Mihaela van der Schaar

Mihaela is John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine, and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. She has received the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018). She has also been the recipient of an NSF Career Award, 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and several best paper awards. She holds 35 granted USA patents. The current emphasis of her research is on developing new machine learning and AI methods for medicine and healthcare. She is an IEEE Fellow since 2010. She was identified by NESTA as the female AI researcher based in the UK with the most publications in the field. She is a member of the ELLIS society.