UNC Computational Medicine Seminar: AI for Healthcare: Recent Advances

Regina Barzilay, PhD
Delta Electronics Professor, EECS MacArthur Fellow
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab

Her research interests are in natural language processing, applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology. She is a recipient of various awards including the NSF Career Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship and several Best Paper Awards at NAACL and ACL. In 2017, she received a MacArthur fellowship, an ACL fellowship and an AAAI fellowship. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University, and spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University.