A research team led by Professor Jo-Woon Chong of SKKU, in collaboration with Texas Tech University, has identified—through EEG analysis—the impact of fragrance on consumers’ emotions, memory, and deep emotional connections with luxury brands.

The SMU Resilient Workforces Institute, currently helmed by SMU Professor Archan Misra, seeks to address adult learning and the future of work in the age of AI at three levels: Human, Organisational, and Societal.

SMU Assistant Professor Lin Pengkai’s research shows that stock trading volume fell significantly during ChatGPT outages, suggesting a considerable use of generative artificial intelligence by investors.

A research team from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed GrainBot, an AI-enabled toolkit that automatically extracts and quantifies multiple microstructural features from microscopy images. Designed to meet the growing need for data-driven and autonomous research workflows in materials science, the tool provides a systematic method for converting complex image information into quantitative data, thereby accelerating the discovery and development of next-generation materials.

When ophthalmologists in Ukraine suddenly found themselves treating an overwhelming volume of eye trauma due to war, injuries and reconstructive challenges they rarely encountered, University of Calgary clinicians started a conversation about how to help them. 

Led by Dr. Karim G. Punja, MD, an oculofacial plastic surgeon and clinical associate professor at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), the academics created a unique fellowship specifically designed for surgeons in areas of geopolitical crisis. 

A team led by University of Washington researchers has created DopFone, a system that uses an off-the-shelf smartphone’s existing speaker and microphone to accurately estimate fetal heart rate. The phone mimics a Doppler ultrasound, emitting a tone and listening for the subtle variations in its echo caused by fetal heart beats. A machine learning model then estimates the heart rate.

In a Journal of Cyber Policy paper published late last year, Milton Mueller researched whether the existential AI threat was a real possibility. What Mueller found is that deciding how far AI can go, and its limitations, is something society shapes. How policymakers get involved depends on the specific AI application.