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Woman's HourActor Romola Garai, AI research and breast cancer, Rebecca WatsonAnnie Ernaux’s Booker-nominated book, Les Années, traces her journey from childhood in post-war France to old age in the post-9/11 era. Now adapted for the stage, Gina Mckee, Deborah Findlay and Romola Garai, alongside Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, are the five actors portraying different stages in the life of an ‘unnamed’ French woman. Romola Garai joins Nuala McGovern in the Woman’s Hour studio. We talk to Regina Barzilay, a Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at MIT, about how her own breast cancer diagnosis shifted her research to predicting cancer. R...2024-08-1357 min
The Documentary PodcastBonus: The Engineers - Intelligent MachinesThis is a bonus episode for The Documentary of The Engineers: Intelligent Machines. This year, we speak to a panel of three engineers at the forefront of the 'Machine Learning: AI' revolution with an enthusiastic live audience.Intelligent machines are remaking our world. The speed of their improvement is accelerating fast and every day there are more things they can do better than us. There are risks, but the opportunities for human society are enormous. ‘Machine Learning: AI’ is the technological revolution of our era. Three engineers at the forefront of that revolution come to Lond...2024-08-0849 min
Missing in the AmazonBlack Box: Bing and I – episode 5Two stories about the way AI could – in fact, already is – making the world better. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had cancer, he turned to AI – and was surprised by the answers he got. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts Prof Regina Barzilay’s experience with cancer has led her to build an AI system that can detect the disease years before a human2024-03-1442 min
Ground TruthsJim Collins: Discovery of the First New Structural Class of Antibiotics in Decades, Using A.I.Jim Collins is one of the leading biomedical engineers in the world. He’s been elected to all 3 National Academies (Engineering, Science, and Medicine) and is one of the founders of the field of synthetic biology. In this conversation, we reviewed the seminal discoveries that he and his colleagues are making at the Antibiotics-AI Project at MIT.Recorded 5 February 2024, transcript below with audio links and external links to recent publicationsEric Topol (00:05):Hello, it's Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I have got an extraordinary guest with me today, Jim Collins, who's the Te...2024-02-1328 min
WHM News with Dr. KW HamptonTech the Halls | Ep 6Dive into the world of AI in healthcare with EVOLVD Healthcare's special holiday series, 'Tech the Halls'. In our December 2nd episode, 'AI in Healthcare: Revolution or Risk? Unwrapping the Controversial Truth', host Dr. Kala Wilson sparks a captivating discussion on the role of AI in revolutionizing healthcare. We'll explore how AI is being championed as a game-changer in predicting diseases, enhancing diagnostic accuracy, and personalizing drug development. Featuring insights from industry pioneers like Eric Topol and Dr. Regina Barzilay, and invoking the wisdom of AI experts like Dr. Fei-Fei Li from Stanford, this episode is a d...2023-12-0209 min
Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant DharDavid Sontag on AI in HealthcareDavid Sontag joins Vasant Dhar on episode 70 of Brave New World to highlight where and how AI is creating a major transformation in healthcare. We could create a brave new world of individualized and holistic healthcare, where the machine really cares about us and tells us what to do based on knowledge and data. Useful resources 1. David Sontag on Twitter, LinkedIn, MIT and Google Scholar. 2. Heuristic Methods for Imposing Structure on Ill-Structured Problems -- Harry E Pople Jr. 3. Harry E Pople on ResearchGate. 4. Human and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare — Episode 4 of Brave New World (w Eric T...2023-11-021h 11
CAPcast from the College of American PathologistsBreast Cancer Awareness MonthOctober has been recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month for nearly four decades. In this CAPcast, Mary Edgerton, MD, PhD, FCAP talks with Regina Barzilay, PhD, Ross Simpson, MD, FCAP, Timothy Law, MD, and Patient Advocate Rebecca Seago-Coyle. The group discussed what’s on the horizon for breast cancer research, how it will impact patient outcomes, and the role of pathology data in these efforts.
