M. Ehsan Hoque, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

From a press release from the University of Rochester.  

Recently, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars. One of the ten selected emerging leaders is Ehsan Hoque, an assistant professor of computer science, and affiliate faculty for the Goergen Institute for Data Science, at the University of Rochester. He leads the Rochester Human-Computer Interaction (ROC HCI) Lab. 

“These individuals are early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, from emergency medicine and health economics to biomedical engineering and research and public health policy. The scholars are an essential part of a major NAM initiative, the Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Program, which provides a platform for a new generation of leaders to collaborate with the NAM and its members across fields of expertise to advance science, combat persistent challenges in health and medicine, and spark transformative change to improve health for all,” from the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars press release.

“I am very excited to be the odd one with a background in technology among a cohort of highly accomplished researchers and leaders in medicine, public health, policy, and law,” Hoque says.

Hoque has been a part of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) research community for many years. He participated in the Early Career Researcher Symposium in August 2018 and presented a poster on “ Building up Speaking Skills in an online learning community: a network-analytics exploration.” He volunteered to represent CRA in 2018 Congressional Fly-In and met with the staffers from Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. In November of  2019, he participated in the “Leadership in Science Policy Institute” organized by CRA and CCC. 

Hoque was featured in CCC’s Great Innovative Ideas for his work on computer mediated conversations. His research aims to use techniques from Artificial Intelligence to amplify human ability.  

“Our group models and captures the dynamics of human behavior and their relationships using machine learning, computer vision, and network sciences, and design interactive systems to promote equality and access in health care and education.

Some of the algorithmic intuitions of our work have positively impacted the lives of disadvantaged, ill, disabled, and other individuals who struggle with socio-emotional communication, such as those with autism, severe anxiety, neurodegenerative disease, and terminal illness.” 

Congratulations, Ehsan!