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AI for Biological Discovery Seminar | Professor James Zou

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AI for Biological Discovery Seminars

The Crick AI for Biological Discovery Seminar Series is a new online seminar series established by Professor Mihaela van der Schaar, Chief AI Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute, together with Dr Fabian Fröhlich.

The series will explore how advances in AI can transform fundamental biological discovery, helping researchers ask and address new biological questions. It will bring leading speakers working at the interface of AI, machine learning and biology to the Crick community, with a focus on AI for fundamental biological discovery.

The seminars are intended to stimulate discussion across the Crick about how AI methods can support biological research, reveal new insights from complex datasets, and open up new directions for discovery.

The talks are open to scientists from other institutes and universities from across London and beyond. You should have a minimum of graduate-level science and technology knowledge to attend and fully engage with these talks.

James Zou is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research focuses on making AI more reliable, human-compatible, and statistically rigorous, with a particular interest in applications to human disease and health.

He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2014 and has previously been a member of Microsoft Research, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, and a Simons Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. He joined Stanford in 2016 and is a Chan Zuckerberg Investigator. His research is also part of the Stanford AI Lab.

His work is supported by two Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator Awards, the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, a Top Ten Clinical Achievement Award, and faculty awards from Google, Adobe, and Amazon.

This is an online-only meeting. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

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