Mihaela van der Schaar
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences
John Humphrey Plummer Professor, University of Cambridge
Election motivation
For groundbreaking in machine learning for healthcare,including improved methods for forecasting individual risks and for identifying covariates to forecast risk, and for developing a state-of-the-art predictive model to manage hospitalised patients at risk of sudden deterioration.
Field of research
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
Main Honors
Fellow, IEEE 2009
Fellow, Royal Society 2024.
Received numerous awards, including the Johann Anton Merck Award (2024), the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine from the University of Cambridge (2018), a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004), 3 IBM Faculty Awards, the IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award, the Philips Make a Difference Award and several best paper awards, including the IEEE Darlington Award
Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute in London( between 2016 and 2024)
Academician, International Academy of Innovation Sciences