More information about the CAP Cancer Protocols: https://www.cap.org/protocols-and-guidelines/cancer-reporting-tools/cancer-protocols. For questions, please email us at CancerProtocols@cap.org.2023-10-1351 min
AMIA: For Your InformaticsEpisode 34: ACM-AMIA Joint Podcast Series: Clinical AI-Challenges and AdviceHosts: Sabrina Hsueh PhD Adela Grando, PhD Guest: Regina Barzilay, School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Faculty Lead at MIG Jameel Clinic In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics podcast, hosts Sabrina Hsueh and Adela Grando welcome Regina Barzilay, a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Fac...2023-10-1245 min
ACM ByteCastRegina Barzilay - Episode 44In this episode, part of a special collaboration between ACM ByteCast and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your Informatics podcast, hosts Sabrina Hsueh and Adela Grando welcome Regina Barzilay, a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Faculty Lead at MIT Jameel Clinic. She develops machine learning methods for drug discovery and clinical AI. In the past, she worked on natural language processing. Her research has been recognized with the MacArthur Fellowship, an NSF Career Award, and the AAAI Squirrel AI...2023-10-0445 min
天下文化‧相信閱讀丁學文的財經世界EP150｜歐盟啟動對中反補貼，全球迎來新一波貿易戰？／東南亞FDI將超越中國？投資新趨勢怎麼看／AI有望帶來科學新革命？突破性科學時代來臨買TISA(台灣個人投資儲蓄帳戶)基金，就到基富通!【基富通TISA好享投】，千元起投，0手續費、低經理費、專家嚴選，資產累積超有感投資一定有風險，基金投資有賺有賠，申購前應詳閱公開說明書。https://www.fundrich.com.tw/event/TISA/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=2025TISA- —— 以上為 Firstory Podcast 廣告 —— 👍喜歡丁學文老師的節目？支持我們製作更多優質內容！ 請以手機轉跳至天下文化Apple Podcast頻道主頁 https://reurl.cc/Q4xv5O (1) 訂閱：點擊右上角「＋」，訂閱我們的頻道。 (2) 分享：點擊右上角「‧‧‧」，再點擊「分享節目」，將好聽的節目分享給親朋好友。 (3) 評論：滑至頁面最下方，點擊「撰寫評論」給我們評分、留言。 一、歐盟啟動對中反補貼，全球迎來新一波貿易戰？ 9月13日，歐盟宣布將對中國出口電動汽車展開反補貼調查，中國商務部發言人對此表示高度關切和強烈不滿。 歐盟執委會主席馮德萊恩在歐洲議會發表歐盟年度咨文時說：「全球市場如今被廉價中國電動車淹沒，中國電動車的價格因人為的龐大政府補貼而壓低，讓我們的市場扭曲。」 中美對峙方興未艾，歐洲又主動和中國挑起這場可能的貿易大火，歐盟執委會不會正在這個危險性極高的領域，向中國挑起新一波貿易戰？ 二、東南亞FDI將超越中國？投資新趨勢怎麼看 9月14日，經濟學人智庫（EIU）發表報告指出，隨著全球投資人對中國大陸的興趣降溫、加上供應鏈持續轉移，明年東南亞經濟體的外國直接投資（FDI）總量將超越中國大陸，區塊化和區域化仍將是政壇與決策趨勢。 無獨有偶，台灣經濟部統計處也在第二季末發布「近年東協外人直接投資（FDI）分析」，受到美中貿易戰影響，全球供應鏈大洗牌，統計處表示，台灣也提高對東協地區投資，近兩年投資金額分別為56.4億美元、47.32億美元，合計103.72億美元。 這幾年，從所謂政府力推的新南向，到各個年輕人對東南亞的趨之若鶩，甚至台灣街頭的東南亞遊客都越來越多，東南亞確實氣勢正盛，我們應該怎麼解讀這份經濟學人報告？明年的全球經濟真的能走出衰退嗎？ 三、《經濟學人》推薦：AI有望帶來科學新革命？突破性科學時代來臨 最新一期的全球版本《經濟學人》聚焦人工智慧對科學界的革命性影響。在封面設計上，編輯群讓我們在粉紅色的封底前，看見一個被電子樹上掉下來的一顆電子敲到腦袋的人工機器人。上面一排白色字體 HOW AI CAN REVOLUTIONISE SCIENCE 人工智慧可能怎麼帶來科學革命。 2019 年的麻省理工學院 MIT的科學家James Collins和團隊完成了現代醫學上的一個成就，他們先發現了一種新的抗生素Halicin。 然後另一個團隊又發現了松柏素。 但引起科學界注目的不是這兩個抗生素功效，而是它們被發現的方法。 這是人類有史以來第一次用人工智慧AI模型搜索了數百萬種化合物樣本後的一個突破。 在這次的深度學習訓練中，模型找出了化學結構與細菌可以怎麼被破壞之間的聯繫。麻省理工學院計算機科學家 Regina Barzilay 表示，如果發現新藥就像大海撈針一樣，那麼人工智慧就像一個靈敏的金屬探測器一樣，讓候選藥物可以一下子從實驗室跳躍完成臨床需要的多年時間。人工智慧證明了它可以加速耗時費日的試錯部分，並化不可能為可能。 有了人工智慧的運用，科學家們提出的對話類型將與我們今天看見的截然不同。 Powered by Firstory Hosting2023-09-1914 min
Data NationData Dilemmas in HealthFacing the tough decisions of a serious health threat brings the need for information and analysis into a sharp and personal focus. Computer scientist Regina Barzilay was an expert in natural language processing when she joined MIT; her cancer diagnosis led her to collaborations in healthcare, where she has advanced imaging, prediction, drug discovery, and clinical AI. She joins Munther Dahleh and Liberty Vittert to talk about issues from data collection and privacy to bias and “distributional shift” – when an algorithm is used on a dataset with key differences from the data used to train it.2023-09-0635 min
Investigating Breast CancerThe Future of Breast Cancer Risk Prediction with Dr. Regina BarzilayThere are some technologies that enhance human efforts and abilities and other technologies that make such a drastic impact–– they revolutionize protocol and entire ways of thinking. AI in the healthcare field is one such technology. Scientists like BCRF Investigator, Dr. Regina Barzilay, are working on ways to harness AI to improve how medical professionals interpret mammograms, and finesse and better personalize existing risk prediction models, and tackle disparities in screening and risk assessment.
