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Center Seeks To Inspire & Inform RGV Entrepreneurs

The CIC in Weslaco hosts events that put students and entrepreneurs from the community before panels of business owners and professionals in testing their ideas and plans. (Courtesy)

Md Salman Rahman’s big idea involves artificial intelligence and systems which allow patients to upload their medical reports.  Rahman envisions his product, HealthAl, training people how to use algorithms to read the reports in helping to detect diseases. It’s a brilliant concept with soaring ambitions but Rahman, a UTRGV graduate student, lacked the entrepreneurial and business experience to take such a technological-heavy product to the marketplace. Rahman’s product development got…

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UTRGV Student Takes Grand Prize for AI Project

Md Salman Rahman

Entrepreneurship and Artificial Intelligence are coexisting fields for UTRGV graduate student Md Salman Rahman. They are his vessels to improving lives and helping his community. Rahman, who is passionate about exploring novel ways to utilize his expertise in data science in the healthcare sector, represented UTRGV in November in the Blackstone LaunchPad Big Idea Competition. The virtual competition hosts students with no prior entrepreneurship experience to practice distilling and presenting latent…

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