Research and engineering for explainable AI in health and scientific discovery.
Dr. Costilla Reyes leads research and product work on explainable AI for health, building on research appointments across neuroscience, medical engineering, and computer science at MIT.
Equ Healthcare (opens in a new tab)Dr. Omar Costilla Reyes works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, health research, and scientific discovery. At Equ Healthcare and Equ AI Lab, he leads research and product work focused on interpretable health data and machine-learning methods that people can examine.
His research spans explainable machine learning, digital phenotyping, neurosymbolic program synthesis, symbolic regression, computational neuroscience, and sensor-based pattern recognition. Earlier work includes applying machine learning to neural signals at MIT and studying gait analysis from floor-sensor data during his PhD at the University of Manchester.
His professional record also includes research-community leadership, academic service, mentorship, and teaching in neuroscience, Python, machine learning, and scientific AI. The site brings those activities together with the research and publications they relate to.
Browse each part of Dr. Costilla Reyes’s professional record, from research and publications to teaching, leadership, and advisory work.
Explore talks and workshops I have given or organized, from the AI Latin American SumMIT at the MIT Media Lab to scientific meetings across Boston, Europe, California, and beyond. The story also follows conversations with Nobel laureates, Fields Medalist Cédric Villani, and researchers whose questions and ways of thinking continue to inspire me, alongside my chapter in the report AI Governance in 2020: A Year in Review.
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My love for running started with Saturday parkruns during my PhD at the University of Manchester. Since then, running with others has helped me stay motivated—from Manchester parkruns to the group I started for MIT postdocs in Boston. Marathons and the London Triathlon gave me new goals; I still explore new places by running their streets, alongside swimming, cycling, yoga, and sailing.
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Dr. Costilla Reyes’s record includes research awards, competitive scholarships, and sponsorships for graduate study, research, and conferences. Teaching, leadership, and service distinctions trace work across engineering, machine learning, higher education, and science outreach. The collection also features Equ Healthcare’s startup programs and ecosystem connections.
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