Rate My Professor Arjun Manrai

Arjun (Raj) Manrai, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, where he leads a research lab focused on applying machine learning and statistical modeling to improve medical decision-making. His research group examines the role of artificial intelligence in medical diagnosis, the clinical use of genomic data and blood laboratory biomarkers, inherited heart disease and kidney disease, decision-making across populations, and reproducibility and safety challenges for medical artificial intelligence. Manrai earned an A.B. in Physics from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. He serves as founding Deputy Editor of NEJM AI and co-host of the NEJM AI Grand Rounds podcast. His work has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, with presentations at the National Academy of Sciences and features in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Manrai has mentored students at Harvard College for over a decade as a Resident Tutor and member of the Senior Common Room at Leverett House, with lab members receiving awards including the Rhodes and Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.