Administrative Core
Headquartered at UC Santa Barbara, our Administrative Core guides the scientific roadmap for the WBHI, oversees regulatory agreements between campuses, manages research protocols, milestones, and accountability, and ensures overall forward momentum of the institute’s flagship projects. The Core also leads program development related to training opportunities in women’s brain health, community outreach, policy initiatives regarding ethical, legal, social and medical issues vis-a-vis women’s brain health, and engagement with extramural program officials representing relevant funding bodies.
Data Coordination Core
The WBHI's Data Coordination Core at Stanford University (Directors: Russ Poldrack and Joshua Buckholtz) supports the massive task of automating data processing for the WBHI Brain Bank. They optimize strategies for managing, curating, and distributing data collected across participating brain imaging centers. They oversee the implementation of a standard data structure, de-identification pipelines, and manage the public data-sharing portal, OpenNeuro. In short, they do the plumbing work for science, laying the critical pipelines that allow data to pool across sites, while ensuring data are quality controlled, useable, and accessible.
The DCC team also develops and maintains widely adopted neuroinformatic and data sharing tools to enhance rigor and reproducibility in neuroscience.
Artificial Intelligence Core
The WBHI AI Core, a joint endeavor between the University of California and Cornell, brings together leaders in computational science to develop and apply AI for women’s health. On the east coast, Cornell University and the Bowers College of Computing and Information Science are leaders in computer science. Director Amy Kuceyeski, founder and co-director of Machine Learning in Medicine at Weill-Cornell School of Medicine, has over 14 years of academic medical research expertise in applied AI for radiology and neuroscience. On the west coast, the University of California and Silicon Valley are the beating heart of AI. Director Nina Miolane has over 10 years of expertise in reliable AI for science and healthcare across academia and industry. In addition to its research focus, the AI Core is dedicated to training the next generation of data science scholars dedicated to women's brain's health and engaging the AI community at large through WBHI AI data challenges.
