Gregory Cooper

Distinguished Professor and UPMC Endowed Chair
Work Phone: 412-624-3308 Work Fax: 412-624-5310
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Biography

Titles:
Distinguished Professor and UPMC Endowed Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Vice Chair of Research, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Secondary appointments: Intelligent Systems Program, Computational and Systems Biology, and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Interests:
  • Application of decision theory, probability theory, Bayesian statistics, and artificial intelligence to biomedical informatics research problems
  • Causal modeling and discovery from clinical and omics data
  • Computer-aided medical diagnosis and prediction
  • Machine-learning approaches to improving patient safety
  • Biosurveillance of disease outbreaks