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Keynote Speakers
(More to be confirmed soon)

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Fellow of IEEE and SIAM, founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, Senior Research Scientist, Health AI, at Apple

Senior Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Previously worked in the Healthcare Intelligence group at Microsoft Research and was a tenured research fellow at Imperial College London. Research focuses on integrating medical domain knowledge, machine learning and causal modelling frameworks to understand health.

Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Dr Teichmann is an EMBO member and fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and her work has been recognised by a number of prizes, including the Lister Prize, Biochemical Society Colworth Medal, Royal Society Crick Lecture and EMBO Gold Medal.
Meet your professionals
We have world-leading experts in the fields of AI and machine learning to present engaging lectures, offer unique mentorship, and share their visions about the future of healthcare with you.
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. In addition to leading the van der Schaar Lab, Mihaela is founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM)

Professor Mihaela van der Schaar
University of CambridgeConsultant Transplant Hepatologist, Chair of the Care Advisory Group, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, will talk about recommendations for the clinical introduction of ML algorithms in publications and clinical practice linked to transplantation

Dr Alexander Gimson
CU Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustProfessor of Computational Biology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, Member of the Artificial Intelligence group of the Computer Laboratory

Dr Pietro Liò
University of CambridgeAssistant Professor in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, will talk about uncertainty in deep neural networks

Dr José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
University of CambridgeOne of the van der Schaar lab’s research engineers, and part-time Ph.D. student. Previously AI Resident at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Will show our demonstrators, co-developed with clinicians from various institutions to make our methods come alive.

Evgeny Saveliev
University of CambridgeProfessor of Respiratory Biology at the University of Cambridge, a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, Director of the UK Cystic Fibrosis Innovation Hub, and Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM)

Professor Andres Floto
University of CambridgeProfessor of Health Data Science at the University of Cambridge, University Lecturer in Biostatistics, academic director of the MPhil in Epidemiology, Turing Fellow

Dr Angela Wood
University of CambridgeFourth-year PhD student at the University of Oxford and at the Alan Turing Institute, advised by Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar. Research focuses on building machine learning methods for improving and understanding decision making

Ioana Bica MPhil
University of OxfordPrincipal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where she leads the project Azua: Efficient Decision Making. Interests are causal machine learning, deep generative models and approximate inference

Dr Cheng Zhang
Microsoft ResearchConsultant and Researcher in anaesthesia and intensive care, Fellow in Clinical Medicine at Magdalene College, will teach a masterclass on regulatory/privacy issues as well as give an overview on infrastructure in healthcare and data management

Dr Ari Ecole
University of CambridgeUniversity Lecturer in Renal medicine at the University of Cambridge, Honorary consultant in nephrology and transplantation, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Eoin McKinney
University of CambridgeAssistant Professor in the Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) at University of Cambridge, will talk about causal inference

Dr Qingyuan Zhao
University of CambridgePostdoc at the ECE Department, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), working with Mihaela van der Schaar in her lab. He will talk about self-supervision.

Dr Fergus Imrie
University of California (UCLA)/VdS LabRenowned speakers and mentors
We are your providing Summer School participants with engaging talks and up to 1 hour a day of mentorship for students working on our workshop projects. Click the link to our Program to find out more about what we have in store for you!