The Cava laboratory is a research group interested in improving the interpretability and fairness of predictive models deployed in healthcare settings. We create and study algorithms that can embed these notions when working with health data.

The lab is part of the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.

Join the Team! If you’re looking to do research in the areas of machine learning, interpretability, fairness, and health informatics, see the opportunities here.

Recent Papers

Application of Artificial Neural Networks and Functional Brain Connectivity to Inform Pediatric Headache
Guilherme Aldeia, Clara Moon, Julie Shulman, Navil Sethna, Allison Smith, Alyssa Lebel, William La Cava, Scott Holmes (2025)
The Journal of Pain
Intersectional and Marginal Debiasing in Prediction Models for Emergency Admissions
Elle Lett, Shakiba Shahbandegan, Yuval Barak-Corren, Andrew M. Fine, William G. La Cava (2025)
JAMA Network Open
Call for Action: towards the next generation of symbolic regression benchmark
Guilherme S. Imai Aldeia, Hengzhe Zhang, Geoffrey Bomarito, Miles Cranmer, Alcides Fonseca, Bogdan Burlacu, William G. La Cava, Fabrício Olivetti França (2025)
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