W3PHIAI 2020
Keynote Speakers
Chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Title: Transforming Healthcare Through AI Revolutions
Abstract: The health care enterprise involves many different stakeholders -- consumers, health care professionals and providers, researchers, and insurers. AI will play an important role in many tasks that these stakeholders undertake. These include image diagnostics, medical decision making, prior authorization, drug design, nutrition advisor, patient scheduling, etc.. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Government. NIST’s mission is to generally strengthen the U.S. economy and improve the quality of life by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. The U.S. President’s Executive Order on AI (see https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/accelerating-americas-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/ ) calls for NIST to lead the development of appropriate technical standards for reliable, robust, trustworthy, secure, portable, and interoperable AI systems. I will discuss relevant AI thrusts at NIST on health care informatics, focusing on the use of machine learning, knowledge representation and natural language processing. I will also discuss the need for explanations in AI systems (XAI) and current state of the art in medical XAI.
Bio. Dr. Ram D. Sriram is currently the chief of the Software and Systems Division, Information Technology Laboratory, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Before joining the Software and Systems Division, Sriram was the leader of the Design and Process group in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, where he conducted research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems. Prior to joining NIST, he was on the engineering faculty (1986-1994) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was instrumental in setting up the Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory. Sriram has co-authored or authored more than 275 publications, including several books on artificial intelligence. Sriram was a founding co-editor of the International Journal for AI in Engineering. Sriram received several awards including an NSF’s Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989); ASME Design Automation Award (2011); ASME CIE Distinguished Service Award (2014); the Washington Academy of Sciences’ Distinguished Career in Engineering Sciences Award (2015); ASME CIE division’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2016); CMU CEE Lt. Col. Christopher Raible Distinguished Public Service Award (2018). Sriram is a Fellow of ASME, AAAS, IEEE, and Washington Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Member (life) of ACM and Senior Member (life) of AAAI. Sriram has a B.Tech. from IIT, Madras, India, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.