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Dr. Gari Clifford is a tenured Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at Emory. He develops signal processing and machine learning techniques to classify, track and predict health and illness in critical care, digital psychiatry, global health, mHealth, neuroinformatics and perinatal health. After training in Theoretical Physics, he transitioned to AI and Engineering for his doctorate at the University of Oxford in the 1990’s. He subsequently joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, then Principal Research Scientist where he managed the creation of the MIMIC II database, the largest open-access critical care database in the world. He later returned to Oxford as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, where he helped found the Sleep & Circadian Neuroscience Institute and served as Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation at the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Dr Clifford has a history of commercial translation, working closely with industry as an advisor to multiple companies, co-founding and serving as CTO of an MIT fetal monitoring spin-out (MindChild Medical) since 2009. Dr. Clifford was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to machine learning applications in cardiovascular time series in 2023. Dr Clifford is also a strong supporter of open-access data and open-source software in medicine, particularly through his leadership of the PhysioNet/CinC Challenges and contributions to the PhysioNet Resource over the last 25 years. Dr Clifford has a specific interest in working with marginalized communities, particularly in Central America where he works with his anthropologist partner, Prof. Rachel Hall-Clifford, and with whom he co-founded the Co-design Lab for Health Equity and Safe+Natal.