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Solving Quantum Riddles: Dr. Sijia Dong is Using Machine-Learning to Overcome Challenges in Quantum Chemical Computation
Complex chemistry, Machine learning, and quantum mechanics are fields that take strong computers and a lot of time to understand. Dr. Sijia Dong is simplifying that process by uniting the three.
June 11, 2021
The Pursuit of Happiness (and Other Emotions): Using AI to Redefine Assumptions in Affective Science
Researchers in Northeastern’s PEN group use machine learning analysis to question the assumption that commonly used emotion words have biological meaning in a recent paper.
February 07, 2021
The Coronavirus Might Have Weak Spots. Machine Learning Could Help Find Them.
What makes SARS-CoV-2 so infectious? The answer is in its proteins. Mary Jo Ondrechen and Penny Beuning, professors of chemistry and chemical biology, are using machine learning to investigate these proteins and begin to understand how to slow the spread of the virus.
May 18, 2020
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Network Scientists Identify 40 New Drugs to Test Against Covid-19
Researchers at Northeastern mapped the way proteins within human cells behave after the cells are hijacked by the virus to identify drugs that might be able to fight it. The team is now working with other experimental researchers to begin testing those drugs.
April 06, 2020
He’s Training Computers to Find New Molecules With the Machine Learning Algorithms Used by Facebook and Google
Using the same techniques that help social media learn about you, Northeastern assistant professor Steven Lopez is training machine learning algorithms to find millions of new molecules to help make materials for cancer therapy, renewable energy, and other important technologies.
January 13, 2020
AI’s Next Frontier: Stock Trading
Jesse Greif earned his B.S. in psychology at Northeastern. He now is an executive on Wall Street at OneChronos Markets, a new Alternative Trading System that uses AI and Machine Learning to facilitate stock trading.
October 03, 2019
He Knows the Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe
As mathematics professor Valerio Toledano Laredo will tell you, symmetry is more complicated than you might think. But the theory that underlies it might make the world a little more simple to understand.
September 16, 2019
The Hunt for a Cure for Hard-to-Reach Cancers
How do you kill cancer you can't reach without harming healthy cells? The answer may lie in the light.
September 10, 2019
They Want to Reveal the Chemistry of Every Enzyme Ever
Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern are using a combination of computational predictions and experimental testing to explore the connection between the chemical make-up of an enzyme and its function.
August 21, 2019
Can Machine Learning Help Physicists Answer Puzzling Questions in String Theory?
Physics professor James Halverson is using data science to tackle tough physics problems like string theory.
August 06, 2019
Northeastern professor sheds light on photochemistry using machine learning
Professor Steven Lopez and his team are establishing the basis of a new branch of chemistry, creating the building blocks for countless chemical breakthroughs
September 11, 2018
Northeastern builds bridges between string theory and data science
The first ever Workshop on Data Science and String Theory was held on November 30 by Northeastern physicists James Halverson, Brent Nelson, and Cody Long, bringing together string theorists and data scientists to bring research and discovery to the next level.
December 21, 2017