Marzyeh Ghassemi
Short Bio.
Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi is an Associate Professor at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES). She holds MIT affiliations with the Jameel Clinic, LIDS, IDSS, and CSAIL. For examples of short- and long-form talks Professor Ghassemi has given, see her Forbes lightning talk, and her ICML keynote.
Professor Ghassemi holds a Germeshausen Career Development Professorship, and was named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar and one of MIT Tech Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35. In 2024, she received an NSF CAREER award, and Google Research Scholar Award. Prior to her PhD in Computer Science at MIT, she received an MSc. degree in biomedical engineering from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, and B.S. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering as a Goldwater Scholar at New Mexico State University.
Professor Ghassemi work spans computer science and clinical venues, including NeurIPS, KDD, AAAI, MLHC, JAMIA, JMIR, JMLR, AMIA-CRI, Nature Medicine, Nature Translational Psychiatry, and Critical Care. Her work has been featured in popular press such as MIT News, The Boston Globe, and The Huffington Post.
Stewardship.
Professor Ghassemi has served as a NeurIPS Senior Area Chair and Workshop Co-Chair, as well as the General Chair for the ACM Conference on Health, Inference and Learning (CHIL). She founded and serves on the board of the non-profit Association for Health Learning and Inference which runs two academic conferences ( CHIL and ML4H), is a working group lead for the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), and served on the Senior Advisory Council of Women in Machine Learning (WiML). Professor Ghassemi has been actively involved in service as a mentor to diversity in STEM through MIT programs like MSRP and the METEOR Fellowship, and a strong advocate for diversity in the machine learning community.
Student Contributions (i.e., students can change things too).
As a student, Professor Ghassemi organized its flagship workshop at NIPS during December 2014. She has also organized and MIT’s first Hacking Discrimination event, and was awarded MIT’s 2018 Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion and Diversity.
She served on MIT’s Presidential Committee on Foreign Scholarships from 2015-2018, working with MIT students to create competitive applications for distinguished international scholarships. In 2015, she also worked as a graduate student member of MIT’s CJAC (Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-wide Affairs), a committee to which the Corporation can turn for consideration and advice on special Institute-wide issues.
From 2013-2014, she was a student representative on MIT’s Women’s Advisory Group Presidential Committee, and additionally was elected as a Graduate Student Council (GSC) Housing Community Activities Co-Chair. As co-chair, she worked with subcommittee leads to create a third month of maternity benefits for EECS graduate women, create a \$1M+ fundraising target for a needs-based grant administered to graduate families at MIT, successfully negotiated a 4% stipend increase for MIT graduate students for the 2014 fiscal year (approved by MIT’s Academic Council), and worked with HCA’s Transportation Subcommittee to expand new transportation options for the 2/3 of graduate students that live off campus. During 2012-2013, she was one of MIT’s GSC Housing Community Activities Family Subcommittee Leads, and campaigned to have back-up childcare options extended to all graduate students at MIT. This led the GSC to commit $30,000 to a pilot for the program, which was matched by the administration. The program is now fully funded by MIT, and considered a success.
From 2012-2013, Professor Ghassemi was the Treasurer for the CSAIL Student Committee and (most importantly) created “Muffin Mondays,” a weekly opportunity for MIT’s graduate community to bond over baked treats from Flour Bakery. The event still happens every Monday in CSAIL.