Biography

Dr. Mohammad Ghassemi is a distinguished scientist and entrepreneur with extensive experience leading AI initiatives. He holds a Ph.D from the MIT in computer science, with a focus on AI. Dr. Ghassemi is a founding partner at Ghamut Corporation, an AI strategy and innovation firm that has led over $250 million in AI initiatives across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He was formerly a director of data science at S&P Global, and a strategic consultant with BCG. He has over fifteen years of technical and strategic consulting experience working with many of the world’s largest organizations including Pfizer, Allstate, Autodesk, Biogen, Estee Lauder, the NIH, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Ghassemi also serves as a Professor of Computer Science at Michigan State University where he leads the Human Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His lab develops tools and systems that combine human and machine intelligence (A.I.) to solve problems that neither humans nor machines can solve as effectively alone. Dr. Ghassemi’s accomplishments have earned him numerous national and international distinctions, including being named a National Scholar for Data and Technology Advancement by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an AI Champion by AIMed, and a three-time recipient of JPMorgan Chase's AI Research Excellence Award. He was invited to testify before the United States Congress for his expertise in AI for health and has delivered a TEDx talk on the societal implications of AI. He is the lead inventor on multiple U.S. patents and has authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers, which have collectively been cited more than 14,000 times in leading scientific venues including Nature, Science Transnational Medicine, AAAI and EMNLP. His work has also been featured by prominent media outlets, including the BBC, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. He also maintains a YouTube channel with over 25,000 subscribers and 1M views where he teaches concepts in Artificial Intelligence and web design.

Previous Education

New Mexico State University Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008