Roy Adams is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he works on machine learning and statistical methods for understanding electronic medical data. He uses these methods to provide insight into complex medical conditions and to improve the safety, efficiency, and efficacy of patient care, with particular focus on sepsis, addiction, and Alzheimer’s disease. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2018 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in computer science and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University in 2021.