van der Schaar Lab

Past announcements

News

  • Our article published in inaugural issue of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) – see [Link]
  • Our research highlighted in Wired article – see [Link]
  • February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020. To mark this event, the Alan Turing Institute has published a blogpost from Professor Mihaela van der Schaar – see [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will deliver a keynote at the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan Italy 13-18 September 2020 – see [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar is elected as a 2019 “Star in Computer Networking and Communications” – see here for more information: [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will deliver a keynote at IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2020, the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies, in July 2020 – see here for more here: [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will teach at The Machine Learning Summer School at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany – in Summer 2020 – see here for more details here: [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar delivers Alan Tayler Lecture in Oxford on November 11, 2019 – see details here: [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar delivers the keynote lecture in the symposium organized by the Centre for Statistical Methodology (CSM) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The Symposium is entitled “Quantitative Approaches to Personalised Medicine: Some Contrasting Perspectives” – see details here [Link]
  • Our work on machine learning for cancer is highlighted as a Turing impact story – read more here [Link]
  • Five papers accepted at NeurIPS 2019 – see them here [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar gives a webinar on Machine Learning for Medicine in the Webinar Series of USA’s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is discussing individualized treatment effects, methods, and their impact in healthcare – see the webinar and presentation [Link]
  • The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) has identified the lack of gender diversity in the AI workforce. Prof. van der Schaar has been identified by NESTA as the female AI researcher based in the UK with the most publications in this field – see the Nesta report [Link 1] and [Link 2] and the Telegraph article [Link 3].
  • Our work on cystic fibrosis is highlighted as a Turing impact story – read more here [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a keynote at 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Gynaecological Cancer Society – see [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a keynote at Mobihoc 2019 – see [Link] (also, see presentation here [Slides])
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a keynote at the 3rd International Summer School on Deep Learning – see [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar and Dr. Jem Rashbass (UK’s National director for disease registration and cancer analysis at PHE) will give a joint talk on how machine learning and AI can transform healthcare pathways in cancer and beyond – please register here [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a distinguished seminar at MIT on May 14, 2019 – see [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar will give the Very Reverend Derek Hole Lecture 2019 at University of Leicester on April 25, 2019
  • A new paper on causal inference for individualized treatment effects at ICML 2019 – see [Link]
  • Our research on cystic fibrosis is highlighted in UK Cystic Fibrosis Magazine (see [Link] on page 15)
  • Professor van der Schaar will give an invited talk in the 3rd Annual Advances in Precision Medicine Conference: Big Data at Columbia University – see [Link].
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a keynote talk in the Machine Learning for Healthcare 2019 – see [Link].
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a keynote at Mobihoc 2019 – see [Link].
  • Professor van der Schaar will give a keynote entitled “Machine Learning for Social Good: Joining Female Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence ” at the 2nd International Workshop for Women in Big Data – see [Link].
  • Professor van der Schaar co-chairs AI & Robotics Review Panel of the Topol Review – see report here [Link]. The report highlights various works of the research group – including AutoPrognosis and Forecast ICU. Take a look!
  • Professor van der Schaar receives Oon International Award and Lecture in Preventative Medicine – see lecture here [Link]
  • Professor van der Schaar’s Chapter on Machine Learning for Medicine appears in the 2018 Annual Report of UK’s Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies – read it here [Link]
  • 3 papers accepted at ICLR 2019 and 3 papers accepted at AISTATS 2019! Take a look [Link]
  • Prof. van der Schaar acts as member of the advisory board of World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) Report on Data Science and AI Forum 2018 – download report here [Link]
  • Our work on machine learning for cystic fibrosis as part of The Economist: Babbage Podcast (on Oct 17, 2018): [Link]
  • Our work on machine learning for cystic fibrosis highlighted by the Charity Digital News: [Link]
  • Our work on machine learning for cystic fibrosis highlighted by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust: [Link]
  • Our work on machine learning for cystic fibrosis highlighted by The Alan Turing Institute: [Link]
  • Our work on heart transplantation highlighted in Newsweek: [Link]
  • Our work on heart transplantation highlighted in Cardiology Today: [Link]
  • Our paper on A Micro-Foundation of Social Capital in Evolving Social Networks is featured by IEEE Trans. on Network Science – see [Link] [Pdf Link]
  • Nature’s Top ten tips to kick-start your career in 2018 – see Prof. van der Schaar’s tips. [Link]
  • Our work on Data Science for Cystic Fibrosis highlighted in Nature article. [Link]
  • Prof. van der Schaar’s talk on machine learning for medicine at Alan Turing Institute. [Youtube Link]
  • Prof. van der Schaar’s talk on her group’s research. [Youtube Link]
  • Please see the interview with Prof. van der Schaar about her vision on how machine learning can transform medical practice and discovery. [Link] [pdf]
  • Mihaela and her students aim to crack the code for cystic fibrosis [Link]
  • Our research on machine learning for medicine is highlighted on EPSRC website in the article of Sir Prof. Alan Wilson, CEO of the Alan Turing Institute – Data Science: a new discipline to change the world

Awards

  • Professor van der Schaar receives Oon International Award and Lecture in Preventative Medicine – see lecture here [Link]
  • Our works on machine learning for medicine are selected as the abstract winners in AI Med Europe 2018. [Link]