Dr. Travis Williams is a contributor to the AI Ethics Lab and serves as a Senior Scientist in Biomedical & Clinical Informatics at Rutgers University.
Travis received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in 2017. His dissertation, “Advanced Image Classification using Deep Neural Networks,” combined wavelet theory and deep learning to increase the accuracy and efficiency of deep learning algorithms. He worked as a Research Scholar at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under Drs. Amber Simpson & Mithat Gönen. His research at MSK applied machine learning to classifying tumors in the pancreas and liver as cancerous or benign, predicting survival, etc.
Currently in his role as a Senior Scientist, he advises professors, medical doctors and researchers, and students/postdocs/fellows in the areas of machine learning, deep learning, and image processing. Additionally, he creates workshops for the broader Rutgers community on topics of interest in machine learning and image processing. Some projects he has been working on with other researchers include: Prognostic factors for neurological post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection; Prognostic markers of heart rate variability in neurological conditions; Using multi-modal data fusion to build a predictive model for disease progression in oral potentially malignant disorders.