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

A foundation-model approach to pediatric headache classification from rs-fMRI

Guilherme S. Imai Aldeia, Clara Moon, Julie Shulman, Navil Sethna, Allison Smith, Alyssa Lebel, William G. La Cava, Scott Holmes (2026)

Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference

arxiv.org  |  pdf  | In press

Single lead electrocardiographic detection of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in pediatric and congenital heart disease

Joshua Mayourian, Ivor B. Asztalos, William La Cava, Ryan L. Kobayashi, Sunil J. Ghelani, Victoria L. Vetter, Rachel M. Wald, Anne Marie Valente, Tal Geva, John K. Triedman (2026)

npj Digital Medicine

nature.com  |  pdf

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

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