Bio
Madalina Fiterau is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst. She has completed a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2015), and a Postdoc at Stanford University (Fall 2018). Madalina is currently expanding her research on interpretable models, in part by applying deep learning to obtain salient representations from biomedical unstructured data, including time series, text and images. She is the recipient of the Marr Prize for Best Paper at ICCV 2015 and of Star Research Award at the Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine 2016. Madalina has co-organized NIPS workshops on the topic of Machine Learning in Healthcare in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.