van der Schaar Lab

Inspiration Exchange: software packages for automated machine learning

Recording of the van der Schaar Lab’s third Inspiration Exchange engagement session, which took place virtually on November 9, 2020, and was attended by roughly 100 AI and machine learning students.

This session featured presentations from 4 of the van der Schaar Lab’s researchers regarding the lab’s AutoML software packages, followed by a Q&A.

Introduction – 0:00
Lab presentation 1 [AutoPrognosis software // Ahmed Alaa] – 2:50
Lab presentation 2 [Clairvoyance software // Ioana Bica & Dan Jarrett] – 10:50
Lab presentation 3 [Clairvoyance software // Zhaozhi Qian] – 21:38
Q&A session – 26:57
Message from Mihaela – 41:57
Final general question – 43:56
Closing words and intro to next sessions – 47:10

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You can find a piece of long-form content on AutoML here.
The lab’s publications on AutoML are here.

Nick Maxfield

From 2020 to 2022, Nick oversaw the van der Schaar Lab’s communications, including media relations, content creation, and maintenance of the lab’s online presence.

Mihaela van der Schaar

Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute in London.

Mihaela 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.

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 span 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.