About
Tianxi Cai, ScD, holds the John Rock Professorship in Population and Translational Data Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. She directs the Translational Data Science Center for a Learning Health System (CELEHS). Her work bridges clinical and basic science data to advance personalized medicine and disease understanding.
- Institution: Harvard University
- Departments: Biostatistics (T.H. Chan School) and Biomedical Informatics (HMS)
- Key Roles: Faculty member since 2002, NIH-funded researcher, and leader in EHR data analytics
Research focuses on biomarker evaluation, predictive modeling, high-dimensional data analysis, and survival analysis. Collaborates with the I2B2 Center to integrate clinical and genomic data. Active in developing semi-supervised learning methods for noisy EHR data and real-world evidence generation.
Funding: Recent grants include NIH projects on rheumatoid arthritis treatment response (R01AR080193, R21AR078339) and semi-supervised EHR denoising (R01LM013614). Co-leads initiatives on chronic disease endpoints using multi-source data (U01FD007929).
Labs/Teams: Directs CELEHS and leads the Cai Lab, focusing on translational data science and machine learning applications in healthcare.
