Biography

Dr. Kanjilal is a Group Leader in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. His research interests lie in the application of machine learning algorithms to observational and experimental data to improve the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. Specific areas of work include building AI decision support tools to assist healthcare providers in diagnosing infection and choosing optimal treatments. His long-term goal is to lay the foundation for a learning health system through research and practice. This involves building better AI models with healthcare data, better interfaces that actually help clinicians make better decisions, infrastructure to automate complex analytic pipelines, and safety mechanisms to ensure these systems do not harm patients and lastly, running trials to evaluate ML algorithms in real world environments.