Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA)
Please email mia-team@broadinstitute.org with a line of introduction to receive our weekly emails, including all relevant details for upcoming talks.
Schedule changes will be noted on the website and in MIAcast. MIA is fully virtual for the time being:
9:00am Primer
10:00am Meeting
10:50am Discussion
The Models, Inference & Algorithms (MIA) Initiative at the Broad Institute supports learning and collaboration across the interface of biology and medicine with mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and computer science. Our weekly meeting features a primer, breakfast, seminar, and discussion; these are open and pedagogical, emphasizing lucid exposition of computational ideas over rapid-fire communication of results. Other MIA functions include hosting workshops, developing educational resources, advising leadership, and supporting the computational community.
Current co-chairs: Aleksandrina Goeva (since Jan 2021) & Thouis Jones (since Jan 2022)
MIA's efforts are driven by the Steering Committee: Alex Bloemendal (co-chair, Fall 2015 - Jan 2022)Anika Gupta, Arnav Mehta, Brian Cleary, Elizabeth Wood, Emma Stickgold, Juan Caicedo, Lois Doolittle, Martin Jankowiak, Marzieh Haghighi, Mehrtash Babadi, Mollie Morg, Mor Nitzan, Ray Jones, and Sam Friedman.
Jon Bloom and Alex Bloemendal founded MIA in Fall 2015. Jon Bloom served as a co-chair through July 2019. Past Steering Committe members: Allen Goodman, Debora Marks, David Benjamin, Dylan Kotliar, Gopal Sarma (co-chair, Jul 2019 - Jan 2021), James McFarland, Jon Bloom, Hilary Finucane, Sam Riesenfeld, Yakir Reshef, Aviad Tsherniak and Max Shen.
MIA Overview: Watch this introduction to the past, present, and future of MIA, and how you can help drive the fusion of machine learning and biomedicine. Check out the Kendall Square Codebreakers in the Harvard Crimson.
MIA Playlist: Watch and share our growing library of MIA videos.
Talking Machines: Listen to interviews with Eric Lander, Aviv Regev, and Nick Patterson.
Spring 2022 Schedule: 9am Primer, 10am Meeting, 10:50am Discussion unless noted otherwise, via Zoom. Please refer to our MIAcast (weekly email announcement) for Zoom meeting information. Email lrosinsk@broadinstitute.org with questions and mia-team@broadinstitute.org to be added to our mailing list.