Alex Gaudio

Explainable Machine Learning

for Medical Signal Analysis

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Bio

Alex Gaudio researches explainable machine learning for the analysis of medical signals pertaining primarily to the heart, lungs, vascular system and eyes. Alex is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University. He has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a PhD from the University of Porto, and an MS from CMU. He was honored as a Champion of Social Justice for his non-profit, NYC Makerspace. He worked as a data scientist and engineer in New York City for 7 years prior to the PhD. He received a B.A. in jazz performance and composition at Bard College, during which time he also worked as an Emergency Medical Technician in ambulances and in a hospital.

Advice to myself and to my friends and colleagues: Visionary people embrace challenge by inventing opportunities and pursuing ideas. Their success is achieved not by meeting requirements or emphasizing credentials, but by giving others the ability to appreciate, use and adapt the things they love most. Think big, then go a lot bigger, and find clever ways to make it happen. People will follow and support you when they can see, understand, and believe in what you are doing. Setup a safety net, and then jump!

Multi-disciplinary Research Interests

Explainable Deep Machine Learning
Medical Image and Signal Analysis
Non-invasive medical devices, especially the stethoscope
Heart and lung auscultation, pulmonary hypertension, data efficient ML, compression, localization, privacy

My Five-Fifteen Year Plan to bridge University, Medical School and Industry:

Establish an applied research and teaching lab jointly in a university and medical school to study explainable machine learning pertaining to heart and lung medical signals, with particular emphasis on machine learning for non-invasive medical devices like the digital stethoscope.
Spin research ideas into companies. I don't want to run the companies, but I want to be part of some sort of academic incubator.
Give to my communities: Establish a non-profit to find and train individuals from underserved or disadvantaged backgrounds. I hope some of these individuals become employees and leaders of incubated companies we create. Advise and teach all people about learning machines, in the university, hospital, local community, and in industry.
Over the course of my career, I strive to bridge academia with medicine, industry, government, non-profits, and local community to drive political reform, shape the directions of future research, enhance incentives for academic research, and help shape the communities I am a part of or close to.
Let's collaborate. Contact me.

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computational Audio Perception Lab (Fall, 2023)
Advisor: Prof. Mounya Elhilali
Carnegie Mellon University

Ph.D. in Electrical Computer Engineering (2023)
Advisors: Prof. Asim Smailagic, Prof. Aurelio Campilho
University of Porto

Ph.D. in Electrical Computer Engineering (expected 2023)
(via CMU Portugal dual PhD degree program)
Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. in Electrical Computer Engineering (2023)
Bard College

Bachelor of Arts in Music, 2010

Alex Gaudio

Explainable Machine Learning

for Medical Signal Analysis

Bio

Multi-disciplinary Research Interests

My Five-Fifteen Year Plan to bridge University, Medical School and Industry:

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Carnegie Mellon University

University of Porto

Carnegie Mellon University

Bard College

Current Publications

Journal, peer reviewed

Conference, peer reviewed

Patent

Invited Talk

Teaching

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