Ahmad P. Tafti is an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment(s) in the Intelligent Systems Program (ISP) and the Department of Pathology. Dr. Tafti is also leading Pitt efforts at the Pitt HexAI Research Laboratory, conducting Health and Explainable AI Podcast series. Furthermore, he is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, and affiliated with the Center for AI Innovation in Medical Imaging (CAIIMI), also serving as an Associate Member at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. Moreover, he serves our community as the Vice Chair of IEEE Computer Society at Pittsburgh. He has a deep passion for AI-Powered healthcare informatics and health data science with better patient diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment using large-scale multiple clinical data sources and advanced computational algorithms.
Dr. Tafti is the 2021 SiiM Imaging Informatics Innovator awardee, Oracle for Research Project awardee, University of Pittsburgh CTSI awardee, Mayo Clinic Benefactor funded CDAs Orthopedics Career Development awardee, Mayo Clinic Transform the Practice awardee, an NVIDIA GPU awardee, and GE Healthcare Honorable Mention awardee. To date, he has authored 50+ peer-reviewed publications, organizing numerous workshops on intelligent health systems and has served on the program committee of 15+ conferences, symposiums, and journals in AI and health data science.