paths. Cutting this pipeline of future scientists harms innovation.

Flew across the Atlantic to attend an in-person meeting of the National Academies Health Sciences Policy board—and it was worth every mile. We met in the historic Board Room, where President Lincoln signed the charter establishing the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. A powerful

So happy to graduate my 9th PhD student — Dr. Kurtis Haut! Kurt's technical brilliance and genuine people skills led to SOPHIE, an AI system helping doctors practice difficult conversations with terminal cancer patients. In a tech world focused on replacing humans, he found a

Congrats to our 2025 Research & Education Pilot awardees! Awardees will tackle a wide range of topics, from microplastics in cardiopulmonary bypass pumps to how concerns about weight gain impact contraception choices. Learn more > tinyurl.com/4d55p6hy #URochesterResearch

There are few in this world who were such forces for good as Atul Butte. His dazzling intellect, relentless curiosity, generosity of spirit, boundless charisma, and infinite optimism left a mark on everything he touched and everyone lucky enough to know him. An enormous loss.

Perspective: Improving Mental Health Care Access with Technology: Addressing the Screening-to-Referral Bottleneck nejm.ai/4k3NUSy Original Article: AI-Enabled Parkinson’s Disease Screening Using Smile Videos nejm.ai/4nk6PeD

Can a simple smile captured on video serve as an effective, accessible screening tool for Parkinson's disease when clinical care is difficult to access?NEJM AI ROC HCI "AI-Enabled Parkinson’s Disease Screening Using Smile Videos" 1. This research addresses the critical

Say cheese to detect Parkinson’s? Can AI see what doctors and healthcare providers miss? What if a simple smile could screen for Parkinson’s disease? A new study just published in NEJM AI by Adnan, Dorsey, Hoque and colleagues shows that artificial intelligence can potentially

🧾 NEW in NEJM AI: “Facial Analysis Using AI to Screen for Parkinson’s Disease” 🔗 Paper spotlight: lnkd.in/dkMqGyRJ 👉 Our study (n=1,452) finds AI can detect Parkinson’s from a simple smile with: • 87.9% accuracy • AUROC of 89.3 [WHY THIS MATTERS] Smiling is

Why does so much academic innovation come from outside elite circles? After 2 years, rejections, and a few bruises, our paper is finally out. It tackles a tough question: Does working with superstars help or hinder originality in science? 🧵

Could Alexa help people find out if they have Parkinson's disease? Computer scientists at University of Rochester developed a speech-based AI tool that can screen for a key indicator of the neurodegenerative disease #URochesterResearch Story:rochester.edu/newscenter/ai-… Study: doi.org/10.1038/s41531…

Researchers developed an AI algorithm that uses speech analysis to detect subtle markers of Parkinson's disease. parkinsonsnewstoday.com/news/ai-speech…

What if Alexa detected Parkinson's? Grad students at Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences have outlined a speech-based AI tool to screen for signs of neurodegenerative disease It's another way Rochester researchers are harnessing AI for the public good uofr.us/46rdD4c #URochesterResearch