Shijie Zhou, Assistant Professor of Chemical, Paper, and Biomedical Engineering has received a grant from the American Heart Association to facilitate his participation in a data bootcamp for researchers.

The grant will cover travel for Zhou and Miami University graduate student Serhii Reznichenko (M.S. in Computer Science program) so they can attend the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines® (GWTG) Data Bootcamp. By attending the bootcamp, Zhou and Reznichenko will learn how to access and analyze the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®  data for research grants in the Precision Medicine Platform. As a grant recipient, Zhou will be invited to submit proposals for an RFP focused on using AHA GWTG Research Data in the Precision Medicine Platform to explore gaps in cardiovascular disease understanding.

“The bootcamp is a vital opportunity to enhance my cardiology research, especially in data-driven computational heart modeling,” said Zhou. “Access to AHA datasets and advanced biostatistical methods will improve my research and aid in incorporating these datasets into my computational models. This, in turn, will increase their precision and clinical relevance.”

Zhou said he expects the training he and Reznichenko will receive at the bootcamp will be instrumental in developing AI-based techniques for arrhythmia mapping and prediction, particularly in Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) and Atrial Fibrillation (AFib). The bootcamp will also provide crucial insights into AHA’s GWTG data and the Precision Medicine Platform, which is a cloud-based research data analysis platform powered by Amazon Web Services.

The Data Bootcamp will happen Tuesday, February 6, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona.