Danielle Belgrave

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Danielle Belgrave
Born
Danielle Charlotte Belgrave
Alma mater London School of Economics (BSc)
University College London (MSc)
University of Manchester (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Statistics
Machine learning [1]
Institutions DeepMind
Microsoft Research
Imperial College London
GlaxoSmithKline
Thesis Probabilistic causal models for asthma and allergies developing in childhood  (2014)
Doctoral advisor Iain Buchan
Christopher Bishop
Adnan Custovic [2] [3]
Website microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/dabelgra

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]

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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 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]

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