Balazs Feher is an Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and a Senior Lecturer in Oral Surgery at the Medical University of Vienna.
His clinical work focuses on dentoalveolar surgery and the perioperative supervision of surgical trainees. His primary research interests include the use of data science and artificial intelligence in diagnostic, prognostic, and generative modeling in dental medicine. He is also involved in preclinical research on oral tissue regeneration.
Feher is a contributor to the ITU/WHO/WIPO Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Health (Topic Group Dentistry) and previously participated in the ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health. He serves as a member and chair-designate of the European Association for Osseointegration’s Junior Committee.
He holds a DMD and a PhD from the Medical University of Vienna, where he completed his graduate research under the supervision of Reinhard Gruber and trained as a postgraduate assistant in oral surgery before earning the venia docendi in dental medicine.
He joined Harvard on an Osteology Research Scholarship and completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of William V. Giannobile and Magda Feres before being appointed to the Faculty of Medicine.
