Fei Wang, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emergency Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Founding Director of the WCM Institute of AI for Digital Health (AIDH) speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Brent Phillips about Dr. Wang’s work at Cornell and about Cornell’s new Institute of AI for Digital Health. Dr. Wang and Brent also discuss new and existing data sources for health AI research, the evolution and power of complex machine learning models and their impact on informatics and computational health fields, education in the AI age and about explainable AI and advice for private sector companies interested in collaborating with academic institutions.