Role of AI in predicting and fighting COVID-19 discussed

According to Dr Yaqub, AI and academic research are proving to be important tools in overcoming COVID-19 and future pandemic mitigation

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During this month’s MBZUAI Talks session — hosted by Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world’s first graduatelevel, research-based artificial intelligence (AI) university — Dr. Mohammad Yaqub, Assistant Professor at MBZUAI and research fellow at the University of Oxford, discussed the role of AI in the current fight against COVID-19, as well as how it can be applied to help identify future pandemics and halt their spread.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to be prepared for high-impact, disruptive events. According to Dr. Yaqub, AI and academic research are proving to be important tools in overcoming COVID-19 and future pandemic mitigation.

The ‘How does AI help fight the COVID-19 pandemic?’ webinar was the second in the MBZUAI Talks series, which sees experts in the field of AI host informative sessions to provide members of the public with a deeper understanding of artificial intelligence and its transformative potential.