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Congratulations to group members Charles Gadd, Woojung Kim and Dominic Danks on the following papers accepted at ML4H and NeurIPS: mmVAE: multimorbidity clustering using Relaxed Bernoulli β-Variational Autoencoders Feature Allocation Approach for Multimorbidity Trajectory Modelling

In a collaboration led by Carles Foguet and Mike Inouye, Christopher Yau contributed to Genetically personalised organ-specific metabolic models in health and disease which has been published in Nature Communications.

What am I doing? My name is Christopher Yau and I am Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oxford and Health Data Research UK. I am carrying out a survey of UK PhD students who are working in any area of data science and I need your help!

A report on a patient engagement workshop series on what cancer patients think about artificial intelligence is now available. The workshop series was developed in partnership with Ovarian Cancer Action (OCA) as part of my Turing AI Fellowship.

Congratulations to PhD student Dominic Danks whose paper Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis has been accepted for presentation at AISTATS 2022.

Christopher Yau will be relocating to the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford in February 2022 to take up a position as Senior Research Fellow between the Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health and the Nuffield Department of Population Health.

Our latest paper, based on the thesis work of former DPhil student Zhiyuan, has been published in Genome Biology. CIDER: an interpretable meta-clustering framework for single-cell RNA-seq data integration and evaluation describes a meta-clustering workflow based on inter-group similarity measures.

Kaspar Martens will present his latest work at the NeurIPS Workshop “Learning Meaningful Representations of Life” Rarity: Discovering rare cell populations from single-cell imaging data. The work arises from his Turing-Crick Biomedical Award which supports a collaboration between the Alan Turing Institute and the Ciccarelli Group at Kings College London and the Francis Crick Institute.

Christopher Yau has supported Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) PhD students Fabian Falck and Haoting Zhang in the development of work that has now been published as a paper at the NeurIPS 2021 conference.

The Columbia Hospital For Women Research Foundation have awarded Christopher Yau the prize for most impactful paper in 2020 in the field of obstetrical and gynecologic and breast disease. The prize consisted of a $5,000 to a charity of Chris and Ahmed’s choosing and they selected Ovarian Cancer Action who co-funded the original work.