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Dr. Hugo Aerts is a Professor at Harvard University and the Director of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program. AIM’s mission is to accelerate the application of AI algorithms in medical sciences and clinical practice. This academic program centralizes AI expertise stimulating cross-pollination among clinical and technical expertise areas, and provides a common platform to address a wide range of clinical challenges. Dr. Aerts is a leader in medical AI and Principle Investigator on major NIH-supported efforts, including the Quantitative Imaging Network (U01) and Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (U24) initiatives of the NCI. In 2020 he was awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator grant of the Horizon program from the European Union. His research has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals. In 2022 he was awarded by Web of Science as he was among the top 1% highest cited scientists worldwide. Dr. Aerts is a Professor at Harvard University and an Adjunct Professor at Maastricht University. Dr. Aerts earned his Master in Engineering from Eindhoven Institute of Technology, his PhD from Maastricht University, and his postdoctoral fellowship from Harvard School of Public Health.
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Dr. Dan Jurafsky is Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Computer Science, and Reynolds Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is an award-winning teacher, a MacArthur Fellow, the recipient of the Richard C. Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Linguistics Society of America. His research and teaching focus on language models and other natural language processing tools, including their applications to the cognitive and social sciences and to social good. His books include the widely-used online textbook "Speech and Language Processing" and the 2015 international bestseller and James Beard Award-nominee, "The Language of Food". Dan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California at Berkeley.
