Professor Regina Barzilay, an Israeli researcher currently working as the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been awarded the prestigious Squirrel AI Award for her work on machine learning models to develop drugs as well as detect and diagnose early-stage breast cancer.
The prize carries an award of $1 million.
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Barzilay has increasingly focused her work on health care. Her algorithms for early breast cancer diagnosis and risk assessment have been tested at hospitals around the world.
Barzilay herself is a breast cancer survivor. Through her research, she came to the conclusion that if the tools she is developing had existed when she was diagnosed, doctors could have discovered her cancer two to three years earlier.
