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Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak is professor of health informatics in the George Mason University Department of Health Administration and Policy, and the Division Director for Mason’s Programs in Health Informatics. He also serves as the director of the GMU Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, and co-Director of the Injury Analytics Lab.

Dr. Wojtusiak obtained with honors his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University in 2001, and Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics (concentration in Computational Intelligence and Knowledge Mining) from George Mason University in 2007. After completing his PhD he became a post-doctoral fellow in the Mason’s Department of Health Administration and Policy, and later tenure-track faculty.

Dr. Wojtusiak’s research interests include development and use of intelligent systems in health. In particular he focuses on creating artificial intelligence methods for supporting clinical, administrative and public health operations. Specific methodologies include human-oriented machine learning and analysis of complex temporal and multidimensional data. His work aims at creating machine learning that makes sense in health: complex data used to create accurate, human-oriented, unbiased and well-behaved models. He authored or co-authored over 100 research publications and presentations in these areas with over 1,500 citations on Google Scholar. Some of his recent research include work on building tools for detection and analysis of injuries, evaluation of machine learning prediction of patients’ functional decline over time, generation of realistic synthetic patient data, interpretability and transparency of machine learning methods in health, evaluation of machine learning models, and prediction of movement in People with Alzheimer’s Disease, temporal modeling of data, technology-based contact prediction during pandemic.