{"524951":{"#nid":"524951","#data":{"type":"news","title":"PhD Student Wins Funding at Inaugural Demo Day Finale","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/musheerahmed\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMusheer Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E took home first-place honors and a $3,000 check from the Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy\u0027s \u0022Demo Day Finale\u0022 for his data mining algorithm called \u0022FraudScope\u0022 that helps detect Medicare fraud.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAhmed examined two-years worth of Medicare claims data and found that his algorithm could accurately select which providers would be caught and indicted for healthcare fraud -- validating the technique as a risk predictor without the need for whistleblowers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe and his faculty advisor, Prof. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/mustaque-ahamad\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMustaque Ahamad\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, have filed a provisional patent for the research and intend to form a private company. They anticipate that insurance providers and government healthcare programs will be most interested in the tool, which assigns risk scores to healthcare providers who are most likely to file fraudulent claims. He will use the prize money to help develop a software interface.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAhmed believes that criminals who file fake medical claims for money are causing healthcare costs to rise for all Americans. In nearly a decade, the FBI\u0027s healthcare fraud team has charged more than 2,300 defendants who collectively falsely billed Medicare more than $7 billion.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If we catch the bad guys, we can lower healthcare costs,\u0022 Ahmed says, who adds that most Americans don\u0027t realize healthcare identity fraud is a much bigger problem -- and harder to correct -- than stolen credit cards.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVenture capitalists and business leaders who served as judges at the Demo Day Finale picked Ahmed as the winner from among five student teams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInvesting in quality student work is an easy decision, said judge \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.paladincapgroup.com\/people\/paul-conley-phd\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Conley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, managing director of the Paladin Capital Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re able to very efficiently deploy a little bit of capital alongside an entrepreneur, help them develop those ideas,\u0022 he said after the event. \u0022The ones that really achieve some traction or commercial success, we like to really get behind and back them as far as we can take them.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlso winning a cash prize at the Demo Day Finale was the research project, \u0022Tying Public Key to Person with IDforWeb.\u0022 Graduate students \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~yjang37\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYeongjin Jang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mark-wisneski-a865027\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Wisneski\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E--\u0026nbsp; working with research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=qGeaSCYAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPak Ho Chung\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E -- received $2,000 to continue their work to help make public key infrastructure easier and more intuitive to use. The group aims to explore creative new ways for individuals to record and announce their public key for user-friendly verification.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs for Ahmed, he says he has been interested in healthcare fraud and cybersecurity since he was an undergrad studying computer science at Georgia Tech; it will remain his focus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI took an information security class the last semester of my degree, and I knew this is what I wanted to do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis PhD studies have been entirely focused on the problem of healthcare identity fraud. Now he is about to complete his doctoral degree on May 6 and immediately will turn his attention to developing FraudScope as a business -- right here in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.11alive.com\/money\/investors-green-light-gt-students-anti-fraud-program\/131785548\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E11Alive News (WXIA-TV Atlanta)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iisp.gatech.edu\/news\/students-show-venture-capitalists-their-best-cybersecurity-work\u0022\u003EMore about Demo Day Finale\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Plans to form company for healthcare fraud detection after graduation"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student Musheer Ahmed took home first-place honors -- and a $3,000 check -- from the Institute for Information Security \u0026amp; Privacy\u0027s \u0022Demo Day Finale.\u0022 His data mining algorithm, called FraudScope -- produced as part of doctoral dissertation research -- already has accurately detected Medicare fraud.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Musheer Ahmed is the winner of the Inaugural Demo Day Finale by the Institute for Information Security \u0026 Privacy."}],"uid":"27490","created_gmt":"2016-04-14 16:34:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:21","author":"Tara La Bouff","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"524981":{"id":"524981","type":"image","title":"Musheer Ahmed","body":null,"created":"1460995200","gmt_created":"2016-04-18 16:00:00","changed":"1475895296","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:56","alt":"Musheer Ahmed","file":{"fid":"205475","name":"musheer_ahmed_fraudscope.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/musheer_ahmed_fraudscope_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/musheer_ahmed_fraudscope_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":549627,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/musheer_ahmed_fraudscope_0.jpg?itok=gnD-InhR"}},"524961":{"id":"524961","type":"image","title":"Demo Day Finale April 13, 2016","body":null,"created":"1460995200","gmt_created":"2016-04-18 16:00:00","changed":"1475895296","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:56","alt":"Demo Day Finale April 13, 2016","file":{"fid":"205474","name":"demo_day_finale_2016.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demo_day_finale_2016_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/demo_day_finale_2016_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":461450,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/demo_day_finale_2016_0.jpg?itok=yLpmDELc"}}},"media_ids":["524981","524961"],"groups":[{"id":"430601","name":"Institute for Information Security and Privacy"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1404","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"171922","name":"healthcare fraud"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETara La Bouff, 404.769.5408\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tara.labouff@iisp.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}