Regina Barzilay: Difference between revisions

{{shortShort description|ComputerIsraeli-American computer scientist}}

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| name = Regina Barzilay

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1970}}

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| nationality = [[Israelis|Israeli]]

| field = [[Computer science]]<br>[[Natural language processing]]

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* [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] (BS[[BSc]], MS[[MSc]])

* [[Columbia University]] ([[PhD]])}}

| doctoral_advisor = [[Kathleen McKeown]]<ref name="Columbia Press">{{cite web|url=http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/barzilay-macarthur| title= Regina Barzilay, Computer Science PhD '03, Wins MacArthur "Genius" Grant| date= 8 November 2017|language=en|access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref>

| thesis_title = Information Fusion for Multidocument. Summarization: Paraphrasing and Generation

| thesis_url = http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/theses/regina_barzilay.pdf

| thesis_year = 2003

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* [[TR35]] <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=85| title= Regina Barzilay, 34 / Teaching computers to read and write|language=en|access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref>

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'''Regina Barzilay''' (born 1970) is an [[Israeli-American]] computer scientist. She is a professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], and a faculty lead for [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) at the [[MIT Jameel Clinic]], and a member of [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]]. Her research interests are in [[natural language processing]] and applications of [[deep learning]] to chemistry and [[oncology]].

Barzilay receivedwas herborn in [[Master ofChișinău]], Science[[Moldova]] and emigrated to [[BachelorIsrael]] with her parents at the age of Science]]20.<ref name="ctech" /> She received bachelor and masters degrees from [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] in 19981993 and 19931998, respectively. She obtained hera [[PhD]] in Computercomputer Science in 2003science from [[Columbia University]] in 2003 for research supervised by [[Kathleen McKeown]].<ref name="Columbia Press"/><ref name="bengurion">{{cite web |title=Regina Barzilay, a BGU CS Alumna and an MIT Professor, wins MacArthur “genius"genius grant”grant" |url=https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/natural_science/cs/pages/news/ff.aspx |website=Ben-Gurion University Dept. of Computer Science |accessdateaccess-date=24 September 2020}}</ref>

For her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, she led the development of Newsblaster, which recognized stories from different news sources as being about the same basic subject, and then paraphrased elements from the stories to create a summary.<ref>{{Cite newsmagazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2002/03/the-push-for-news-returns/|title=The Push for News Returns|workmagazine=WIRED|access-date=2017-11-21}}</ref>

In 2018, Barzilay was appointed faculty lead for AI at the new [[MIT Jameel Clinic]], a research center in the field of AI health sciences, including disease detection, [[drug discovery]], and the development of [[Medical device|medical devicesdevice]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Regina Barzilay, James Collins, and Phil Sharp join leadership of new effort on machine learning in health|url=https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-barzilay-collins-sharp-lead-j-clinic-machine-learning-health-1003|access-date=2020-11-13|website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=3 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=People|url=https://www.jclinic.mit.edu/people|access-date=2020-11-13|website=J-Clinic|language=en}}</ref> In 2020, she was part of the team -- withteam—with fellow MIT Jameel Clinic faculty lead Professor [[James Collins (bioengineer)|James J. Collins]] -- that—that announced the discovery through [[deep learning]] of [[halicin]], the first new [[antibiotic]] compound for 30 years, which kills over 35 powerful [[bacteria]], including [[Antimicrobial resistance|antimicrobial-resistant]] [[tuberculosis]], the superbug [[Clostridioides difficile (bacteria)|''C. difficile'']], and two of the [[World Health Organization]]'s top-three most deadly bacteria.<ref>{{Cite journal|lastlast1=Stokes|firstfirst1=Jonathan M.|last2=Yang|first2=Kevin|last3=Swanson|first3=Kyle|last4=Jin|first4=Wengong|last5=Cubillos-Ruiz|first5=Andres|last6=Donghia|first6=Nina M.|last7=MacNair|first7=Craig R.|last8=French|first8=Shawn|last9=Carfrae|first9=Lindsey A.|last10=Bloom-Ackermann|first10=Zohar|last11=Tran|first11=Victoria M.|date=20 February 2020|title=A Deep Learning Approach to Antibiotic Discovery|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32084340/|journal=Cell|volume=180|issue=4|pages=688–702.e13|doi=10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.021|issn=1097-4172|pmid=32084340|pmc=8349178|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Artificial Intelligence Yields New Antibiotic|url=https://betterworld.mit.edu/artificial-intelligence-yields-new-antibiotic/|access-date=2020-11-13|website=The MIT Campaign for a Better World|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Marchant|first=Jo|date=2020-02-20|title=Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00018-3|journal=Nature|language=en|doi=10.1038/d41586-020-00018-3|pmid=33603175|s2cid=214135545}}</ref> In 2020, Collins, Barzilay and the MIT Jameel Clinic were also awarded funding through [[The Audacious Project]] to expand on the discovery of halicin in using AI to respond to the antibiotic resistance crisis through the development of new classes of antibiotics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jim Collins receives funding to harness AI for drug discovery|url=https://news.mit.edu/2020/jim-collins-receives-funding-harness-ai-drug-discovery-0422|access-date=2020-11-13|website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=23 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Plato|first=Republished by|title=짐 콜린스, 약물 발견을 위해 AI를 활용하기위한 자금 지원 {{!}}|date=22 April 2020 |url=https://zephyrnet.com/ko/%EC%A7%90-%EC%BD%9C%EB%A6%B0%EC%8A%A4-%28Jim-Collins%29%EA%B0%80-%EB%A7%88%EC%95%BD-%EB%B0%9C%EA%B2%AC%EC%9D%84-%EC%9C%84%ED%95%B4-AI%EB%A5%BC-%ED%99%9C%EC%9A%A9%ED%95%98%EA%B8%B0%EC%9C%84%ED%95%9C-%EC%9E%90%EA%B8%88%EC%9D%84-%EB%B0%9B%EB%8A%94%EB%8B%A4/|access-date=2020-11-13|language=ko}}</ref>

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[[Category:MassachusettsMIT InstituteSchool of TechnologyEngineering faculty]]