Tanzeem Choudhury

Chief of Health Innovation
The Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology, Cornell Tech


Tanzeem Choudhury is the Chief of Health Innovation and the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Prof. Choudhury directs the People-Aware Computing group which creates wearables and multi-modal AI systems to better measure and intervene on health behaviors and symptoms. The group’s research includes creating novel on-body actuators, and clinical decision support that help individuals and also their clinicians take better health actions – both mental and physical. From 2021-2023, she served as the Senior Vice President of Digital Health at Optum Labs (part of UnitedHealth Group). Prof. Choudhury is a co-founder of two mental health AI startups with the mission of integrating behavioral health into all aspects of healthcare. 

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Medicine and AI

This roundtable examines how AI is transforming medicine, from genomic modeling to clinical tools used in healthcare systems. It focuses on challenges of trust, evidence, and equity, including how to evaluate AI, ensure fairness, and responsibly integrate data-driven decisions into patient care.