NSP Faculty in the News: Jimeng Sun, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Victoria Atkinson, PhD speaking with Jimeng Sun, PhD & Jonathan Hirst, PhD
May 6, 2026

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Technology Networks (with audio; Suffolk, England, May 6) — Jimeng Sun, a computer science professor at the U. of I., used training data from over 8,000 past trials to predict the outcome of more than 3,400 recent drug studies in a prediction model. “All this information was put together through a graph neural network machine learning model, which considers the interaction of all these components to finally make a trial prediction,” Sun says.

 

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