Our very own professor Su-In Lee, who works on novel machine learning techniques for biology and precision medicine, has been selected to deliver a prestigious New Investigator Lecture by UW Medicine next Wednesday, 10/31. Su-In will talk about her efforts to develop explainable artificial intelligence for a wide range of applications, including treating cancer based on a patient’s own molecular profile, finding a cure for Alzheimer’s, predicting kidney disease, preventing complications during surgery, and improving our understanding of pan-cancer biology and genome biology. Su-In’s work with grad student Scott Lundberg was just featured on the cover of the most recent issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering, which included their paper on explainable machine learning system, Prescience, for preventing hypoxemia in patients under general anesthesia. Earlier this year, she and recent grad Safiye Celik published their work on MERGE, which uses machine learning to enable targeted treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, in Nature Communications.
NEW INVESTIGATOR LECTURE
Su-In Lee, Ph.D.
University of Washington
UW Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
UW Associate Professor, Dept. of Genome Sciences
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
11:00AM – 12:00 PM (PST) | HST 739, Lecture Hall
UW Health Sciences Center (T-Wing)
LECTURE TITLE
“Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Precision Medicine.”
Prof. Su-In Lee is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering,
and in the Genome Sciences Department at the University of Washington. She completed her Ph.D. in
2009 in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University. Before joining the UW
in 2010, she was a visiting professor in the Computational Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon
University. She has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and been named an
American Cancer Society Research Scholar. She has received a number of generous grants from the
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and American Cancer Society.
UPCOMING SCIENCE IN MEDICINE LECTURES
November 15, 2018 | Trisha Davis, Ph.D. | “Ensuring an Equal Genetic Inheritance: A Tale of Yeast, and the Effort to rebuild one of Nature’s most Complex Molecular Machines.”| Science in Medicine, Foege Auditorium (S060), Lecture Hall 1:00PM
For more information visit the Science in Medicine website.
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