Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez is a computer scientist and the John L. Loeb Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She works on machine learning, computational statistics and healthcare.

Early life and education After graduating from the Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies, Doshi-Velez studied aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her master's degree in 2007. In 2007 Doshi-Velez was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she earned her second master's degree on the Indian Buffet Process. She was supervised by Zoubin Ghahramani. She was a postgraduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked on Bayesian nonparametric statistics with Nicholas Roy. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in bioinformatics at Harvard Medical School, and is the John L. Loeb Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences professor at Harvard University's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Research and career Doshi-Velez uses big data for medical applications, including diagnosis of disease. She joined Harvard University in 2014. Medical doctors make diagnoses based on the symptoms experienced by their patients. Clinical data can be combined with latent variable models to make predictions about hidden diseases. Doshi-Velez is interested in making her algorithms interpretable to physicians. She spoke about accountability in artificial intelligence at Google in 2017.

Awards and honours Her awards and honours include;

2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Top 10 in Artificial Intelligence 2016 Air Force Research Laboratory Young Investigator Award 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship 2019 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award 2019 J. P. Morgan Faculty Award Recipient