Google.org, a Google fund aimed at supporting data based solutions, has awarded a competitive grant to Tel Aviv University for high-impact research employing Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to combat COVID-19.
Google is promoting its "AI for Social Good" research program – headed by, among others, Professor Yossi Matias, Vice President at Google and CEO of the Research and Development Center at Google Israel.
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The grant is being awarded to TAU's AI and Data Science Center for research employing AI techniques and advanced statistical methods to improve COVID-19 public health measures.
Using data from government ministries and the Central Bureau of Statistics, researchers intend to build an accurate high-resolution model of the spread of the pandemic and then use it to plan and test various methods for stopping infection.
