Thomas J. Fuchs was named co-director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, dean of artificial intelligence and human health, and professor of computational pathology and computer science in the Department of Pathology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Fuchs will build on AI initiatives at Mount Sinai Digital and Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Pathology Center of Excellence. In his research, Fuchs develops large-scale systems for mapping the pathology, origins, and progress of cancer, building a high-performance computer cluster to train deep data networks at petabyte scale.
Fuchs will co-lead the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, established in 2019 by the Mount Sinai Health System and the Hasso Plattner Institute.
Previously, Fuchs was director of the Warren Alpert Center for Digital and Computational Pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and associate professor at Weill Cornell Graduate School for Medical Sciences.
At MSK, he led a laboratory focused on computational pathology and medical machine learning. Fuchs co-founded Paige.AI in 2017, and led its initial growth as an AI company in pathology. He is a former research technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and visiting scientist at the California Institute of Technology.
