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AN OUTLOOK FOR THE NEXT DECADE IN
AI, MACHINE LEARNING & HEALTH
Bridging the gap between artificial intelligence and real-world health outcomes, the AI in Health Conference isn’t just about what AI can do—it’s about what AI should do for patient care.
The AI in Health Conference is your opportunity to connect with and learn from researchers, engineers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs at the forefront of artificial intelligence in healthcare and public health. Brought to you by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University, this program will address the current state of artificial intelligence in health and showcase a research-based outlook on the next 10 years.
The AI in Health 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. The intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence holds potential, unlike any other innovation the medical industry has seen before. Artificial intelligence’s ability to operate and automate tasks at heightened speed, efficiency, and accuracy has already made an impact on day-to-day hospital care and administrative functions.
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
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. More information about the 2025 speakers, sessions and workshops soon. To stay updated on program announcements, join the conference mailing list.
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
The AI in Health Conference will feature a Sponsor Networking Reception for attendees to meet our #AIHC25 sponsors, along with a Poster Presentation Reception to showcase exciting research happening in the healthcare space by graduate students and postdocs.
2024 INVITED SPEAKERS
Behnaam Aazhang, PhD
J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Rice Neuroengineering Initiative (NEI), Rice University
Gil Alterovitz, PhD
Director, National Artificial Intelligence,
Office of Research and Development,
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Anton Banta, PhD
Biotechnology and Machine Learning Engineer, Neurosurgery and Neuroprosthetics, Houston Methodist
Lynda Chin, MD
Founder, President, and CEO,
Apricity Health Inc
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Jim Colson MSME, MSCS
Associate Vice President, Digital Health, Texas A&M Health;
IBM Fellow/VP/CTO - Emeritus
Josiah Hester, PhD
Associate Professor of Interactive Computing and Computer Science, Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Responsible Computing, Associate Director of Community Engaged Research, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alexander Huth, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin
Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD
Associate Vice President of Medical AI, Christopher Sarofim Family Professor, Center Director of Secure Artificial Intelligence for hEalthcare (SAFE), Chair of Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, UTHealth Houston
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Abria Magee, PhD
Sr. Program Manager for Product Development Research, Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)
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Chethan Pandarinath, PhD
Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology
Ankit Patel, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
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Andrea Ramirez, MD, MS
Chief Data Officer, All of Us Research Program
Rafael Rosengarten, PhD
CEO and Co-Founder,
Genialis
Akane Sano, PhD
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Bioengineering, Rice University
Laila Rasmy, PhD
Assistant Professor, McWilliam's School of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Health Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, UTHealth Houston
Ginny Torno, MBA
Executive Director of Innovation and IT Clinical Systems, Houston Methodist
Andrea Vuturo
Founder & Managing Partner,
Vuturo Group
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Hua Xu, PhD
Robert T. McCluskey Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Vice Chair for Research and Development, Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
Vicky Yao, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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.
The call for abstract for the 2025 AI in Health Conference will open soon.
