Harold Washington Professor, ECE and CS Department, Northwestern University. US. Founder, 4Cinsights Inc. US.

“AI’s Potential Role and Challenges in Critical Care and Chronic Disease Management“

Wednesday 18 February 2026

Abstract

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich temporal and multimodal information that can be used in AI/ML based models for clinical decision-making, yet their complex, heterogeneous nature presents significant challenges. These dataset characteristics in size, volume, heterogeneity and complexity are quite different from those used for training LLMs (what is
commonly knowns as AI models today). Not making the right decisions (or even a suboptimal decision) can have adverse outcomes. This talk will present challenges, approaches, results and lessons from applying AI in Critical care as well as Chronic disease management.

Bio

Dr. Alok Choudhary is Harold Washington Professor in the ECE and CS departments at Northwestern University. He was the founder, chairman and chief scientist of 4C insights, a big data analytics and marketing technology software company (4C was recently acquired by MediaOcean). He received the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator Award in 1993. He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS. He has published more than 400 papers in various journals and conferences and has graduated 45+ PhD students, including more than 10 women PhDs.

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