PennAITech Awardees

A mobile app to deliver music-based interventions to combat neuropsychiatric symptoms in people living with AD/ADRD
Awardee Organization(s): AutoTune Me LLC
Principal Investigator(s): Kendra Ray, PhD, MPH, MT-BC
Official Project Title: A Music-Based Mobile App to Combat Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in People Living With ADRD
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.autotuneme.org

AI-driven computer vision for fall prediction and detection for older adults with AD/ADRD
Awardee Organization(s): Iris Technology Inc.
Principal Investigator(s): David Stout
Official Project Title: AI-Assisted Fall Detection and Remote Monitoring for Seniors with ADRD
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.poweredbyiris.io

AI-enabled conversation platform to measure mental status and manage psychotropic medication use for older adults
Awardee Organization(s): George Washington University | Crosswater Digital Media
Principal Investigator(s): Lorens Helmchen, PhD
Official Project Title: AI-Enabled Conversations to Measure Mental Status and Manage Psychotropic Medication Use
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.gwu.edu

A machine learning-enabled speech-based screening tool for AD/ADRD caregivers
Awardee Organization(s): University of Southern California
Principal Investigator(s): Maja Matarić, PhD
Official Project Title: An Accessible Machine Learning-Based ADRD Screening Tool for Families and Caregivers
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.robotics.usc.edu/~maja

The PI’s research team will use a human-centered approach to design, build, and evaluate conversational care technologies that scaffold meaningful care discussions between older adults and their informal caregivers
Awardee Organization(s): University of Michigan
Principal Investigator(s): Robin Brewer, PhD
Official Project Title: Conversational Care Technologies
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.umich.edu, www.si.umich.edu

Using machine learning to create data-driven user personas for the design of usable technologies for older adults
Awardee Organization(s): University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator(s): Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RN-BC
Official Project Title: Designing Usable Technologies for Older Adults via Data-Driven Whole-Person User Personas
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.nursing.umn.edu

AI-enabled near-field coherent sensing (NCS) radio sensors to detect respiratory distress for advanced AD/ADRD patients who are unable to self-report
Awardee Organization(s): Weill Cornell Medicine
Principal Investigator(s): Veerawat Phongtankuel, MD
Official Project Title: Detecting Respiratory Distress in Patients with Advanced AD/ADRD Using Radio Sensors
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.weill.cornell.edu

Wearable sensors capturing digital autonomic biomarkers to detect empathy loss for frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)
Awardee Organization(s): University of Pennsylvania Frontotemporal Degeneration Center
Principal Investigator(s): Emma Rhodes, PhD
Official Project Title: Feasibility of Digital Monitoring to Detect Autonomic Markers of Empathy Loss in bvFTD
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.med.upenn.edu/ftd

Using natural language processing to create an AI-based algorithm from EMR data to identify non-traditional caregivers who might benefit from dyadic interventions
Awardee Organization(s): University of Colorado | Kaiser Permanente
Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Portz, PhD
Official Project Title: Leveraging Patient Portals to Support Caregivers
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.medschool.cuanschutz.edu/general-internal-medicine, www.kpco-ihr.org

AI-based advanced care planning platform to align surrogate decision makers to improve end-of-life care
Awardee Organization(s): Koda Health
Principal Investigator(s): Desh Mohan, MD
Official Project Title: Patient-Surrogate Alignment in Digital Advance Care Planning
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.kodahealthcare.com