The department promotes collaborative research for advancing the methods, applications and infrastructure in digital medicine with the emphasis on the synergy of people, processes and technology, representing a multidisciplinary unification based on biomedical, computational and social sciences.
The goals of the Department of Artificial Intelligence include:
- Facilitating the adoption of AI technologies and developing the best-in-class AI education, training, research and translational programs that deliver real return on investment
- Making access to cutting-edge informatics and AI technology a standard practice
- Increasing visibility to expertise in the area of AI and informatics
- Strengthening AI capabilities to provide new and impactful insights into health and disease and applied informatics capabilities to translate discoveries into the practice
- Facilitating the recruitment, onboarding, ongoing performance expectations and retention of research faculty in AI
- Providing a primary and secondary academic home supporting shared infrastructure, knowledge diffusion and professional development
- Offering post-graduate education
- Increasing academic and industry partnerships in AI