David Sontag

David Sontag is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science leading the Clinical Machine Learning Group at MIT. He is affiliated with the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a Principal Investigator at the Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health. His research focuses on advancing machine learning and artificial intelligence, and using these to transform health care.

Prior to joining MIT, Sontag was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Data Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2011 to 2016, and postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England from 2010 to 2011. He received the Sprowls award for outstanding doctoral thesis in Computer Science at MIT in 2010, best paper awards at the conferences Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), and Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), faculty awards from Google, Facebook, and Adobe, and a NSF CAREER Award.  Sontag received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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