Regina Barzilay – MIT Jameel Clinic

Regina Barzilay is a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. Since 2018, she has been the AI faculty lead for Jameel Clinic and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Her research interests are in machine learning models for clinical use and molecular modeling with applications to drug discovery. She also works in natural language processing.

She is a recipient of various awards including the NSF Career Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship and several Best Paper Awards at NAACL and ACL. In 2017, she received a MacArthur fellowship “Genius Grant”, an ACL fellowship, and an AAAI fellowship. In 2020, she was awarded the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University, and spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University. Barzilay received her undergraduate degree from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

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Awards and Accolades

2023 Fellow, National Academy of Medicine
2022 Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2021 AACC Wallace H. Coulter Lectureship Award
2021 UNESCO/Netexplo Award
2021 AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
2019 Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery & Advanced Healthcare
2019 Xconomy Boston Digital Trailblazer
2018 Susan Komen Scholar
2018 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
2017 AAAI Fellowship
2017 ACL Fellowship
2017 MacArthur Fellowship
2016 Best Paper Award, EMNLP
2016 Burgess & Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching
2016 Delta Electronics Professor
2015 Best Paper Honorable Mention, EMNLP
2014 Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship
2014 Best Student Paper Award, NAACL
2010 Best Paper Award, SLT
2009 Carolyn Baldwin Morrison Lecture, Cornell
2009 Best Paper Award, ACL
2006 Ross Career Development Professor
2006 Microsoft Faculty Fellowship
2006 IEEE Intelligent Systems: “AI Ten to Watch”
2005 Technology Review: 35 Top Innovators
2005 NSF Career Award
2004 Technology Research News: “Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004”
2004 Best Paper Award, HLT/NAACL