Hoque Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows
Ehsan Hoque joins AIMBE’s top 2% of engineers, recognized for advancing ethical AI in healthcare and global health equity.
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Junjie Zhao Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Junjie Zhao (pictured, right) for his recent induction into Phi Beta Kappa, an organization that recognizes, “the most outstanding students at America’s leading colleges and universities”, with chapters at top universities across the country.
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UR Graduate Research Day 2026 – Posters and Accolades
Tariq Adnan and the PARK team received the award for “Best Poster in Engineering” at the University of Rochester’s Spring 2026 Graduate Research Day!
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Can Randomness Fix Social Media?
Algorithms shape what we see and what we believe. Our latest work shows how small changes in recommendation algorithms can help restore diversity and openness.
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Nature Parkinson’s Disease Paper Featured in Spectrum News
Lab member Abdelrahman provided the segment with a demonstration of the tool as well as its potential impacts.
Neeley Pate Named Finalist for the 2026 NCWIT AiC Collegiate Award
Pate has been named a National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Collegiate Award finalist; one of 63 applicants across the nation that received this distinction.
Congratulations to Junjie Zhao: CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher
The ROC HCI group is thrilled to celebrate Junjie Zhao, who has received an Honorable Mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award—a national recognition that highlights exceptional creativity, technical depth, and real-world impact
Park Named Among UR’s 175 Transformative Innovations
An AI-based Parkinson’s screening platform, PARK, developed by us has been recognized as one of the 175 inventions that transformed health and medicine over the university’s 170 years.
AI That Listens: Our Speech-Based Parkinson’s Study Earns Widespread Media Spotlight
Our latest publication in npj Parkinson’s Disease explores whether a short voice recording can help detect early Parkinsonian changes — and the world took notice.
Best Paper Nomination at “AI in Healthcare 2025”
The paper compared three modern uncertainty methods for Parkinson’s disease screening and show that uncertainty-aware models can flag risky predictions instead of guessing with confidence.
Say Cheese to Detect Parkinson’s
Our latest paper in NEJM AI shows artificial intelligence can detect Parkinson’s disease with 88% accuracy using nothing more than a smartphone video of someone smiling.
Hoque is a Letten Prize finalist
Ehsan Hoque has been named a finalist for the 2025 Letten Prize—one of just five selected from 158 global applicants!
Potter and Ciko win URCS awards
Sammy Potter wins the Outstanding Researcher Award, and Stela Ciko wins the Outstanding Senior Award.
Stela Ciko Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Stela Ciko is among the 118 seniors at the University of Rochester to be inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Personalizing LLMs to combat misinformation
We design an LLM pipeline that can tailor information to user’s demography and personality to combat misinformation.
Islam receives Best Engineering Poster Award
At UR’s Graduate Research Day, the poster “Accessible, At-Home Detection of Parkinson’s Disease Using Multi-Task Video Analysis” by Islam et al. receives the best engineering poster award.