Roeder Named Among World’s Most Highly Cited Researchers Kathryn Roeder, UPMC University Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences, was named as one of the world’s most highly cited in the sciences by Clarivate Analytics.
Shinn-Cunningham Among Winners of Misha Mahowald Prize Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, director of the Neuroscience Institute and George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, is part of an interdisciplinary team that won the 2021 Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering. The team used technology to find new ways to help hearing-impaired persons focus attention on individual speakers in a noisy environment, such as a cocktail party.
Verstynen Joins Team to Explore How to Make AI More Human Associate Professor of Psychology Timothy Verstynen, along with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, received a $500,000 grant from the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program to design a new class of Turing Tests that assess both biological intelligence and artificial intelligence.
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