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David Sontag

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Visiting Scientist, Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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David Sontag

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David Sontag joined the MIT faculty in 2017 as Hermann L. F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He is also a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Professor Sontag’s research interests are in machine learning and artificial intelligence. As part of IMES, he leads a research group that aims to transform healthcare through the use of machine learning.


Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Sontag was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Data Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 2011 to 2016, and postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England from 2010 to 2011. Dr. Sontag received the Sprowls award for outstanding doctoral thesis in Computer Science at MIT in 2010, best paper awards at the conferences Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), and Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), faculty awards from Google, Facebook, and Adobe, and a NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Sontag received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Digital Business
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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Artificial Intelligence

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Organizations & Leadership

Strategy & Innovation

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
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Mar 25–May 12, 2026

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Online

DURATION

6 weeks

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6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

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Mar 25–May 12, 2026

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Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

May 20–Jul 7, 2026

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6 weeks

6–8 hours/week

$3,250

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May 20–Jul 7, 2026

LOCATION

Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

Jul 15–Sep 1, 2026

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6 weeks

6–8 hours/week

$3,250

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Jul 15–Sep 1, 2026

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Online

DURATION

6 weeks

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6–8 hours/week

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$3,250

Sep 9–Oct 27, 2026

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6–8 hours/week

$3,250

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Sep 9–Oct 27, 2026

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Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

Nov 11, 2026–Jan 26, 2027

Online

6 weeks

6–8 hours/week

$3,250

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Nov 11, 2026–Jan 26, 2027

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Online

DURATION

6 weeks

COMMITMENT

6–8 hours/week

TUITION

$3,250

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AI-FOCUSED

Transforming Healthcare with AI

Artificial Intelligence

Operations

Strategy & Innovation

EARN 2.0 EEUs
Transforming Healthcare with AI
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STARTING

May 21–22, 2026

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

7 hours/day

TUITION

$5,700

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May 21–22, 2026

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

7 hours/day

TUITION

$5,700

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