Rhoda Au

Rhoda Au is Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health. Since 1990, she has overseen the expansion of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) multi-generational cognitive aging and dementia/Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research from its initial focus on clinical dementia to mild cognitive impairment to pre-symptomatic. Beginning in 2005, she implemented use of digital technologies to enable much deeper phenotyping of cognitively related functions at far greater scale. She has recently been prioritizing accelerating science in academia and industry as an imperative to meet the data needs for an AI reality. To this end, she along with a team of multi-sector collaborators have been constructing an front-to-backend solution that will be wrapped with a quality management system to ensure research value extend beyond the academic walls. Her own research centers on leveraging