Evans Center Awardees

2024 Evans Center IBR
Outstanding Research Collaborator

Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis, PhD
Director, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Division of Systems Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Paschalidis has been an exceptional collaborator with the MED campus, contributing significantly to brain health research through his expertise in machine learning. Dr. Paschalidis embodies team science and actively facilitates collaboration between the ARCs and the multiple departments on the Charles River Campus (CRC) of which he is a part. Importantly, related to the Precision Medicine for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders ARC Program, he has leveraged the data science/AI graduate student talent on CRC and enabled trainees at the MED campus to extract key acoustic and linguistic features from speech to evaluate cognitive status for analysis of Framingham Heart Study digital data for dementia assessment. He has applied cutting-edge machine learning frameworks, such as the natural language processing and deep learning to analyze digital technologies and has provided critical mentorship and scientific leadership that has resulted in 7 high-impact publications with shared authorship with multiple ARC team members.

2023 Evans Center IBR
Outstanding Research Collaborator

Elise Morgan, PhD
ad interim Dean, College of Engineering
Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design
and
Innovation and Director of the Center for Multiscale and Translational Mechanobiology

“Dr. Morgan is someone who goes out of her way to bridge collaborations and research projects and makes an effort to understand subjects that go beyond her immediate studies. She is also an outstanding leader that listens to people she works with. Anyone that I know that has collaborated with Elise has had amazing things to say. ”

“Elise has been a collaborative power in establishing fruitful team science between members of the fibrosis ARC and the Charles River campus-based center for Mechanobiology; in fact this center has welcomed many of our ARC members who were already pursuing research at the interface of fibrosis biology and mechanobiology.

Dr. Morgan is inclusive, creative and generous with her ideas and time. “