Dr. Parisa Rashidi is the founding co-director of the Intelligent Critical Care Center (IC3) at the University of Florida (UF) and an associate professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). She is also affiliated with the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) departments. Her research aims to bridge the gap between machine learning and patient care. Dr. Rashidi is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awardee, the National Institute of Health (NIH) Trailblazer Awardee, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Leadership Excellence Awardee, Herbert WertheimCollege of Engineering Assistant Professor Excellence Awardee, and a recipient of the UF term professorship. She also received UF’s Provost Excellence Award for assistant professors; with more than 500 tenure-track assistant professors at UF, Dr. Rashidi is one of only 10 to receive this award. She was invited by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as one of only 38 outstanding US engineers under 45 to participate in the EU-US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Meeting. To date, she has authored 170+ peer-reviewed publications. She has chaired several workshops and symposiums on intelligent health systems and has served on the program committee of 20+ conferences. Dr. Rashidi’s research has been supported by local, state, and federal grants, including awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIBIB, NCI, and NIGMS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).