Sarker Lab Emory University

Events

2024

  • 10/2024 - First lab dinner at Wagaya!
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  • 05/2024 - BMI Awards 2024 are released! Faculty Mentorship and Teaching Award was awarded to Dr. Abeed Sarker. Graduate Student award for Excellence in Research Award and Graduate Student Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion were awarded to Jeanne Powell.
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  • 05/2024 - Congratulations to JaMor on being a 2024 GA HIMSS David Cowan Scholarship winner!
  • 04/2024 - Our team showcased six posters during three poster sessions at the Biomedical STAR-AI symposium at Georgia Tech! Congratulations to JaMor for securing first place in session 1, and to Jeanne for clinching third place in session 3.
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  • 04/2024 - Congratulations to JaMor for being elected to serve as a University Senate Representative on the 2024-2025 LGSC Exec Board!
  • 02/2024 - Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Swati Rajwal, who has been selected as an ambassador for Women in Data Science Worldwide in 2024!

    • 2023

  • 12/2023 - Dr. Sarker was selected as a fellow of AMIA (FAMIA). Congratulations!
  • 11/2023 - JaMor Hairston, a Ph.D. student working with us, has been elected as the Student Director of the AMIA Board of Directors. Starting January 2024, JaMor will serve a one-year term in this new role, advocating for and representing the AMIA student body!
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  • 11/2023 - Dr. Sarker co-organized a session with NIH/NIDA entitled "NIH HEAL Initiative--Leveraging Existing Data and Predictive Analytics to Combat the Opioid and Overdose Epidemic".
  • 10/2023 - Four PhD students in our lab (Yao Ge, Yuting Guo, Jeanne Powell, and Echo Zhang) had poster presentations in AMIA 2023.
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  • 10/2023 - Our postdoctoral fellow Sudeshna Das has been selected as the Women Breakthrough Award winner for Gender Mainstreaming by Falling Walls and Elsevier Foundation. She is one of four awardees for the year 2023, selected from 82 candidates from 39 countries.
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    2022

  • 5/2022 - Dr. Sarker discussed the significance of health data on social media during the interview with Scripps National News. The interview is available on YouTube.

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    2024

  • 05/2024 - Our lab celebrated Dr. Sarker's birthday at the BMI department!
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    2023

  • 12/2023 - BMI's Chrismas holiday party!
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  • 10/2023 - Our team attended AMIA 2023 and had a dinner in New Orleans.
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