The Clinical Translation and Validation Core of the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (MassAITC) is responsible for providing a systematic approach for rapid, robust, and multi-faceted validation of AI-enhanced technologies that starts in the lab and extends to real-world at-home settings. We bring together a unique combination of state-of-the-art facilities and patient cohorts at multiple sites to accelerate pilot project research such it can be successfully conducted within a short duration and while maximizing cost-effectiveness.

Core Leadership 

Deepak Ganesan, PhD
Deepak Ganesan, PhD
Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences and Director of Center of Personalized Health Monitoring, UMass Amherst
Benjamin Marlin, PhD
Benjamin Marlin, PhD
Associate Professor, College Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst
Rebecca Spencer, PhD
Rebecca Spencer, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, UMass Amherst
Holly Jimison, PhD
Holly Jimison, PhD, FACMI
Professor, Bouvé College of Health Sciences and Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
MAITC Technology Development Pathway

Core Activities

  1. Provide a streamlined validation pipeline for taking promising AI-enhanced technologies from ‘benchtop’ to real-world deployment to enable their use by older adults and individuals with AD/ADRD.
  2. Support the pilot project process by contributing to defining the call for proposals, as well as contributing to the process of selecting pilot projects, and provide consulting services to assist pilot investigators.
  3. Maintain a continually evolving knowledgebase of emerging advances in AI and technology that have the potential to dramatically improve healthy aging and AD/ADRD care at home.