Marika NiihoriOur lab’s annual showcase highlighting our vision and leadership
The van der Schaar Lab’s 2025 Open House took place on 21st October as a by-invitation event for collaborators and sponsors.
The full three-hour event consisted of 8 mini-seminars (15 minutes each) given by our lab members, focusing on projects or areas group around three themes: frontiers, foundations and impact.
This year, we introduced our new vision of Genies: Next-Generation Agents, which drives our latest research focus. Each talk highlighted a key healthcare challenge and illustrated how our lab is addressing it through innovative AI approaches, in collaboration with clinical and pharmaceutical partners.
All 8 talks alongside Mihaela’s introductory presentation are provided in full below, along with links to any reference material. The Q&A/discussion breaks between the sessions are not included.
Introduction (Prof Mihaela van der Schaar)
Prof Mihaela van der Schaar introduces us to Reality-Centric AI Agenda alongside AI Agents and Agent Networks.
Related links:
Our case for Reality-Centric AI
AI Agents and Genies
– Publications page
– Our contributions for NeurIPS 2025
– Our contributions for ICML 2025
– Our contributions for ICLR 2025 and AISTATS 2025
– Engagement sessions – Inspiration Exchange and Revolutionizing Healthcare
Session 1: Frontiers
This sections highlights the advances in our research by exploring uncharted directions in machine learning, pushing beyond today’s boundaries.
We hear from 3 of our PhD researchers: Tennison Liu, Krzysztof Kacprzyk and Nicolás Astorga.
Related links:
Session 2: Foundations
This sections highlights the core foundations of our research group by strengthening the core innovations first established by the lab and extending them to new domains.
We hear from 3 of our PhD researchers: Kasia Kobalczyk, Samuel Holt and Harry Amad.
Related links:
Session 3: Impact
This section showcases the impact of our research by translating research into transformative advances for healthcare and AI.
We hear from our lab members: Silas Ruhrberg Estévez and Robert Davis.
Related links:
- Timely Clinical Diagnosis through Active Test Selection (NeurIPS 2025)
- SynCraft and our other copilots: Software
To find out more about the van der Schaar Lab’s research team, click here. Our publications are available here.
To inquire about PhD studentships, visit this page.
