Dr. Vladimir Filkov is a Professor of Computer Science and Radiology and Director of the CS AI for Health Initiative at UC Davis.
He specializes in open source, generative AI and multimodal AI/ML for understanding complex phenomena in software development and biomedical research.
He runs two labs: DECAL Lab, focusing on improving open source software sustainability, and AI for Health Lab, with focus on improving healthcare outcomes.
With his students and collaborators around the world, he has published more than 150 scientific papers, and won many distinctions, including two test-of-time awards.
His latest work in Sustainability of Open Source Software has been supported by NSF, the Sloan Foundation, and Google, and is one of the key elements of the UC Open Source Programming Office (OSPO) spanning six UC campuses.
His work in AI for Health has resulted in grants from the NIH and CTSA.
Prof Filkov is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a UCD College of Engineering 2024 Outstanding Researcher. He was the inaugural Director of Translational Data Science at DataLab, 2000-2024, and is now a DataLab Fellow. He is the AI Advisor for the UCDH Center of Precision Medicine and UC Davis Grand Challenges, and Faculty advisor for CodeLab. He is also a startup advisor, and consultant.
Google scholar page.
August 2026: We launched the
AI for Health (AI4H) initiative in the CS Department!
July 2026: Saisha Shetty is transfering from the MS to the PhD student track in our lab. Congrats Saisha!
June 2026: Sankalp Kashyap, MS, and Arjun Ashok, BS, have graduated, congrats to both!
August 2025: We released
OSSPREY, our sustainability tracker tool that offers actionable help for OSS projects. Here's a
blog on it from the UC OSPO web.
Spring 2025: Joined
CodeLab as Faculty Advisor. Excited to work with these extraordinary tech savvy young engineers, coders, and designers to create opportunities for our students and soilutions for companies.
February 2025: It was a great honor to give a
Distinguished Lecture at CMU CS/S3D, on our ongoing work on OSS Sustainability. Video is available
here.
October 2024: I was the General Chair of
ASE 2024, which took place Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2024, in Sacramento. It was a year's worth of work by a lot of volunteers. Great to see all my friends, collaborators and meet new people during the event.
September 2024: Raiyan Jahangir joined our lab, as a PhD student. Welcome Raiyan!
May 2024: New grant on Multimodal AI Models for Atrial Fibrilation
MM-Afib.
May 2024: New grant on UC-wide OSPO! Many thanks to the SLOAN foundation for funding this collaboration with 5 other UCs.
UC-OSPO.
Apil 2024: Our paper on researched actionables in SE has been accepted at
FSE IVR.
June 2023: The website for our project "Jumpstarting Nascent OSS Projects" is now
active.
May 2023: I
visited 3 campuses of Amrita University in Kochi, Comibatore, and Amritapuri. Thank you for the wonderful experiences!
March 2023: Our OSS Sustainability Forum was an unqualified success. Check out our blog
here.
January 2023: Many thanks to Google for the gift that will help us organize a forum on OSS Sustainability.
November, 2022: Our paper "On the Self-Governance and Episodic Changes in Apache Incubator Projects: An Empirical Study"
has been accepted for presentation at ICSE 2023. Congrats Likang Yin and coauthors! Final version is
here.
August, 2022: Our NSF GCR grant, to study OSS Sustainability using socio-technical and governance data, was approved for Phase II. Thank you to all our hard working students, postdocs, and PIs. And manythanks to NSF.
May, 2022: Our paper "Code, Quality, and Process Metrics in Graduated and Retired ASFI Projects" has been accepted for presentation at FSE 2022. Congrats Stefan and Likang Yin! Final version is
here.
November, 2021: Announcing a new postdoc position! Application review begins December 15, 2021. For additional details and how to apply see
here.
October, 2021: Our work on COVID admission models was featured on DataLab and Dateline. Check it out
here.
August, 2021: We did a podcast for the CHAOSS Community, on our work on OSS Sustainability forecasting. Check it out
here.
June, 2021: Dr. Stefan Stanciulescu joins our sustainability project. Welcome Stefan!
May, 2021: Our paper "Sustainability Forecasting for Apache Incubator Projects" has been accepted for presentation at FSE 2021. Congrats Likang Yin and coauthors! Final version is
here.
October 1, 2020: New grant (Phase I) (thanks NSF!), to study OSS Sustainability using socio-technical and governance data.
September 21, 2020: Likang Yin wins a Distinguished ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
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