Dr. Barzilay, a BCRF investigator since 2022, is a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health in the Department of Electrical Engineering and...2023-08-1324 min
Lexman ArtificialRegina BarzilayRegina Barzilay tells the story of her journey to citizenship and the importance of music in our lives.2023-01-0804 min
Lexman ArtificialRegina Barzilay, mathematicianRegina Barzilay, a mathematician, comes on the show to talk about her work on decimalizations and decubitus.2023-01-0403 min
Lexman ArtificialRegina Barzilay (Bowling, Safflowers, Lav) InLexman and Regina discuss the art and science of bowling, with a lot of Lav references!2022-12-0903 min
Immigrant Computer ScientistsIllnessesEpisode 43. Two Computer Scientists who encountered major illnesses in their lives (Tuberculosis, Breast Cancer) talk about how they navigated it, and used their experience to improve their education and research directions. Features immigrants from Chile and Moldova+Israel. Featuring: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Regina Barzilay. Remix Episode from Seasons 1 & 2.2022-09-2827 min
Axial PodcastGraph Machine Learning and Life Sciences with Hannes StärkHannes is a graduate student at MIT working towards a PhD in computer science. Within the span of a few months, he has been able to publish two ICML papers: one focused on molecular property prediction and the other developing a model, called EquiBind, for drug binding prediction. Hannes, advised by both Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola, is doing exciting research at the intersection of graph machine learning and biology. In this conversation, we discuss his career so far starting at Munich to an internship at MIT that ultimately led to Hannes starting his PhD at MIT earlier this summer...2022-09-0645 minImmigrant Computer ScientistsAlternate RealitiesEpisode 41. Alternate Realities. If you're an immigrant to the US/Canada, have you ever wondered, "What would my life have been like if I'd instead been born and grown up in US/Canada?" I asked seven accomplished and prominent immigrant Computer Scientists (from academia, industry, entrepreneurs) this question. Featuring: Regina Barzilay, Tal Rabin, Ion Stoica, Rada Mihalcea, Thamar Solorio, Moshe Vardi, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Remix Episode from Season 2.2022-08-1725 min
Lexman ArtificialGuest: Regina BarzilayRegina Barzilay, lead composer of the software company Negus Games, joins Lexman to discuss their new video game, Dendrology. Regina recounts the many pratfalls she and her team fell into during the development process, and Lexman offers a few insights into board game design.2022-07-1903 minImmigrant Computer ScientistsRandom Ways to Start ResearchEpisode 39. Random Ways to Start Research. Five distinguished Computer Scientists talk about the role that random chance played in getting them started with research itself or their specific research area. Featuring: Rada Mihalcea, Tal Rabin, Regina Barzilay, Moshe Vardi, Thamar Solorio. Remix Episode from Season 2.2022-07-0621 min
Lexman ArtificialRegina Barzilay on Sura Platyhelminths and OreIn this episode, Regina Barzilay from the University of Toronto talks about her research on the sura. She discusses the different Platyhelminths that she's studied, as well as their ore distributions in the sura.2022-06-2603 minImmigrant Computer ScientistsImpostor Syndrome 2Episode 38. Impostor Syndrome. And Failures and Rejections: How Seven accomplished and prominent Computer Scientists (from academia, industry, entrepreneurs) handle them in their career and life. Featuring: Pratima Rao Gluckman, Regina Barzilay, Tal Rabin, Ion Stoica, Rada Mihalcea, Thamar Solorio, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Remix Episode from Season 2.2022-06-1541 min
Immigrant Computer ScientistsRegina Barzilay InterviewEpisode 30: Interview with Regina Barzilay, Professor at MIT in the EECS Department, and a faculty at the MIT Jameel Clinic. Double immigrant from Moldova (USSR) to Israel (in 1990), and then Israel to US (1997). Breast cancer survivor. Winner of MacArthur Fellowship or “Genius Grant” 2017, AAAI Fellow, and first recipient of $1M AAAI Squirrel Award 2020 for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. 2022-03-301h 29
