I recently watched The Minds of Modern AI, a roundtable featuring Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Fei-Fei Li, Bill Dally, and Jensen Huang — the laureates of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Each shared a deeply personal…
A friend of mine recently received an email from a mother whose child has been suffering from Wilson’s disease. The existing drugs have serious side effects and are not very tolerable. She was desperately looking for alternatives. We decided to…
This is one of the most common questions we receive when we talk about building knowledge graphs directly from PubMed. Every researcher knows that not all papers agree: one study might report a positive correlation between two entities, while another…
I attended a great panel discussion at WDSC2025, moderated by Lucinda Smith with Julie Thomas, Mariette Boerstoel, and Ellen Mishalov. I took some notes and here is my summary of the discussion. What we heard • Foundations first: Governance and…
In a previous post, I mentioned that the information hidden in PubMed literature far exceeds what’s available in public databases. Here’s a concrete example from our earlier work — a drug repurposing study for COVID-19 (Nat Mach Intell 7, 602–614…
After three days at the World Drug Safety Congress 2025, I left with many thoughts about where AI is heading in pharmacovigilance (PV). Here are some of my key takeaways and beliefs about what’s next: 1. Broader adoption of AI:…
When I joined the Department of Statistics at Florida State University in 2007, I thought I’d spend my whole career in academia. Over 15 years, I moved from assistant to full professor, taught, advised students, and ran a lab. My…
When NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang said China is winning the AI race, he wasn’t entirely wrong. He just said it too early. The U.S. government’s decision to ban advanced NVIDIA chips from being sold to China was meant to slow China’s…
After my last post on SBIR/STTR lessons, several people reached out with appreciation or follow-up questions. Here are the questions I received from Hua Jin and my answers. Q: How can I get involved as a reviewer? Contact program directors…
Most biomedical knowledge graphs today are built from public databases, but few realize how incomplete these sources are compared to what’s published in PubMed literature. We recently compared our AI-extracted knowledge graph IKraph with 40+ public databases. The results were…
