Dr. Pratik Shah is a Principal Investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA and will be leading the data science and machine learning component of this proposal. Dr. Shah' research at MIT combines novel informatics driven biomedical technologies for translational clinical research and real-world evidence generation from biological and clinical data.

Key goals of his research are augmenting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, medical imaging and neural network capabilities with statistical reasoning for personalized digital medicines to improve health outcomes.

His Ph.D. research is internationally recognized for its discovery and testing of a new bacterial surface protein molecule to immunize children against Streptococcus pneumoniae diseases. Dr. Shah's findings have been independently corroborated by multiple academic and government researchers and are currently being used by agencies in Brazil, China to develop affordable vaccines for the prevention of pneumococcal diseases.

In recognition of his contributions to public health, Dr. Shah was selected for the 2009 Raymond W. Sarber National Award from the American Society of Microbiology.