2025 a2 National Symposium Plenary Talk: Marzyeh Ghassemi, PhD– The Pulse of Ethical Machine Learning in Health
As machine learning (ML) becomes increasingly integrated into healthcare, ensuring ethical, fair, and robust deployment is critical. Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi and the Healthy ML Lab at MIT investigate the challenges and opportunities of applying ML in clinical settings, with a focus on fairness, privacy, and real-world impact. Through case studies in medical imaging and clinical prediction, her work highlights how models trained on large datasets can exhibit significant disparities in performance across demographic subgroups, including age, race, gender, and insurance status.