Hemant Ishwaran, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His research focuses on developing machine learning methods for complex biomedical and time-to-event data and translating these methods into practical, open-source tools for researchers.
Dr. Ishwaran is the creator of random survival forests and the R package randomForestSRC, which are widely used for survival, regression, and classification analyses. His work has been applied to cardiovascular disease, heart transplantation, cancer, and genomics. As a member of the American Joint Committee on Cancer expert panel, he contributed to the development of data-driven methods that have informed modern cancer staging.
