Published 20 June 2018
Roni Rosenfeld, PhD, an expert in Language Technologies, Machine Learning, Computer Science and Computational Biology, has been appointed Head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) School of Computer Science. Dr. Rosenfeld is a faculty member of the PHDL at Pitt Public Health and an investigator for the University of Pittsburgh's MIDAS Center of Excellence. He is head of CMU's Delphi Research Group which selects high value epidemiological forecasting targets (currently Influenza and Dengue), creates baseline forecasting methods, establishes metrics for measuring and tracking forecasting accuracy, estimates the limits of forecastability for each target, and identifies new sources of data that could be helpful to the forecasting goal.