Immigrant Computer ScientistsFrom IsraelEpisode 27: Three distinguished technologists share their experiences of growing up in Israel, of immigrating reluctantly to the US, of fighting in wars, and differences in culture. Three guests who include a Gödel Prize winner, 2 ACM Fellows, 2 AAAI Fellows, 2 AAAS Fellows, a MacArthur (Genius) Grant winner, and a cancer survivor. Featuring: Tal Rabin (Prof, UPenn and Algorand Foundation), Moshe Vardi (Prof, Rice U.), Regina Barzilay (Prof, MIT). Topics include: Kibbutz upbringing, ancestry, persecution, war, language, culture, research beginnings that are chance, computing in 1960s/70s/80s, surviving cancer, impostor syndrome, and alternate life paths. 2022-03-022h 23
Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group2020 AAAI US$1M Annual Award for Societal Impact of Artificial Intelligence goes to MIT’s CSAIL Professor, Regina BarzilayThis episode is also available as a blog post: http://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/2020/09/23/2020-aaai-us1m-annual-award-for-societal-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-goes-to-mits-csail-professor-regina-barzilay/2021-07-0604 min
MIT TALKSRegina Barzilay : “Oncology Meets AI - a Personal Journey”In this episode of MIT Talks, the highly celebrated professor Regina Barzilay discusses her inspiring personal journey that shaped her career. Regina is a Delta Electronics 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, and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology. She is a recipient of various awards including the prestigious Macarther grant, also known as the “genius grant”2021-07-0638 min
TCAST: The Future of Data & AIResurrecting Dead Languages with AI, Machine LearningHere is your fun fact for the day – Napoleon actually broke the Rosetta Stone. Go figure. In a way, it’s a great metaphor. The Rosetta Stone has been an incredible tool for translating multiple languages in the centuries since its discovery, proving itself a valuable aid in helping put back the pieces of many languages that tend to get broken and lost over time. The value though is not merely in being able to translate ancient languages, it’s in all the history that comes with being able to read ancient texts for the first time. Suddenly a whole...2021-05-0308 min
Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant DharWaiting for Doctor AIArtificial intelligence can transform healthcare -- and the medical profession may be behind the curve. Regina Barzilay joins Vasant Dhar in episode 9 of Brave New World to talk about how doctors, programmers and lawyers need to find a meeting point to make the revolution happen. Useful resources: 1. Regina Barzilay at MIT CSAIL and MIT J-Clinic. 2. A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery -- Regina Barzilay and others. 3. Toward robust mammography-based models for breast cancer risk -- Regina Barzilay and others. 4. Multi-Objective Molecule Generation using Interpretable Substructures -- Regina Barzilay and others. 5. Human and Artifici...2021-04-0157 min
Random WalksTinkering neural networks and embarking on a journey of cultivated abandon with Shubhendu Trivedi (MIT)In this episode, I converse with Shubhendu Trivedi, who's currently a Machine Learning Researcher at MIT CSAIL, where he works with Prof. Regina Barzilay and Prof. Tommi Jaakkola as part of the MIT Machine Learning for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Synthesis Consortium (MLPDS). Prior to that he was the NSF sponsored Institute Fellow at Brown University's Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics and completed a PhD on group covariant neural networks at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and the University of Chicago.Shubhendu's research particularly focuses on causal learning and representation learning for graph-structured data...2021-02-121h 16
The Data PulseRadiology diagnostics & antibiotic development with Kyle Swanson (Cambridge University, MIT)Deep learning can be applied to tasks that involve a breadth of data types. I talk with Kyle Swanson, currently a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University and previously at MIT, about his projects with Regina Barzilay on predicting breast cancer from mammograms, with performance on par with radiologists, and on designing antibiotics in a high-throughput manner using a new class of neural networks, identifying a compound that traditional chemists may have overlooked.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary2020-09-0828 min
