Mihaela van der Schaar

Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the van der Schaar Lab. Her research focuses on advancing machine learning to revolutionize medicine and healthcare, with a particular emphasis on causal reasoning, AI for bioscience, and clinical AI. She frequently publishes and presents at major conferences like ICML and ICLR, sharing insights on AI agents, causality, and large language models. Mihaela also organizes educational programs such as the Clinical AI Summer School and ML for Healthcare Summer School, aimed at bridging the gap between AI research and practical clinical applications. Her work is deeply rooted in real-world impact, aiming to improve patient outcomes and support scientific discovery.