William La Cava

William La Cava is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a core faculty member of the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital. Prior to joining CHIP, he was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from UMass Amherst with a focus on interpretable modelling of dynamical systems.

Recent Papers

Deep Time-to-Event Models for Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

Guilherme Seidyo Imai Aldeia, Helena Coggan, Yuting Yang, Lisa Levine, Jennifer A. McCoy, William La Cava (2026)

Preprint

medrxiv.org  |  pdf  |  code

A foundation-model approach to pediatric headache classification from resting-state fMRI

Guilherme Seidyo Imai Aldeia, Clara Moon, Julie M. Shulman, Navil Sethna, Allison M. Smith, Alyssa LeBel, William La Cava, Scott Holmes (2026)

Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) · Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC)

proceedings.mlr.press  |  arXiv  |  pdf  |  code

Recent Posts

Interpreting a glass-box clinical prediction model of resistant hypertension

5 minute read

About our recent HUMIES award-winning algorithm for clinical prediction models

Translating Intersectionality to Fair Machine Learning

1 minute read

A new perspective on how this social theory relates to fair machine learning.