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Liza Semenova

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Assistant Prof @ImperialCollege. Applied Bayesian inference, spatial stats and deep generative models for epidemiology. Passionate about probabilistic programming—check out my evolving #Numpyro course: https://elizavetasemenova.github.io/prob-epi 🚀

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jun 23

✨ Honourable mention ✨ for the 2025 Best Paper Awards at @facct.bsky.social 🏆

Shu will present on Thursday, 11:45am local time

Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.09496

ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · Jun 20

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆

Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.

Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!

facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

Announcing Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · May 27

The popular story behind one of the most famous maps ever drawn is (partly) a myth

www.maps.com/snow-mistake...

Snow Mistake: Correcting Myths in the Mapping of Cholera

What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the storied map?

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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · Mar 4

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @liza-semenova.bsky.social & Samir Bhatt about #AI & modelling infectious disease outbreaks
👉 How can AI contribute to pandemic preparedness?
👉 Examples of AI in modelling & the Nobel Peace Prize
youtu.be/8D_v7ldBW9k
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David Selby @davidselby.bsky.social · Mar 4

Thrilled to share our latest publication in @natrevgenet.bsky.social. We explore how deep learning models infused with prior knowledge—biologically-informed neural networks or BINNs—offer better predictive accuracy and interpretability in multi-omics data analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beyond the black box with biologically informed neural networks - Nature Reviews Genetics

Biologically informed neural networks promise to lead to more explainable, data-driven discoveries in genomics, drug development and precision medicine. Selby et al. highlight emerging opportunities, ...

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Tom Churcher @thomaschurcher.bsky.social · Feb 27

A very sad and counterproductive decision. Aid when you don’t know where diseases are is immensely inefficient. DHS is a vital long-term resource, both in counties with diseases like malaria, but also those finding new global threats. Everyone will be flying blind. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program

The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Feb 19

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jan 31

sharks in the sky!

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jan 30

👉 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

📄 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬: www.lshtm.ac.uk/media/87071

PhD Studentships in Health Analytics and Modelling | LSHTM

www.lshtm.ac.uk

Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jan 30

🚀 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥

Looking for my first PhD student

🔬 Project: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥, 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 & 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨-𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

Joint with LSHTM & UKHSA

See links below.

📅 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 7 March 2024

📩 Questions? DM me!

#PhD #HealthEquity #ImperialCollege

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jan 30

👉 **Apply here:** [PhD Studentships Application](www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...)

📄 **View all projects:** [List of Projects](www.lshtm.ac.uk/media/87071)

PhD Studentships in Health Analytics and Modelling | LSHTM

www.lshtm.ac.uk

Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Jan 13

That's what Herman meant by saying that he "needs time to adapt" 😂⛷️☃️

Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Dec 29

📢 Consider submitting your abstract to "The Science of Connections: Urban Mobility and Networks" satellite event at #NetSci2025 (netsci2025.github.io) 🚀

🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 🕒

🔗 Details: mobilityhealthnetworks.github.io

❓ With questions, reach out to @smishra.bsky.social, Prateek Bansal, me 🤝

Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Dec 20

Thrilled to share our new @pnas.org paper using active learning 🤖 to optimise disease testing 🦠 and support public health 🌍.

Press release by @imperialsph.bsky.social: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/...

Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Joint work with some stellar collaborators!

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Dec 19

An enviable institution and group to work in!

Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Dec 19

Postdoc and doctoral student positions in developing Bayesian methods! The positions are funded by Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and there are many other topics, too, but if you specify me as the preferred supervisor then it's going to be Bayesian. fcai.fi/winter-2025-...

Winter 2025 - Researcher positions in AI and machine learning — FCAI

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Liza Semenova @liza-semenova.bsky.social · Dec 19

If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, applied deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.

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