Journal Club GENOMICS AND DIGITAL HEALTH 2024-2025

Journal Clubs are in the program “Genomics and Digital Health” of the doctoral school in “Life Sciences from the Faculties of Medicine and Science” and are open to all programs of the PhD school of Life Science, and external participants. It is taught by PIs participating in the program and several external teachers. It will cover a wide range of selected topics in Digital Health and Data Science for Digital Health..

• Digital Health (DH)
• Genomics
• Methodology in Research
• Ethical and Security Issues in DH
• Semantics and Interoperability
• Computational biomedical sciences
• Natural Language Processing in Health
• Health Data Analytics
• Machine Learning in Health
• Health Data Representation
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Public Health
• Community Health

On Wednesdays from 11am to 12pm

Room H4-02-A (Biotech Campus)

Zoom access https://unige.zoom.us/j/68685649096?pwd=bVZ1Z3kyMjd4aXpnaE5OOWZBS2IxUT09

More info here

October 23rd François Fleuret Prof UNIGE, Attention Models, World Models, and Going Beyond World Understanding 

In this talk I will first present the standardattention-based operations that have been so successful for large languagemodels, and will show how we have used these techniques to devisestate-of-the-art world models for reinforcement learning. The I will exposepreliminary results for the self-generation of non-NLP reasoning tasks thatexpend a basic set of simple hand-designed reasoning challenges. This approachprovides a blueprint of a possible strategy to develop abstract reasoningbeyond reinforcement learning, without using human-generated data.

Attention models: https://fleuret.org/public/lbdl.pdf 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.3, 7.1.

World models: https://fleuret.org/francois/publications_bib.html#micheli-et-al-2023
https://fleuret.org/francois/publications_bib.html#micheli-et-al-2024

November 6th Stéphane Meystre Prof SUPSI, Opening the Treasure Trove Chest: AI to EnableClinical Data Reuse for Research and Care Support

Dr. Meystre is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of the new Institute of Digital Technologies for Personalised Healthcare (MeDiTech) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) in Lugano,Switzerland. He has amedical background, with an MD from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and several years of clinical experience. His training in medical informatics includes a MS from the University of California, Davis and a PhD from the University of Utah, both in the United States.

November 27th Timothy Frayling, Prof HEVS

January29th Janna Hastings, Prof, Dr. UZH

February 26th Douglas Teodoro, Prof. UNIGE

March 12th Dimitri Van De Ville, Prof EPFL

March 26th Henning Müller, Prof. HEVS

April 9th Olivier Michelin, Prof. UNIGE/HUG

April 30th Guillaume Andrey, Prof. UNIGE/HUG

May 28th Habib Zaidi, Prof. UNIGE/HUG,

June 18th Jérôme Schmid, Prof. HEDS

June 25th Marc Abramowicz, Prof. UNIGE/HUG