Speakers
TOPIC 1: AI for Brain Science & Medicine
Prof. Valentina Escott-Price is a leading big-data researcher who applies advanced ML and AI to large genomic, clinical, and multimodal datasets to identify risk genes and biological pathways involved in disease. After studying mathematics at St. Petersburg University, she earned her PhD in Statistics from Cardiff University in 2001. She has worked in Cardiff’s Department of Psychological Medicine since 2002 and joined the UK Dementia Research Institute in 2017, where she leads the Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics programme. Combining strengths in mathematics, programming, biostatistics and genetics, she develops innovative computational approaches to illuminate mechanisms of complex disorders.