Integration of Artificial & Natural Intelligence: How do we form New Brain Cells

Come and join us as Dr.Amina Qutub gives a talk on how to Integrate Natural and Artificial intelligence Methods to study the way human brain cells are formed.
It is an honor to invite Dr. Qutub, her talk “How Can People Harness Data to Learn more About Themselves and Change their Lives” was featured on TED Talks. She is currently a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering with a mission to launch the Quantu Project at UTSA. She is also the co-founder of DiBS, an adaptive data visualization startup developing technologies to learn, present and interpret high-dimensional biomedical data.

*Agenda*
6:00-6:30: Food + Networking
6:30-7:15: Talk
7:15-7:30: Q&A

Talk:
As we rest at night, our brain consolidates memories, repairs, and prepares for the next day. However, little is known about what healthy sleep means for each individual, and how changes in daily behaviors alter our brain at the cellular level. A hypothesis is that sleep enables the human brain to repair in a way that contributes to cognitive function.
This IEEE EMBS talk will share how the integration of emerging methods in computer science, wearable sensing, and cell biology is enabling us to study the way human brain cells form for individuals, and quantitatively characterize how daily habits like exercise and sleep impact brain health and change with age.
Speaker’s Bio:
Amina received her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and UCSF in 2004, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in 1999. Following her postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, she joined Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering (2009-2018).