{"id":2303,"date":"2018-09-17T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T18:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:20:02","slug":"regina-barzilay-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/compmed\/2018\/09\/regina-barzilay-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina Barzilay, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Computational Medicine Program presenting inaugural seminar speaker, Regina Barzilay, PhD. Dr. Barzilay is a Delta Electronics professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in natural language processing, applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology. 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