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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.

Learn more about the ethics and AI research grants program.

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