Prof. Peter Szolovits

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Health Science and Technology
Head, Clinical Decision-Making Group (CSAIL)

Primary DLC

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Room: 32-254

Assistant

Fern Keniston
fernd@mit.edu

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Artificial Intelligence Applications to Medicine and Medical Decision Making
Expert Systems
Knowledge Representation
Computer Supported Medical Decision Making
Personal Health Information Systems
Medical Confidentiality
Clinical Decision Making
Computing and Medicine
Medical Decision Making
Effective Representation of Knowledge
Big Data
Clinical Decision Support
Oredictive Modeling
Clinical Natural Language Processing
Integration of Multi-Modal Clinical Data

Research Summary

Professor Szolovits research centers on the application of AI methods to problems of medical decision making and design of information systems for health care institutions and patients. He has worked on problems of diagnosis, therapy planning, execution and monitoring for various medical conditions, computational aspects of genetic counseling, controlled sharing of health information, and privacy and confidentiality issues in medical record systems. His interests in AI include knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, and probabilistic inference. Additionally, Professor Szolovits has research interests in medical computing include web-based heterogeneous medical record systems, life-long personal health information systems, and design of cryptographic schemes for health identifiers.

Recent Work