Public Impact Analytics Science Lab at @Harvard 📈 Advancing and applying analytics for solving societal problems with public impact | Director @Soroush_Saghaf

Harvard University
Joined April 2022
We are ready for #INFORMS2026 Five talks spanning ED imaging, liver transplantation, LLMs, mobile health, and personalized pain management. Find us Nov 1–4 in San Francisco
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.@PIASLab director, @Soroush_Saghaf, recently lead a workshop on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their implications for public policy Thank you to everyone who participated!
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Join @PIASLab director, @Soroush_Saghaf, for the May Virtual Seminar hosted by @UICmedicine AI.Health4All Making Al Impactful in Healthcare 📅 May 20, 2026 🕒 3–4 PM ET medicine.uic.edu/events/ai-h…
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AI in healthcare needs to move beyond prediction → decision-making. @Soroush_Saghaf will share how causal AI + “centaur” models (human + algorithm) can improve clinical care at the CPA Speaker Series @UAlbertaBiz. 📅 Apr 10, 2026 🕙 10–11:30 AM 📍 BUS 4-06
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Congratulations to lab member @JacobCJameson for winning the People's Choice Award🏅for poster presentation at the IOE-ISyE-MS&E Rising Stars Workshop! 👏 @umichioe @GeorgiaTechISyE @StanfordEng
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🎥 New from @PIASLab & @harvard_data Designing a Multi-Modal LLM for Personalized Patient Care (@Soroush_Saghaf) This work explores how AI can move beyond prediction to support causal reasoning in clinical decision-making youtu.be/yutzdT6WtTQ?si=nryp…
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Insights from analytics science have had large-scale impact on improving public policies and reducing crime, climate change, and pandemics. @Soroush_Saghaf discusses what led him to write his book Insight-Driven Problem Solving youtube.com/watch?v=X4_4vP3J…
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Bitter sweet to be ending the semester for @Soroush_Saghaf’s big data and ML class at the Harvard @Kennedy_School. We are grateful for all of the hard work our students put in!
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How can AI move us beyond “average” treatment guidelines toward truly individualized care? @Soroush_Saghaf discusses how AI can deliver personalized, convincing clinical recommendations—especially in cancer care vimeo.com/1084840564 @harvard_data @awscloud @HarvardBizGov
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🎥@Soroush_Saghaf shares the core message from his book Analytics has transformed public policy, reduced crime, improved climate pandemic response, and strengthened supply chains. @HarvardBizGov @CUP_SciEng cambridge.org/9781009379120 youtube.com/watch?v=ggYUtm5w…
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