Mihaela van der Schaar
Mihaela van der Schaar | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Eindhoven University of Technology (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
Thesis | System and network constrained scalable video compression (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Jan Biemond |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Computer engineering |
Sub-discipline | Machine learning Artificial intelligence |
Institutions | University of Cambridge University of California, Los Angeles Philips Research Laboratories |
Website | https://www.vanderschaar-lab.com/ |
Mihaela van der Schaar is the
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
At Philips, van der Schaar helped develop the first algorithm for
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
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
As of 2022, van der Schaar's work has been cited over 23,000 times.[12]
Honours and awards
van der Schaar was elected as a
She has also received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004),
In 2019, a Nesta report determined that van der Schaar was the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK.[3]
References
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- ^ "Mihaela van der Schaar - Samueli Electrical and Computer Engineering". UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ a b Hannah Owen; Konstantinos Stathoulopoulos (17 July 2019). "How gender diverse is the workforce of AI research?". nesta. Nesta. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- ^ "2019 – Stars in Computer Networking and Communications". Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ a b c "Professor Mihaela van der Schaar - Faculty of Mathematics". Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Mihaela van der Schaar named Man Professorship of Quantitative Finance | Hedgeweek". www.hedgeweek.com. 12 October 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "New Cambridge Centre to Connect AI, Medicine and UK Life Sciences Sector". HPCwire. 11 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "About". ccaim.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
- ^ "Mihaela van der Schaar". The Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0348093 - CAREER: Research in Superstring Phenomenology". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Darlington Award Recipients | IEEE CAS". ieee-cas.org. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Professor van der Schaar presents 2018 Oon Lecture". Downing College Cambridge. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2020.