Highlights from ACM CHIL 2020

ACM CHIL 2020 was held virtually on July 23rd and 24th. It featured 23 research talks from accepted papers, 23 workshop spotlights, and 15 participants in the doctoral symposium.

Keynotes

Yoshua Bengio - Machine Learning Challenges in the Fight for Social Good - the Covid-19 Case
Elaine Nsoesie - Digital Platforms & Public Health in Africa
Sherri Rose - Machine Learning in Health Care: Too Important to Be a Toy Example
Ruslan Salakhutdinov - Incorporating Domain Knowledge into Deep Learning Models
Nigam Shah - A framework for shaping the future of AI in healthcare

Tutorials

A Tour of Survival Analysis, from Classical to Modern - George H. Chen, Jeremy C. Weiss
Population and public health: challenges and opportunities - Vishwali Mhasawade, Yuan Zhao, Rumi Chunara
Public Health Datasets for Deep Learning: Challenges and Opportunities - Ziad Obermeyer, Katy Haynes, Amy Pitelka, Josh Risley, Katie Lin
State of the Art Deep Learning in Medical Imaging - Joseph Paul Cohen
Analyzing critical care data, from speculation to publication, starring MIMIC-IV (part 1) - Alistair Johnson

Papers

Proceedings from the 2020 ACM CHIL Conference are available at the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3368555

Governing Board

General Chair

Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi of the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute

Logistics Chair

Tasmie Sarker of the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute

Program Chair

Dr. Tristan Naumann of Microsoft Research Seattle
Dr. Danielle Belgrave of Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Dr. Adrian Dalca of MIT and Harvard Medical School

Proceedings Chair

Dr. Brett Beaulieu-Jones of Harvard Medical School
Sam Finlayson of Harvard University and MIT
Emily Alsentzer of Harvard University and MIT

Communications Chair

Dr. Stephanie Hyland of Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Dr. Shalmali Joshi of the Vector Institute
Bret Nestor of the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute

Finance Chair

Dr. Joyce Ho of Emory University
Dr. Laura Rosella of the University of Toronto

Tutorial Chair

Ahmed Nasir of Trillium Health Partners
Dr. Andrew Beam of Harvard University
Irene Chen of MIT

Consortium Chair

Dr. Leo Celi of MIT
Matthew McDermott of MIT

Virtual Chair

Dr. Tom Pollard of MIT
Dr. Alistair Johnson of MIT

Executive Committee

Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi of University of Toronto, Vector Institute
Dr. Tristan Naumann of Microsoft Research Seattle
Dr. Joyce Ho of Emory University
Dr. Leo Celi of MIT
Dr. Shalmali Joshi of the Vector Institute
Dr. Andrew Beam of Harvard University
Dr. Ziad Obermeyer of University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Oluwasanmi Koyejo of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Avi Goldfarb of Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Dr. Laura Rosella of Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Dr. Adrian Dalca of MIT and Harvard Medical School
Dr. Rajesh Ranganath of NYU
Irene Chen of MIT
Matthew McDermott of MIT
Dr. Katherine Heller at Duke University
Dr. Uri Shalit of Technion
Dr. Stephanie Hyland of Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Dr. Danielle Belgrave of Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Dr. Shakir Mohamed of DeepMind
Dr. Alistair Johnson of MIT
Dr. Tom Pollard of MIT
Dr. Alan Karthikesalingam of Google Health UK

Steering Committee

Dr. Nigam Shah of Stanford University
Dr. Stephen Friend of Oxford University
Dr. Samantha Kleinberg of Stevens Institute of Technology
Dr. Anna Goldenberg of The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado of University of California, San Diego
Dr. Noemie Elhadad of Columbia University