David Sasu
Dr David Sasu is SwissAI Post-doctoral Research Fellow at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and also currently serving as the Technology Director for the Laboratory of Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT), which is jointly based at EPFL and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health via Ariadne Labs. He is also an Archer-Cornfield Fellow at Ashesi University.
In his role at LiGHT, he contributes to research that is focused on building equitable, reliable AI for high-stakes health decisions, especially in low-resource settings, by combining clinical expertise, rigorous evaluation, and diverse datasets to reduce bias. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Ashesi University and a PhD in Computer Science from the IT University of Copenhagen. During his PhD, he worked as a researcher at Apple in the Machine Learning research organisation
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Can AI be a Game Changer for Health Programmes in Humanitarian Settings?21-Oct-2026Workshop Room 1