# CAREER: AI-Driven Multimodal Feature Engineering for Personalized Biomedical System Design

> **NSF 01002627DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT** · University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc (GA) · $546,167

## Abstract

This CAREER project will develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to better understand and monitor neurological diseases. The research will combine brain images, genetic information, and clinical information.  These are complex data sets with uncertainties, which makes it difficult to analyze them separately.  The AI tools developed in this project will integrate and interpret the combined data. The resulting analysis will identify patient specific disease mechanisms and predict how diseases progress.  The outcomes of the project will advance personalized healthcare, disease monitoring, and pattern detection. The project will also support education and hands-on training in biomedical AI, statistical inference, and modeling. Outreach activities include summer coding camps and data science workshops for high school students, and tutorials at national conferences. Software and models will be released as open-source tools to promote reproducibility and wide adoption. These activities will increase participation in biomedical engineering, train a skilled workforce, and improve public understanding of AI-enabled healthcare technologies.

A unified, AI-driven framework for multimodal feature engineering will be used to model complex neurological diseases. The framework will combine machine learning (ML) with statistical causal inference to unify multimodal data across biological domains and timescales, producing interpretable representations that identify patient-specific mechanisms, predict individualized disease trajectories, and support precise diagnosis, treatment stratification, and real-time disease monitoring. The project will introduce three core system-level innovations: (1) domain-aware causal inference that integrates probabilistic and generative modeling to uncover latent features linking imaging, genetic, and clinical data; (2) customized transformer-based architectures that fuse structured and unstructured biomedical data, such as imaging embeddings, gene

## Key facts

- **NSF award ID:** 2543636
- **Awardee organization:** University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc (GA)
- **SAM.gov UEI:** NMJHD63STRC5
- **PI:** Rongjie Liu
- **Primary program:** 01002627DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
- **All programs:** Artificial Intelligence (AI), CAREER-Faculty Erly Career Dev, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
- **Estimated total:** $546,167
- **Funds obligated:** $546,167
- **Transaction type:** Standard Grant
- **Period:** 06/01/2026 → 05/31/2031

## Primary source

NSF Award Search: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2543636

## Citation

> US National Science Foundation, Award 2543636, CAREER: AI-Driven Multimodal Feature Engineering for Personalized Biomedical System Design. Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-08 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nsf/2543636. Licensed CC0.

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