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Biography

Ahmad P. Tafti has a deep passion for AI-powered health care informatics and health data science with better patient diagnosis, prognosis and treatment using large-scale multiple clinical data sources and advanced computational algorithms.

Since earning his PhD in computer science, Tafti has been on a quest to explore and solve problems that are worth it and make the most positive impact on people’s lives. He has been successfully leveraging his background in descriptive and predictive machine learning modeling, medical image analysis and big data analytics to find solutions to a diverse range of problems in health care informatics.

To date, he has authored 45+ peer-reviewed publications, organizing numerous workshops on intelligent health systems and he has served on the program committee of 15+ conferences, symposiums, and journals in AI and health data science.

Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin 
Awards
  • 2021 SiiM Imaging Informatics Innovator awardee 
  • Mayo Clinic Benefactor funded CDAs Orthopedics Career Development awardee 
  • Mayo Clinic Transform the Practice awardee 
Research Interests
  • Explainable AI and machine learning from the technical perspectives 
  • Musculoskeletal diseases and disorders from the clinical perspective