CAREER award recipient to fight rare diseases using AI – Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics

Dawei Zhou. Photo by Peter Means for Virginia Tech.

While not a perfect system, human reasoning still outshines artificial intelligence (AI) in a number of critical areas. One Virginia Tech researcher wants to help change that.

Insufficient logical reasoning capability in AI can be a disadvantage when trying to tackle complex problems like diagnosing and treating rare diseases and detecting and disrupting financial fraud, said Dawei Zhou, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a core faculty member at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics.

Developing AI that can function more like human intelligence and learn from complicated real-world situations is the focus of his recently-announced National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

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