Dr. Hacihaliloglu has been awarded the 2017 American Cancer Society – Institutional Research Grant Early Investigator Pilot Award, which is a one-year $50,000 grant. Together with his collaborators from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (John Nosher, Eric Singer) and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (David Foran), Dr. Hacihaliloglu will develop new machine learning methods for accurate and robust classification of liver and kidney cancer from 3D ultrasound data.