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Invited Talk
Solving the Right Problems: Making ML Models Relevant to Healthcare and the Life Sciences
Regina Barzilay

Wed Jul 20 06:00 AM -- 07:00 AM (PDT) @ Hall F

The first-generation models for drug discovery and clinical applications were mostly direct modifications of algorithms developed for NLP, computer vision, and other well-established application areas. However, deployment of these models revealed the significant mismatch between their basic assumptions and the needs of these new life sciences applications. Examples include challenging generalization scenarios, unknown biases in the collected data, and the inability of domain experts to validate model predictions. In my talk, I will illustrate some of these problems, and introduce our initial solutions to them.

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Regina Barzilay (MIT CSAIL)
Regina Barzilay

Regina Barzilay is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty lead for artificial intelligence at the MIT Jameel Clinic. Her research interests are in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology.

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