Madalina Fiterau is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst, leading the Information Fusion Lab. Previously, she was a postdoc at Stanford University, having completed a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Fiterau current research is on hybrid models and on the development of new deep learning methodology to obtain salient representations from multimodal biomedical data, including time series, text and images. Dr. Fiterau was awarded the Marr Prize for Best Paper at ICCV 2015, the Star Research Award at the Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine 2016, the Manning IALS Research Award in 2019, an IALS Midigrant in 2022, an Institute of Diversity Sciences Seed Grant in 2023 and an R03 from the NIH in 2023. Dr. Fiterau is keenly interested in applying my ML research towards the advancement of healthcare, having previously co-organized several editions of the NeurIPS workshop on Machine Learning in Healthcare and the Machine Learning in Healthcare Conference.
