Forecasting COVID-19
Counterfactual Reasoning
Understanding and using high dimensional molecular data (microarrays, SNPs, metabolic profiles, ...)
computational psychiatry
cancer screening, diagnosis, prognosis, ...
cardiovascular diseases
See also 25 minute presentation (Mar 2021) + Slides
Possible Thesis Topics (historical)
i.e. a short description (1-2 pages) of how you would address one (or more) of those tasks
How would you start?
What tools would you use?
What resources would track down?
What tricks do you think might work?
Feel free to mention any of your existing work, if(f) it seems relevant, or to connect this to some other ideas you may have had.
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Science Without Borders (Brazil) - no longer available