Artificial Intelligence for Oncology

NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds Regina Barzilay is a 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. Currently, Dr. Barzilay is focused on bringing the power of machine learning to oncology. In collaboration with physicians and her students, Dr. Barzilay is devising deep learning models that utilize imaging, free text, and structured data to identify trends that affect early diagnosis, treatment, and disease prevention. Dr. Barzilay is poised to play a leading role in creating new models that advance the capacity of computers to harness the power of human language data. Dr. Barzilay is a recipient of various awards including of the MacArthur Fellowship, NSF Career Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship and several Best Paper Awards in top Natural Language Processing (NLP) conferences. In 2017, she received a MacArthur fellowship, an ACL fellowship and an AAAI fellowship http://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-computer-scientist-regina-barzilay-wins-macarthur-genius-grant-1011. Dr. Barzilay received her BS and MS degrees from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University.Air date: 6/15/2018 12:00:00 PM
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