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Recent highlights
Launch of the Exeter Regulatory Policy Forum (RPF)
How can clinical prediction models (CPMs) be made more robust and trustworthy?
This was the motivation for an event held at the University of Exeter on July 8th. The workshop, 'Target Without Numbers: Making Targeted Validation Scalable', aimed at developing a holistic view on the validation of clinical models that includes factors beyond strictly statistical considerations. The thirty invited participants brought with them a wide range of expertise across computer science, statistics, epidemiology, clinical practice, social sciences, regulation and policy.
CHAI at the ICML Conference
ICML is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. ICML is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.
Co-Lead Professor Ricardo Silva co-organised a SIM: Scaling up Intervention Models workshop. You can view the recording of this workshop here if you were unable to attend in-person.
UKAIRS - Reminder
We are excited to share that several of our PDRAs and co-leads have had their papers accepted and will be presenting at the upcoming UKAIRS Conference. This is a great opportunity to showcase our team's research and expertise. Additionally, we will have a stand at the event to introduce attendees to CHAI and highlight our work.
Don't forget to register to attend - we look forward to seeing you there!
Launch of Dementia Community of Practice (CoP)
On May 29th we launched the first CHAI Community of Practice (CoP). With it, CHAI aims to grow and support translation-oriented and challenge-led networks. The first CoP concerns ‘Causal AI in Neurodegenerative Disease Problems’. The event involved over 30 multi-disciplinary participants, including AI researchers, medical researchers and clinicians.
Chaired by Ricardo Silva (UCL lead), the event opened with stimulating talks from CHAI Co-Is Daniel Alexander (UCL) and William Whiteley (University of Edinburgh). Then, group discussions in breakout rooms aimed to map out the problem space and identify challenges and opportunities.
Visit from Professor Krishnan Ramayya and Professor Rema Padman - 17th of June
We were delighted to host Professor Krishnan Ramayya and Professor Rema Padman from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh present to the CHAI and Usher community earlier this month.
Prof. Krishnan delivered a talk: On the evaluation of multi turn conversations in large language models: early experiments and application opportunities. Followed by Prof Rema’s presentation exploring: AI for Social Good - Leveraging Digital Therapeutics and Advanced Analytics for Health Literacy
These sessions can be viewed on the CHAI Hub Youtube page here.
CHAI and APRIL Hub Meeting
On Friday, June 13th, the first meeting of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from the CHAI and APRIL Hubs took place.
These two UKRI Hubs are both based at The University of Edinburgh. This initiative brought together researchers from both hubs, giving them a valuable opportunity to share their work within the wider hub community.
The meeting was held in the Usher Building, which provided an excellent platform. We're hoping for more meetings focused on knowledge exchange and inspiring conversations to take place in early Autumn this year.