Speakers Introduction

Bruce Church is responsible for AI algorithm development, developing innovative applications for Causal AI, and management of Aitia’s technology stack. Bruce is a member of the founding team of Aitia and GNS Healthcare.

An expert in Causal AI, Statistical Physics, Machine Learning, Parallel Computing, and Causal Inference, Bruce is the principal inventor of the REFS platform. Bruce’s original graduate training was in Theoretical and Computation Plasma Physics for applications to Fusion Energy. Post doctoral work focused on the Grand Challenge Protein Folding borrowing ideas from renormalization theory to better predict protein structure from sequence, developing global optimization methods for computational protein folding, the results of which have been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Bruce has served as the principal investigator on several major grants, including a $2.5 million award from the Department of Energy.

Balancing work in AI technology with sport, Bruce is an accomplished level-3 rugby coach and senior sports leader for over 30 years. Bruce coached Cornell Women’s Rugby to 7 consecutive championships, was the founding head coach for the Northeast U23 team, head coached Boston Women’s Rugby from 2003-2009, served as President of the Northeast Rugby Union and served on the Board of Directors for USA Rugby’s national governing body from 2001-2006. He is currently the founding head coach of Mystic River Girls U19.