April 1, 2026
Yang and Tao receive awards from NVIDIA
Haibo Yang, assistant professor of computing and information sciences, and Zhiqiang Tao, assistant professor in the School of Information, received awards from NVIDIA’s Academic Grant program. Yang’s project, Federated Edge AI for Personalized In-Home Heart Failure Monitoring, was recognized for research into how federated learning and edge AI can enable privacy-preserving, personalized health monitoring at home, allowing AI models to learn from distributed data without moving sensitive patient information off-device.