From the Lab to Community: AI for Document Understanding and Public Health: by Muhammad Rahman
Channel: AI Institute at UofSC - #AIISC
Date: 29/03/2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made incredible scientific and technological contributions in many areas including business, healthcare and psychology. Due to the multidisciplinary nature and the ability to revolutionize, almost every field has started welcoming AI. The last decade is the witness of progresses of AI and machine learning, and their applications. In this talk, I will present my work that used AI and machine learning to solve interesting research challenges. The first part of my talk will describe an AI-powered framework that I have developed for large document understanding. The research contributed by modeling and extracting the logical and semantic structure of electronic documents using machine learning techniques. In the second part of my talk, I will present an ongoing work that uses computational technology to design a study for measuring COVID-19 effects on people with substance use disorders. I will conclude the talk by introducing few other AI-powered initiatives in mental health, substance use and addiction that I am currently working on.