AI Essentials for Congressional Staffers

Meet Your Instructors

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  Brian Caffo, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the co-director of the Johns Hopkins High Performance Computing Exchange super computing service center.
  

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  Chris Austin, MPA is the director of Federal Strategy at Johns Hopkins University, where he advocates for strong federal investment in scientific research and public policy, with a focus on biomedical research, global health, public health, and national competitiveness. 
  

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  Alexis Battle, PhD is the interim co-director of the Data Science and AI Institute at Johns Hopkins University and a professor of biomedical engineering, with secondary appointments in computer science and genetic medicine.
  

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  Debra JH Mathews, PhD, MA, is Associate Director for Research and Programs at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
  

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  Berrak Sisman, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and a leading expert in AI, speech and language processing, emotion recognition, and synthetic voice detection.
  

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  Rama Chellappa, PhD is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering where he also serves as interim Co-Director of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute
  



Swaroop Vedula, PhD, is member of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute, Dr. Vedula leads the AI for Surgery Lab at JHU, developing and translating real-world engineering solutions to key problems in surgical care.