Promoting Fairness and Equity in the Development and Application of Advanced Analytics in Precision Health

Interdisciplinary Areas: Data and Engineering Applications, Engineering-Medicine, Others

Project Description

Large-scale person-generated health data (PGHD) from smartphones/wearables/sensors are invaluable to digital precision health. This field uses advanced analytics to develop individual-specific interventions to improve health and wellbeing. Equitable digital precision health research and application demands an interconnected infrastructure comprised of (1) a large, sociodemographically representative cohort of participants who have consented to contribute digital data for long timescales, thereby producing (2) large-scale PGHD datasets involving high-quality, well-labeled, continuous and multidimensional data to benchmark development/validation/ evaluation of analytical models; and (3) an advanced analytics platform for manipulating data that adequately maintains participant privacy and data security. This project uses ALiR to develop and deploy a fair and equitable PGHD infrastructure comprising a large sociodemographically representative cohort that regularly contributes various forms of PGHD. This project focuses on developing cyberinfrastructure and analytics tools that maintain participant privacy and security while enabling the development/ testing/ application of advanced analytic approaches. This project will consist of developing analytics tools integrating AI/ML, feature engineering, and econometrics/causal inference for advanced descriptive and predictive analytics and agent-based models, and digital twin simulation tools.

Start Date

May 2024

Postdoc Qualifications

Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science

Co-Advisors

Arezoo Ardekani, Mechanical engineering
ardekani@purdue.edu
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ComplexFlowLab/

Alok Chaturvedi, Information systems, Purdue Krannert
alok@purdue.edu
https://business.purdue.edu/directory/bio.php?username=alok

 

Short Bibliography

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Giorgio Quer, Jennifer M. Radin, Matteo Gadaleta, Katie Baca-Motes, Lauren Ariniello, Edward Ramos, Vik Kheterpal, Eric J. Topol and Steven R. Steinhubl, “Wearable sensor data and self-reported symptoms for COVID-19 detection”, Nature Medicine, VOL 27, 73–77, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1123-x, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1123-x

Miad Boodaghidizaji, Thaisa Jungles, Tingting Chen, Bin Zhang, Alan Landay, Ali Keshavarzian, Bruce Hamaker, Arezoo Ardekani, “Machine learning-based gut microbiota pattern and response to fiber as a diagnostic tool for chronic inflammatory diseases”, 2023, bioRxiv, 2023.03. 27.534466