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AN OUTLOOK FOR THE NEXT DECADE IN
AI, MACHINE LEARNING & HEALTH
The AI in Health Conference bridges the gap between artificial intelligence and real-world health outcomes — focusing not just on what AI can do, but on what it should do to improve patient care.
Hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, the fourth annual AI in Health Conference will explore the current landscape of artificial intelligence in health and present a research-driven outlook for the future of computational health innovation, highlighting advancements across (1) Physical AI and Medicine, (2) AI for Modern Therapeutics, and (3) AI for Clinical Research. The program is designed to connect researchers and innovators with engineers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs at the forefront of AI in healthcare and public health.
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The conference will take place in Houston, home of the largest medical center in the world — the Texas Medical Center — which hosts 60+ member institutions that are visited by 10 million patients each year.
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Sign up for our newsletter to get updates on the 2025 conference, featuring invited speakers, a technical talk program, an exhibit hall, networking receptions, poster presentations, and add-on workshops.
AIHC25 DETAILS
Conference + Workshop Dates: September 22-25, 2025
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Venue: BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) at Rice University | 6500 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030​
The main conference sessions will take place on September 23-24. In-person workshops will be available on September 22 & 25. Tickets for workshops can be purchased alone or in combination with conference tickets. To stay updated on program announcements, join the conference mailing list.
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NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
The AI in Health Conference will feature a networking reception on Tuesday for attendees to meet our #AIHC25 sponsors, along with poster sessions on Wednesday to showcase cutting-edge research by graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.​​ Specialty coffee will be provided all day Tuesday–Wednesday in the exhibit hall for attendees, sponsored by Mark III Systems and NVIDIA.
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2025 INVITED SPEAKERS
Tapomayukh (Tapo) Bhattacharjee, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Cornell University
Hanjie Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Rice University
Stuart Corr, PhD, MA
Director of Innovation Engineering,
The Bookout Center; Associate Research Professor, Department of CV Surgery, Houston Methodist Academic Institute
Payel Das, PhD
Principal Researcher and Manager,
IBM Research AI
George Demiris, PhD, FACMI
Mary Alice Bennett University Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Nursing & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Amy Dittmar, PhD
Howard R. Hughes Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor of Finance and of Economics, Rice University
Sara Gerke, Dipl-Jur Univ, MA
Associate Professor of Law & Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar, College of Law; Associate Professor at the European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Miguel Hernán, MD, DrPH
Director of CAUSALab,
Harvard University
Angela Holmes, MSBME
CEO,
OmniScience Bio
David S. Jones, MD, PhD
Professor,
Harvard University
Andy Lin
CTO,
Mark III Systems
Charles Lin, PhD
Executive Director of Computational Translational Target Discovery, Precision Medicine, Amgen
Hongfang Liu, PhD
Professor and McWilliams Chair of Biomedical Informatics; Director of Center for Translational AI Excellence and Application in Medicine; Vice President of Learning Health System,
UTHealth Houston
Alex John London, PhD
K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University
Susan Mockus, PhD, MBA
AVP of Knowledge Informatics,
Baylor Genetics
Duncan Ng
Vice President of Solutions Engineering, Vultr
Kristin Kostick-Quenet, PhD, MFA
Assistant Professor,
Center for Medical Ethics and
Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
Peizhu (Pam) Qian, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Houston
Rafael Rosengarten, PhD
CEO and Cofounder,
Genialis
Christopher S. Simmons, PhD
Scientist-in-Residence,
Cambridge Computer
Darrin Thomason
Vice President of Customer Engineering, Arista Networks
Vaibhav Unhelkar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
S. Craig Watkins, PhD
Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor; Executive Director of the IC2 Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Accepted abstracts for the conference will be asked to deliver a 15-20 minute presentation, including Q&A, as part of the conference technical program. Technical speakers will highlight algorithms, use-cases, and solutions that support data-driven discovery and decision-making in healthcare and public health for the next decade. The themes for this year's technical program will be determined based on abstract submissions, and talks will take place in parallel to the main conference tracks.
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2025 SPONSORS
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CONTRIBUTOR
RICE COLLABORATORS
We would like to extend special recognition to the significant collaborative contributions to the program's medical ethics component, made possible through the joint efforts with Rice University's Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program, the Creative Ventures Funds, the Medical Humanities Research Institute, and the Technology, Culture, and Society Initiative.
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