Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

The career development chair recipients are Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang, Kuikui Liu, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Kaiming He, and Alexander Rives.

The new chairs became effective July 1.

The model could help clinicians assess breast cancer stage and ultimately help in reducing overtreatment.

MIT computer scientists developed a way to calculate polygenic scores that makes them more accurate for people across diverse ancestries.

In the award announcement, SIAM noted that Uhler is being honored for her “fundamental contributions at the interface of statistics, machine learning, and biology”.

With the right building blocks, machine-learning models can more accurately perform tasks like fraud detection or spam filtering.