April 9, 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Global Health Research and Innovation Speaker Series with Milind Tambe
For over 15 years, Dr. Tambe and his team have been focused on AI for social impact, deploying end-to-end systems in areas of public health, conservation, and public safety. In this talk, he will highlight the results from their deployments for social impact in public health, as well as required innovations in integrating machine learning and optimization. Dr. Tambe will present recent results from their work in India with the world’s two largest mobile health programs for maternal and childcare that have served millions of beneficiaries, and on-going projects focused on other mobile health programs. Additionally, he will highlight results from an earlier project on HIV prevention among youth experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. To address challenges of ML+optimization common to all of these applications, Dr. Tambe and his team have advanced the state of the art in decision-focused learning, restless multi-armed bandits and influence maximization in social networks.
About Milind Tambe, PhD, MSc
Dr. Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Principal Scientist and Director for “AI for Social Good” at Google Research. Dr. Tambe is a recipient of the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, IJCAI John McCarthy Award, AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, AAMAS ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award, INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice, Military Operations Research Society Rist Prize, and the Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award. Dr. Tambe is a fellow of AAAI and ACM. Dr. Tambe’s work focuses on advancing AI and multiagent systems for public health, conservation, and public safety, with a track record of building pioneering AI systems for social impact.
You can read more about Dr. Milind Tambe on his website, X, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
About the Global Health Research and Innovation Speaker Series
The Harvard Global Health Institute’s Global Health Research and Innovation Speaker Series showcases the latest scholarly and scientific advancements in global health across Harvard and beyond, to make cutting-edge research accessible to a diverse global audience, and to spark innovative solutions in the pursuit of health equity and improved health outcomes worldwide. The public series takes place virtually on the second Tuesday of each month from 12:00 to 12:45 pm ET. Each session will include a presentation by a featured speaker showcasing their innovative research in global health, followed by a moderated Q&A.
Speakers will share their own perspectives; they do not speak for Harvard.