Dr. Chukwuebuka Ogwo’s research focuses on preventive oral hygiene intervention and the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in predicting oral health conditions using large and diverse dental records. He is leading efforts to expand the use of machine learning algorithms for the prediction of dental caries and the development of AI-powered tools for teledentistry.

Before joining Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), he was an assistant professor of dentistry and director of the Master of  Science in Oral Health program at Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University. He also served as director of the Biostatistics Core at Kornberg.

Ogwo earned his Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) from the University of Nigeria in 2012. He went on to receive a Master of Science in International Health (Epidemiology) from KIT Royal Tropical Institute (Vrije Universiteit) in the Netherlands in 2017, followed by a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Western Illinois University in 2018. He completed his dental public health (DPH) residency in 2020 and his PhD in Oral Sciences (Dental Public Health) in 2021, both at the University of Iowa. While completing his PhD, he also earned diplomas in biostatistics and college teaching from the University of Iowa.