Democratizing access to AI
Luca Finelli, Head of the Insights Strategy & Design team at Novartis, explains how in collaboration with Microsoft, we hope to democratize AI drug development and empower researchers and medical doctors to solve healthcare challenges…
Panel: Experiments, models, inference and algorithms: Learning from experts who do it all
Research in computational biology and healthcare benefits from the tight integration of data generation, model specification, and inference or learning. Many machine learning (ML) applications in these fields require data that is very expensive and/or…
Panel: Monitoring for environmental equity: A hyperlocal air quality network in Chicago
Air pollution is an invisible health hazard, responsible for an estimated 10 million premature deaths annually. Pollution is also unequally distributed within cities, producing inequitable exposures that are a key environmental justice concern. This panel…
Closing remarks: Health and Life Sciences – Delivery
Speaker: Vikram Dendi, Chief Product Officer, Microsoft Health Futures Learn more about the 2021 Microsoft Research Summit: https://Aka.ms/researchsummit
Tutorial: Translating real-world data into evidence
Speaker: Darren Edge, Director of Societal Resilience, Microsoft Research Cambridge The concepts of real-world data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) emerged in the medical domain to differentiate observational data collected for some other purpose, such…
Research talks: Showcasing health equity, access, and resilience collaborations
This series of talks feature Health Delivery research and innovation, collaboration networks, and the next generation of research talent. 00:00 IntroductionSpeakers:Brianna Goodwin, Data Science Researcher, Microsoft Research & IncubationsBrooke Loughrin, Global Health Access Incubation Lead,…
Fireside chat: The future of medicines and innovation
“Medicine is an exercise of the imagination.” In this fireside chat, we are honored to be speaking with Michael Rosenblatt to discuss the importance of imagination and invention in healthcare, science, and medicine while underscoring…
Technology demo: Project Eclipse: Hyperlocal air quality monitoring for cities
Project Eclipse is a full-stack solution for neighborhood scale air quality monitoring in cities. Custom low-cost, solar powered sensing hardware feeds an Azure-based data and analytics stack that then drives end user experiences for various…
Research talk: Leveraging uncertainty in machine learning to bridge computation and experimentation
While machine learning (ML) is poised to have a transformative impact on biomedicine, its success is contingent on experimental efforts that generate relevant datasets and validate model predictions. Critically, such experimentation often requires significant time,…