Vasant
Honavar

Vasant Honavar is the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence and director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Lab at Penn State. He has more than three decades of academic experience in the field of AI. Specifically, Honavar’s areas of research interest include machine learning, causal inference and knowledge representation, as well as computer science, data sciences, cognitive and brain sciences and applied informatics (particularly bioinformatics and health informatics). His work in these areas has been foundational, with more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited at least 16,000 times.

In addition to directing the AI Research Lab, Honavar led the establishment of Penn State’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications and the Center for Big Data Analytics and Discovery Informatics. He can offer expertise and answer questions on a wide range of questions regarding AI and informatics, including how predictive models can be built from “big data” and how to build AI systems that are fair, explainable and accountable.