Reflections on a Career at the Intersection of AI and Medicine

Please join us for the ISP Forum on Friday, November 13, 2026, from 12:30–1:30 PM in SENSQ 5317. Lunch will be served beginning at noon. We are pleased to welcome Gregory Cooper as our featured speaker. Additional details are provided below.

We look forward to your attendance.

Title: Reflections on a Career at the Intersection of AI and Medicine

Abstract: In this talk, I will summarize my research at the intersection of AI and medicine/biomedicine, highlighting the motivations, key results, and insights, and suggesting promising directions for future research. I will also reflect on lessons learned along the way.

Biosketch: Gregory Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He was an active faculty member in the Intelligent Systems Program for 35 years and served for several years as its Co-Director. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from MIT and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences and an M.D. from Stanford University.

His research develops and applies new methods in causal modeling, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence with the goal of improving clinical care and advancing biomedical discovery. His recent projects have investigated treatment outcome prediction using data from randomized clinical trials and electronic health records (EHRs), infectious disease outbreak detection and characterization, individualized cancer therapy recommendation, and machine-learning-based clinical alerting using EHR data.