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✨ AIMMLab Weekly Lab Updates ✨
Dr. Gelan presented a multimodal AI model for community-based measles outbreak prediction.
We celebrated Dr. Abbas (will join Univ. of Regina as Asst. Prof., Cybersecurity) and crowned Ebenezer Adeniyi our Halloween trivia champ! 🎃
#AIMMLab #DataScience #PublicHealth
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🧠 AIMMLab Weekly Meeting 2/6/2026
Ebenezer Adeniyi presented “The Multi-Layer Prototype,” a model linking trust, norms & cooperation to disease spread—showing how human behavior drives epidemics.
Trivia hosted by Yang Xu, congrats Keishi! 🏆
#AIMMLab #Epidemiology #Modeling
February 7, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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May 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🌟 AIMMLab Weekly Highlights | 2/13/2026 🌟
Arjun Sharma presented: “Fairness-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Breast Cancer Diagnosis.”
He’s joining AIMMLab for 16 weeks via the Indicium @STEM_Fellowship.
🎉 Trivia win: Ebenezer Adeniyi 🏆
#AIMMLab #BiomedicalAI #FairnessInAI
February 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
📚 March Publications Spotlight: Mar_2!!!

AIMMLab is pleased to share a new publication titled “Machine learning framework for early detection of polio outbreaks from acute flaccid paralysis surveillance data” featuring our director, Prof. Jude Kong, and other collaborators.
March 26, 2026 at 2:20 PM
🌟 At IDRC’s Annual Meeting, AIMMLab Director Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social was glad to connect with Ms. Chaitali Sinha, whose support continues to strengthen AI4PEP’s community-driven work across the Global South.

Grateful for her leadership and partnership.

#IDRC #AI4PEP #AIMMLab
December 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Outbreaks are measured in cases but understood through conversations. New AIMMLab research examines Reddit discussions during the 2022 Mpox outbreak, using NLP to analyze sentiment, topics, and engagement across 1,169 posts and 6,571 comments. Link : www.jmir.org/2026/1/e90152
July 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
One summer. Four countries. Four research directions. One shared question: how can PINNs advance epidemic modelling?

AIMMLab congratulates FUSRP students Kevin, Sara, Antong & Maximiliano, jointly supervised by AIMMLab Director Prof. Jude Kong and Prof. Divya Sharma. 👏
August 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
On May 6, #AIMMLab joined the "Made-in-Canada Solutions for Global Health Security" Science Fair on Parliament Hill! 🇨🇦
Our Director, Prof Jude Kong showcased AI innovations from AIMMLab. Grateful to @ResultsCda, @IDRC_CRDI & the MPs/Senators who joined us!
#GlobalHealth #AI4Good
May 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM
AIMMLab at IEEE EMBC 2026! Our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Gelan Zewdie, supervised by AIMMLab Director Prof. Jude D. Kong, presented “Multimodal Data Fusion for Community-Based Measles Triaging” in Toronto, advancing the use of multimodal AI for measles risk classification. #DigitalHealth
August 1, 2026 at 10:48 PM
🎤 Huge shoutout to Dr. Gelan Ayana Zewdie of AIMMLab for his powerful keynote at #BE_STEMM2025!

His talk on AI for community-based disease surveillance in low-resource settings was visionary and grounded in equity.

Proud to have him in our lab! 💙
#AI4Good #BlackExcellence #PublicHealth #AIMMLab
August 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
AimmLab × City of toronto: Climate & Health Briefing 🏙️🌡️🩺
Looking ahead to today’s session, hosting Prof. Jude Kong and the AIMMLab team to share our climate–health work.

Big thanks to the City & Sylvia Ota—excited for the discussion and future collaboration.
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🚨 Upcoming Talk at AIMMLab 🚨
AIMMLab is excited to host Prof. Martin Ayanore an Assoc. Prof. of Health Economics and Policy, and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana.

Can’t wait for this one!
May 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
💡 Welcoming our Summer Research Trainees!

