Tuesday, September 9, 2025

4:00 - 5:00 pm (refreshments at 3:30 pm)

Broad Auditorium (Merkin Building, 415 Main Street)

Please join us for a colloquium featuring Katherine Heller, Research Scientist, Human-Centered AI at Google, leading the Context in AI Research (CAIR) team, on Context in AI Research: Focus on Healthcare.

This colloquium is part of a series hosted jointly by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Katherine’s colloquium will run from 4:00-5:00 pm with refreshments served at 3:30 pm.

The colloquium will be held at the Broad Auditorium (415 Main St.) as well as virtually via YouTube Livestream: broad.io/ewsc.

If you do not have a Broad badge, please show up at the 415 Main Street entrance 10 minutes prior to the event to be escorted to the talk.

Learn more and register here.

Questions? Email Amanda Ogden at aogden@broadinstitute.org.

Abstract: 

In this talk we will discuss reasons to value specificity in AI research, and related human-centered attributes, paying particular attention to AI research in the health space. Work on the construction of improved evaluations, out of distribution learning, and the benefits of causal methods for alleviating harms to underrepresented groups is highlighted. This methodology is used as the underpinnings of globally sensitive data collection, which is then used to improve understanding of these contexts in generative AI systems. We also explore the development of methods for the analysis of time series wearable data for prediction of mood disorders in maternal health.

This work is done in collaboration with the (Context in AI Research) CAIR team at Google.