What: Virtual lecture series on topics across machine learning in medicine, featuring extensive Q & A and panel discussions
Why: To reduce academia’s carbon footprint, accommodate the schedules of the world’s top scientists and maintain social distancing
Who: All are welcome!
Where: Zoom Webinar
Recordings of previous talks can be found here
Mihaela van der Schaar, PhD - Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine, University of Cambridge
When: TBD
Title: Revolutionizing Healthcare: Understanding and guiding clinical decision making using machine learning
Abstract: TBA
Biography: Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London, and a Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA. Mihaela was elected IEEE Fellow in 2009. She has received numerous awards, including the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and several best paper awards, including the IEEE Darlington Award. Mihaela’s work has also led to 35 USA patents (many widely cited and adopted in standards) and 45+ contributions to international standards for which she received 3 International ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Awards. In 2019, she was identified by National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts as the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK. She was also elected as a 2019 “Star in Computer Networking and Communications” by N²Women. Her research expertise spans signal and image processing, communication networks, network science, multimedia, game theory, distributed systems, machine learning and AI. Mihaela’s research focus is on machine learning, AI and operations research for healthcare and medicine. In addition to leading the van der Schaar Lab, Mihaela is founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM).
Emily S. Finn, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
When: October 8, 9:45-11:00 am
Title: Is it time to put rest to rest?
Abstract: TBA
Biography: Dr. Emily S. Finn is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, where she directs the Functional Imaging and Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab. Her work focuses on individual variability in brain activity and behavior, especially as it relates to appraisal of ambiguous information under naturalistic conditions. She received a PhD in Neuroscience from Yale, and completed a postdoc at the National Institute of Mental Health.