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The Melody Lab at Emory University Collaborates with Theta Labs to Advance AI Research in Disease Diagnosis, Transmission, and Epidemic Modeling

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September 9, 2025 - Theta Labs, the leader in decentralized cloud infrastructure for AI, media, and entertainment, today announced that Emory University researchers, through the Melody Lab led by Assistant Professor Wei Jin, are collaborating with Theta Labs by adopting Theta EdgeCloud Hybrid.

The Melody Lab - short for Machine Learning for Data Analytics - is dedicated to advancing machine learning methods capable of handling diverse data structures. Their research interests cover graph neural networks and graph machine learning, time-series analysis (including forecasting and classification), AI for epidemiology, science, and healthcare, as well as machine learning robustness, interpretability, and large language models (LLMs). By combining methodological innovation with real-world applications, the Melody Lab has gained international recognition for its contributions to graph learning, time-series forecasting, and interpretable AI systems.

Prof. Jin is widely recognized for his research in graph neural networks, time-series forecasting, and AI for healthcare, and has received honors including the INNS Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up Award, KAUST Rising Stars in AI, AAAI New Faculty Highlights, and the Snap Research Fellowship. His work has been published extensively at top AI venues such as ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, ICLR, and NAACL, establishing him as one of the leading young scholars advancing robust and interpretable machine learning.

“Theta EdgeCloud Hybrid provides our lab with the ability to conduct large and small-scale experiments across heterogeneous GPU environments, ranging from NVIDIA H100s to community-driven GPUs and mobile Android GPUs,” said Prof. Wei Jin. “This unique flexibility is not found in any other cloud provider or GPU platform. This allows us to accelerate research on graph neural networks, time series forecasting, and AI for healthcare specifically in disease diagnosis, transmission and epidemic modeling. EdgeCloud enables us to reduce infrastructure bottlenecks and iterate faster.”

Accelerating Healthcare Research at the Melody lab with Theta EdgeCloud Hybrid

EdgeCloud Hybrid is the world’s first decentralized hybrid GPU platform, combining thousands of community-run NVIDIA GPUs (30/40/50 series), high-end enterprise A100s and H100s, and AWS’s next-generation Inferentia and Trainium AI chips.

The Melody Lab chose EdgeCloud because it delivers a unique balance of scale, flexibility, and affordability, allowing the team to seamlessly move between intensive large-scale experiments and lighter prototyping. This capability not only accelerates iteration but also removes infrastructure bottlenecks. For a lab focused on graph learning, time-series forecasting, and AI for healthcare, access to diverse, cost-effective compute power means they can train large language models, advance graph neural networks, and deploy real-world AI applications without being constrained by conventional cloud limitations.

“We are excited to welcome Dr. Wei Jin and the Melody Lab at Emory University to Theta’s academic partner network with nearly 30 top tier global AI labs,” said Mitch Liu, CEO and Co-Founder of Theta Labs. “The Melody Lab’s groundbreaking research in AI for healthcare, disease and epidemic modeling perfectly demonstrates the kind of innovation EdgeCloud was built to support. Our hybrid platform enables large and small scale AI experimentation at scale and cost-effectively. This is only possible with our AWS Inferentia and Trainium chips on one end, and community run NVIDIA 30-40-50 series GPUs on the other end.”

About Theta Labs

Theta Labs is the leading provider of decentralized cloud infrastructure for AI, media and entertainment powered by a global network of 30,000 community-run edge nodes and a native blockchain. Backed by Samsung, Sony, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and Creative Artists Agency, Theta is among the top AI tokens on Binance.com and DePIN blockchains by market capitalization on Coingecko. Theta’s enterprise validator and governance council is composed of global market leaders including Google, Samsung, CAA and Binance.

Theta EdgeCloud is the first hybrid cloud-edge computing AI platform offering over 80 PetaFLOPS of GPU compute power combining enterprise-grade NVIDIA H100/A100 GPUs, community-run NVIDIA 30/40/50 series, and AWS’s next-generation AI instances, Inferentia and Trainium custom silicon. The platform now counts over 50 global customers including 4 of the top 5 South Korea universities, Stanford, Syracuse U, top professional sports teams including France Ligue1’s Olympique de Marseille, NHL’s Las Vegas Knights, NBA’s Houston Rockets and global esports teams Cloud9, Gen.G, among others.

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