Bioinformatics Seminar
Time: 11AM
Venue: Davis Auditorium and Online
18 December 2024
NAVeridical data science and alignment in medical AI
Bin YuThe University of California, Berkeley
Bin Yu is CDSS Chancellor's Distinguished Professor in Statistics, EECS, and Computational Biology, and Scientific Advisor at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, all at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the practice and theory of statistical machine learning, veridical data science, and solving interdisciplinary data problems in neuroscience, genomics, and precision medicine. She and her team have developed algorithms such as iterative random forests (iRF), stability-driven NMF, and adaptive wavelet distillation (AWD) from deep learning models. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a Guggenheim Fellow, IMS President, and delivered the IMS Rietz and Wald Lectures and Distinguished Achievement Award and Lecture (formerly Fisher Lecture) of COPSS. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from The University of Lausanne.