Rumi Chunara

Rumi Chunara is Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, and Biostatistics at NYU School of Global Public Health where she Directs the Center for Health Data Science. Her laboratory develops computational and statistical approaches for acquiring, integrating and using data to improve population-level public health. She has worked with heterogeneous healthcare systems on the development and deployment of AI tools in New York and globally. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor at HealthMap and the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard Medical School. She completed her PhD at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and BSc at Caltech. She is an NSF CAREER, Facebook Research, Gates Foundation Grand Challenges, MIT Technology Review Top 35 Innovators Under 35, Max Planck Sabbatical award winner and elected as an ACM Distinguished Member.