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Professor Mihai Burzo: The Autonomous Vehicle

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Daba Coura Mbow Professor Mihai Burzo, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan Flint, is delving into the future of automotive technology with his groundbreaking work on autonomous vehicles. Born in Transylvania and armed with a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Professor Burzo’s expertise spans microelectronics, computational dynamics, and mechanical engineering,

Precision Health connects health data and analytics

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The University of Michigan has created an initiative to connect health related data resources and state-of-the art analytic tools known as Precision Health. Precision Health aims to advance medical research at the University of Michigan. They use a number of different data sets to conduct this research, and combine these to better inform patient care.

Meredith Broussard’s presentation for her book relating to AI and bias

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On March 27, 2024, Meredith Broussard, data journalist and associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, gave a presentation at the University of Michigan-Flint regarding the focus of her recent book More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (2024). The book focuses on the

IST: Examining the Societal Impact of Technology

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Daba Coura Mbow Jacob Lederman, associate professor of sociology, is the driving force behind the newly established Institute for Society and Technology (IST) at the University of Michigan-Flint.  IST emerged from a discussion during the pandemic about the growing relationship between technology and society. Lederman, with a deep-rooted curiosity about the relationship between changes in