Carnegie Mellon University
May 24, 2017

Wehbe and Fyshe Receive Rothberg Research Awards

Leila Wehbe and Alona Fyshe, PhD candidates in the Machine Learning Department are among the inaugural recipients of Rothberg Research Awards in Human Brain Imaging. They will use their share of the $100,000 prize to use machine learning, fMRI and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to model the neural processing of a word to understand how it is affected by semantic context. For more information, see CMU’s announcement.