a16z PodcastJournal Club: Finding New Antibiotics with Machine Learning, What Coronavirus Structures Tell Usa16z Journal Club (part of the a16z Podcast), curates and covers recent advances from the scientific literature -- what papers we’re reading, and why they matter from our perspective at the intersection of biology & technology (for bio journal club). This inaugural episode covers 2 different topics, in discussion with Lauren Richardson:0:26 #1 identifying new antibiotics through a novel machine-learning based approach -- a16z general partner Vijay Pande and bio deal partner Andy Tran discuss the business of pharma; the specific methods/ how it works; and other applications for deep learning in drug discovery and development base...2020-04-2624 min
kill switchAI & UsIn this special episode, Oz and Karah examine our evolving relationship with the technology we create. Karah meets Jason Cohen, CEO of Analytical Flavor Systems, to see if his team can hack her taste preferences, and use AI to create a new flavor of beverage that she will love. Oz and Karah also look ahead to Season 2, previewing stories they are excited to report, including algorithms that promise to optimize end-of-life conversations. And they share highlights from conversations with guests from Season 1 who shaped their thinking about AI: Yuval Noah Harari, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Regina Barzilay of MIT. 2020-01-1426 min
Lex Fridman PodcastRegina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentRegina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology, or the use of deep learning for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer. She has also been recognized for her teaching of several successful AI-related courses at MIT, including the popular Introduction to Machine Learning course. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where y...2019-09-231h 17kill switchAlgorithm, M.D.A.I. is already better than human doctors at diagnosing skin and breast cancer. And as machine learning advances, it's becoming able to decode more complex information, like brain waves and the human genome. A.I. is beginning to revolutionize medicine, and allowing us to see into the future of our bodies...but can we ever know too much about ourselves? What will happen when machine learning lets us open our own black boxes? In this episode: Physician and author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Google X founder and Kittyhawk CEO Sebastian Thrun, Regina Barzilay of MIT's J...2019-06-2743 min
Artificial Intelligence in Drug DiscoveryRegina Barzilay, AI Small Molecule Discovery and SynthesisOn this episode, I speak with Regina Barzilay of MIT's Machine Learning for Pharmaceutical Discovery and Synthesis consortium ( http://mlpds.mit.edu ). Regina is a prolific researcher with many highly cited papers in machine learning. On this episode, you'll learn what drove the need for the consortium, the importance of standards and benchmarks for AI drug discovery research, and the progress researchers are making in applying machine learning to chemical synthesis.
This episode is brought to you by BenchSci ( www.benchsci.com ). BenchSci uses artificial intelligence to reduce the time, uncertainty, and cost of scientific experiments. Use it to find...2018-07-3028 min
The Briefing RoomThe AI RevolutionHow will Artificial Intelligence shape our lives, and what should we do now to prepare for it?AI is all around us in our everyday lives. It's used to make decisions about employment, loans, credit cards and even what we read and listen to. So what are the implications of this revolutionary technology?David Aaronovitch hears from experts in the field including:David Baker, contributing editor to Wired magazineCathy O'Neil, former data scientistPippa Malmgren, founder of H RoboticsRegina Barzilay, computer scientist at The Massachusetts...2017-08-2428 min