Connect & share with fellow postdocs over some appetizers & drinks during VanderbiltPostdoctoralAssociation's bi-monthly 'Speak Easy” series from 5-6:30pm next Thursday, September 21 in 100 Alumni Hall. Open to all VU & VUMC postdocs! To learn more and RSVP, please visit: events.vanderbilt.edu/provost/event/…

Save the date! The 17th Annual VPA Symposium will take place on Friday, November 17, 2023. Register to attend here: rb.gy/i9owq. Abstract submissions and registration closes on September 4th.

Join us this Thursday for the GetPreCiSe Annual Symposium! Keynotes by Gail Henderson (UNC) and @healthprivacy. In-person only in Vanderbilt's Student Life Center from 8-4:30. Details on the website! #privacy #genetics vumc.org/getprecise/202…

Join me and my fantastic co-panelists tomorrow (July 25 at 9am EST) to hear about 'Equitable and Engaged #AI to Advance #Biomedical #Research ' - part of the US-EU AI Engagement Seminar Series from the Trans National Cancer Institute AI WG National Cancer Institute events.cancer.gov/nci/ai-engagem…

Great honor talking with Dr. Chalmers last year during the NeurIPS 2022. He was interested in my own idea that the concept of privacy is essential to the generation of AI consciousness.

Our latest work on computational genomics privacy is out! In short - a better way of indicating if a particular genomic variant was observed in your cohort! m.genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Our pilot study on privacy-preserving voice AI won the poster competition of the #VoiceAISymposium ! Ethics & trust are two of the three focuses of the NIH Bridge2AI Voice today. Voice biomarker applications for neurological & voice disorders will success the soonest? Brad Malin

Attending the inaugural #VoiceAISymposium hosted by Dr Yael Bensoussan MD from #Bridge2AIVoice Fantastic event and beautiful weather!

We are going to have the first VPA Happy Hour this Friday from 5:30-7 pm in the Graduate Student Lounge in Alumni Hall. It is a postdoc only event. There will be free drinks, free snacks, and fun board games! Please RSVP here: redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=389… (limited to first 50 people)

NEW—
Natural language #AI analysis of 407 million tweets May 2020-Jan 2022 captures rural-urban divide on #COVID19 , shows utility of social media for monitoring public sentiment and targeting pandemic management, per JMIR Publications report. Brad Malin DBMI at Vanderbilt University
news.vumc.org/2023/04/11/cov…

Join Ellen Wright Clayton, Daniele Podini, and me as we discuss the ethics and impact of the collection and use genetic information in today’s world - March 28 @ 11am central time vanderbilt.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join the #N3C ommunityForum to learn about 'Real World #Data ( #rwd ): deidentification methods, considerations for ethical #AI and data distribution' with Brad Malin (Brad Malin) on Monday, March 6 at 2pm PT/5pm ET

Register at bit.ly/N3CForum

#CD2H #N3C #COVID #COVID 19

It’s me playing ice ball. Nice game!Thanks Adam!

New paper alert! How we used a risk management approach to bring All of Us data to the research community. AllofUsResearch Josh Denny Weiyi Xia zhiyu Yevgeniy Vorobeychik Yongtai Liu Murat Kantarcioglu Steve L. Nyemba Paul Harris Melissa Basford
academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-…

We studied >300M tweets across a 2 year period. Main finding? A clear difference in the perspectives of urban and rural residents regarding covid. The final chapter of Yongtai Liu PhD dissertation! Zhijun Yin Chao Yan Zhiyu Wan Congning NI JMIR Publications jmir.org/2023/1/e42985

The 5th event in our “Speak Easy” series yesterday was a big success. We had about 40 participants. Thanks to our speaker, Dr Chanbour Hani Chanbour MD from VUMC Spine Outcomes Lab VUMC Neurosurgery, whose mentor is Dr Zuckerman Scott Zuckerman, MD, MPH. Thanks to co-chairs, Drs Schalich and Wan Zhiyu Wan.

Our paper in Nature Communications on benchmarking electronic health record synthetic data generation methods is live! 2 years in the making! Source code at github.com/yy6linda/synth…. Kudos to Chao Yan Zhiyu Wan and the rest of the team at UW, Tempus, & Sage.

nature.com/articles/s4146…

#AMIA22 Amazing Hotpot lab dinner Brad Malin Thomas Brown Victor Borza Zhiyu Wan xinmengZ DBMI at Vanderbilt University

It was a great honor having breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the 2021 Turing Award Winner, Dr. Jack Dongarra! I learned a lot from attending his keynote speech, presenting my own work, and asking him lots of questions throughout the day! Thanks to VanderbiltPostdoctoralAssociation #VPAsymposium2022 !

The panel on emerging sciences and technology with with Apoorva Mandavilli (@NYTimes), Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo (@JAMA_current), Karl Deisseroth (@Stanford), Brad Malin (@VUMChealth) & Jay Shendure (@uwgenome) is starting now! #NAMmtg