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Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at 91亚色鈥檚 Lassonde School of Engineering, recently received a monetary gift from Google as part of the company鈥檚 Research Scholar Program.
Google鈥檚 Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors by providing generous funding and encouraging the formation of long-term partnerships. The funding is considered an unrestricted gift to help professors advance their cutting-edge work, ranging from quantum computing to health research.
Seyyed-Kalantari鈥檚 research focuses on investigating and improving the fairness of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in medical practice, aiming to ensure they benefit all users regardless of race, age, sex and socioeconomic status. Her laboratory, the , is currently working on many projects, including one tackling the fairness of AI in medical imaging and large language models, as well as AI applications in drug discovery. She is one of many Lassonde researchers working on 91亚色鈥檚 multimillion-dollar project Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society.
鈥淎fter receiving the award, my research group and I met with Google to share research ideas and plan collaborative projects,鈥 says Seyyed-Kalantari. 鈥淭his will be a great opportunity for my students to work closely with an industry leader and advance our research.鈥
With a budding partnership and vote of confidence from Google, Seyyed-Kalantari is ready to help to right the future by addressing the challenges of AI in health-care settings through her research.