Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD

Talk Title: AI Advancements in Healthcare: An Overview from HAIS24 and Beyond

Bio: Jesse Spencer-Smith, PhD is Director and Chief Data Scientist for the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University, and is Professor of the Practice of Computer Science. He leads a team of data scientists and postdoctoral fellows who collaborate with researchers across the university and medical center and with industry partners, and teaches courses on artificial intelligence. He consults with researchers and business leaders on using, training and developing new AI models. He holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science from Indiana University, and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida. He was previously at HCA Healthcare for nine years, where as Director of Data Science he built the first data science team for the company and was charged with enabling data science across the enterprise through training, mentoring, skills assessments and consulting with business units on data science and AI preparedness. At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Quantitative Methods and was a Beckman Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In high school,  he founded of an early software technology company that developed solutions for civil engineering using the first generations of personal computers.