Computer Science Professor Anita Raja and students Adam Catto (MS ‘22), Daniel Mallia (MA ‘22), and Alisa Leshchenko ’23, who work in Professor Raja’s Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Lab, were named one of the institutional winners of the National Institutes of Health’s Decoding Maternal Morbidity Challenge. The goal of the challenge was to come up with new ways of analyzing data to identify factors that impact maternal morbidity in order to help clinicians identify and treat pregnancy-related conditions.Their teammates were four Colombia University computer science researchers—including Professor Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi—and two Columbia University Medical Center researchers.

The team was awarded a $50,000 prize for innovation. 

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