Suchi Saria, PhD

Suchi Saria, PhD, holds the John C. Malone endowed chair and is the Director of AI and health lab at Johns Hopkins. She is also the Founder of Bayesian Health, a leading clinical AI platform company spun out of her university research. Her methods research has focused on solving challenges in ensuring safe real-world translation of AI in high-stakes applications, multi-modal time series modeling, and causal andcounterfactual reasoning for time series data. Her applied research has built on these technical advances to develop novel next generation diagnostic and treatment planning tools that use AI/statistical learning methods to individualize care. Her work has been funded by leading organizations including the NSF, DARPA, FDA, NIH and CDC andfeatured by the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Bloomberg News, Wall Street Journal, and PBS NOVA to name a few. She has won several awards for excellence in AI and care delivery. For example, for her academic work, she’s been recognized as IEEE’s “AI’s 10 to Watch”, Sloan Fellow, MIT Tech Review’s “35 Under 35”, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)’s list of “Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine”, and DARPA’s Rising Star awardee. For her work in industry bringing AI to healthcare, she’s been recognized as World Economic Forum’s 100 Brilliant Minds Under 40, Rock Health’s “Top 50 in Digital Health”, Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators, The Armstrong Award for Excellence in Quality and Safety. She's given over 300 invited talks andkeynotes, is on the editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, has co-authored NAM's "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: the Hope, the Hype, the Promise, the Peril" and is currently serving on NAM's AI Code of Conduct and Coalition of Health AI’s board of directors.