Gari D. Clifford, PhD

Professor of Biomedical Informatic and Biomedical Engineering
Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Gari Clifford focuses on the application of signal processing and machine learning to medicine to classify, track and predict health and illness. He joined the faculty at Emory and Georgia Tech in 2014. After completing his PhD at the University of Oxford in the 90’s, he was a postdoctoral fellow, then Principal Research Scientist at MIT. He later returned as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering to Oxford, where he helped found its Sleep & Circadian Neuroscience Institute and served as Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation at the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He is currently a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. As the Chair of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Informatics for the Georgia CTSA, he has established Emory as a leading center for critical care and mHealth informatics, underpinning the mobile data analytics for several research projects, at Emory and across the world, including the Emory Healthy Aging Study.