Natalia Trayanova, the Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the Heart Rhythm Society's Distinguished Scientist Award.
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The HRS, a leading resource on cardiac pacing and electrophysiology, gives this award to individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of cardiac pacing and/or cardiac electrophysiology.
Trayanova is studying ways to use personalized 3D virtual replicas of the heart and its electrical function to more precisely predict who is at risk for sudden death or stroke from ventricular or atrial fibrillation.
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Jason Eisner, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, was elected a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL is the main international scientific and professional society for scholars working on computational problems involving human language. Eisner was honored for his "significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology."
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