Tianx Cai

Tianxi Cai, ScD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Translational Data Science Center for a Learning Health System (CELEHS)

10 Shattuck Street, Room 434, Boston, MA 02115

Tianxi Cai is a major player in developing analytical tools for mining EHR data and predictive modeling with biomedical data. She provides statistical leadership on several large-scale projects, including the NIH-funded Undiagnosed Diseases Network at DBMI. Cai's research lab develops novel statistical and machine learning methods for several areas including clinical trials, real world evidence, and personalized medicine using genomic and phenomic data. Cai received her ScD in Biostatistics at Harvard and was an assistant professor at the University of Washington before returning to Harvard as a faculty member in 2002.


DBMI Research Areas
A weakly supervised transformer for rare disease diagnosis and subphenotyping from EHRs with pulmonary case studies.
Authors: Greco KF, Yang Z, Li M, Tong H, Morini Sweet S, Geva A, Mandl KD, Raby BA, Cai T.
NPJ Digit Med
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Scaling medical AI across clinical contexts.
Authors: Li MM, Reis BY, Rodman A, Cai T, Dagan N, Balicer RD, Loscalzo J, Kohane IS, Zitnik M.
Nat Med
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Multimodal prediction of future depressive symptoms in adolescents.
Authors: Wang L, Zhou N, Jaffe NM, Pidvirny K, Tierney AO, Fisher HB, Morfini F, Forbes EE, Pizzagalli DA, Cai T, Webb CA.
BMC Psychiatry
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The "Clinical Topics" from the Electronic Health Record of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Before Initiating Targeted Therapies and Association with Future Treatment Course.
Authors: Tang J, Weisenfeld D, Wang L, Jeffway M, Cagan A, Bonzel CL, McDermott GC, Cai T, Liao KP.
ACR Open Rheumatol
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Integrated analysis for electronic health records with structured and sporadic missingness.
Authors: Tan J, Zhang Y, Hong C, Cai TT, Cai T, Zhang AR.
J Biomed Inform
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Multimodal Prediction of Future Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents.
Authors: Wang L, Zhou N, Jaffe NM, Pidvirny K, Tierney AO, Fisher HB, Morfini F, Forbes EE, Pizzagalli DA, Cai T, Webb CA.
Res Sq
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Early detection of non-small cell lung cancer: an electronic health record data-driven approach.
Authors: Li X, Yuan EY, Kuperberg SJ, Bonzel CL, Jeffway MI, Cai T, Liao KP, Aguiar-Ibáñez R, Kao YH, Santorelli ML, Christiani DC, Cai T, Duan R.
BMC Med
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Testing the internal validity of the maintenance/discontinuation study design for antidepressant medications in depression using simulations.
Authors: Meyerson WU, Cai T, Smoller JW.
medRxiv
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Label efficient phenotyping for Long COVID using electronic health records.
Authors: Hong C, Wen J, Zhang HG, Ayakulangara Panickan V, Yang DY, Chen AW, Xiong X, Wang X, Morris M, Morini S, Sangar R, Dey A, Samayamuthu MJ, Liao K, Bonzel CL, Tanukonda V, Maripuri M, Honerlaw J, Ho YL, Visweswaran S, Kohane IS, Cho K, Brat G, Xia Z, Cai T.
NPJ Digit Med
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Controllable Sequence Editing for Biological and Clinical Trajectories.
Authors: Li MM, Li K, Ektefaie Y, Jin Y, Huang Y, Messica S, Cai T, Zitnik M.
ArXiv
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