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AI for Healthcare: Recent Advances

January 10, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Regina Barzilay, PhD, Delta Electronics Professor, EECS MacArthur Fellow, at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, will present a talk on integrating modern computational approaches with cutting-edge experimental techniques to advance the goal of predictive health care.

Regina Barzilay, PhD, is a Delta Electronics professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.

Details

Date:
January 10, 2019
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Event Category:

Organizer

Victoria Doyle
Phone
919-445-4146
Email
vdoyle@email.unc.edu

Venue

Bioinformatics Building
120 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC United States
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