The Cava laboratory is a research group in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

We are 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.

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

SRBench++: Principled Benchmarking of Symbolic Regression With Domain-Expert Interpretation
F. O. de Franca, M. Virgolin, M. Kommenda, M. S. Majumder, M. Cranmer, G. Espada, L. Ingelse, A. Fonseca, M. Landajuela, B. Petersen, R. Glatt, N. Mundhenk, C. S. Lee, J. D. Hochhalter, D. L. Randall, P. Kamienny, H. Zhang, G. Dick, A. Simon, B. Burlacu, Jaan Kasak, Meera Machado, Casper Wilstrup, W. G. La Cava (2024)
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Minimum variance threshold for epsilon-lexicase selection
Guilherme Seidyo Imai Aldeia, Fabrício Olivetti De França, William G. La Cava (2024)
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Pediatric Electrocardiogram-Based Deep Learning to Predict Secundum Atrial Septal Defects
Joshua Mayourian, Robert Geggel, William G. La Cava, Sunil J. Ghelani, John K. Triedman (2024)
Pediatric Cardiology

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