Digital Health & Machine Learning research group

Hasso Plattner Institute · Potsdam, Germany

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Lab profile

About Digital Health & Machine Learning research group

The lab develops Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms and novel applications in medicine. They work on models to detect disease patterns in images and molecular data, and statistical models for the quantitative analysis of large cohorts, aiming to revolutionize clinical practice and turn medicine into a data science.

Deep LearningMedical ImagingStatistical Methods for Genetics and GenomicsCausal Inference and Prediction ModelsClinical Trial DesignsN-of-1 TrialsDigital Health AppsDeep Probabilistic Models

01 · Research focus

Research areas and highlights

Topics and recent work as stated on the lab’s own site.

  • StudyU Platform and Clinical N-of-1 TrialsPlatform and app that allow researchers, physicians and citizens to easily design and conduct N-of-1 trials to investigate the effect of digital health interventions on an individual level.
  • PIANo-1N-of-1 trial investigating the effect of music on concentration, collecting multiple sensor data for assessing concentration.
  • MeMäFImprove women's health with a digitally supported care model for girls and young women with menstrual pain and validate existing and develop novel prognostic clinical prediction models for endometriosis.
  • HEALTH-X dataLOFT
  • Syreal
  • Medical Imaging - Reducing the dependency on expert supervisionIncludes CLASSIFAI for usable active learning for medical image segmentation, self-supervised learning, and generative adversarial networks for medical imaging.
  • CovMap - Modeling SARS-Cov infection risk based on GPS dataMethods for modeling SARS-CoV infection risk based on GPS data.
  • KI Kompetenzzentrum MittelstandSupporting SMEs to identify use cases for AI technologies in their company.
  • GEMINI Summer SchoolFirst GEMINI Summer School on Gender-sensitive Evidence: Methods and Individualized N-of-1 trial Interventions, October 13-17, 2025 at HPI, funded by BMBF.

02 · People

Leadership and researchers

People listed on the lab’s team pages, by role.

Christoph LippertDirector · Professor for Digital Health & Machine Learning
Masoumeh JavanbakhatPostDoc
Rebecca PaprottPostDoc

03 · Research intelligence

Research Intelligence evidence

Publications, grants and clinical trials linked to the lab’s researchers in Health AI Central’s research data.

04 · Updates

Updates and lab news

News and events from the lab’s own site.

  • October 2025 - Digital Health Partnership WorkshopEventOct 6, 2025

05 · Official presence

Lab sources and channels

The lab’s own pages and accounts.

06 · Related

Related labs and centers

Labs at the same institution and labs working on similar topics.