While most high school juniors spent this week in class, Aviraj Soin was standing in front of some of the country's leading rural health researchers, presenting an AI-powered diagnostic tool he built himself. Soin, a high school junior, from Yellow Springs, Ohio — a community of roughly 3,700 people — traveled to Hanover, New Hampshire this week to present original artificial intelligence machine-learning research at the Dartmouth Rural Health Symposium, one of the nation's premier gatherings of rural health clinicians, researchers, and policymakers.
His message was direct: rural patients with spinal pain are getting shortchanged, and data science can help fix it.
