The Center for Innovation and Commercialization will offer the second installment of its new Lunch & Learn Idea Development Speaker Series on May 25, free of charge. Speakers are CIC Administrative Coordinator Esther Ballesteros and CIC Program Manager Stephanie Mendez. All UTRGV students, faculty, staff, alumni and the RGV community are welcome. The Lunch & Learn Idea Development Speaker Series is for aspiring business owners or entrepreneurs. You do not…
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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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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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The Rio Grande Valley is a complex network of interconnected communities bound by culture, geography and economics. At times in its history and into the present, the region sometimes struggles to overcome territorial squabbles to work together for the common good. With the merger of campuses into the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the concept of a regional university represents another step in uniting the border region. And a…
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