@aimmlab.bsky.social is thrilled to have Cynthia, Aseel & Lavneet join AIMMLab. They’ll:
🔬 Get hands-on AI & math modelling
🤝 Receive 1:1 mentorship
💻 Build math & data skills
📜 Earn an AIMMLab Certificate

Stay tuned for their project highlights!
June 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Toward a new collaboration in AI for Global Health Security 🌍

AIMMLab was pleased to welcome Prof. Vukosi Marivate, Director of AfriDSAI at the University of Pretoria, for discussions on advancing collaboration between UofT and UP in AI, data science, modeling, and health security.

#AIMMLab
July 22, 2026 at 10:17 AM
🎉 Proud moment for @AIMMLab!
Our director, Prof. Jude Kong, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada College 🌟

His visionary leadership has made @AIMMLab a hub for impactful, community-driven science. We’re inspired daily by his humility, mentorship & global vision. 🚀🌍

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September 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This week AIMMLab Weekly Lab Meeting combined rigorous science, engaging discussion & community fun. Thanks to Prof. Jesse Young for his talk on the Ontario Twin Birth Cohort — twin designs help separate familial vs individual influences. Congrats to Ebenezer Adeniyi, trivia champ! #AIMMLab #UofT
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🚨 New insight piece in @ca.theconversation.com by our own Dr. Abbas Yazdinejad (Postdoc, AIMMLab) & Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social (Director, AIMMLab): Why the G7 should embrace federated learning for secure, privacy-preserving AI.
🔗 theconversation.com/mitigating-a...
Mitigating AI security threats: Why the G7 should embrace ‘federated learning’
Federated learning offers a new foundation for AI — one where privacy, transparency and innovation can move together.
theconversation.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🌟@aimmlab.bsky.social weekly meeting updates – 07/25/2025🌟

Trivia twist: Dr. Emma Zajdela won our Geography challenge! 🗺️🎉
Lavneet Singh presented on LLMs vs Transformer baselines in sentiment analysis—insights on performance, interpretability & efficiency.
#AI #LLM #NLP #AIMMLab
July 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This week at AIMMLab, we explored how AI can support equitable health communication. Gelan Ayana Zewdie, Ph.D. presented Measles Talk, a multilingual chatbot developed to expand access to reliable measles information and strengthen inclusive public health communication across diverse communities.
March 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
🚨 𝓟𝓡𝓔𝓟𝓡𝓘𝓝𝓣 𝓤𝓟𝓓𝓐𝓣𝓔:

A new research featuring AIMMLab Director Prof. Jude Kong explores how Global South leadership, community co-creation, and sustainable networks can move AI for global health beyond short-term pilots.

📄 Read on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August 8, 2026 at 10:34 PM
🚨 PREPRINT UPDATE

African-led AI built for one epidemic can help respond to the next. New research from AIMMLab Director Prof. Jude Kong and colleagues connects COVID-19 infrastructure to mpox, Ebola, and future outbreaks.

Read on SSRN
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=722...
August 9, 2026 at 12:18 AM
🌟Big week at AimmLab!
We hosted Dr. Vivian Nfor & our Nobellum partners, inspiring conversations on cross-border collaborations and community-driven innovation.

🎤 Research highlights:
Weiran Wang – malaria control in Cameroon
Cynthia Luo – mpox outbreak prediction
Trivia by Sherif Shuaib
September 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
INDICIUM STEM_Fellowship – #AIMMLab 2026 🌟

Welcome Keishi Suzuki, a UofT Math & CS student, to our #Indicium cohort! His interests span #MachineLearning robustness & healthcare. Over the next 16 weeks, he’ll be supervised by Prof. @dzevela.bsky.social. Project details soon. 🏆

#STEMFellowship #AI
February 19, 2026 at 2:06 PM
🌍 It was a pleasure to host Prof. Martin Ayanore, Dean of Graduate Studies at UHAS, Ghana, at AIMMLab! Grateful for the rich exchange on #AIforHealth, graduate training & community-centred innovation. Looking forward to building on this collaboration! 🇬🇭🤝🇨🇦 #GlobalHealth #AI
May 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM