Ehsan Hoque

I am deeply humbled to have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Biden. This is the highest recognition by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers. There's an interesting paradox in academia where students…

So happy to graduate my 9th PhD student — Dr. Kurtis Haut! Kurt's technical brilliance and genuine people skills led to SOPHIE, an AI system helping doctors practice difficult conversations with terminal cancer patients. In a tech world focused on replacing humans, he found a…

Ran the Riyadh marathon for 2nd year in a row, cherishing the memories of Abie, our spin instructor who left us too soon. #RiyadhMarathon2025

Could Alexa help people find out if they have Parkinson's disease? Computer scientists at @UofR developed a speech-based AI tool that can screen for a key indicator of the neurodegenerative disease #URochesterResearch Story:rochester.edu/newscenter/ai-… Study: doi.org/10.1038/s41531…

Why does so much academic innovation come from outside elite circles? After 2 years, rejections, and a few bruises, our paper is finally out. It tackles a tough question: Does working with superstars help or hinder originality in science? 🧵

🧾 NEW in @NEJM_AI: “Facial Analysis Using AI to Screen for Parkinson’s Disease” 🔗 Paper spotlight: lnkd.in/dkMqGyRJ 👉 Our study (n=1,452) finds AI can detect Parkinson’s from a simple smile with: • 87.9% accuracy • AUROC of 89.3 [WHY THIS MATTERS] Smiling is…

Say cheese to detect Parkinson’s? Can AI see what doctors and healthcare providers miss? What if a simple smile could screen for Parkinson’s disease? A new study just published in NEJM AI by Adnan, Dorsey, Hoque and colleagues shows that artificial intelligence can potentially…

Perspective: Improving Mental Health Care Access with Technology: Addressing the Screening-to-Referral Bottleneck nejm.ai/4k3NUSy Original Article: AI-Enabled Parkinson’s Disease Screening Using Smile Videos nejm.ai/4nk6PeD

Can a simple smile captured on video serve as an effective, accessible screening tool for Parkinson's disease when clinical care is difficult to access?@NEJM_AI @rochci "AI-Enabled Parkinson’s Disease Screening Using Smile Videos" 1. This research addresses the critical…

There are few in this world who were such forces for good as @atulbutte. His dazzling intellect, relentless curiosity, generosity of spirit, boundless charisma, and infinite optimism left a mark on everything he touched and everyone lucky enough to know him. An enormous loss.

Congrats to our 2025 Research & Education Pilot awardees! Awardees will tackle a wide range of topics, from microplastics in cardiopulmonary bypass pumps to how concerns about weight gain impact contraception choices. Learn more > tinyurl.com/4d55p6hy #URochesterResearch

Flew across the Atlantic to attend an in-person meeting of the @theNASEM Health Sciences Policy board—and it was worth every mile. We met in the historic Board Room, where President Lincoln signed the charter establishing the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. A powerful…

Disappointed @NSF isn't funding REU programs this year due to budget uncertainty. I (and many others) relied on these programs to mentor talented US undergrads into CS research and PhD paths. Cutting this pipeline of future scientists harms innovation.

Sporting my @aaas T-shirt at the #RamadanRun 5K race organized by @RaceArabia in Riyadh. During Ramadan, work hours reduce to 6 hours in Saudi Arabia, creating time to prioritize health, family, and spiritual reflection—widely considered the region's most cherished season,…

Wonderful to cheer on my PhD students, Md. Saiful Islam and Tariq Adnan at #AAAI in Philadelphia today. The work demonstrates the real-world impact of multimodal AI via Parkinson’s disease. FYI: the yearly economic burden for Parkinson’s disease in the US is $50B (and projected…

This spring I am teaching a new class at MIT called **How to AI (Almost) Anything** Its name is a play on 2 seminal @medialab courses: how to make almost anything (on design & fabrication) and how to grow almost anything (on synthetic biology) We are now in the AI age, and…

One of the most important skills I teach my students&postdocs is how to communicate their research. Last week at NSF, I gave a keynote to (mostly) junior faculty on how to pitch their work. The talk resonated with many folks, so I'm sharing it publicly: mit.edu/~fadel/papers/…

Congratulations, Ehsan! Your @mit @medialab family is so proud of the great work you and the teams you've led have done!

Apart from every nitty-gritty detail of research, I know few people who can drive impact and @ehsan_hoque is one of them. Wish you all the best.

2-day workshop at the @theNASEM in DC with UK Academy of Medical Sciences (@acmedsci) & @theNAMedicine—drafting policy on climate, sustainability, & health (AI, naturally, in the mix). Bonus: a 1924-themed cocktail night celebrating the @theNASciences building’s 100th.