Samuel V. Scarpino, PhD, is the Director of AI + Life Sciences at Northeastern University and a Professor of the Practice in Health and Computer Sciences. He also holds appointments in the Network Science and Roux Institutes. Prior to joining Northeastern, Sam was a Vice President at The Rockefeller Foundation, Chief Strategy Officer at Dharma Platform (a social impact technology startup), and co-founded Global.health (an open data science initiative backed by Google.org & The Rockefeller Foundation). Scarpino has given >500 interviews to outlets including Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Vice News, and NPR. He has authored over 100 academic publications, which have been cited nearly 10,000 times. IHis expert commentaries on science and technology have appeared in publications such as: Nature, Science, PNAS, and Nature Physics. His research has been covered by the New York Times, Wired, NPR, VICE News, and numerous other venues. For his contributions to complexity science, he was made a Fellow of the ISI Foundation in 2017 and an External Faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute in 2020. Scarpino earned a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and was a Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Fellow from 2013 – 2016.