Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research

As the disease COVID-19 spreads across the planet, scientists continue to combat the novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) on all fronts. But viruses are fickle, mutating to ensure their survival as they hop hosts. Genomic mutations and natural selection could reduce the effectiveness of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus, and different sequence variations and strains of the virus are continuously being reported in databases like GISAID.

The UC Davis Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research (CeDAR) announced today, May 1st, it has awarded over $1 million dollars in grants to 18 campus researchers studying innovative data science.

Two of our members, Soheil Ghiasi and Lifeng Lai, both professors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have been working with Eric Kurzrock, chief of Pediatric Urologic Surgery and a professor in the UC Davis Department of Urologic Surgery and Pediatrics, to develop an under-clothing biosensor that can recognize in real time when someone’s bladder is full.  Most people take that kind of biological awareness for granted, but it is lacking for the approximately half a million individuals in the United States with spinal cord injuries or spinal ano