Ethics and AI Research Grant Recipients Announced
The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities jointly with I.AIM announce recipients of the 2025-26 Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Research Grants:
- Ethics at Eye Level: Exploring the Bioethical Implications of AI-Powered Smart Glasses for Health & Well-being Self-Management
- Tim Schwirtlich (top right), PhD Student in Health Science Integrated Program, Health & Biomedical Informatics (HBMI)
- Mentor: Abel Kho, MD
- The project targets gaps in privacy, autonomy, data protection and equitable access by systematically investigating patient perspectives, designing ethically grounded architectures, and evaluating the resulting technology frameworks.
- Prediction of Intra-abdominal Injury Using Generative Large Language Model (LLM) Application to Electronic Medical Record Data
- Wilson Ting (bottom right), Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science
- Mentor: Anne Stey, MD, MS
- The project aims to investigate technical benefits of generative LLMs over traditional national language processing (NLP) and explore clinician perspectives on integrating LLM-driven predictions ethically into medical practice.