Here is the full rundown of speakers, talks and timings for our free inaugural event, New Horizons for Machine Learning in Medicine, which starts at 2pm (GMT) on Friday 22 January. For more general information on the event, visit our event announcement page.
| Time | Speaker/section | Content title |
| 2pm | Welcome | |
| Professor Mihaela van der Schaar Director of Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine | New Horizons for Machine Learning in Medicine | |
| Professor Andres Floto Co-Director of Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine | CCAIM: Transforming biomedicine through AI | |
| 3.10pm (approx) | Dr Tony Wood Senior Vice President, Medicinal Science & Technology, GSK | Preparing tomorrow’s AI leaders to transform drug discovery |
| Dr Jim Weatherall Vice President, Data Science & AI, R&D, AstraZeneca | Turning science into medicines: Unlocking the power of data & AI | |
| 3.35pm (approx) | Professor Andy Neely OBE Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise & Business Relations, University of Cambridge | On CCAIM’s place in the Cambridge research ecosystem |
| Professor Nigel Peake Head of the School of Physical Sciences, University of Cambridge | Brief appreciations and acknowledgements | |
| Professor Patrick Maxwell Regius Professor of Physic, Head of the Clinical School, University of Cambridge | Putting the ML revolution, and CCAIM, in historical context | |
| Professor Colm-Cille P. Caulfield Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge | On harnessing mathematics and multidisciplinarity | |
| 3:55pm (approx) | LIVE Q&A with Mihaela van der Schaar, Andres Floto, Tony Wood and Jim Weatherall | |
| 4:15pm (approx) | Part 2 – Student Research Showcase, featuring PhD students supervised by CCAIM faculty members | |
| Introduction | ||
| John Bradshaw PhD Student, University of Cambridge | “Barking up the right tree: an approach to search over molecule synthesis DAGs” – NeurIPS 2020 | |
| Yao Zhang PhD Student, University of Cambridge | “Robust Recursive Partitioning for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Uncertainty Quantification” – NeurIPS 2020 | |
| Zhaozhi Qian PhD Student, University of Cambridge | “When and How to Lift the Lockdown? Global COVID-19 Scenario Analysis and Policy Assessment using Compartmental Gaussian Processes” – NeurIPS2020 | |
| Ioana Bica PhD Student, The Alan Turing Institute | “Estimating the Effects of Continuous-valued Interventions using Generative Adversarial Networks” – NeurIPS 2020 | |
| Jeroen Berrevoets PhD Student, University of Cambridge | “OrganITE: Optimal transplant donor organ offering using an individual treatment effect” – NeurIPS 2020 | |
| Emma Rocheteau PhD Student, University of Cambridge | “Predicting Length of Stay in the Intensive Care Unit with Temporal Pointwise Convolutional Networks” – ML4H at NeurIPS 2020 | |
| Part 3 | ||
| 5pm (approx) | Introduction | |
| Professor Sir Tom Blundell Professor Emeritus & Director of Research, Biochemistry Department, University of Cambridge | AI in Structural biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Targeting Cancer, Mycobacterial Infections and Covid-19 | |
| Dr Sarah Teichmann FMedSci FRS Head of Cellular Genetics and Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute | The Human Cell Atlas – powered by AI/ML | |
| Dr Jem Rashbass Executive Director: Data and Analytical Services, Data Services Directorate, NHS Digital | The opportunities and challenges of using ML/AI to transform medicine | |
| 5:40pm (approx) | Live Round table with Tom Blundell, Jem Rashbass, Sarah Teichmann, Andres Floto and Mihaela van der Schaar | |
| 6pm (approx) | Close |
