Mauricio Santillana is the director of the Machine Intelligence Research Lab in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is an Assistant Professor at both the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Santillana is a physicist and applied mathematician with expertise in monitoring the spatio-temporal patterns of epidemic outbreaks in multiple locations worldwide by leveraging information from big data sets from Internet-based services (such as Google, Twitter, Weather, Human mobility, EHR). Dr. Santillana has advised the CDC, Africa CDC, and the White House on the development of population-wide disease forecasting tools.