Tom Hartvigsen, PhD, MS, Joins Cancer Center Research Faculty

The Cancer Center welcomes Assistant Professor of Data Science Tom Hartvigsen, PhD, MS, to its Cancer Prevention and Population Health Program. Dr. Hartvigsen’s research focuses on machine learning and natural language processing. His group builds AI systems that can be responsibly deployed in ever-changing healthcare settings. Recently, his work has focused on detecting demographic biases in deep learning-based computational pathology models, tracking and updating what medical language models know about the world, and teaching language models to interface with non-language data.

Dr. Hartvigsen’s research has been published in top venues in machine learning and medicine, including NeurIPS, ACL, KDD, AAAI, Nature Medicine, and NPJ Digital Health. He is also active in the machine learning community, serving as the General Chair for the Machine Learning for Health Symposium in 2023, helping organize the 2023 Conference on Health, Informatics and Learning, and co-chairing workshops on time series and generative AI at NeurIPS 2022 and ICML 2023.

After earning his BA in applied mathematics from the State University of New York at Geneseo, Dr. Hartvigsen earned his MS and PhD in data science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He was then a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory before coming to UVA. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Hartvigsen!

8-12-24