timothy.odonga [at] emory.edu

Ph.D. student, Departments of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Timothy is a student in the Computer Science and Informatics Ph.D. program. The goal of his research is to leverage current breakthroughs in computing to tackle important problems in health research and increase access to marginalized or unreached communities. His research interests broadly encompass machine learning, computer vision, signal processing, and distributed computing with a focus on building trustworthy, reliable, and accessible systems to assist humans in high-stakes applications such as clinical settings. Timothy has had work featured at conferences and workshops such as MICCAI 2020, and the NeurIPS Fair ML for Health Workshop 2019 and was an IBM Great Minds scholar in 2019. He holds a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and two bachelor’s degrees in Physics, and Electrical Engineering from Gordon College and the University of Southern California respectively, completed through a dual physics and engineering program between the two schools.