Christos Davatzikos, PhD is the Wallace T. Miller Sr. Professor of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the recently founded AI2D Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics. He has been the Founding Director of the Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics since 2013, and the director of the AIBIL lab (AI in Biomedical Imaging). He holds secondary appointments in Electrical and Systems Engineering, Computer and Information Science, and in the Division of Informatics at Penn. He obtained his undergraduate degree by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1989, and his PhD degree from Johns Hopkins, in 1994, on a Fulbright scholarship. He then joined the faculty in Radiology and later in Computer Science, where he founded and directed the Neuroimaging Laboratory. In 2002, he moved to Penn where he founded and directed the section of biomedical image analysis. Dr. Davatzikos’ interests are in medical image analysis. He oversees a diverse research program ranging from basic problems of imaging pattern analysis and machine learning, to a variety of clinical studies of aging and Alzheimer’s Disease, neuropsychiatric disorders, and brain cancer. Dr. Davatzikos has served on a variety of scientific journal editorial boards and grant review committees. He is an IEEE fellow, a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and member of the council of distinguished investigators of the US Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. He was the recipient of the NIA Nathan Schock Lecture award in 2024 and of the DeLeon senior scientist award at the Alzheimer’s International Conference (AAIC) 2025 for his Nature publication “Brain aging patterns in a large and diverse cohort of 49,482 individuals.”
