SCI & AI - Part 2 (Episode 143)

Guest: Abel Torres Espín

This is part two of our conversation about SCI & AI with our guest Abel Torres-Espín. If you haven't listened to part one, you can find the link below. In today's episode, we wanted to focus more on what Abel is currently working on, including a recent publication of his, and continue the discussion about AI's limitations, opportunities, it's slop, biases, and most importantly what we can do to utilize artificial intelligence for deepening spinal cord injury research in optimal ways. Again, you'll want to check out the publication we discuss along with Dr. Torres-Espín's research page, both of which are linked below. 
 

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Guest Bio

Abel Torres Espín is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He holds a BSc in Biology (Universitat de Barcelona), an MSc in biostatistics and bioinformatics (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), and a PhD in Neuroscience (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). After his PhD, Abel moved to Edmonton to pursue a postdoctoral research period at the University of Alberta with Dr. Karim Fouad, followed by a postdoctoral position at the University of California, San Francisco in the US with Dr. Adam Ferguson. Abel has been at the University of Waterloo since 2023, where he directs the health.data DRIVEN lab and teaches health data science courses. He and his team are currently working on applying computational, statistical, causal, and machine-learning methods for neuroepidemiology and personalized health research, as well as to predict and understand disease complexity in neurological conditions. Abel is also interested in data-driven discovery, open science, reproducibility, and data sharing.

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