Benjamin Glicksberg, PhD

Benjamin Glicksberg, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health and the Founding Director of the Center for AI in Children’s Health at the Icahn School of Medicine. He is also a Member of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health, and Adjunct Faculty of Digital Engineering at the Hasso Planner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Formerly, he served on the leadership team as the VP and Head of Data Science and Machine Learning of Character Biosciences, a precision health drug development company using genomics to develop novel therapeutics for progressive diseases of aging. Prior to Character Biosciences, Dr. Glicksberg was an Assistant Professor in Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research broadly uses machine learning on multi-modal and multi-omic patient data for personalizing medicine.  His work often involves the analysis and integration of diverse multi-modal and multi-omic biomedical data, such as Electronic Health Records (EHR), clinical text, genomics, physiological waveforms, videos, and images, for applications ranging from predictive modeling to drug discovery. Dr. Glicksberg received his Ph.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and completed post-doctoral work at the University of California, San Francisco.