Mihaela van der Schaar

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Mihaela van der Schaar
Academic background
Alma materEindhoven University of Technology (BSc, MSc, PhD)
ThesisSystem and network constrained scalable video compression (2001)
Doctoral advisorJan Biemond
Academic work
DisciplineComputer engineering
Sub-disciplineMachine learning
Artificial intelligence
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge

University of California, Los Angeles
University of Oxford
University of California, Davis

Philips Research Laboratories
Websitehttps://www.vanderschaar-lab.com/

Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge,[1] where she is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), and a Chancellor's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2]

Her research involves topics in signal and image processing, communication networks, network science, multimedia, game theory, distributed systems, machine learning, and AI.[3][4] van der Schaar focuses on medical applications of computer engineering, including AI-enabled personalized medicine.[5]

Education and career[]

van der Schaar received a joint Bachelor's/Master's (1996) degree and a Doctoral (2001) degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Upon starting her studies she was the only woman in a class of over 200.[5] She completed her PhD while simultaneously working as a researcher at Philips Research Laboratories.

At Philips, van der Schaar helped develop the first algorithm for video streaming[6] and, as their representative to the International Organization for Standardization from 1999 to 2003, led working groups which determined early standards for streaming.[7]

Since 2005, van der Schaar has been on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2011, she founded UCLA's Center for Engineering Economics, Learning, and Networks, and she directed the group until its dissolution in 2016.[7]

From 2016 to 2018, van der Schaar was the Man Professor of Quantitative Finance at the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.[8]

van der Schaar joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge in 2018. In November 2020, van der Schaar was named the director of the new Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine, a research collaboration between the University of Cambridge, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca to study applications of machine learning to the medical profession.[9][10]

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, van der Schaar's research group was part of a collaboration with the UK National Health Service which used machine learning to predict shortages of ICU beds and ventilators in English hospitals.[11]

As of 2020, van der Schaar has published over 250 academic journal articles and submitted over 275 conference papers, and her work has resulted in 35 US patents and contributed to over 45 international standards.[7]

Honours and awards[]

van der Schaar was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE in 2009, and she has held a fellowship with the Alan Turing Institute since 2016.[12]

She has also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004),[13] the IEEE Darlington Award (2011),[14] and the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018).[15]

In 2019, a Nesta report determined that van der Schaar was the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Home // van der Schaar Lab". van der Schaar Lab. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Mihaela van der Schaar - Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering". UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b Hannah Owen; Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos (17 July 2019). "How gender diverse is the workforce of AI research?". nesta. Nesta. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  4. ^ "2019 – Stars in Computer Networking and Communications". Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  5. ^ a b van der Schaar, Mihaela (11 February 2020). "A creative approach to tackling the AI gender imbalance". The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  6. ^ Radha, H.M.; van der Schaar, M. (March 2001). "The MPEG-4 fine-grained scalable video coding method for multimedia streaming over IP". IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. 3 (1): 53–68. doi:10.1109/6046.909594.
  7. ^ a b c "Professor Mihaela van der Schaar - Faculty of Mathematics". Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Mihaela van der Schaar named Man Professorship of Quantitative Finance | Hedgeweek". www.hedgeweek.com. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  9. ^ "New Cambridge Centre to Connect AI, Medicine and UK Life Sciences Sector". HPCwire. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  10. ^ "About". ccaim.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  11. ^ "Trials begin of machine learning system to help hospitals plan and manage COVID-19 treatment resources developed by NHS Digital and University of Cambridge". NHS Digital. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  12. ^ "Mihaela van der Schaar". The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  13. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0348093 - CAREER: Research in Superstring Phenomenology". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  14. ^ "Darlington Award Recipients | IEEE CAS". ieee-cas.org. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Professor van der Schaar presents 2018 Oon Lecture". Downing College Cambridge. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
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