Recently Christopher Yau worked with Ovarian Cancer Action UK to put together a webinar on his research for patients and the public. You can find the video on Youtube: “What is artificial intelligence and what does it mean for cancer research?”.
Congratulations to PhD student Dominic Danks whose paper BasisDeVAE: Interpretable Simultaneous Dimensionality Reduction and Feature-Level Clustering with Derivative-Based Variational Autoencoders. has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference for Machine Learning 2021.
Congratulations to PhD student Woojung Kim whose will presenting his work on “Learning multimorbidity and its temporal dynamics with the Wright-Fisher Indian Buffet Processs” at the EcoStat 2021 and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis World Meeting 2021 conferences.
Our paper “Adipocyte-like signature in ovarian cancer minimal residual disease identifies metabolic vulnerabilities of tumor-initiating cells” with the Oxford Ovarian Cancer Cell Lab has been featured on the cover of JCI Insight. The work used methods developed by former group student Kieran Campbell.
Health Data Research UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Christopher Yau as Director of its HDRUK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science, starting 1 April 2021. (https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/christopher-yau-appointed-director-of-health-data-research-uk-turing-wellcome-phd-programme/).