Margrit Betke

Margrit Betke is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, serving as Director of the Master's Admissions and Director of the Master's in AI Program. She co-leads the Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative and the Image and Video Computing Research Group. Her research focuses on computer vision, medical image analysis, human-computer interfaces, and assistive technologies, with notable contributions to the Camera Mouse and lung tumor tracking systems. She holds a PhD from MIT and has published over 200 papers. Her honors include the NSF Early Career Award and being named a Top 10 Woman to Watch in New England.

Education: PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT (1995). Research spans medical imaging, AI for disabilities, and computer vision applications. Her work includes developing patented algorithms for pulmonary nodule detection and the Camera Mouse, a free assistive technology.

Awards include the National Science Foundation Early Career Award (2001), Top 10 Women to Watch (2005), and Senior Member statuses in ACM and IEEE (2012). She has advised numerous students, including fourteen PhD graduates and current researchers in AI and assistive tech.

Grants include NSF BIGDATA (2018) for public communication analysis and ONR MURI (2018) for neuroscience-inspired robotics. Her labs and teams focus on AI ethics, medical imaging, and multimodal data analysis.