Trinidadian-British computer scientist
Danielle Charlotte Belgrave is a Trinidadian-British computer scientist based at DeepMind , who uses statistics and machine learning to understand the progression of diseases.[ 1] [ 2] [ 4]
Early life and education
Belgrave grew up in Trinidad and Tobago , where her high school mathematics teacher inspired her to work as a data scientist .[ 5] She studied statistics and business at the London School of Economics (LSE).[ 6] [ 7] She was a graduate student at University College London (UCL), where she earned a master's degree in statistics.[ 6] In 2010 Belgrave moved to the University of Manchester , where she earned a PhD for research supervised by Iain Buchan , Christopher Bishop and Adnan Custovic [Wikidata ] [ 2] [ 3] [ 6] supported by a Microsoft Research scholarship. She was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin postgraduate award by Microsoft and the Barry Kay Award by the British Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI).[ 8]
Research and career
After graduating, Belgrave worked at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she was awarded the Exceptional Scientist Award.[ 6] Belgrave joined Imperial College London as a Medical Research Council (MRC) statistician in 2015.[ 6] [ 9] [ 8] She develops statistical machine learning models to look at disease progression in an effort to design new management strategies and understand heterogeneity .[ 4] [ 10] Statistical learning methods can inform the management of medical conditions by providing a framework for endotype discovery using probabilistic modelling .[ 5] [ 11] She uses statistical models to identify the underlying endotypes of a condition from a set of phenotypes .[ 12]
She studied whether atopic march , the progression of allergic diseases from early life, adequately describes atopic diseases like eczema in early life.[ 13] Belgrave used a latent disease profile model to study atopic march in over 9,000 children, where machine learning was used to identify groups of children with similar eczema onset patterns.[ 13] She is part of the study team for early life asthma research consortium.[ 14] Belgrave is interested in using big data for meaningful clinical interpretation, to inform personalized prevention strategies.[ 14]
Her research focuses on Bayesian and statistical machine learning within the healthcare to develop personalized medicine .[ 2] As of 2019[update] Belgrave is developing and implementing methods which incorporate domain knowledge with data-driven models . Her research interests include latent variable models , longitudinal studies , survival analysis , ‘omics , dimensionality reduction , Bayesian graphical models and cluster analysis .[ 2] [ 1]
Belgrave is part of the regulatory algorithms project, which evaluates how healthcare algorithms should be regulated.[ 15] In particular, Belgrave is interested in what scheme of liability should be imposed on artificial intelligence for healthcare.[ 15] She serves on the 2019 organizing committee of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [ 16] and as an advisor for DeepAfricAI.[ 17]
References
^ a b c Danielle Belgrave publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a b c d e Belgrave, Danielle (2016). "Danielle Belgrave CV" (PDF) . imperial.ac.uk . Imperial College London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-03-13.
^ a b Belgrave, Danielle Charlotte (2014). Probabilistic causal models for asthma and allergies developing in childhood . manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
^ a b "Danielle Belgrave" . re-work.co . RE•WORK. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ a b "Danielle Belgrave" . deeplearningindaba.com . Deep Learning Indaba . Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ a b c d e "Dr Danielle Belgrave" . imperial.ac.uk . Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ Anon (2019). "Advances and Challenges in Machine Learning for healthcare Seminar" . datascience.manchester.ac.uk . University of Manchester. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ a b "Danielle Belgrave" . cipp-meeting.org . CIPP XV. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ "Unified probabilistic latent variable modelling strategies to accelerate endotype discovery in longitudinal studies" . ukri.org . United Kingdom Research and Innovation . Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ "Danielle Belgrave at Microsoft Research" . microsoft.com . Microsoft Research. Archived from the original on 2019-03-17. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ Anon (2017-09-15), "12 Applications of Machine Learning in Healthcare by Danielle Belgrave" , youtube.com , Deep Learning Indaba , retrieved 2019-03-16
^ Anon (2019-03-07). "Ethical AI" . robotethics.co.uk . AI and Robot Ethics. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ a b Custovic, Adnan; Henderson, A. John; Buchan, Iain; Bishop, Christopher; Guiver, John; Simpson, Angela; Granell, Raquel; Belgrave, Danielle C. M. (2014). "Developmental Profiles of Eczema, Wheeze, and Rhinitis: Two Population-Based Birth Cohort Studies" . PLOS Medicine . 11 (10): e1001748. doi :10.1371/journal.pmed.1001748 . ISSN 1549-1676 . PMC 4204810 . PMID 25335105 .
^ a b Bønnelykke, Klaus; Sleiman, Patrick; Nielsen, Kasper; Kreiner-Møller, Eskil; Mercader, Josep M; Belgrave, Danielle; den Dekker, Herman T; Husby, Anders; Sevelsted, Astrid; Faura-Tellez, Grissel; Mortensen, Li Juel; et al. (2013). "A genome-wide association study identifies CDHR3 as a susceptibility locus for early childhood asthma with severe exacerbations". Nature Genetics . 46 (1): 51–55. doi :10.1038/ng.2830 . ISSN 1061-4036 . OCLC 885448463 . PMID 24241537 . S2CID 20754856 .
^ a b "Regulating algorithms in healthcare: IP and liability" . phgfoundation.org . PHG Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ "2019 Organizing Committee" . nips.cc . Retrieved 2019-03-16 .
^ "DeepAfricAI" . deepafricai.com . Retrieved 2019-03-16 .