MU Medicine BBME Featured Talk

Mihail Popescu, PhD
Mihail Popescu, PhD

Date & Time: Wednesday, March 19 at 12:30 PM CST

Location: 109 Strickland Hall

Subject: "Three Applications of AI in Biomedicine: Biomedical Knowledge Extraction, Sleep Monitoring and Sepsis Recognition"

Mihail Popescu, PhD, is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He received a BS in Nuclear Engineering from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in 1987, an MS in Medical Physics in 1995, an MS in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and a PhD in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Dr. Popescu has published over 240 refereed papers, 2 books and holds 5 US patents.  His research focus has been on elderly monitoring technologies, image processing, machine learning and AI (CNNs and LLMs). Dr. Popescu is an IEEE senior member and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction for AI and SmartHealth journals.
 

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