David Sontag
@david_sontag
CEO & Co-founder @layerhealth. Professor, MIT. Research on machine learning in health care. Part of @MIT_CSAIL, @MIT_IMES, @MITEECS, @AIHealthMIT
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http://clinicalml.org 12-02-2012 22:24:54
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So happy to defend my PhD thesis and couldn't have done it without a 1 of 1 advisor David Sontag and an incredible committee Eric Horvitz Arvind Satyanarayan Elena Glassman
Congratulations to Dr. Hussein Mozannar. Hussein Mozannar Strong dissertation research exploring multiple dimensions of human-AI collaboration. David Sontag Elena Glassman Arvind Satyanarayan Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In my The Boston Globe Op-Ed today, I urge the US government and philanthropists to ensure that Americans can benefit from repurposed generic drugs: bostonglobe.com/2023/12/27/opi….
Reboot Rx #RebootRx #TheSolutionMayAlreadyExist #cancer #drugrepurposing #nonprofit
We're excited to introduce #INSPECT a large-scale ✨3D multimodal✨medical imaging dataset #NeurIPS2023
19,402 Stanford Medicine Patients
🩻23,248 CT Scans + 📄Paired Radiology Notes
📈Longitudinal EHRs
🩺Clinician-validated task labels
#DataCentricAI #Multimodal #3Dimaging
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Our NeurIPS '23 paper by Hussein Mozannar and colleagues at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab featured on MIT homepage today. Article here --
news.mit.edu/2023/automated…
Monica finished her Ph.D. with me at MIT a year ago and is starting a research group at Duke in Sept 2024. As a leader both in industry Layer Health and in academia, her LLM work is transforming healthcare. Consider applying to Duke CompSci and DukeBiostats
Mike finished his Ph.D. with me at MIT a year ago, and is now recruiting students in CS Johns Hopkins University. Consider applying to work with him - he's a great mentor and top researcher.
AI has uncovered new insights from medical data like disease risk & severity, transforming our understanding of health. But what if AI performance is worse than a human's? Start thinking differently, says #JameelClinic PI David Sontag to ProfDhar on Brave New World podcast 🎧
For medical knowledge tasks, some think that for best results you need fine-tuning and prompts crafted by human medical experts . But no! This study Microsoft Research & Eric Horvitz shows that generalist #GPT4 beats specialized models *and* is less expensive. microsoft.com/en-us/research…
Excited for day 2 of #MLCB2023 today! Tune in at 12:35 EST to catch my talk on #singlecell #foundationmodels ! Great lineup starting at 11:30. Live stream link: youtube.com/watch?v=xhJ-C0…
Super excited for David Sontag and the Layer Health team! Rare to see such deep ML and deep healthcare talent together.