WashU Digital Transformation
The hearing held on the St. Charles campus focused on the policy implications of artificial intelligence and was designed to help legislators better understand how Missouri can prepare for an AI-powered economy, capturing its benefits while ensuring the protection and wellbeing of residents.
The WashU AI Collaborative at WashU Law is leading the way in preparing lawyers — and the legal system — for an intelligent new era.
Washington University in St. Louis has awarded the latest round of Transcend Initiative grants, which provide support to interdisciplinary, collaborative efforts across WashU schools with potential for great impact.
The project is advancing AI-driven public health research in the global south.
As WashU continues to advance its mission, the university is taking a moment to recognize its strategic plan successes.
The recognition highlights the WashU AI Toolbox, developed by the DI2 Accelerator in collaboration with WashU Information Technology.
WashU is expanding its research profiling system, WashU Research Profiles, from the Medical Campus to the entire university.
An interactive dashboard, built by the Digital Intelligence and Innovation (DI2) Accelerator’s Research Corps allows users to explore results by region and demographic group.
Researchers in the lab of WashU’s Nathan Jacobs have released a round of “computer vision” tools that can help with species classification and autonomous driving technologies.
Bunge is a global leader in agribusiness, food, and ingredients, connecting farmers to consumers by sourcing, processing, and distributing agricultural commodities and food products worldwide.
Spot Eunhye Ahn on campus in deep thought, and you might catch her wrestling with a question she considers both urgent and underexplored: What does “human-centered” really mean from a social work perspective when it comes to artificial intelligence?
Over the last few years, the legal profession has shifted from skepticism about artificial intelligence to large-scale adoption. Yet the single most influential legal technology of our lifetime remains absent from many law school curricula. This isn’t just a missed opportunity. It’s a failure to educate.
Artist Tiffany Calvert is busy wrapping up a day in her studio, putting the finishing touches on a largescale still life oil painting. In 2025, it might seem like an anachronism, something from another century. The catch: the image was created in part by a custom AI diffusion model.
WashU’s Ian Bogost (right) discusses how AI will reshape careers with Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, chief technology officer at Meta.
To prevent dangerous birth complication, WashU researchers to develop wearable device to track blood loss
WashU researchers collaborated with the DI2 Accelerator to develop an AI-powered tool to make it easier for Missouri residents to access vital government documents.
According to the latest iHeard poll in St. Louis, 42% of local adults say they or a loved one has had a health insurance claim denied, and most of them (69%) appealed the claim. AI is aiming to help fight health insurance claim denials, but only 6% of St. Louisans have heard about it.
As AI becomes an integral part of legal practice, law schools nationwide are updating their curricula to prepare students for an AI-driven profession. Washington University in St. Louis School of Law is among the institutions investing heavily in this area, with a stated goal of becoming the global leader in AI education and training. But […]
The Fundamentals of AI certificate is a 9-week, non-credit program designed for anyone curious about AI—no coding background required.
Psychologists at WashU are working with data scientists to develop AI tools to help psychologists uncover hidden cues to personality in language.
Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because ‘synthetic’ data do not contain real or traceable patient information.
Digital Transformation Summer Corps equips students with new AI skills, offers opportunities to work with researchers across disciplines.
Using statistical learning to analyze a decade of data from 31 sub-Saharan African countries, the team identified key socioeconomic factors that are strongly associated with whether mothers use available health services to avoid under-5 mortality.
Umar Iqbal, Ning Zhang and doctoral student Yuhao Wu and their collaborators have developed IsolateGPT, a method that keeps external tools isolated from each other while still running in a large language model system — mitigating security risks.
Regulating artificial intelligence presents challenges for federal, state and local policymakers.
A company that specializes in delivering quick artificial models to businesses that was co-founded by a Washington University graduate will represent the St. Louis region’s entrepreneurship scene at the Grand Finale of the Startup World Cup this fall.
211 Counts, a project of the Health Communication Research Laboratory at WashU Public Health, scours the data on calls to a national helpline to understand the social and health challenges facing Americans.
Covering everything from social media to bitcoin to AI, a timely and all-too-topical political science graduate course challenges students to think differently.
A new artificial intelligence simulation platform aims to transform how social workers are trained, offering students realistic, hands-on experience with lifelike virtual clients before they ever enter the field.
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million to computer engineering scholars from UC Riverside and Washington University in St. Louis to advance artificial intelligence, or AI, methods for image generation systems used in science, medicine, and engineering.
At a WashU summer program, local high school students explore urgent ethical and philosophical questions including the legitimacy of AI-generated art.
Can a chatbot for eating disorders improve access to care? This is what Dr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft is trying to achieve through a new study.
A new technology developed at WashU Medicine analyzes mammograms to more accurately predict if an individual will develop breast cancer in five years.
Now at the halfway point, the eight projects have made significant progress across various fields, including public health, law, political science, and psychology.
The Research Development Office within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) is pleased to announce the awardees from the Spring 2025 semester through the Here and Next Seed Grant Program.
This summer, Cindy Kang, a Ph. D student, is working under the mentorship of Brown School Professor Kim Johnson to study how AI can help predict the risk of metastasis at the time of a child’s initial cancer diagnosis. Metastases account for a large portion of cancer-related deaths in children. The project seeks to promote earlier detection and […]
WashU interdisciplinary research uses machine learning to offer accurate prediction of preterm birth.
Technology developed at WashU Medicine locates sensitive areas to enhance precision neurosurgery.
WashU researchers are harnessing machine learning to forecast which patients are most at risk of enduring postoperative pain—and even gauge how certain those predictions are.
By the end of their first year, every first year JD student starting in 2025 at WashU Law will be proficient not only in traditional legal research but also in the fundamentals of generative AI, a dual fluency that sets them apart at summer placements and beyond.
Starting May 27, the Digital Transformation Summer Corps is bringing together students and faculty from across WashU to take on eight ambitious projects aimed at advancing research, improving lives, and accelerating digital innovation.
Program from AI for Health Institute, Here and Next supports interdisciplinary research in AI and health.
Fitzsimmons-Craft and colleagues, including Denise Wilfley, a professor of psychiatry at WashU Medicine, have been developing a range of digital cognitive-behavioral therapy-based interventions for eating disorders.
WashU Magazine checks in with Provost Beverly Wendland two-plus years after launching “Here and Next,” the bold, ambitious strategic plan that’s changing WashU in so many exciting ways.
Across industries, generative AI has unlocked powerful new capabilities to wider groups of users.
A research team at WashU supported by a Here and Next seed grant is using AI to study the multifaceted dynamics of families involved in child protection systems.
Graduate student Claire Najjuuko has worked to develop a machine-learning model to predict which adolescents with HIV would be less likely to adhere to antiretroviral therapy.
This summer, WashU’s Digital Intelligence & Innovation (DI2) Accelerator is launching the Digital Transformation Summer Corps, a new initiative that brings together talented students with software development and data science skills to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects.
The winning research teams are interdisciplinary and focus on five key elements of the university’s strategic plan, including digital transformation.
WashU Libraries and the Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator announce the awardees for the inaugural Accelerator Award for OERs.