[Lisa_seminaires] [TeaTalk] Talk by Professor Brendan Frey on 'Using Machine Learning to Detect and Treat Genetic Disease'

Junyoung Chung elecegg at gmail.com
Lun 16 Jan 17:25:37 EST 2017


Hi everyone,

we will have our first tea talk on this Friday.
Please NOTE that this tea talk is scheduled at **13:30-14:30** in
**AA6214**.
We are in a transition process of moving the tea talk time slot from
11:00-1200 to 13:30-14:30.

Professor Brendan Frey from U of T will tell us about his work on applying
machine learning to detect and treat genetic disease. If anyone is
interested in meeting with Brendan, please tell Dima or me, we will host a
short meeting after his talk.

Who   : Professor Brendan Frey
When : 20/1/2017 13:30-14:30
Where: AA6214

Title: Using Machine Learning to Detect and Treat Genetic Disease

Abstract:

Diseases and corresponding treatments often have to do with genetic
modifications, such as changing a T to a G at a particular location within
DNA. In 2015, my University of Toronto group spun out a startup, Deep
Genomics, which is using machine learning to model how these changes impact
cellular processes involved in disease, such as cancer and neurological
disorders. For example, to train our splicing model, we are using 9661
different datasets, each with a number of training cases that varies from 8
million to 220 million. In this talk, I'll describe some of the machine
learning challenges that, if solved, will completely change the field of
medicine, save hundreds of thousands of lives, and improve the quality of
life for hundreds of millions of people.

Biography:

Brendan Frey is the CEO and Co-Founder of Deep Genomics and a Professor in
Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He has made
fundamental contributions in the areas of machine learning and genome
biology, and is widely known for his work on using machine learning to
understand how genetic variation leads to disease. Dr. Frey has received
numerous distinctions and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a
Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a John
C. Polanyi Fellow. He recently co-founded a University of Toronto spinoff,
Deep Genomics, which is using machine learning to bring about a new
approach to genomic medicine. Dr. Frey has consulted for several industrial
research and development laboratories in Canada, the United States and
England, and has served on the Technical Advisory Board of Microsoft
Research. His former students and postdoctoral fellows include professors,
industrial researchers and developers at universities and industrial
laboratories from across Canada, the United States and Europe.

Best,
--Junyoung
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