Sudeshna Das, PhD, is an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and director of the Mass General Hospital (MGH) Biomedical Informatics Core. She serves as MassAITC co-principal investigator and AD/ADRD Pilot Core co-lead. Her lab develops and applies computational, statistical, and AI methods to big data—from molecular omics to electronic health data—to advance research and clinical care. Her work centers around advancing brain research, with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). Dr. Das also serves as co-lead for the Data Management and Statistical Core of the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (MADRC) and is a member of the National ADRC Clinical Task Force Technology subcommittee.

Prior to her appointments at HMS and MGH, Dr. Das managed a multidisciplinary team of scientists in the computational biology group at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and was senior program manager for life sciences with the Initiative in Innovative Computing at Harvard University. She is associate editor of two neurology journals and an ad hoc reviewer for 25+ journals spanning neuroscience and data science. She completed her PhD in biomedical engineering at Boston University.