In the Katz School鈥檚 Occupational Therapy Doctorate, Asha Roy is reshaping what it means to be an occupational therapist by training students not just to deliver care, but to lead, innovate and drive change across an evolving healthcare system.
The goal of the company is simple to explain but technically complex to achieve: create an AI assistant that allows a truck driver to book a profitable load with a single voice command.
Over the past year, the Katz School of Science and Health has been a hive of activity in the health sciences, with students and faculty tackling some of today鈥檚 most pressing questions about how people heal, communicate, move and care for one another.
Artificial intelligence often feels like a distant or abstract concept鈥攕omething happening inside giant tech companies or futuristic labs鈥攂ut at the Katz School of Science and Health, artificial intelligence is being shaped into tools that address very real, very human challenges.
Researchers at the Katz School of Science and Health have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can edit and generate videos using simple text instructions鈥攁n advance that could make video creation faster, more flexible and far easier for people without technical expertise.
Hieu (Henry) Ngo took center stage at the Carnegie Mellon x NVIDIA Federated Learning Hackathon for Biomedical Applications, helping design a cutting-edge dashboard that lets researchers explore and harmonize sensitive biomedical data across multiple biobanks without ever moving private patient鈥
At a Katz School book talk, Marchand, an adjunct professor of innovation and entrepreneurship in the M.S. in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship, set out to dismantle one of the most persistent myths in business: that innovation is rare, mysterious and reserved for a select few.
Sivan Tehila, director of the M.S. in Cybersecurity, founded Onyxia Cyber, a fast-growing startup that helps large organizations achieve cyber resilience by leveraging data, asset inventories and agentic AI to predict and prevent cyber risks before they escalate into serious incidents.
When Venkatalakshmi Kottapalli earned her M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from the Katz School in December, she wasn鈥檛 just completing a degree, she was preparing to help change how new medicines reach patients.
On September 19, 2005, Sarah Cheeky Arnaldo Arciaga boarded a plane for New York for the first time in her life. The moment should have felt triumphant鈥攕he had just earned a rare opportunity to pursue an M.S. in nursing in the United States. Instead, her heart was heavy.