Suchi Saria

Suchi Saria is the John C. Malone Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the Whiting School of Engineering (Computer Science), the Bloomberg School of Public Health (Health Policy & Management), and the Whiting School (Applied Math & Statistics). She directs the Machine Learning and Healthcare Lab and co-founded the Bayesian Health startup.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University (advisor: Daphne Koller), NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship at Harvard (2011), prior research at UMass (Barto, Madhavan), and industry experience at Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata).

Research Focus: Saria develops statistical machine learning tools to extract insights from heterogeneous clinical data (structured/unstructured EHRs, sensor streams). Her work enables counterfactual reasoning for personalized treatment plans, dataset shift mitigation in healthcare AI, and weak supervision frameworks for mobile health apps. Key applications include sepsis prediction, Parkinson’s symptom tracking, and critical care optimization.

Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize AI safety (2024-2025), addressing racial bias, transparency frameworks, and dynamic monitoring for clinical deployments. Her work spans conformal prediction, causal modeling, and policy guidelines for health AI.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Sloan Research Fellowship (2018)
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award (2016)
  • MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator (2017)
  • Popular Science Brilliant 10 (2016)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems AI’s 10 to Watch (2015)
  • NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship (2011)
  • Rambus Fellowship (2004-2010)
  • Best Paper Awards in ML, Informatics, and Medicine venues

Advising & Grants: Saria mentors PhD students/postdocs in machine learning and health informatics, including funded projects like the NSF Smart and Connected Health Grant (2014) and Google Research Award (2014). Her lab’s TREWScore system (Science Translational Medicine 2015) is deployed in hospitals, while her Bayesian Health startup commercializes AI solutions for provider experience.